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.
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%)
Republican primary for the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002:
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 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 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)
