Electoral history of Mitt Romney
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Governor of Massachusetts
Presidential campaigns
U.S. Senator from Utah
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This the electoral history of Mitt Romney, the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007) and a candidate for: the United States Senate in 1994 and President of the United States in 2008 and 2012. In 2018, Romney declared that he was a candidate for the United States Senate in the state of Utah.[1]
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:[2]
- 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
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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%)
United States presidential election, 2012:
- 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)