Electoral history of Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

This is the electoral history of Mitt Romney, the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007) and the incumbent United States Senator from Utah. Romney ran for president in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries. In 2018, Romney declared his candidacy for the United States Senate in the state of Utah and on November 6th was declared the winner.

1994 Senate

Republican primary for the United States Senate from Massachusetts, 1994:

• Mitt Romney – 188,280 (82.04%)
• John Lakian – 40,898 (17.82%)
• Others (write-in) – 318 (0.14%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1994:

• Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,265,997 (58.08%)
• Mitt Romney (R) – 894,000 (41.01%)
• Lauraleigh Dozier (Libertarian) – 14,484 (0.66%)
• William A. Ferguson, Jr. (LaRouche Movement) – 4,776 (0.22%)
• Others – 688 (0.03%)

2002 Governor

Republican primary for the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002:

• Mitt Romney – unopposed

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002:

• Mitt Romney (R) – 1,091,988 (49.77%)
• Shannon O'Brien (D) – 985,981 (44.94%)
• Jill E. Stein (Green) – 76,530 (3.49%)
• Carla Howell (Libertarian) – 23,044 (1.05%)
• Barbara Johnson (I) – 15,335 (0.70%)
• Others – 1,301 (0.06%)

2008 Presidential

2008 Republican presidential primaries (total popular vote):

• John McCain – 9,787,238 (46.56%)
• Mitt Romney – 4,662,443 (22.18%)
• Mike Huckabee – 4,267,267 (20.30%)
• Ron Paul – 1,179,004 (5.61%)
• Rudy Giuliani – 597,624 (2.84%)
• Fred Thompson – 294,100 (1.40%)
• Uncommitted – 70,348 (0.34%)
• Alan Keyes – 59,718 (0.28%)
• Duncan Hunter – 39,928 (0.19%)
• Scattering – 39,301 (0.19%)
• Tom Tancredo – 8,612 (0.04%)
• John Cox – 3,351 (0.02%)
• Sam Brownback – 2,838 (0.01%)

2008 Republican National Convention (presidential ballot delegate tally):

• John McCain – 2,343 (99.28%)
• Ron Paul – 15 (0.64%)
• Mitt Romney – 2 (0.09%)

2012 Presidential

2012 Republican presidential primaries (total popular vote):

• Mitt Romney – 9,685,780 (51.50%)
• Rick Santorum – 3,909,621 (20.79%)
• Newt Gingrich – 2,718,937 (14.46%)
• Ron Paul – 2,049,410 (10.90%)
• Jon Huntsman, Jr. – 84,730 (0.45%)
• Rick Perry – 54,769 (0.29%)
• Michele Bachmann – 41,429 (0.22%)

2012 Republican National Convention (presidential ballot delegate tally):

• Mitt Romney – 2,061 (90.16%)
• Ron Paul – 190 (8.31%)
• Others – 35 (1.53%)

2012 United States presidential election:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden (D) - 65,899,557 (51.06%) and 332 electoral votes (26 states and D.C. carried)
• Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (R) - 60,931,959 (47.21%) and 206 electoral votes (24 states carried)

2018 Senate

Republican primary for the United States Senate from Utah, 2018:

• Mitt Romney – 240,027 (71.27%)
• Mike Kennedy – 96,776 (28.73%)

United States Senate election in Utah, 2018

• Mitt Romney (R) (elected)
• Jenny Wilson (D)
• Tim Aalders (Libertarian)
• Craig Bowden (Constitution)
• Reed McCandless (Independent American)

See also

• Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2008
• Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012