2012 presidential election by state
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President Barack Obama won re-election to a second term in the White House on Tuesday, television networks projected, beating Republican challenger Mitt Romney after a long and bitter campaign.
Obama defeated Romney in a series of key swing states despite a weak economic recovery and persistent high unemployment as U.S. voters decided between two starkly different visions for the country.
Obama's narrow wins in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire - all states that Romney had contested - effectively ended Romney's hopes of capturing the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the White House.
Here's how the vote broke down state by state:
| State | Total Electoral Votes | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 9 | ROMNEY | ||
| Alaska | 3 | ROMNEY | ||
| Arizona | 11 | ROMNEY | ||
| Arkansas | 6 | ROMNEY | ||
| California | 55 | OBAMA | ||
| Colorado | 9 | OBAMA | ||
| Connecticut | 7 | OBAMA | ||
| D.C. | 3 | OBAMA | ||
| Delaware | 3 | OBAMA | ||
| Florida | 29 | OBAMA | ||
| Georgia | 16 | ROMNEY | ||
| Hawaii | 4 | OBAMA | ||
| Idaho | 4 | ROMNEY | ||
| Illinois | 20 | OBAMA | ||
| Indiana | 11 | ROMNEY | ||
| Iowa | 6 | OBAMA | ||
| Kansas | 6 | ROMNEY | ||
| Kentucky | 8 | ROMNEY | ||
| Louisiana | 8 | ROMNEY | ||
| Maine | 4 | OBAMA | ||
| Maryland | 10 | OBAMA | ||
| Massachusetts | 11 | OBAMA | ||
| Michigan | 16 | OBAMA | ||
| Minnesota | 10 | OBAMA | ||
| MIssissippi | 6 | ROMNEY | ||
| Missouri | 10 | ROMNEY | ||
| Montana | 3 | ROMNEY | ||
| Nebraska | 5 | ROMNEY | ||
| Nevada | 6 | OBAMA | ||
| New Hampshire | 4 | OBAMA | ||
| New Jersey | 14 | OBAMA | ||
| New Mexico | 5 | OBAMA | ||
| New York | 29 | OBAMA | ||
| North Carolina | 15 | ROMNEY | ||
| North Dakota | 3 | ROMNEY | ||
| Ohio | 18 | OBAMA | ||
| Oklahoma | 7 | ROMNEY | ||
| Oregon | 7 | OBAMA | ||
| Pennsylvania | 20 | OBAMA | ||
| Rhode Island | 4 | OBAMA | ||
| South Carolina | 9 | ROMNEY | ||
| South Dakota | 3 | ROMNEY | ||
| Tennessee | 11 | ROMNEY | ||
| Texas | 38 | ROMNEY | ||
| Utah | 6 | ROMNEY | ||
| Vermont | 3 | OBAMA | ||
| Virginia | 13 | OBAMA | ||
| Washington | 12 | OBAMA | ||
| West Virginia | 5 | ROMNEY | ||
| Wisconsin | 10 | OBAMA | ||
| Wyoming | 3 | ROMNEY |
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