Idaho's 2nd Congressional District - Voting in Presidential Elections

Voting in Presidential Elections

Year Results Notes
2000 George W. Bush 65.96%
Al Gore 25.93%
The district contained nine of the 100 counties with the highest percentage of the Republican vote: Madison, Franklin, Fremont, Jefferson, Cassia, Caribou, Clark, Oneida, and Bear Lake. George W. Bush registered between 90.7 percent and 81.6 percent of the vote in these largely rural counties.
2004 George W. Bush 68.64%
John Kerry 29.58%
In the first election following a redrawing of the district's boundaries, Bush received 69 percent of the vote.
2008 John McCain 60.00%
Barack Obama 35.66%
John McCain easily carried the district with 61 percent of the vote, although Barack Obama did manage to win two counties: Blaine County, the most Democratic county in the state which contains the Sun Valley ski resort, and Teton County, with bedroom communities of the Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee resort areas.
2012 Mitt Romney 64.14%
Barack Obama 33.06%
Mitt Romney easily carried the district with 64 percent of the vote. Romney carried all counties in the district except, Blaine which traditionally votes Democratic.

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