2012 United States presidential election in Arizona

2012 United States presidential election in Arizona

The 2012 U.S. presidential election in Arizona took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. Incumbent president Barack Obama won all the delegates and was renominated during the Democratic National Convention on September 5, 2012. Mitt Romney won the state with a 9. 03% margin.

About 2012 United States presidential election in Arizona in brief

Summary 2012 United States presidential election in ArizonaThe 2012 U.S. presidential election in Arizona took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election. State voters chose 10 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. Incumbent president Barack Obama won all the delegates and was renominated during the Democratic National Convention on September 5, 2012. Mitt Romney won the state with a 9. 03% margin. This is the most recent presidential election when Arizona failed to back the winning candidate of the electoral college, and presidency.

Until 2020, Arizona had been won by the Republican nominee for president in every election since 1952 except when Bill Clinton narrowly carried the state over Bob Dole in 1996. No Democrat has won a majority in the state since Harry S. Truman in 1948, although Democratic nominee Kyrsten Sinema would go on to win exactly 50% of the vote in 2018. Two televised debates which were sponsored by the Tucson Weekly, a local public-access television show called Illegal Knowledge, and local public television stations.