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The 2012 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 6, as part of the 2012 U.S. presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Florida voters chose 29 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, U.S. Representative Paul Ryan.[2][3][4]

2012 United States presidential election in Florida
← 2008 November 6, 2012 2016 →
Turnout72% Decrease[1]
 
Nominee Barack Obama Mitt Romney
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Illinois Massachusetts
Running mate Joe Biden Paul Ryan
Electoral vote 29 0
Popular vote 4,237,756 4,163,447
Percentage 50.01% 49.13%
President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

Elected President

Barack Obama
Democratic

By November 8, the vote counting had still not concluded. However, with much of the remaining vote still coming in was from heavily Democratic areas, Romney's Florida campaign acknowledged that he had lost the state to Obama. In order to certify the election in Florida, the ballots continued to be counted.[5] Both Miami-Dade and Broward County completed their ballot counts on November 8, leaving Palm Beach and Duval counties as the only two that did not have a final count at the end of the day.[6]

Florida required all counties to finish counting by noon Saturday but would not announce an official winner until the votes were certified on November 20. A recount is not done unless the difference is less than 0.5%. At 11 PM EST on November 9, the margin for Obama was 0.86%, with all but one county finished with their counting.[7] On November 10, most major news sources projected Obama to be the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes. It was the last state to be called in the 2012 presidential election and also the closest.[8][9][10]

Despite Tampa having been the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention, Obama ultimately carried Florida with 50.01% of the vote, to Romney's 49.13%, a margin of 0.88%. Having also won the state in 2008, Obama's 2012 victory made him the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 to carry Florida twice, and also marked the first time since 1948 that the state voted Democratic in consecutive elections. Nonetheless, Obama's margin of victory decreased from 2.81% in 2008, and his percentage of the vote decreased from 50.91%. He also lost Flagler and Volusia Counties, which he had won in 2008;[11] he thus became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying the former since Harry S. Truman in 1948 and the first to do so without carrying the latter since John F. Kennedy in 1960.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has carried Florida, or the following counties: Jefferson, St. Lucie, and Monroe. This also remains the second closest presidential result in the state ever, behind only the infamous 2000 election.

Primary elections

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Democratic primary

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Republican primary

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2012 Florida Republican primary
 
← 2008 January 31, 2012 (2012-01-31) 2016 →
     
Candidate Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich
Home state Massachusetts Georgia
Delegate count 50 0
Popular vote 776,159 534,121
Percentage 46.40% 31.93%
     
Candidate Rick Santorum Ron Paul
Home state Pennsylvania Texas
Delegate count 0 0
Popular vote 223,249 117,461
Percentage 13.35% 7.02%
 
Florida results by county
  Mitt Romney
  Newt Gingrich

The Republican primary was held on January 31, 2012.[12] Fifty delegates were at stake, none of them RNC (or super) delegates; it is unclear whether these delegates will be allocated proportionally or winner-take-all. Originally awarded 99 delegates,[12] the Republican National Committee removed half of Florida's delegates because the state committee moved its Republican primary before March 6;[13] the Republican National Committee rules also set the delegate allocation to be proportional because the contest was held before April 1.[14] It is a closed primary.[12] There were 4,063,853 registered Republican voters as of January 3, 2012.[15]

Florida is spread over two time zones, so voting wasn't completed until 7 pm CST/8pm EST.[16]

Significance

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In an effort to increase the political importance of their state's primary and receive added media exposure often directed to the early contests, Florida decided to plan its primary ahead of the early contests, a move that violated Republican Party rules and forced early states to move up their contests.[17] Florida announced that their primary would occur on January 31 instead of the expected March; Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina were expected to have their primaries in February but were forced to push their primaries into January, thereby shortening the overall amount of time that each person could campaign. Florida made this move in 2008.

As a result of this calendar violation, Florida was stripped of half of its delegates, awarding only 50 delegates instead of the original 100 delegates.

Dean Cannon, the Republican speaker of the Florida House of Representatives: "My goal all along is for Florida to preserve her place as the fifth spot on the nominating calendar and not to move ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire."[18]

Controversy

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According to a Gingrich campaign memo, he planned to challenge the results based on an interpretation of the Republican National Committee's rules that state that no contest can be winner-take-all prior to April 1, 2012.[19][20][21][22][23][24] Gingrich would have requested that delegates be divided proportionally, corresponding to the percentage of votes each candidate received.[25] It is not known what result a successful challenge might have had.

General election

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Predictions

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Source Ranking As of
Huffington Post[26] Tossup November 6, 2012
CNN[27] Tossup November 6, 2012
New York Times[28] Tossup November 6, 2012
Washington Post[29] Tossup November 6, 2012
RealClearPolitics[30] Tossup November 6, 2012
Sabato's Crystal Ball[31] Lean R (flip) November 5, 2012
FiveThirtyEight[32] Lean D November 6, 2012

Results

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State Senate District Results:

The final vote count was unknown at noon Friday, November 9, 2012.[33] The delay in the final count was caused by a combination of an extremely long ballot (with eleven state amendment questions) and a high number of absentee ballots. There were 240,000 absentee ballots in Miami -Dade County alone, with 54,000 of these cast on election day. Four urban counties, Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Duval, all experienced problems with counting their large number of absentee ballots. Each ballot had to be hand certified page by page, and then the pages had to be hand fed into the counting machine one by one.[33] At noon Friday, Dade and Broward had finished counting, but Palm Beach and Duval were still counting.

2012 United States presidential election in Florida[34]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Barack Obama (incumbent) 4,237,756 50.01% 29
Republican Mitt Romney 4,163,447 49.13% 0
Libertarian Gary Johnson 44,726 0.53% 0
Green Jill Stein 8,947 0.11% 0
Peace and Freedom Party Roseanne Barr 8,154 0.10% 0
Objectivist Party Tom Stevens 3,856 0.05% 0
Justice Party Rocky Anderson 1,754 0.02% 0
America's Party Tom Hoefling 946 0.01% 0
Reform Andre Barnett 820 0.01% 0
Socialist Stewart Alexander 799 0.01% 0
Socialism and Liberation Peta Lindsay 322 0.01% 0
Totals 8,474,179 100.00% 29
Voter turnout (eligible voters) 72.00%

By county

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County Barack Obama
Democratic 		Mitt Romney
Republican 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Alachua 69,699 57.71% 48,797 40.40% 2,277 1.89% 20,902 17.31% 120,773
Baker 2,311 20.29% 8,975 78.80% 104 0.91% -6,664 -58.51% 11,390
Bay 22,051 27.53% 56,876 71.01% 1,174 1.46% -34,825 -43.48% 80,101
Bradford 3,325 28.51% 8,219 70.46% 120 1.03% -4,894 -41.95% 11,664
Brevard 122,993 42.94% 159,300 55.62% 4,135 1.44% -36,307 -12.68% 286,428
Broward 508,312 67.12% 244,101 32.23% 4,941 0.65% 264,211 34.89% 757,354
Calhoun 1,664 26.91% 4,366 70.61% 153 2.48% -2,702 -43.70% 6,183
Charlotte 35,906 42.28% 47,996 56.52% 1,021 1.20% -12,090 -14.24% 84,923
Citrus 28,460 38.37% 44,662 60.22% 1,047 1.41% -16,202 -21.85% 74,169
Clay 25,759 26.61% 70,022 72.33% 1,024 1.06% -44,263 -45.72% 96,805
Collier 51,698 34.62% 96,520 64.64% 1,106 0.74% -44,822 -30.02% 149,324
Columbia 8,462 31.08% 18,429 67.69% 336 1.23% -9,967 -36.61% 27,227
DeSoto 4,174 42.22% 5,587 56.51% 126 1.27% -1,413 -14.29% 9,887
Dixie 1,798 25.84% 5,052 72.60% 109 1.56% -3,254 -46.76% 6,959
Duval 196,737 47.67% 211,615 51.27% 4,381 1.06% -14,878 -3.60% 412,733
Escambia 58,185 39.06% 88,711 59.55% 2,071 1.39% -30,526 -20.49% 148,967
Flagler 23,207 45.77% 26,969 53.19% 531 1.04% -3,762 -7.42% 50,707
Franklin 1,845 33.58% 3,570 64.98% 79 1.44% -1,725 -31.40% 5,494
Gadsden 15,770 70.01% 6,630 29.43% 125 0.56% 9,140 40.58% 22,525
Gilchrist 1,885 23.75% 5,917 74.55% 135 1.70% -4,032 -50.80% 7,937
Glades 1,603 40.03% 2,344 58.54% 57 1.43% -741 -18.51% 4,004
Gulf 2,014 28.26% 4,995 70.10% 117 1.64% -2,981 -41.84% 7,126
Hamilton 2,228 41.11% 3,138 57.90% 54 1.00% -910 -16.79% 5,420
Hardee 2,463 34.00% 4,696 64.83% 85 1.17% -2,233 -30.83% 7,244
Hendry 4,751 46.51% 5,355 52.42% 109 1.07% -604 -5.91% 10,215
Hernando 37,830 45.07% 44,938 53.54% 1,160 1.39% -7,108 -8.47% 83,928
Highlands 16,148 37.96% 25,915 60.92% 478 1.12% -9,767 -22.96% 42,541
Hillsborough 286,467 52.71% 250,186 46.04% 6,776 1.25% 36,281 6.67% 543,429
Holmes 1,264 15.25% 6,919 83.46% 107 1.29% -5,655 -68.21% 8,290
Indian River 27,492 38.41% 43,450 60.70% 638 0.89% -15,958 -22.29% 71,580
Jackson 7,342 35.02% 13,418 64.00% 207 0.98% -6,076 -28.98% 20,967
Jefferson 3,945 50.45% 3,808 48.70% 67 0.85% 137 1.75% 7,820
Lafayette 687 20.17% 2,668 78.33% 51 1.50% -1,981 -58.16% 3,406
Lake 61,799 40.89% 87,643 57.99% 1,702 1.02% -25,844 -17.10% 151,144
Lee 110,157 41.32% 154,163 57.83% 2,278 0.85% -44,006 -16.51% 266,598
Leon 90,881 61.13% 55,805 37.54% 1,985 1.33% 35,076 23.59% 148,671
Levy 6,119 33.15% 12,054 65.31% 284 1.54% -5,935 -32.16% 18,457
Liberty 942 28.64% 2,301 69.96% 46 1.40% -1,359 -41.32% 3,289
Madison 4,176 47.85% 4,474 51.27% 77 0.88% -298 -3.42% 8,727
Manatee 66,503 43.22% 85,627 55.65% 1,736 1.13% -19,124 -12.43% 153,866
Marion 66,831 41.32% 93,043 57.53% 1,864 1.15% -26,212 -16.21% 161,738
Martin 30,107 38.09% 48,183 60.96% 747 0.95% -18,076 -22.87% 79,037
Miami-Dade 541,440 61.58% 332,981 37.87% 4,758 0.55% 208,459 23.71% 879,179
Monroe 19,404 49.56% 19,234 49.12% 516 1.32% 170 0.44% 39,154
Nassau 10,251 25.23% 29,929 73.67% 445 1.10% -19,678 -48.44% 40,625
Okaloosa 23,421 24.63% 70,168 73.80% 1,486 1.57% -46,747 -49.17% 95,075
Okeechobee 4,856 39.27% 7,328 59.25% 183 1.48% -2,472 -19.98% 12,367
Orange 273,665 58.56% 188,589 40.36% 5,049 1.08% 85,076 18.20% 467,303
Osceola 67,239 61.73% 40,592 37.27% 1,091 1.00% 26,647 24.46% 108,922
Palm Beach 349,651 58.14% 247,398 41.13% 4,390 0.73% 102,253 17.01% 601,439
Pasco 98,263 45.86% 112,427 52.48% 3,558 1.66% -14,164 -6.62% 214,248
Pinellas 239,104 52.08% 213,258 46.45% 6,750 1.47% 25,846 5.63% 459,112
Polk 114,622 45.95% 131,577 52.75% 3,243 1.30% -16,955 -6.80% 249,442
Putnam 11,667 37.13% 19,326 61.50% 431 1.37% -7,659 -24.37% 31,424
St. Johns 35,190 30.59% 78,513 68.25% 1,332 1.16% -43,323 -37.66% 115,035
St. Lucie 65,869 53.42% 56,202 45.58% 1,230 1.00% 9,667 7.84% 123,301
Santa Rosa 17,768 23.06% 58,186 75.51% 1,106 1.43% -40,418 -52.45% 77,060
Sarasota 95,119 45.74% 110,504 53.14% 2,338 1.12% -15,385 -7.40% 207,961
Seminole 96,445 46.12% 109,943 52.57% 2,732 1.31% -13,498 -6.45% 209,120
Sumter 19,524 32.25% 40,646 67.13% 376 0.62% -21,122 -34.88% 60,546
Suwannee 4,751 26.85% 12,672 71.63% 269 1.52% -7,921 -44.78% 17,692
Taylor 2,764 30.24% 6,249 68.37% 127 1.39% -3,485 -38.13% 9,140
Union 1,339 24.76% 3,980 73.59% 89 1.65% -2,641 -48.83% 5,408
Volusia 114,748 48.78% 117,490 49.94% 3,016 1.28% -2,742 -1.16% 235,254
Wakulla 5,175 35.21% 9,290 63.21% 232 1.58% -4,115 -28.00% 14,697
Walton 6,671 23.34% 21,490 75.19% 421 1.47% -14,819 -51.85% 28,582
Washington 2,820 25.54% 8,038 72.79% 184 1.67% -5,218 -47.25% 11,042
Totals 4,237,756 49.90% 4,163,447 49.03% 90,972 1.07% 74,309 0.87% 8,492,175
 
County Flips:
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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By congressional district

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Despite losing the state, Romney won 16 of 27 congressional districts including one held by a Democrat, while Obama won 11, including two held by Republicans.[35]

District Romney Obama Representative
1st 68.66% 30.18% Jeff Miller
2nd 52.38% 46.52% Steve Southerland
3rd 61.5% 37.5% Ted Yoho
4th 63.62% 35.45% Ander Crenshaw
5th 28.05% 71.23% Corrine Brown
6th 57.7% 41.4% Ron DeSantis
7th 51.81% 47.1% John Mica
8th 56.76% 42.18% Bill Posey
9th 37.21% 61.94% Alan Grayson
10th 53.35% 45.72% Daniel Webster
11th 58.85% 40.23% Rich Nugent
12th 54.04% 44.77% Gus Bilirakis
13th 48.65% 50.12% Bill Young
14th 33.96% 65.05% Kathy Castor
15th 53.33% 45.58% Dennis Ross
16th 54.22% 44.9% Vern Buchanan
17th 57.88% 41.2% Tom Rooney
18th 51.72% 47.56% Patrick Murphy
19th 60.6% 38.76% Trey Radel
20th 16.98% 82.16% Alcee Hastings
21st 38.85% 60.6% Ted Deutch
22nd 44.93% 54.38% Lois Frankel
23rd 37.9% 61.5% Debbie Wasserman Schultz
24th 12.17% 87.52% Frederica Wilson
25th 50.8% 48.7% Mario Díaz-Balart
26th 46.35% 53.1% Joe Garcia
27th 46.45% 53.05% Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Analysis

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Obama won the state and its 29 electoral votes on Election Day by a margin of 0.88%, down from the 2.82% margin in 2008. Florida was the closest race in the country at the presidential level. Throughout the night, Obama and Romney exchanged the lead, but the networks avoided calling the state for Obama until November 10 because long lines in the larger urban areas of the state meant that the vote count was delayed.

According to exit polling, Obama won 95% of the African-American vote (13% of voters), 60% of Latino voters (up 3 points from 2008 and 17% of all voters), and 50% among Independents (who accounted for 33% of all voters). Mitt Romney won white voters by 24 percent. In addition, both Democratic and Republican strategists agreed that the President's ground game and early voting leads played a huge role in such a tight race. Despite laws that curbed early voting, more than 4 million Floridians cast a ballot before Election Day (almost 50% of all voters), and reports showed that Obama was leading by about 104,000 among those voters.

The political geography of Florida is largely divided in thirds: South Florida (around the Miami metropolitan area) is heavily Democratic, North Florida (the Florida Panhandle, and the Jacksonville metropolitan area) is heavily Republican outside of Tallahassee and Gainesville, while Central Florida is a "swing" area of the state, where Democrats have made inroads in recent years.

Mirroring the results of the 2008 presidential election in Florida, Obama dominated South Florida, winning Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties by comfortable margins, and actually increased his vote share in Miami -Dade and Broward counties from 2008. However, Romney's performance in Palm Beach County was notable considering he is the first Republican presidential candidate in over a decade to receive over 40% of the county's vote. Obama's gains in South Florida have been attributed to increasing his vote share among Cuban Americans, a large demographic in and around Miami who have reliably voted Republican, from 35% in 2008 to 48% against Romney's 52% in 2012. Combined with his large margins of victory among non-Cuban Hispanics in the state, Arian Campo-Flores at The Wall Street Journal noted that, "Together, both trends are accelerating a realignment of the state's Latino vote, from once solidly Republican to now reliably Democratic."[36]

Although Obama lost large swaths of North Florida, he was able to keep the margins relatively close along the Eastern Seaboard. He lost to Romney in Duval County, anchored by Florida's largest city, Jacksonville, by only 3%, and Volusia County, home to Daytona Beach, by less than 2%. Where the state tipped into the Obama column was in Central Florida, the site of enormous growth in the last two decades. Obama was able to deliver big wins in the Orlando and Tampa Bay areas, where George W. Bush won in 2004. In the former, Obama carried Orange County (which includes Orlando) by 19 points and Osceola County near Orlando by a 24-point margin (Bush won it in 2004 52%-47%). In both counties, he was able to tap into a growing Puerto Rican community, which overwhelmingly broke his way.

In the Tampa Bay region, Obama once again carried Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, by a 6-point margin, receiving over 13,000 more votes than he won in 2008. Obama also won Pinellas County, home to St. Petersburg, by a 52%-46.5% margin. Bush had narrowly carried the county by about 0.1% in 2004. In all, Obama won the three largest counties in Central Florida – Hillsborough, Orange, and Pinellas – while keeping his losing margins low in other populous counties – Polk, Seminole, and Manatee County.

Contrary to the 2010 elections where Democrats lost four seats from Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats picked up four seats from Florida this time around, as the state's congressional delegation increased by 2 members. Patrick Murphy defeated incumbent Republican Allen West in Florida's 18th congressional district and Joe Garcia defeated incumbent Republican David Rivera in Florida's 26th congressional district. Democrat Alan Grayson won a new seat in Florida's 9th congressional district while former West Palm Beach mayor, Lois Frankel, won the newly created seat in Florida's 22nd congressional district for the Democrats. At the state level, Democrats picked up two seats in the Florida State Senate and five seats in the Florida House of Representatives as well.

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