2012 Republican Party presidential primaries

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Candidate Mitt Romney Rick Santorum
Home state Massachusetts Pennsylvania
Delegate count 1,575 245
Contests won 42[1] 11[1]
Popular vote 10,048,134[2] 3,938,527[2]
Percentage 52.14% 20.44%

 
Candidate Ron Paul Newt Gingrich
Home state Texas Georgia
Delegate count 177 138
Contests won 1[1] 2[1]
Popular vote 2,099,441[2] 2,737,442[2]
Percentage 10.89% 14.20%


Previous Republican nominee

John McCain

Republican nominee

Mitt Romney

Delegate Count edit

Candidate Current office Home state Bound
Pledged Delegates
[3]
Unbound
Elected
Delegates
[citation needed]
Unbound
RNC
Superdelegates
[4]
Projected
Delegates
[5]
Popular vote[6]

Mitt
Romney
Former Governor Massachusetts
464
13
32
563
4,127,915
(40.2%)

Rick
Santorum
Former U.S. Senator Pennsylvania
205
0
2
262
2,850,541
(27.8%)

Newt
Gingrich
Former U.S. House Speaker Virginia[7]
135
0
2
155
2,212,001
(21.5%)

Ron
Paul
U.S. Representative Texas
34
0
1
78
1,079,751
(10.5%)
(Unassigned:) 1,111 204 83 1,228

States Carried edit

Candidate States – first place States – second place States – third place

Mitt
Romney
16
Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming
Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico
9
Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee
Territories: U.S. Virgin Islands
4
Alabama, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota

Rick
Santorum
11
Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee
9
Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Wyoming
Territories: Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico
6
Florida, Georgia, Maine, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington
Territories: U.S. Virgin Islands

Newt
Gingrich
2
Georgia, South Carolina
4
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada
7
Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee

Ron
Paul
0
Territories: U.S. Virgin Islands
7
Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Washington
10
Alaska, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Wyoming
Territories: Northern Mariana Islands

Counties Carried edit

2012 Republican primary results by county

Reference edit

  1. ^ a b c d "2012 Republican Delegates". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d "Republican Convention". The Green Papers. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  3. ^ "NPR Delegate Tracker". National Public Radio. March 21, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
  4. ^ "2012 GOP Superdelegate Endorsement List". Democratic Convention Watch. March 21, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
  5. ^ "The Green Papers 'Soft Total'". The Green Papers. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference autogenerated1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference GingrichResidence was invoked but never defined (see the help page).