United States presidential election in Illinois, 2012

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November 6, 2012



Nominee	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney
Party	Democratic	Republican
Home state	Illinois	Massachusetts
Running mate	Joe Biden	Paul Ryan
Electoral vote	20	0
Popular vote	3,019,512	2,135,216
Percentage	57.60%	40.73%

County Results

Obama—70-80%

Obama—60-70%

Obama—50-60%

Obama—<50%

Romney—<50%

Romney—50-60%

Romney—60-70%

Romney—70-80%

President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

Elected President

Barack Obama
Democratic

The 2012 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Illinois voters chose 20 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. The Obama/Biden ticket won Illinois with 57.60% of the popular vote to Romney/Ryan's 40.73%, thus winning the state's 20 electoral votes by a margin of 16.87%.^[1]

Obama's victory in Illinois was due to an overwhelmingly strong vote total in Cook County, which includes Illinois' largest city, Chicago. Obama won Cook County by 74%, receiving 1,488,537 votes, compared to Romney who received only 24.6% of the votes in Cook County, or 495,542 votes.^[2] The importance of the vote in Chicago and the rest of Cook County to Obama's victory in Illinois can be illustrated by a hypothetical scenario in which its votes are not included in the overall state total. If one were to subtract all of the votes in Cook County from Illinois' total votes cast, Romney would have actually won Illinois, having received 1,629,863 votes (50.62%) in the rest of the state, compared to Obama, who received 1,524,886 votes (47.36%). This, despite Obama's good performance in the suburban collar counties, which are considered swing counties.

Obama's victory continued a Democratic winning streak in the state - the Democratic candidate has carried Illinois through the previous six election cycles. The last Republican to win Illinois in a Presidential Election was George H.W. Bush in 1988.

General Election

Results

United States presidential election in Illinois, 2012
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Barack Obama	Joe Biden	3,019,512	57.60%	20
	Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	2,135,216	40.73%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	Jim Gray	56,229	1.07%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Cheri Honkala	30,222	0.58%	0
	Write-ins	Write-ins		835	0.02%	0
Totals				5,242,014	100.00%	20

By county^[3]

County	Obama %	Obama Votes	Romney %	Romney Votes	Others %	Others Votes	Total Votes
Adams	31.5%	9,648	66.7%	20,416	1.8%	543	30,607
Alexander	56.1%	1,965	42.5%	1,487	1.4%	49	3,501
Bond	40.9%	3,020	55.5%	4,095	3.5%	260	7,375
Boone	46.1%	9,883	51.8%	11,096	2.2%	462	21,441
Brown	33.3%	787	64.0%	1,513	2.7%	64	2,364
Bureau	48.7%	8,134	48.9%	8,164	2.3%	388	16,686
Calhoun	41.9%	1,080	55.9%	1,440	2.2%	56	2,576
Carroll	49.5%	3,665	48.0%	3,555	2.5%	186	7,406
Cass	42.1%	2,053	55.5%	2,707	2.4%	118	4,878
Champaign	51.9%	40,831	44.9%	35,312	3.1%	2,466	78,609
Christian	37.3%	5,494	60.3%	8,885	2.4%	348	14,727
Clark	32.9%	2,591	65.2%	5,144	1.9%	151	7,886
Clay	26.8%	1,584	70.9%	4,190	2.3%	134	5,908
Clinton	34.0%	5,596	63.9%	10,524	2.2%	361	16,481
Coles	43.2%	9,262	54.3%	11,631	2.5%	544	21,437
Cook	74.0%	1,488,537	24.6%	495,542	1.4%	27,519	2,011,598
Crawford	33.1%	2,858	64.7%	5,585	2.2%	190	8,633
Cumberland	31.0%	1,641	66.3%	3,509	2.7%	145	5,295
DeKalb	51.6%	21,207	46.1%	18,934	2.3%	951	41,092
De Witt	35.3%	2,601	62.1%	4,579	2.6%	188	7,368
Douglas	30.8%	2,430	67.5%	5,334	1.7%	133	7,897
DuPage	49.7%	199,460	48.6%	195,046	1.6%	6,575	401,081
Edgar	32.7%	2,565	65.5%	5,132	1.8%	138	7,835
Edwards	23.4%	754	74.5%	2,405	2.1%	69	3,228
Effingham	23.2%	3,861	75.2%	12,501	1.5%	251	16,613
Fayette	31.7%	2,853	66.0%	5,951	2.3%	208	9,012
Ford	27.5%	1,656	70.2%	4,229	2.3%	139	6,024
Franklin	40.5%	7,254	57.3%	10,267	2.2%	393	17,914
Fulton	54.0%	8,328	43.0%	6,632	2.9%	451	15,411
Gallatin	40.0%	1,029	58.0%	1,492	2.0%	52	2,573
Greene	35.9%	2,023	61.2%	3,451	2.9%	163	5,637
Grundy	44.3%	9,451	53.2%	11,343	2.4%	519	21,313
Hamilton	32.2%	1,269	65.1%	2,566	2.7%	106	3,941
Hancock	40.1%	3,650	57.9%	5,271	2.1%	190	9,111
Hardin	31.8%	742	65.9%	1,535	2.3%	53	2,330
Henderson	55.4%	1,978	43.2%	1,541	1.4%	49	3,568
Henry	50.5%	12,332	47.5%	11,583	2.0%	490	24,405
Iroquois	26.7%	3,413	71.3%	9,120	2.0%	251	12,784
Jackson	55.3%	13,319	40.9%	9,864	3.8%	921	24,104
Jasper	28.5%	1,436	69.7%	3,514	1.8%	93	5,043
Jersey	36.8%	3,667	60.6%	6,039	2.5%	253	9,959
Jo Daviess	49.6%	5,667	48.4%	5,534	2.0%	228	11,429
Johnson	27.7%	1,572	69.9%	3,963	2.4%	137	5,672
Kane	49.7%	90,332	48.6%	88,335	1.6%	2,981	181,648
Kankakee	47.3%	21,595	50.7%	23,136	2.0%	923	45,654
Kendall	47.4%	22,471	50.7%	24,047	1.9%	892	47,410
Knox	57.6%	13,451	40.3%	9,408	2.1%	497	23,356
Lake	53.5%	153,757	45.1%	129,764	1.4%	3,972	287,493
LaSalle	48.8%	23,073	49.2%	23,256	2.0%	930	47,259
Lawrence	33.6%	2,011	64.4%	3,857	2.0%	121	5,989
Lee	45.2%	6,937	52.5%	8,059	2.3%	352	15,348
Livingston	33.3%	5,020	64.7%	9,753	2.0%	304	15,077
Logan	33.0%	3,978	65.1%	7,844	1.9%	231	12,053
Macon	46.5%	22,780	51.6%	25,309	1.9%	941	49,030
Macoupin	44.9%	9,464	51.9%	10,946	3.2%	673	21,083
Madison	48.1%	58,922	49.5%	60,608	2.4%	2,943	122,473
Marion	39.3%	6,225	58.5%	9,248	2.2	347	15,820
Marshall	41.8%	2,455	56.1%	3,290	2.1%	124	5,869
Mason	45.5%	2,867	51.9%	3,265	2.6%	164	6,296
Massac	32.2%	2,092	65.9%	4,278	1.9%	125	6,495
McDonough	47.9%	5,967	49.4%	6,147	2.7%	340	12,454
McHenry	44.5%	59,797	53.3%	71,598	2.1%	2,842	134,237
McLean	43.4%	31,883	54.4%	39,947	2.2%	1,639	73,469
Menard	34.1%	2,100	64.2%	3,948	1.7%	103	6,151
Mercer	52.6%	4,507	45.2%	3,876	2.2%	185	8,568
Monroe	35.5%	6,215	62.3%	10,888	2.2%	387	17,490
Montgomery	41.5%	5,058	55.6%	6,776	2.9%	354	12,188
Morgan	41.1%	5,806	56.4%	7,972	2.6%	364	14,142
Moultrie	35.3%	2,144	62.3%	3,784	2.4%	147	6,075
Ogle	40.7%	9,514	57.4%	13,422	1.8%	431	23,367
Peoria	51.3%	40,209	46.9%	36,774	1.8%	1,428	78,411
Perry	39.8%	3,819	57.5%	5,507	2.7%	258	9,584
Piatt	35.5%	3,090	62.2%	5,413	2.3%	204	8,707
Pike	31.2%	2,278	66.6%	4,860	2.2%	164	7,302
Pope	29.3%	650	68.0%	1,512	2.7%	60	2,222
Pulaski	46.1%	1,389	51.9%	1,564	2.0%	59	3,012
Putnam	49.6%	1,559	47.8%	1,502	2.6%	82	3,143
Randolph	39.9%	5,759	57.4%	8,290	2.7%	389	14,438
Richland	32.4%	2,362	65.3%	4,756	2.3%	164	7,282
Rock Island	60.0%	39,157	38.2%	24,934	1.7%	1,126	65,217
Saline	34.5%	3,701	63.5%	6,806	2.0%	213	10,720
Sangamon	44.7%	42,107	53.3%	50,225	2.1%	1,965	94,297
Schuyler	44.3%	1,727	53.0%	2,069	2.7%	106	3,902
Scott	35.4%	910	61.8%	1,587	2.8%	71	2,568
Shelby	32.0%	3,342	65.6%	6,843	2.4%	254	10,439
St. Clair	56.2%	67,285	41.8%	50,125	2.0%	2,417	119,827
Stark	41.1%	1,095	57.4%	1,528	1.5%	39	2,662
Stephenson	48.1%	10,165	49.8%	10,512	2.1%	451	21,128
Tazewell	39.9%	24,438	57.7%	35,335	2.5%	1,509	61,282
Union	37.7%	3,137	59.6%	4,957	2.7%	224	8,318
Vermilion	42.4%	12,878	55.6%	16,892	2.1%	630	30,400
Wabash	31.0%	1,590	67.7%	3,478	1.3%	66	5,134
Warren	51.7%	4,044	46.3%	3,618	2.0%	156	7,818
Washington	33.0%	2,450	64.5%	4,792	2.6%	193	7,435
Wayne	19.7%	1,514	77.8%	5,988	2.5%	195	7,697
White	30.9%	2,188	66.8%	4,731	2.3%	163	7,082
Whiteside	57.4%	14,833	40.5%	10,448	2.1%	547	25,828
Will	51.9%	144,229	46.4%	128,969	1.8%	4,964	278,162
Williamson	36.4%	10,647	61.2%	17,909	2.4%	698	29,254
Winnebago	51.7%	61,732	46.2%	55,138	2.1%	2,527	119,397
Woodford	29.4%	5,572	68.4%	12,961	2.1%	405	18,938
Illinois Total	57.61%	3,013,423	40.63%	2,125,405	1.76%	92,024	5,230,852

Primaries

Democratic

There was no Democratic Primary election in Illinois as no one in the Democratic party chose to run against the incumbent Democratic President, Barack Obama.

Republican

Illinois Republican primary, 2012

March 20, 2012 (2012-03-20)



Candidate	Mitt Romney	Rick Santorum
Party	Republican	Republican
Home state	Massachusetts	Pennsylvania
Delegate count	42	12
Popular vote	435,859	326,778
Percentage	46.7%	35.0%


Candidate	Ron Paul	Newt Gingrich
Party	Republican	Republican
Home state	Texas	Georgia
Delegate count	0	0
Popular vote	87,044	74,482
Percentage	9.3%	8.0%

Results by county. Orange indicates a county won by Romney, dark green by Santorum.

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Illinois Republican primary, 2012^[6]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Projected delegate count
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	NYT	CNN ^[7]	FOX
Mitt Romney	435,859	46.69%	42	41	42
Rick Santorum	326,778	35.01%	12	10	12
Ron Paul	87,044	9.32%	0	0	0
Newt Gingrich	74,482	7.98%	0	0	0
Rick Perry (withdrawn)	5,568	0.60%	0	0	0
Buddy Roemer (withdrawn)	3,723	0.40%	0	0	0
Unprojected delegates:			0	3	0
Total:	933,454	100.00%	54	54	54

References

↑ "Illinois Board of Elections". Retrieved January 2, 2013.
↑ http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?fips=17&year=2012&off=0&elect=0&f=0
↑ http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?fips=17&year=2012&off=0&elect=0&f=0
↑ "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
↑ "Presidential Primary Dates" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
↑ http://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionInformation/VoteTotalsList.aspx?ElectionType=GP&ElectionID=32&SearchType=OfficeSearch&OfficeID=5881&QueryType=Office&
↑ Illinois - CNN

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General Election

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