2012 Presidential Election Interactive Map
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Split Votes
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2012 Actual Election Results
| Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | Popular Votes | ||
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| ✓ | Barack H. Obama (I) | Democratic | 332 | 65,915,795 | |
| W. Mitt Romney | Republican | 206 | 60,933,504 | ||
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 0 | 1,275,971 |
2012 Election Facts
- Popular vote totals from Federal Elections 2012.
- Issues of the Day: Role of government, Spending & tax rates, Nuclear Iran, Arab Spring, Global warming, Campaign finance
- Obama only the 2nd president (Wilson, 1916) to be elected to a second term with fewer electoral votes than earned when winning first term
- Few Battlegrounds: Despite a fairly competitive race overall, only four states were decided by less than a 5% popular vote margin
- Electoral Vote changes for 2012 based on 2010 Census: [+4 TX], [+2: FL], [+1: AZ, GA, NV, SC, UT, WA],
[-1: IA, IL, LA, MA, MI, MO, NJ, PA], [-2: NY, OH] - More Census: First time that CA hasn't gained an electoral vote in reapportionment; 7th consecutive time NY has lost 2 or more; TX gain of 4 most since CA gained 7 after 1990 count
