November 6, 2012 2016 → 199,239 92,698 Date 6 March 2012 | 3 0 66.57% 30.97% Location Vermont, United States | |
The 2012 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Vermont voters chose three 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.
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Repeating his success from 2008, Obama again carried Vermont in a landslide, taking 66.57% of the vote to Romney's 30.97%, a Democratic victory margin of 35.60%.
A very liberal Northeastern state, Vermont was the second most Democratic state in the nation, weighing in as a whopping 32% more Democratic than the national average in the 2012 election.
Obama's victory margin in 2012 represented a slightly reduced margin from 2008, although it remained the second most Democratic showing in Vermont's history after 2008. The results of the 2012 election made Vermont the second most Democratic state in the nation, only surpassed by the results in Obama's birth state of Hawaii.
General election
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Results
Democratic primary
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In the Democratic Primary held on the same day Incumbent President Barack Obama ran unopposed in the Primary according to the Secretary of State of Vermont office he received 30,954 votes and all of the 27 delegates attending the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina pleaded to support his re-nomination
Republican primary
The Republican primary took place on Super Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
Vermont has 17 delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention. Three super delegates are bound by the primary results and awarded on a winner-take-all basis. The remaining 14 are awarded winner-take-all to the candidate who wins at least 50% of the vote statewide, or allocated proportionately among candidates winning at least 20% of the vote statewide if no one gets a majority.