Electoral history of Barack Obama

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Senator Obama on the campaign trail

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (2009–present); United States Senator from Illinois (2005–2008).

Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1996

Barack Obama (D) - 48,592 (82.16%)
David Whitehead (Harold Washington Party) - 7,461 (12.62%)
Rosette Caldwell Peyton (R) - 3,091 (5.23%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1998

Barack Obama (D) (inc.) - 45,486 (89.17%)
Yesse B. Yehudah (R) - 5,526 (10.83%)

US House, Illinois's 1st district, 2000 (Democratic primary), 2000

Bobby Rush (inc.) - 59,599 (61.03%)
Barack Obama - 29,649 (30.36%)
Donne E. Trotter - 6,915 (7.08%)
George Roby - 1,501 (1.54%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 2002

Barack Obama (inc.) - 48,717 (100.00%)

United States Senate election (2004)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Illinois, 2004

Barack Obama - 655,923 (52.77%)
Dan Hynes - 294,717 (23.71%)
Blair Hull - 134,453 (10.82%)
Maria Pappas - 74,987 (6.03%)
Gery Chico - 53,433 (4.30%)
Nancy Skinner - 16,098 (1.30%)
Joyce Washington - 13,375 (1.08%)
Estella Johnson-Hunt (write-in) - 10 (0.00%)

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004

Barack Obama (D) - 3,598,277 (69.97%)
Alan Keyes (R) - 1,391,030 (27.05%)
Albert J. Franzen (I) - 81,186 (1.58%)
Jerry Kohn (LBT) - 69,276 (1.35%)
Mark Kuhnke (R) (write-in) - 2,268 (0.04%)
Scott Doddy (I) (write-in) - 339 (0.01%)
Donald McArthur-Self (I) (write-in) - 134 (0.00%)
Kathy Campbell (I) (write-in) - 129 (0.00%)
Shaun Bill (I) (write-in) - 37 (0.00%)
Marcus Hester (I) (write-in) - 23 (0.00%)

Presidential primaries (2008)

2008 Democratic presidential primaries

Excluding penalized contests,^[1] only primary and caucuses votes:

Barack Obama - 16,706,853
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 16,239,821
John Edwards - 742,010
Bill Richardson - 89,054
Uncommitted - 82,660
Dennis Kucinich - 68,482
Joe Biden - 64,041
Mike Gravel - 27,662
Christopher Dodd - 25,300
Others - 22,556

Including penalized contests:

Hillary Rodham Clinton - 18,225,175 (48.03%)
Barack Obama - 17,988,182 (47.41%)
John Edwards - 1,006,275 (2.65%)
Uncommitted - 299,610 (0.79%)
Bill Richardson - 106,073 (0.28%)
Dennis Kucinich - 103,994 (0.27%)
Joe Biden - 81,641 (0.22%)
Scattering - 44,348 (0.12%)
Mike Gravel - 40,251 (0.11%)
Christopher Dodd - 35,281 (0.09%)

2008 Democratic delegate counts:

(2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination)

Pledged delegates"^[2]

Barack Obama - 1,765
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,637
John Edwards - 4

Including superdelegates

Barack Obama - 2,156 (52.79%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,922 (47.06%)
John Edwards - 6 (0.15%)

2008 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally)

Barack Obama - chosen by acclamation

Unfinished roll call (13 states, D.C. Guam, American Samoa and Democrats Abroad):

Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,011 (24.07%)

Other results

2008 New Hampshire Democratic Vice Presidential primary:

Raymond Stebbins - 50,485 (46.93%)
William Bryk - 22,965 (21.35%)
John Edwards* - 10,553 (9.81%)
Barack Obama* 6,402 (5.95%)
Bill Richardson* (write-in) - 5,525 (5.14%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton* (write-in) - 3,419 (3.18%)
Joe Biden* - 1,512 (1.41%)
Al Gore* - 966 (0.90%)
Dennis Kucinich* - 762 (0.71%)
Bill Clinton* - 388 (0.36%)
John McCain* - 293 (0.27%)
Christopher Dodd* - 224 (0.21%)
Ron Paul* - 176 (0.16%)
Jack Barnes, Jr.* - 95 (0.09%)
Mike Gravel* - 91 (0.09%)
Joe Lieberman* - 67 (0.06%)
Mitt Romney* - 66 (0.06%)
Mike Huckabee* - 63 (0.06%)
Rudy Giuliani* - 46 (0.04%)
Darrel Hunter* - 20 (0.02%)

2008 United States Presidential Election

Popular vote:

Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic) - 69,456,897 (52.92%)
John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican) - 59,934,786 (45.66%)
Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (Independent) - 738,475 (0.56%)
Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian) - 523,686 (0.40%)
Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution) - 199,314 (0.15%)
Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green) - 161,603 (0.12%)
Other candidates - 226,908 (0.17%)

Electoral vote:

Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 365 (28 states as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, and the District of Columbia)
John McCain/Sarah Palin - 173 (21 states carried plus, Nebraska's two At-large votes and Nebraska's 1st and 3rd congressional districts)

2012 United States Presidential Election

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Count	Pct	Electoral vote	Vice-presidential candidate	Home state	Elect. vote
Barack Obama	Democratic	Illinois	65,465,269	50.95%	332	Joe Biden	Delaware	332
Mitt Romney	Republican	Massachusetts	60,782,804	47.31%	206	Paul Ryan	Wisconsin	206
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	New Mexico	1,272,586	0.99%	0	James P. Gray	California	0
Jill Stein	Green	Massachusetts	465,781	0.36%	0	Cheri Honkala	Pennsylvania	0
Virgil Goode^[3]	Constitution	Virginia	120,747	0.09%	0	Jim Clymer	Pennsylvania	0
Roseanne Barr^[3]	Peace and Freedom	Hawaii	67,229	0.05%	0	Cindy Sheehan	California	0
Rocky Anderson^[3]	Justice	Utah	41,986	0.03%	0	Luis J. Rodriguez	California	0
Tom Hoefling^[3]	America's	Iowa	40,515	0.03%	0	Jonathan D. Ellis	Tennessee	0
Other			222,200	0.17%	—	Other		—
Total			128,479,117	100%	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

References

↑ Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving their primaries before February 5, 2008, resulting in a nullification of their primaries, until the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to restore half their delegates.
↑ Political Dashboard - 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News
1 2 3 4 "U.S. Election Results by State". Retrieved December 1, 2012.

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States (2009–present)
U.S. Senator from Illinois (2005–2008)
Illinois Senator from the 13th district (1997–2004)

Life and politics	Early life and career Illinois Senate career 2004 Democratic National Convention U.S. Senate career Political positions Administration foreign policy Economic Energy Mass surveillance Social Space Nobel Peace Prize West Wing Week

Presidency	Transition Office of the President-Elect 2009 inauguration 2013 inauguration First 100 days Timeline 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Foreign policy U.S. War in Afghanistan U.S. withdrawal from Iraq Obama Doctrine Health Care reform Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act New START Pardons Presidential trips 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Judicial appointments Supreme Court controversies Cabinet Presidential Library and Center

Books	Dreams from My Father (1995) The Audacity of Hope (2006) Of Thee I Sing (2010)

Speeches	"The Audacity of Hope" (2004) "A More Perfect Union" (2008) "Change Has Come to America" (2008) "A New Birth of Freedom" (2009) Joint session of Congress (2009) "A New Beginning" (2009) Joint session of Congress (health care reform) (2009) State of the Union Address 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Tucson memorial speech (2011) Joint session of Congress (jobs) (2011) "Trayvon could have been me" (2013) Selma 50th anniversary (2015)

Elections	Illinois State Senate election, 1996, 1998, 2002 Illinois' 1st congressional district election, 2000 United States Senate election, 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, 2008 2012 Obama primary campaign, 2008 Democratic National Convention, 2008 2012 Presidential campaign, 2008 endorsements GOP/conservative support Presidential election, 2008 Presidential campaign, 2012 endorsements Presidential election, 2012 international reactions

Family	Michelle Obama (wife) Ann Dunham (mother) Barack Obama, Sr. (father) Lolo Soetoro (step-father) Maya Soetoro-Ng (maternal half-sister) Stanley Armour Dunham (maternal grandfather) Madelyn Dunham (maternal grandmother) Marian Shields Robinson (mother-in-law) Craig Robinson (brother-in-law) Bo (family dog) Sunny (family dog)

Public image

News and political events	Oprah Winfrey's endorsement Citizenship conspiracy theories litigation legislation Religion conspiracy theories Bill Ayers controversy Jeremiah Wright controversy Republican and conservative support (2008) Assassination threats 2008 Denver 2008 Tennessee First inauguration invitations Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial Citizen's Briefing Book Tea Party protests New Energy for America Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Gates-Crowley Rose Garden meeting Resignation of Shirley Sherrod Impeachment efforts

Books about	Bibliography Obama: From Promise to Power Barack Obama – Der schwarze Kennedy The Case Against Barack Obama The Obama Nation Culture of Corruption Catastrophe Barack and Michelle The Speech The Obama Story Game Change Game Change 2012

Music	Obama Girl "I Got a Crush... on Obama" "Barack the Magic Negro" will.i.am "Yes We Can" "We Are the Ones" "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama" "Sí Se Puede Cambiar" "My President" "Deadheads for Obama" "Air and Simple Gifts" Change Is Now Hope! – Das Obama Musical "Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney" Barack's Dubs

Film	By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009) 2016: Obama's America (2012) The Road We've Traveled (2012)

Other media	On social media Artists for Obama "Hope" poster "Joker" poster Situation Room Obama logo In comics

Miscellaneous	Obama Day (Kenya) Awards and honors Namesakes Obama chmo!

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