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The 2012 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Washington voters chose 12 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 .
President Obama won the state of Washington comfortably, taking 56.16% to Mitt Romney's 41.29%, a 14.87% margin of victory.[2] The election continued the state's blue trend; Washington has not voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984 .
General election
Results
2012 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Party
Candidate
Running mate
Votes
Percentage
Electoral votes
Democratic
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
1,755,396
56.16%
12
Republican
Mitt Romney
Paul Ryan
1,290,670
41.29%
0
Libertarian
Gary Johnson
Jim Gray
42,202
1.35%
0
Green
Jill Stein
Cheri Honkala
20,928
0.67%
0
Constitution
Virgil Goode
Jim Clymer
8,851
0.28%
0
Justice
Rocky Anderson
Luis J. Rodriguez
4,946
0.16%
0
Socialism and Liberation
Peta Lindsay
Yari Osorio
1,318
0.04%
0
Socialist Workers
James Harris
Alyson Kennedy
1,205
0.04%
0
Totals
3,125,516
100.00%
12
Results By County [3]
County
Dem Votes (Obama)
%
Rep Votes (Romney)
%
Other
%
Total
Adams
1,540
32.13%
3,171
66.16%
123
2.57%
4,793
Asotin
4,003
40.43%
5,654
57.11%
497
5.02%
9,901
Benton
28,145
35.38%
49,461
62.17%
3,740
4.70%
79,559
Chelan
13,112
40.66%
18,402
57.06%
1,248
3.87%
32,250
Clallam
18,580
48.81%
18,437
48.43%
1,599
4.20%
38,066
Clark
93,382
48.94%
92,951
48.72%
4,472
6.01%
190,805
Columbia
645
28.55%
1,568
69.41%
89
3.94%
2,259
Cowlitz
22,726
50.93%
20,746
46.49%
1,982
4.44%
44,620
Douglas
5,166
34.57%
9,425
63.08%
548
3.67%
14,942
Ferry
1,294
37.62%
1,995
57.99%
98
2.85%
3,440
Franklin
8,398
37.09%
13,748
60.72%
876
3.87%
22,643
Garfield
336
26.29%
913
71.44%
73
5.71%
1,278
Grant
8,950
32.48%
17,852
64.78%
922
3.35%
27,558
Grays Harbor
15,960
55.64%
11,914
41.54%
1,201
4.19%
28,684
Island
21,478
51.02%
19,605
46.57%
2,110
5.01%
42,099
Jefferson
12,739
64.24%
6,405
32.3%
767
3.87%
19,829
King
668,004
69.07%
275,700
28.51%
35,115
3.63%
967,154
Kitsap
67,277
54.53%
52,846
42.84%
7,749
6.28%
123,367
Kittitas
7,949
43.75%
9,782
53.83%
783
4.31%
18,171
Klickitat
4,598
44.75%
5,316
51.74%
320
3.11%
10,274
Lewis
12,664
37.2%
20,452
60.08%
1,250
3.67%
34,044
Lincoln
1,673
28.49%
4,063
69.19%
166
2.83%
5,872
Mason
14,764
52.29%
12,761
45.2%
1,406
4.98%
28,235
Okanogan
7,108
42.19%
9,221
54.74%
487
2.89%
16,846
Pacific
5,711
54.27%
4,499
42.75%
322
3.06%
10,524
Pend Oreille
2,508
37.61%
3,952
59.27%
214
3.21%
6,668
Pierce
186,430
54.37%
148,467
43.3%
18,040
5.26%
342,910
San Juan
7,125
67.26%
3,111
29.37%
511
4.82%
10,594
Skagit
28,688
51.91%
25,071
45.36%
2,586
4.68%
55,269
Skamania
2,628
48.08%
2,687
49.16%
273
4.99%
5,466
Snohomish
188,516
56.16%
133,016
40.33%
17,458
5.29%
329,817
Spokane
102,295
45.7%
115,285
51.51%
11,162
4.99%
223,830
Stevens
7,762
35.03%
13,691
61.78%
733
3.31%
22,161
Thurston
74,037
58.27%
49,287
38.79%
7,151
5.63%
127,063
Wahkiakum
1,094
47.69%
1,119
48.78%
80
3.49%
2,294
Walla Walla
9,768
38.9%
14,648
58.34%
1,129
4.50%
25,108
Whatcom
57,089
55.41%
42,703
41.45%
4,605
4.47%
103,029
Whitman
8,037
46.94%
8,507
49.69%
967
5.65%
17,121
Yakima
33,217
43.15%
42,239
54.88%
2,518
3.27%
76,973
Democratic caucuses [data missing ]
Republican caucuses
Results of the non-binding strawpoll by county. Orange indicates a county won by Romney, gold by Paul, dark green by Santorum.
The Republican caucuses were held on March 3, 2012,[4] The additional preferential primary, as held since 1992, was canceled this year for budgetary reasons, as was the one in 2004.[5] Caucus participants however did not allocate national delegates to the candidates, they did only elected delegates to the county conventions and took part in a nonbinding strawpoll. Only the state convention on May 31 – June 2, 2012 legally pledged delegates to the national convention to specific candidates.
Caucus results
With 3,677,919 registered voters as of February 29,[6] the turnout was 1.4%.[7]
Washington state Republican caucuses nonbinding strawpoll
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Mitt Romney
19,111
37.65%
Ron Paul
12,594
24.81%
Rick Santorum
12,089
23.81%
Newt Gingrich
5,221
10.28%
Uncommitted
1,656
3.26%
Total Write-Ins
93
0.18%
Totals
50,764
100.00%
Convention results
Convention Results[8] [9] [10]
Candidate
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
State
Party leaders
Total
Mitt Romney
3
3
0
3
3
3
0
3
3
3
10
3
37
Ron Paul
0
0
2
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
5
Rick Santorum
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Total
30
10
3
43
See also
References
External links
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