2012 Presidential Election

235,248,000
Voting Age Population
54.9%
Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 2012, won by Barack H. Obama with 332 electoral votes.

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Barack Obama's Cabinet

President: Barack Obama (2009-2017)

Vice President: Joe Biden (2009-2017)

Secretary of State: John Kerry (2013-2017)

Secretary of the Treasury: Jack Lew (2013-2017)

Secretary of Defense: Chuck Hagel (2013-2015), Ash Carter (2015-2017)

Attorney General: Eric Holder (2009-2015), Loretta Lynch (2015-2017)

Secretary of the Interior: Sally Jewell (2013-2017)

Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack (2009-2017)

Secretary of Commerce: Penny Pritzker (2013-2017)

Secretary of Labor: Tom Perez (2013-2017)

Secretary of Health and Human Services: Kathleen Sebelius (2009-2014), Sylvia Mathews Burwell (2014-2017)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Shaun Donovan (2009-2014), Julian Castro (2014-2017)

Secretary of Transportation: Anthony Foxx (2013-2017)

Secretary of Energy: Ernest Moniz (2013-2017)

Secretary of Education: Arne Duncan (2009-2016), John King Jr. (2016-2017)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric Shinseki (2009-2014), Bob McDonald (2014-2017)

Secretary of Homeland Security: Jeh Johnson (2013-2017)

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Gina McCarthy (2013-2017)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Sylvia Mathews Burwell (2013-2014), Shaun Donovan (2014-2017)

United States Trade Representative: Michael Froman (2013-2017)

Ambassador to the United Nations: Samantha Power (2013-2017)

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers: Jason Furman (2013-2017)

Administrator of the Small Business Administration: Maria Contreras-Sweet (2014-2017)

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2012 Candidate Electoral Votes

270 to win
65,899,660 popular votes (51.1%)
Running Mate: Joe Biden
60,932,152 popular votes (47.2%)
Running Mate: Paul Ryan

Obama, only the 2nd president (Wilson, 1916) to be elected to a second term, with fewer electoral votes than earned when winning first term. 1,275,971 votes were cast for Gary Johnson (Libertarian).

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

9

Alaska

3

Arizona

11

Arkansas

6

California

55

Colorado

9

Connecticut

7

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

3

Florida

29

Georgia

16

Hawaii

4

Idaho

4

Illinois

20

Indiana

11

Iowa

6

Kansas

6

Kentucky

8

Louisiana

8

Maine

4

Maryland

10

Massachusetts

11

Michigan

16

Minnesota

10

Mississippi

6

Missouri

10

Montana

3

Nebraska

5

Nevada

6

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

14

New Mexico

5

New York

29

North Carolina

15

North Dakota

3

Ohio

18

Oklahoma

7

Oregon

7

Pennsylvania

20

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

9

South Dakota

3

Tennessee

11

Texas

38

Utah

6

Vermont

3

Virginia

13

Washington

12

West Virginia

5

Wisconsin

10

Wyoming

3