Electoral history of Barack Obama

This is the electoral history of Barack Obama. Obama served as a United States Senator from Illinois (2005–2008) and the 44th President of the United States (2009–2017).

Senator Obama on the presidential campaign trail.

A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side. In 2000, Obama ran an unsuccessful campaign for Illinois's 1st congressional district against four-term incumbent Bobby Rush. In 2004, Obama campaigned for the U.S. Senate, participating in the first Senate election in which both major party candidates were African American, the other being Alan Keyes. Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously held by a Republican.

In 2008, Obama entered the Democratic primaries for the U.S. presidential election. Numerous candidates entered initially, but over time the field narrowed down to Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. The contest was highly competitive between the two, with neither being able to reach a majority of delegates without the addition of unpledged delegates. Eventually, Clinton ended her campaign, endorsing Obama for the nomination, prompting his victory. He went on to face Senator John McCain from Arizona as the Republican nominee, defeating him with 365 electoral votes to McCain's 173.

Obama sought re-election for a second term in 2012, running virtually unopposed in the Democratic primaries. His opponent in the general election was former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney. Obama won 332 electoral votes, defeating Romney who gained 206. After this election, he became the first president since Ronald Reagan to receive a majority of the popular vote twice.

Illinois Senate and United States House of Representatives elections (1996–2002)

1996 Illinois Senate 13th district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama	48,592	82.16%
	Harold Washington	David Whitehead	7,461	12.62%
	Republican	Rosette Caldwell Peyton	3,091	5.23%
Total votes			59,144	100.00%

1998 Illinois Senate 13th district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama (incumbent)	45,486	89.17%
	Republican	Yesse B. Yehudah	5,526	10.83%
Total votes			51,012	100.00%

2000 Illinois's 1st congressional district election, Democratic primary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bobby Rush (incumbent)	59,599	61.03%
	Democratic	Barack Obama	29,649	30.36%
	Democratic	Donne Trotter	6,915	7.08%
	Democratic	George Roby	1,501	1.54%
Total votes			97,664	100.00%

2002 Illinois Senate 13th district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama (incumbent)	48,717	100.00%
Total votes			48,717	100.00%

United States Senate election (2004)

2004 United States Senate Democratic primary in Illinois
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama	655,923	52.77%
	Democratic	Dan Hynes	294,717	23.71%
	Democratic	Blair Hull	134,453	10.82%
	Democratic	Maria Pappas	74,987	6.03%
	Democratic	Gery Chico	53,433	4.30%
	Democratic	Nancy Skinner	16,098	1.30%
	Democratic	Joyce Washington	13,375	1.08%
	Democratic	Estella Johnston-Hunt (write-in)	10	0.00%
Total votes			1,242,996	100.00%

2004 United States Senate election in Illinois
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama	3,598,277	69.97%
	Republican	Alan Keyes	1,391,030	27.05%
	Independent	Albert J. Franzen	81,186	1.58%
	Libertarian	Jerry Kohn	69,276	1.35%
	Republican	Mark Kuhnke (write-in)	2,268	0.04%
	Independent	Scott Doddy (write-in)	339	0.01%
	Independent	Donald McArthur-Self (write-in)	134	0.00%
	Independent	Kathy Campbell (write-in)	129	0.00%
	Independent	Shaun Bill (write-in)	37	0.00%
	Independent	Marcus Hester (write-in)	23	0.00%
Total votes			5,142,699	100.00%
	Democratic gain from Republican

Presidential primaries (2008)

First-instance vote by state and territory

Barack Obama (33)

Hillary Clinton (23)

First-instance vote by county

Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton

John Edwards

Tie

No results

Popular vote

Excluding penalized contests,[1] only primary and caucuses votes:

2008 Democratic presidential primaries
Candidate	Votes	%
Barack Obama	16,706,853	49.04%
Hillary Clinton	16,239,821	47.67%
John Edwards	742,010	2.18%
Bill Richardson	89,054	0.26%
Uncommitted	82,660	0.24%
Dennis Kucinich	68,482	0.20%
Joe Biden	64,041	0.19%
Mike Gravel	27,662	0.08%
Christopher Dodd	25,300	0.07%
Others	22,556	0.07%
Total votes	34,068,439	100.00%

Including penalized contests:

2008 Democratic presidential primaries
Candidate	Votes	%
Hillary Clinton	18,225,175	48.03%
Barack Obama	17,988,182	47.41%
John Edwards	1,006,275	2.65%
Uncommitted	299,610	2.79%
Bill Richardson	106,073	0.28%
Dennis Kucinich	103,994	0.27%
Joe Biden	81,641	0.22%
Scattering	44,348	0.12%
Mike Gravel	40,251	0.11%
Christopher Dodd	35,281	0.09%
Total votes	37,980,830	100.00%

Delegate counts


2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Candidate	Delegates
Candidate	Pledged delegates	Superdelegates	Total delegates
Barack Obama	1,795	361	2,156
Hillary Clinton	1,637	285	1,922
John Edwards	4	2	6
Total	3,436	648	4,084
Needed to win			2,118

2008 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally)

Barack Obama - chosen by acclamation

Unfinished roll call (13 states, D.C. Guam, American Samoa and Democrats Abroad):

Hillary Clinton - 1,011 (24.07%)

Other results

2008 New Hampshire Democratic vice presidential primary
Candidate	Votes	%
Raymond Stebbins	50,485	46.93%
William Bryk	22,965	21.35%
John Edwards	10,553	9.81%
Barack Obama	6,402	5.95%
Bill Richardson	5,525	5.14%
Hillary Clinton	3,419	3.18%
Joe Biden	1,512	1.41%
Al Gore	966	0.90%
Dennis Kucinich	762	0.71%
Bill Clinton	388	0.36%
John McCain	293	0.27%
Christopher Dodd	224	0.21%
Ron Paul	176	0.16%
Jack Barnes, Jr.	95	0.09%
Mike Gravel	91	0.09%
Joe Lieberman	67	0.06%
Mitt Romney	66	0.06%
Mike Huckabee	63	0.06%
Rudy Giuliani	46	0.04%
Darrel Hunter	20	0.02%
Total votes	104,118	100.00%

2008 United States Presidential Election

Electoral college map of the 2008 election
Obama: 365 votes (28 states + DC + NE-02)
McCain: 173 votes (22 states)

2008 United States presidential election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama / Joe Biden	69,498,516	52.93%
	Republican	John McCain / Sarah Palin	59,948,323	45.65%
	Independent	Ralph Nader / Matt Gonzalez	739,034	0.56%
	Libertarian	Bob Barr / Wayne Allyn Root	523,715	0.40%
	Constitution	Chuck Baldwin / Darrell Castle	199,750	0.15%
	Green	Cynthia McKinney / Rosa Clemente	161,797	0.12%
	American Independent	Alan Keyes / Wiley Drake	47,941	0.04%
	N/A	Other	242,685	0.18%
Total votes			131,313,820	100.00%
	Democratic gain from Republican

2012 United States Presidential Election

Electoral college map of the 2012 election
Obama: 332 votes (26 states + DC)
Romney: 206 votes (24 states)

2012 United States presidential election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama / Joe Biden (inc.)	65,915,795	51.06%
	Republican	Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan	60,933,504	47.20%
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson / Jim Gray	1,275,971	0.99%
	Green	Jill Stein / Cheri Honkala	469,627	0.36%
	Constitution	Virgil Goode / James Clymer	122,389	0.09%
	Peace and Freedom	Roseanne Barr / Cindy Sheehan	67,326	0.05%
	Justice	Rocky Anderson / Luis J. Rodriguez	43,018	0.03%
	American Independent	Tom Hoefling / J.D. Ellis	40,628	0.03%
	Reform	Andre Barnett / Kenneth Cross	956	0.00%
	N/A	Other	216,196	0.19%
Total votes			129,085,410	100.00%
	Democratic hold

References

Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving their primaries before February 5, 2008, resulting in a nullification of their primaries, until the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to restore half their delegates.

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[1] Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving their primaries before February 5, 2008, resulting in a nullification of their primaries, until the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to restore half their delegates.