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Electoral history of Paul Ryan, United States Representative from Wisconsin (1999-2019), 2012 Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States, and Speaker of the House of Representatives (2015-2019). Throughout his career, Paul Ryan had never lost an election other than his defeat in the 2012 United States presidential election; of all the times he has won, he has never received less than 54% of the vote.[1]

Wisconsin's 1st congressional district

1998

1998 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election, Republican primary[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan 15,363 80.65%
Republican Michael J. Logan 3,784 19.24%
Total votes 19,147 100.00%
1998 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan 108,475 57.11%
Democratic Lydia Spottswood 81,164 42.73%
Write-in 307 0.16%
Total votes 189,946 100.00%
Republican hold

2000

2000 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 177,612 66.57%
Democratic Jeffrey Thomas 88,885 33.32%
Write-in 294 0.11%
Total votes 266,791 100.00%
Republican hold

2002

2002 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 140,176 67.19%
Democratic Jeffrey Thomas 63,895 30.63%
Libertarian George Meyers 4,406 2.11%
Write-in 136 0.07%
Total votes 208,613 100.00%
Republican hold

2004

2004 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 233,372 65.37%
Democratic Jeffrey Thomas 116,250 32.57%
Independent Norman Aulabaugh 4,252 1.19%
Libertarian Don Bernau 2,936 0.82%
Write-in 166 0.05%
Total votes 356,976 100.00%
Republican hold

2006

2006 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 161,320 62.63%
Democratic Jeffrey Thomas 95,761 37.17%
Write-in 515 0.20%
Total votes 257,596 100.00%
Republican hold

2008

2008 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 231,009 63.97%
Democratic Marge Krupp 125,268 34.69%
Libertarian Joseph Kexel 4,606 1.28%
Write-in 224 0.06%
Total votes 361,107 100.00%
Republican hold

2010

2010 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 179,819 68.21%
Democratic John Heckenlively 79,363 30.10%
Libertarian Joseph Kexel 4,311 1.64%
Write-in 134 0.05%
Total votes 263,627 100.00%
Republican hold

2012

2012 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 200,423 54.90%
Democratic Bob Zerban 158,414 43.39%
Libertarian Keith Deschler 6,054 1.66%
Write-in 167 0.05%
Total votes 365,058 100.00%
Republican hold

2014

2014 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 182,316 63.27%
Democratic Bob Zerban 105,552 36.63%
Libertarian Keith Deschler (write-in) 29 0.01%
Write-in 273 0.09%
Total votes 288,170 100.00%
Republican hold

2016

2016 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district election[12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (incumbent) 230,072 64.95%
Democratic Ryan Solen 107,003 30.21%
Independent Spencer Zimmerman[a] 9,429 2.66%
Libertarian Jason Lebeck 7,486 2.11%
Write-in 255 0.07%
Total votes 354,245 100.00%
Republican hold

Speaker of the House

2015

Main article: October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
2015 election for Speaker (Special) – 114th Congress[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (WI-01) 236 54.63
Democratic Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) 184 42.60
Republican Dan Webster (FL-10) 9 2.08
Democratic Jim Cooper (TN-05) 1 0.23
Democratic John Lewis (GA-05) 1 0.23
Republican Colin Powell[b] 1 0.23
Total votes 432 100
Votes necessary 217 >50

2017

Main article: 2017 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
2017 election for Speaker – 115th Congress[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan (WI-01) (incumbent) 239 55.19
Democratic Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) 189 43.65
Democratic Tim Ryan (OH-13) 2 0.47
Democratic Jim Cooper (TN-05) 1 0.23
Democratic John Lewis (GA-05) 1 0.23
Republican Dan Webster (FL-10) 1 0.23
Total votes 433 100
Votes necessary 217 >50

Vice presidential nominee

At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Paul Ryan was nominated for vice president by voice vote.

2012 Electoral college results
  • Obama: 332 votes (26 states + DC)
  • Romney: 206 votes (24 states)
2012 United States presidential election[15]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Barack Obama (inc.) / Joe Biden (inc.) 65,915,795 51.06%
Republican Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan 60,933,504 47.20%
Libertarian Gary Johnson / Jim Gray 1,275,971 0.99%
Green Jill Stein / Cheri Honkala 469,627 0.36%
Constitution Virgil Goode / Jim Clymer 122,389 0.09%
Peace and Freedom Roseanne Barr / Cindy Sheehan 67,326 0.05%
Justice Rocky Anderson / Luis J. Rodriguez 43,018 0.03%
Independent Tom Hoefling / J.D. Ellis 40,628 0.03%
N/A Other 217,152 0.17%
Total votes 129,085,410 100.00%
Democratic hold

The Republican presidential ticket which included Paul Ryan as vice presidential candidate won 195,835 votes (51.65% of the vote) in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district.[16] This was almost 5000 votes fewer than his simultaneous congressional run, and a lower percentage of the vote than he won in any of his congressional races for that district.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Party affiliation listed on ballots as "Trump Conservative."
  2. ^ Not a member of the House at the time.

References

  1. ^ "The Angel and Devil in Paul Ryan". ABC News. 13 August 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  2. ^ "Federal Elections 98: U.S. House Results - Wisconsin". www.fec.gov. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  3. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections98.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections00.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/FederalElections2002_House.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2004congresults.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2006house.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2008congresults.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2010house.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2012congresults.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  11. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2014house.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  12. ^ https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  13. ^ "161 Cong. Rec. H7337–38 (2015)" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office. October 29, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  14. ^ "163 Cong. Rec. H3–4 (2017)" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office. January 3, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  15. ^ Leip, David. "2012 Presidential General Election Results". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  16. ^ "Daily Kos Elections' statewide election results by congressional and legislative districts". Daily Kos. 9 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2017-12-08. Retrieved 3 Jan 2020.
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