Electoral history of Barack Obama

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Barack Obama was an Illinois State Senator, United States Senator and is currently the 44th President of the United States. He has been involved in many elections, beginning in 1996.

[edit] Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1996^[1]:

Barack Obama (D) - 48,592 (82.16%)
David Whitehead (Harold Washington Party) - 7,461 (12.62%)
Rosette Caldwell Peyton (R) - 3,091 (5.23%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1998^[2]:

Barack Obama (D) (inc.) - 45,486 (89.17%)
Yesse B. Yehudah (R) - 5,526 (10.83%)

US House, Illinois's 1st district, 2000 (Democratic primary), 2000^[3]:

Bobby Rush (inc.) - 59,599 (61.03%)
Barack Obama - 29,649 (30.36%)
Donne E. Trotter - 6,915 (7.08%)
George Roby - 1,501 (1.54%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 2002^[4]:

Barack Obama (inc.) - 48,717 (100.00%)

[edit] United States Senate election (2004)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Illinois, 2004^[5]:

Barack Obama - 655,923 (52.77%)
Dan Hynes - 294,717 (23.71%)
Blair Hull - 134,453 (10.82%)
Maria Pappas - 74,987 (6.03%)
Gery Chico - 53,433 (4.30%)
Nancy Skinner - 16,098 (1.30%)
Joyce Washington - 13,375 (1.08%)
Estella Johnson-Hunt (write-in) - 10 (0.00%)

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004^[6]:

Barack Obama (D) - 3,598,277 (69.97%)
Alan Keyes (R) - 1,391,030 (27.05%)
Albert J. Franzen (I) - 81,186 (1.58%)
Jerry Kohn (LBT) - 69,276 (1.35%)
Mark Kuhnke (R) (write-in) - 2,268 (0.04%)
Scott Doddy (I) (write-in) - 339 (0.01%)
Donald McArthur-Self (I) (write-in) - 134 (0.00%)
Kathy Campbell (I) (write-in) - 129 (0.00%)
Shaun Bill (I) (write-in) - 37 (0.00%)
Marcus Hester (I) (write-in) - 23 (0.00%)

[edit] Presidential primaries (2008)

2008 Democratic presidential primaries:^[7]

Excluding penalized contests^[8], only primary and caucuses votes:

Barack Obama - 16,706,853
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 16,239,821
John Edwards - 742,010
Bill Richardson - 89,054
Uncommitted - 82,660
Dennis Kucinich - 68,482
Joe Biden - 64,041
Mike Gravel - 27,662
Christopher Dodd - 25,300
Others - 22,556

Including penalized contests:

Hillary Rodham Clinton - 18,225,175 (48.03%)
Barack Obama - 17,988,182 (47.41%)
John Edwards - 1,006,275 (2.65%)
Uncommitted - 299,610 (0.79%)
Bill Richardson - 106,073 (0.28%)
Dennis Kucinich - 103,994 (0.27%)
Joe Biden - 81,641 (0.22%)
Scattering - 44,348 (0.12%)
Mike Gravel - 40,251 (0.11%)
Christopher Dodd - 35,281 (0.09%)

2008 Democratic delegate counts:

(2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination)

Pledged delegates"^[9]

Barack Obama - 1,765
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,637
John Edwards - 4

Including superdelegates:^[10]

Barack Obama - 2,156 (52.79%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,922 (47.06%)
John Edwards - 6 (0.15%)

2008 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally)

Barack Obama - chosen by acclamation

Unfinished roll call (13 states, D.C. Guam, American Samoa and Democrats Abroad):^[11]

Barack Obama - 3,189 (75.93%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,011 (24.07%)

[edit] Other results

2008 New Hampshire Democratic Vice Presidential primary:^[12]

Raymond Stebbins - 50,485 (46.93%)
William Bryk - 22,965 (21.35%)
John Edwards* - 10,553 (9.81%)
Barack Obama* 6,402 (5.95%)
Bill Richardson* (write-in) - 5,525 (5.14%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton* (write-in) - 3,419 (3.18%)
Joe Biden* - 1,512 (1.41%)
Al Gore* - 966 (0.90%)
Dennis Kucinich* - 762 (0.71%)
Bill Clinton* - 388 (0.36%)
John McCain* - 293 (0.27%)
Christopher Dodd* - 224 (0.21%)
Ron Paul* - 176 (0.16%)
Jack Barnes, Jr.* - 95 (0.09%)
Mike Gravel* - 91 (0.09%)
Joe Lieberman* - 67 (0.06%)
Mitt Romney* - 66 (0.06%)
Mike Huckabee* - 63 (0.06%)
Rudy Giuliani* - 46 (0.04%)
Darrel Hunter* - 20 (0.02%)

Vermont Liberty Union Party Presidential primary, 2008:^[13]

Brian P. Moore - 178 (44.61%)
Barack Obama* - 25 (6.27%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton* - 15 (3.76%)
Ralph Nader* - 5 (1.25%)
Eugene Victor Debs* - 1 (0.25%)
Patrick Leahy* - 1 (0.25%)
John McCain* - 1 (0.25%)
Richard Norton* - 1 (0.25%)
Ron Paul* - 1 (0.25%)
Morgan Phillips* - 1 (0.25%)
Others - 170 (42.61%)

Minnesota Independence Party Presidential caucus, 2008:^[14]

Michael Bloomberg - 50 (50.00%)
Barack Obama - 20 (20.00%)
Ron Paul - 20 (20.00%)
Others - 10 (10.00%)

Connecticut for Lieberman Presidential caucus, 2008:^[15]

Barack Obama - 19 (82.61%)
Ralph Nader - 3 (13.04%)
No nominee - 1 (4.35%)

MoveOn.org Presidential primary, 2008:^[16]

Barack Obama - 197,444 (70.38%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 83,084 (29.62%)

[edit] 2008 United States Presidential Election

Popular vote:

Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic) - 69,456,897 (52.92%)
John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican) - 59,934,786 (45.66%)
Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (Independent) - 738,475 (0.56%)
Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian) - 523,686 (0.40%)
Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution) - 199,314 (0.15%)
Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green) - 161,603 (0.12%)
Other candidates - 226,908 (0.17%)

Electoral vote:

Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 365 (28 states as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, and the District of Columbia)
John McCain/Sarah Palin - 173 (21 states carried plus, Nebraska's two At-large votes and Nebraska's 1st and 3rd congressional districts)

[edit] References

^ Our Campaigns - IL State Senate 13 Race - Nov 05, 1996
^ Our Campaigns - Candidate - Barack Obama
^ Our Campaigns - IL District 01- D Primary Race - Mar 21, 2000
^ Our Campaigns - IL State Senate 13 Race - Nov 08, 2002
^ Our Campaigns - IL US Senate - D Primary Race - Mar 16, 2004
^ Our Campaigns - IL US Senate Race - Nov 02, 2004
^ Our Campaigns - US President - D Primary Race - Jan 03, 2008
^ Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving their primaries before February 5, 2008, resulting in a nullification of their primaries, until the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to restore half their delegates.
^ Political Dashboard - 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News
^ Our Campaigns - US President - Democratic Delegate Count Race - Jan 03, 2008
^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=279986
^ Our Campaigns - NH US Vice President - D Primary Race - Jan 08, 2008
^ Our Campaigns - VT US President - Liberty Union Primary Race - Mar 04, 2008
^ Our Campaigns - MN US President - MNI Caucus Race - Feb 05, 2008
^ Our Campaigns - CT US President - CFL Caucus Race - Mar 06, 2008
^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=442606

[0] Our Campaigns - IL State Senate 13 Race - Nov 05, 1996

[1] Our Campaigns - Candidate - Barack Obama

[2] Our Campaigns - IL District 01- D Primary Race - Mar 21, 2000

[3] Our Campaigns - IL State Senate 13 Race - Nov 08, 2002

[4] Our Campaigns - IL US Senate - D Primary Race - Mar 16, 2004

[5] Our Campaigns - IL US Senate Race - Nov 02, 2004

[6] Our Campaigns - US President - D Primary Race - Jan 03, 2008

[7] Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving their primaries before February 5, 2008, resulting in a nullification of their primaries, until the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to restore half their delegates.

[8] Political Dashboard - 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News

[9] Our Campaigns - US President - Democratic Delegate Count Race - Jan 03, 2008

[10] ttp://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=279986

[11] Our Campaigns - NH US Vice President - D Primary Race - Jan 08, 2008

[12] Our Campaigns - VT US President - Liberty Union Primary Race - Mar 04, 2008

[13] Our Campaigns - MN US President - MNI Caucus Race - Feb 05, 2008

[14] Our Campaigns - CT US President - CFL Caucus Race - Mar 06, 2008

[15] ttp://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=442606

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Electoral history of Barack Obama

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[edit] Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002)

[edit] United States Senate election (2004)

[edit] Presidential primaries (2008)

[edit] Other results

[edit] 2008 United States Presidential Election

[edit] References

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