November 6, 2012 2016 → 56.16% 41.29% | 1,755,396 1,290,670 Dates 6 Nov 2012 – 3 Mar 2012 | |
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The 2012 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Washington voters chose 12 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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Prior to the election, 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state. President Obama won the state of Washington comfortably, taking 56.16% to Mitt Romney's 41.29%, a 14.87% margin of victory. The election continued the state's blue trend; Washington has not voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Democratic caucuses
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Republican caucuses
The Republican caucuses were held on March 3, 2012, The additional preferential primary, as held since 1992, was canceled this year for budgetary reasons, as was the one in 2004. Caucus participants however did not allocate national delegates to the candidates, they did only elected delegates to the county conventions and took part in a nonbinding strawpoll. Only the state convention on May 31 – June 2, 2012 legally pledged delegates to the national convention to specific candidates.
Caucus results
With 3,677,919 registered voters as of February 29, the turnout was 1.4%.