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2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries

← 2004 January 3 – June 3, 2008 2012 →
 
Candidate Barack Obama Hillary Clinton John Edwards
Home state Illinois New York North Carolina
Delegate count 2,272.5 1,978 14.5
Contests won 33 23
(without MI and FL)
0
Popular vote 17,535,458[1][a] 17,822,145[1][a] 394,979
Percentage 47.4%[1] 48.1%[1] 4.5%

First place by first-instance vote

Popular vote margins
(Popular vote winners and delegate winners differ in five contests: NH, NV, MO, TX, and GU.)

Previous Democratic nominee

John Kerry

Democratic nominee

Barack Obama

2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries

← 2008 January 3 to June 5, 2012 2016 →
 
Candidate Barack Obama John Wolfe Jr.
Home state Illinois Tennessee
Delegate count 3,166 0 (23)
Contests won 56 0
Popular vote 6,158,064 117,033
Percentage 88.9% 2.6%

  Obama
  no primary held

Previous Democratic nominee

Barack Obama

Democratic nominee

Barack Obama

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "2008 Democratic Popular Vote". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  2. ^ Coomarasamy, Jamie (June 1, 2008). "Equal split masks Obama victory". BBC News. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
  1. ^ a b This figure does not include the states of Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine who did not release popular vote information. The political news and polling data aggregator website RealClearPolitics estimated that the results of the caucuses would have increased Obama's total vote to 17,869,542 and Clinton's to 17,717,698.[1] The Democratic National Committee (DNC) did not recognize primary results in Michigan, due to the state moving the date of their primary to January. Due to the lack of DNC recognition, Obama and several other candidates withdrew their names from the ballot whereas Clinton did not. The results of the Michigan primary were as thus: Uncommitted: 238,168; Clinton: 328,309. If the Michigan tally had been made official, the overall popular vote would be 17,535,458 for Obama and 17,822,145 for Clinton. With the caucuses estimates included the overall tally would be 17,869,542 and 18,046,007 respectively.[1][2]