2012 United States presidential election in Utah
The 2012 United States presidential election in Utah 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. Utah voters chose six 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. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Romney would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. Utah is among the most heavily Republican states, voting for the Republican ticket in every presidential election since 1968, and is also the only state to have a majority Mormon population, benefiting Romney, the first Mormon to head a major party presidential ticket. He carried every county in the state, all by large margins except eastern, less Mormon Summit and Grand Counties. However, Obama won reelection nationwide.
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With 72.62 percent of the popular vote, Utah would prove to be Romney's strongest state in the 2012 election,[1] and Romney would go on to be elected as a United States Senator from Utah six years later in 2018.
Democratic primary
Due to Obama running for reelection without serious opposition for the Democratic Party in 2012, no Democratic Primary was held in Utah.
Republican primary
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Mitt Romney |
The Republican primary took place on 26 June 2012.[2] 37 delegates were chosen, for a total of 40 delegates to go to the national convention, all pledged to the primary winner.
In 2008, Mitt Romney received major support from the Mormon (LDS) and other religious population and was able to carry the state with 89.49% of the vote. Romney led the polling in 2012[3][4] and won the primary by a large margin.[5]
2012 Utah Republican primary[5] | |||
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates |
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220,865 | 93.1% | 40 |
Ron Paul | 11,209 | 4.72% | 0 |
Rick Santorum | 3,541 | 1.5% | 0 |
Newt Gingrich | 1,124 | 0.5% | 0 |
Fred Karger | 578 | 0.2% | 0 |
Pledged party leaders: | 3 | ||
Total: | 237,317 | 100.0% | 40 |
Key: | Withdrew prior to contest |
General election
Candidate Ballot Access:
- Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan, Republican
- Barack Obama/Joseph Biden, Democratic
- Rocky Anderson/Luis J. Rodriguez, Justice
- Gary Johnson/James P. Gray, Libertarian
- Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala, Green
- Virgil Goode/Jim Clymer, Constitution
- Gloria La Riva/Filberto Ramirez Jr., Socialism and Liberation (as stand-ins for Peta Lindsay and Yari Osorio, who may not appear on the Utah ballot due to their Constitutional ineligibility to be president and vice president)
Write in Access:
- Andre Barnett/Ken Cross, Reform
Results
2012 United States presidential election in Utah[6] | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | Paul Ryan | 740,600 | 72.62% | 6 | |
Democratic | Barack Obama | Joe Biden | 251,813 | 24.69% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Jim Gray | 12,572 | 1.23% | 0 | |
Justice | Rocky Anderson | Luis J. Rodriguez | 5,335 | 0.52% | 0 | |
Green | Jill Stein | Cheri Honkala | 3,817 | 0.37% | 0 | |
Constitution | Virgil Goode | Jim Clymer | 2,871 | 0.28% | 0 | |
Socialism and Liberation | Gloria La Riva | Filberto Ramirez Jr. | 393 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Others | Others | 2,414 | 0.24% | 0 | ||
Totals | 1,019,815 | 100.00% | 6 | |||
Results by county
County | Willard Mitt Romney[7] Republican |
Barack Hussein Obama[7] Democratic |
Gary Earl Johnson[7] Libertarian |
Various candidates[7] Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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Beaver | 2,174 | 84.92% | 346 | 13.52% | 17 | 0.66% | 23 | 0.90% | 1,828 | 71.41% | 2,560 |
Box Elder | 17,101 | 88.12% | 1,984 | 10.22% | 150 | 0.77% | 172 | 0.89% | 15,117 | 77.89% | 19,407 |
Cache | 35,039 | 82.85% | 6,244 | 14.76% | 543 | 1.28% | 467 | 1.10% | 28,795 | 68.08% | 42,293 |
Carbon | 5,090 | 67.27% | 2,275 | 30.06% | 88 | 1.16% | 114 | 1.51% | 2,815 | 37.20% | 7,567 |
Daggett | 406 | 78.08% | 94 | 18.08% | 16 | 3.08% | 4 | 0.77% | 312 | 60.00% | 520 |
Davis | 96,861 | 80.00% | 21,889 | 18.08% | 1,217 | 1.01% | 1,102 | 0.91% | 74,972 | 61.93% | 121,069 |
Duchesne | 5,698 | 89.32% | 581 | 9.11% | 41 | 0.64% | 59 | 0.92% | 5,117 | 80.22% | 6,379 |
Emery | 3,777 | 84.88% | 569 | 12.79% | 48 | 1.08% | 56 | 1.26% | 3,208 | 72.09% | 4,450 |
Garfield | 1,832 | 83.96% | 308 | 14.12% | 17 | 0.78% | 25 | 1.15% | 1,524 | 69.84% | 2,182 |
Grand | 1,996 | 50.53% | 1,727 | 43.72% | 71 | 1.80% | 156 | 3.95% | 269 | 6.81% | 3,950 |
Iron | 14,200 | 85.02% | 2,148 | 12.86% | 202 | 1.21% | 151 | 0.90% | 12,052 | 72.16% | 16,701 |
Juab | 3,448 | 86.81% | 451 | 11.35% | 27 | 0.68% | 46 | 1.16% | 2,997 | 75.45% | 3,972 |
Kane | 2,522 | 74.81% | 744 | 22.07% | 47 | 1.39% | 58 | 1.72% | 1,778 | 52.74% | 3,371 |
Millard | 4,478 | 89.10% | 431 | 8.58% | 43 | 0.86% | 74 | 1.47% | 4,047 | 80.52% | 5,026 |
Morgan | 4,114 | 89.51% | 403 | 8.77% | 36 | 0.78% | 43 | 0.94% | 3,711 | 80.74% | 4,596 |
Piute | 697 | 89.13% | 74 | 9.46% | 5 | 0.64% | 6 | 0.77% | 623 | 79.67% | 782 |
Rich | 915 | 90.86% | 83 | 8.24% | 6 | 0.60% | 3 | 0.30% | 832 | 82.62% | 1,007 |
Salt Lake | 223,811 | 58.62% | 146,147 | 38.28% | 5,521 | 1.45% | 6,318 | 1.65% | 77,664 | 20.34% | 381,797 |
San Juan | 3,074 | 57.92% | 2,139 | 40.31% | 42 | 0.79% | 52 | 0.98% | 935 | 17.62% | 5,307 |
Sanpete | 8,406 | 88.05% | 980 | 10.27% | 69 | 0.72% | 92 | 0.96% | 7,426 | 77.78% | 9,547 |
Sevier | 7,207 | 89.32% | 738 | 9.15% | 56 | 0.69% | 68 | 0.84% | 6,469 | 80.17% | 8,069 |
Summit | 8,884 | 50.80% | 8,072 | 46.16% | 301 | 1.72% | 231 | 1.32% | 812 | 4.64% | 17,488 |
Tooele | 14,268 | 74.08% | 4,524 | 23.49% | 232 | 1.20% | 237 | 1.23% | 9,744 | 50.59% | 19,261 |
Uintah | 10,421 | 89.97% | 997 | 8.61% | 71 | 0.61% | 94 | 0.81% | 9,424 | 81.36% | 11,583 |
Utah | 156,950 | 88.32% | 17,281 | 9.72% | 2,120 | 1.19% | 1,362 | 0.77% | 139,669 | 78.59% | 177,713 |
Wasatch | 7,220 | 75.29% | 2,191 | 22.85% | 90 | 0.94% | 88 | 0.92% | 5,029 | 52.45% | 9,589 |
Washington | 44,698 | 82.76% | 8,337 | 15.44% | 541 | 1.00% | 436 | 0.81% | 36,361 | 67.32% | 54,012 |
Wayne | 1,089 | 82.06% | 215 | 16.20% | 6 | 0.45% | 17 | 1.28% | 874 | 65.86% | 1,327 |
Weber | 54,224 | 71.43% | 19,841 | 26.14% | 949 | 1.25% | 898 | 1.18% | 34,383 | 45.29% | 75,912 |
Totals | 740,600 | 72.79% | 251,813 | 24.75% | 12,572 | 1.24% | 12,455 | 1.22% | 488,787 | 48.04% | 1,017,440 |
By congressional district
Romney won all four congressional districts.
District | Romney | Obama | Representative |
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1st | 78% | 20% | Rob Bishop |
2nd | 68% | 29% | Chris Stewart |
3rd | 79% | 20% | Jason Chaffetz |
4th | 68% | 30% | Jim Matheson |
See also
References
- "2012 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- "WSJ Poll tracker, 17-poll average". Wall Street Journal. April 10, 2012.
- "Poll: Utah voters believe Romney's Mormon faith hurting him less this time". Deseret News. April 3, 2012.
- "Republican for president". Utah Election Results. State of Utah. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- "Utah Secretary of State". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- Our Campaigns; UT US Presidential Election November 06, 2012
External links
- The Green Papers: for Utah
- The Green Papers: Major state elections in chronological order