United States presidential election in Utah, 2012
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The 2012 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Utah voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Utah is among the most heavily Republican states, voting for the Republican ticket in every presidential election since 1968, and is also the only state to have a majority Mormon population, benefiting Romney, the first Mormon to head a major party presidential ticket. He carried every county in the state, the majority by large margins. Despite this however, he lost the Electoral College by a wide margin, as he failed to carry a plurality of the other states.
Trump would receive much less of the vote in 2016 in Utah, but still win the presidency.
Democratic primary
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Republican primary
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Utah results by county.
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The Republican primary took place on 26 June 2012.[1] 37 delegates were chosen, for a total of 40 delegates to go to the national convention, all pledged to the primary winner.
In 2008, Mitt Romney received major support from the Mormon (LDS) and other religious population and was able to carry the state with 89.49% of the vote. Romney led the polling in 2012[2][3] and won the primary by a large margin.[4]
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates |
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220,865 | 93.1% | 40 |
Ron Paul | 11,209 | 4.72% | 0 |
Rick Santorum | 3,541 | 1.5% | 0 |
Newt Gingrich | 1,124 | 0.5% | 0 |
Fred Karger | 578 | 0.2% | 0 |
Pledged party leaders: | 3 | ||
Total: | 237,317 | 100.0% | 40 |
Key: | Withdrew prior to contest |
General election
Candidate Ballot Access:
- Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan, Republican
- Barack Obama/Joseph Biden, Democratic
- Rocky Anderson/Luis J. Rodriguez, Justice
- Gary Johnson/James P. Gray, Libertarian
- Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala, Green
- Virgil Goode/Jim Clymer, Constitution
- Gloria La Riva/Filberto Ramirez Jr., Socialism and Liberation (as stand-ins for Peta Lindsay and Yari Osorio, who may not appear on the Utah ballot due to their Constitutional ineligibility to be president and vice president)
Write in Access:
- Andre Barnett/Ken Cross, Reform
Results
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | Paul Ryan | 740,600 | 72.62% | 6 | |
Democratic | Barack Obama | Joe Biden | 251,813 | 24.69% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Jim Gray | 12,572 | 1.23% | 0 | |
Justice | Rocky Anderson | Luis J. Rodriguez | 5,335 | 0.52% | 0 | |
Green | Jill Stein | Cheri Honkala | 3,817 | 0.37% | 0 | |
Constitution | Virgil Goode | Jim Clymer | 2,871 | 0.28% | 0 | |
Socialism and Liberation | Gloria La Riva | Filberto Ramirez Jr. | 393 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Others | Others | 2,414 | 0.24% | 0 | ||
Totals | 1,019,815 | 100.00% | 6 | |||
Results breakdown
By county
County | Romney | Votes | Obama | Votes | Others | Votes | Total[6] |
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Beaver | 84.92% | 2,174 | 13.52% | 346 | 1.56% | 40 | 2,560 |
Box Elder | 88.11% | 17,101 | 10.22% | 1,984 | 1.66% | 323 | 19,408 |
Cache | 82.85% | 35,039 | 14.76% | 6,244 | 2.40% | 1,010 | 42,293 |
Carbon | 67.27% | 5,090 | 30.06% | 2,275 | 2.66% | 202 | 7,567 |
Daggett | 78.08% | 406 | 18.08% | 94 | 3.85% | 20 | 520 |
Davis | 80.00% | 96,861 | 18.08% | 21,889 | 1.92% | 2,319 | 121,069 |
Duchesne | 89.32% | 5,698 | 9.11% | 581 | 1.57% | 100 | 6,379 |
Emery | 84.90% | 3,777 | 12.79% | 569 | 2.31% | 103 | 4,449 |
Garfield | 83.96% | 1,832 | 14.12% | 308 | 1.92% | 42 | 2,182 |
Grand | 50.53% | 1,996 | 43.72% | 1,727 | 5.75% | 227 | 3,950 |
Iron | 84.47% | 14,200 | 12.78% | 2,148 | 2.75% | 463 | 16,811 |
Juab | 85.99% | 3,448 | 11.25% | 451 | 2.76% | 111 | 4,010 |
Kane | 74.81% | 2,522 | 22.07% | 744 | 3.11% | 105 | 3,371 |
Millard | 88.59% | 4,478 | 8.53% | 431 | 2.89% | 146 | 5,055 |
Morgan | 89.49% | 4,114 | 8.77% | 403 | 1.73% | 80 | 4,597 |
Piute | 89.13% | 697 | 9.46% | 74 | 1.41% | 11 | 782 |
Rich | 90.15% | 915 | 8.18% | 83 | 1.98% | 17 | 1,015 |
Salt Lake | 58.26% | 223,811 | 38.04% | 146,147 | 3.70% | 14,216 | 384,174 |
San Juan | 57.92% | 3,074 | 40.31% | 2,139 | 1.77% | 94 | 5,307 |
Sanpete | 88.05% | 8,406 | 10.27% | 980 | 1.69% | 161 | 9,547 |
Sevier | 89.32% | 7,207 | 9.15% | 738 | 1.54% | 124 | 8,069 |
Summit | 50.49% | 8,884 | 45.87% | 8,072 | 3.64% | 641 | 17,597 |
Tooele | 73.77% | 14,268 | 23.39% | 4,524 | 2.84% | 550 | 19,342 |
Uintah | 89.75% | 10,421 | 8.59% | 997 | 1.66% | 193 | 11,611 |
Utah | 88.32% | 156,950 | 9.72% | 17,281 | 1.96% | 3,482 | 177,713 |
Wasatch | 74.90% | 7,220 | 22.73% | 2,191 | 2.38% | 229 | 9,640 |
Washington | 82.43% | 44,698 | 15.37% | 8,337 | 2.19% | 1,191 | 54,226 |
Wayne | 82.06% | 1,089 | 16.20% | 215 | 1.73% | 23 | 1,327 |
Weber | 71.08% | 54,224 | 26.01% | 19,841 | 2.92% | 2,225 | 76,290 |
See also
- Republican Party presidential debates, 2012
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012
- Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
- Utah Republican Party
- United States presidential election in Utah, 2016
References
- ↑ "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ↑ "WSJ Poll tracker, 17-poll average". Wall Street Journal. April 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Poll: Utah voters believe Romney's Mormon faith hurting him less this time". Deseret News. April 3, 2012.
- 1 2 "Republican for President". Utah Election Results. State of Utah. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- ↑ "Utah Secretary of State". Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ↑ "NPR and NewsHour 2008 Election Results". Archived from the original on February 18, 2012. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
External links
- The Green Papers: for Utah
- The Green Papers: Major state elections in chronological order