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2012 United States presidential election in Illinois

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Field	Value
election_name	2012 United States presidential election in Illinois
country	Illinois
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	2008 United States presidential election in Illinois
previous_year	2008
election_date	November 6, 2012
next_election	2016 United States presidential election in Illinois
next_year	2016
image_size	x200px
image1	President Barack Obama, 2012 portrait crop.jpg
nominee1	Barack Obama
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
home_state1	Illinois
running_mate1	Joe Biden
electoral_vote1	20
popular_vote1	3,019,512
percentage1	57.60%
map_image	{{Switcher
map_caption
title	President
before_election	Barack Obama
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Barack Obama
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)
image2	Mitt_Romney_by_Gage_Skidmore_6_cropped.jpg
nominee2	Mitt Romney
party2	Republican Party (United States)
home_state2	Massachusetts
running_mate2	Paul Ryan
electoral_vote2	0
popular_vote2	2,135,216
percentage2	40.73%
turnout	69.70%

The 2012 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Illinois voters chose 20 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, Congressman Paul Ryan. The Obama/Biden ticket won Illinois with 57.60% of the popular vote to Romney/Ryan's 40.73%, thus winning the state's twenty electoral votes by a margin of 16.87%.

Obama's victory continued a Democratic winning streak in the state — with the Democratic candidate having carried Illinois through six consecutive elections. However, despite Obama's win in 2008 and popularity in the state due to being its former U.S. Senator, his performance significantly worsened, with his margin of victory decreasing from 25.10% to 16.87% and losing 23 counties to Romney that he had won four years prior. Obama further became the first ever Democrat to win the White House without carrying Gallatin or Macoupin counties, as well as the first since Woodrow Wilson in 1916 to win the White House without carrying Madison County.

As of the 2024 election, this is the last time that a Democrat carried Alexander, Carroll, Fulton, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer, Putnam, Warren, and Whiteside counties. It is also the last time a Democrat won more than 15 counties in the state.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

The number of pledged delegates won is determined by the popular vote

The 2012 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on March 20, 2012, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 2012 presidential election. Incumbent president Barack Obama won the primary. Obama was running for reelection without a major opponent.

Obama won all 189 of the state's bound delegates (the state also had 26 superdelegates).

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Barack Obama (incumbent)	652,583	99.98%	189
Randall Terry	134	0.02%	0
Totals	652,717	100.00%	189

Republican primary

Romney:
Santorum:

The 2012 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 20, 2012, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 2012 presidential election. For the state-run primaries (Democratic and Republican), turnout was 21.72%, with 1,586,171 votes cast.

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Projected delegate count	NYT	CNN
FOX
[[File:America Symbol.svg	14px]] Mitt Romney	435,859	46.69%	42	41	42
Rick Santorum	326,778	35.01%	12	10	12
Ron Paul	87,044	9.32%	0	0	0
Newt Gingrich	74,482	7.98%	0	0	0
Rick Perry (withdrawn)	5,568	0.60%	0	0	0
Buddy Roemer (withdrawn)	3,723	0.40%	0	0	0
Unprojected delegates:	0	3	0
Total:	933,454	100.00%	54	54	54

Green

The 2012 Illinois Green Party Convention was held on February 24, and saw a binding presidential preference vote cast, awarding delegates, as part of the Green Party's state primaries ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

Unlike the primaries for the major parties, this primary was run by the Green Party of Illinois itself, rather than by the state.

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	National delegates
Jill Stein	109	71.24%	22
Roseanne Barr (write-in)	27	17.65%	5
Kent Mesplay	8	5.23%	2
Uncommitted	8	5.23%	2
Others	1	0.65%	0
Total	153	100%	31

General election

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Huffington Post		November 6, 2012
CNN		November 6, 2012
New York Times		November 6, 2012
Washington Post		November 6, 2012
RealClearPolitics		November 6, 2012
Sabato's Crystal Ball		November 5, 2012
FiveThirtyEight		November 6, 2012

Results

2012 United States presidential election in Illinois	Party	Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage
Democratic	Barack Obama (Incumbent)	Joe Biden (Incumbent)	3,019,512	57.60%	20
Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	2,135,216	40.73%	0
Libertarian	Gary Johnson	James P. Gray	56,229	1.07%	0
Green	Jill Stein	Howie Hawkins	30,222	0.58%	0
Write-ins	Write-ins	835	0.02%	0
Totals	5,242,014	100.00%	20

By county

Chicago results by community area:

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County	Barack Obama
Democratic	Mitt Romney
Republican	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	3,019,512	57.50%	2,135,216	40.66%	96,704	1.84%	884,296	16.84%	5,251,432
	Adams		9,648		31.43%		20,416		66.51%		633		2.06%		-10,768		-35.08%		30,697
	Alexander		1,965		56.13%		1,487		42.47%		49		1.40%		478		13.66%		3,501
	Bond		3,020		40.95%		4,095		55.53%		260		3.52%		-1,075		-14.58%		7,375
	Boone		9,883		46.09%		11,096		51.75%		462		2.16%		-1,213		-5.66%		21,441
	Brown		787		33.29%		1,513		64.00%		64		2.71%		-726		-30.71%		2,364
	Bureau		8,134		48.75%		8,164		48.93%		388		2.32%		-30		-0.18%		16,686
	Calhoun		1,080		41.93%		1,440		55.90%		56		2.17%		-360		-13.97%		2,576
	Carroll		3,665		49.49%		3,555		48.00%		186		2.51%		110		1.49%		7,406
	Cass		2,053		42.09%		2,707		55.49%		118		2.42%		-654		-13.40%		4,878
	Champaign		40,831		51.94%		35,312		44.92%		2,466		3.14%		5,519		7.02%		78,609
	Christian		5,494		37.31%		8,885		60.33%		348		2.36%		-3,391		-23.02%		14,727
	Clark		2,591		32.86%		5,144		65.23%		151		1.91%		-2,553		-32.37%		7,886
	Clay		1,584		26.81%		4,190		70.92%		134		2.27%		-2,606		-44.11%		5,908
	Clinton		5,596		33.95%		10,524		63.86%		361		2.19%		-4,928		-29.91%		16,481
	Coles		9,262		43.21%		11,631		54.26%		544		2.53%		-2,369		-11.05%		21,437
	Cook		1,488,537		73.88%		495,542		24.59%		30,740		1.53%		992,995		49.29%		2,014,819
	Crawford		2,858		33.11%		5,585		64.69%		190		2.20%		-2,727		-31.58%		8,633
	Cumberland		1,641		30.99%		3,509		66.27%		145		2.74%		-1,868		-35.28%		5,295
	DeKalb		21,207		51.42%		18,934		45.91%		1,100		2.67%		2,273		5.51%		41,241
	DeWitt		2,601		35.30%		4,579		62.15%		188		2.55%		-1,978		-26.85%		7,368
	Douglas		2,430		30.68%		5,334		67.34%		157		1.98%		-2,904		-36.66%		7,921
	DuPage		199,460		49.73%		195,046		48.63%		6,575		1.64%		4,414		1.10%		401,081
	Edgar		2,565		32.74%		5,132		65.50%		138		1.76%		-2,567		-32.76%		7,835
	Edwards		754		23.36%		2,405		74.50%		69		2.14%		-1,651		-51.14%		3,228
	Effingham		3,861		23.24%		12,501		75.25%		251		1.51%		-8,640		-52.01%		16,613
	Fayette		2,853		31.66%		5,951		66.03%		208		2.31%		-3,098		-34.37%		9,012
	Ford		1,656		27.49%		4,229		70.20%		139		2.31%		-2,573		-42.71%		6,024
	Franklin		7,254		40.49%		10,267		57.31%		393		2.20%		-3,013		-16.82%		17,914
	Fulton		8,328		54.04%		6,632		43.03%		451		2.93%		1,696		11.01%		15,411
	Gallatin		1,029		39.99%		1,492		57.99%		52		2.02%		-463		-18.00%		2,573
	Greene		2,023		35.89%		3,451		61.22%		163		2.89%		-1,428		-25.33%		5,637
	Grundy		9,451		44.34%		11,343		53.22%		519		2.44%		-1,892		-8.88%		21,313
	Hamilton		1,269		32.20%		2,566		65.11%		106		2.69%		-1,297		-32.91%		3,941
	Hancock		3,650		40.06%		5,271		57.85%		190		2.09%		-1,621		-17.79%		9,111
	Hardin		742		31.85%		1,535		65.88%		53		2.27%		-793		-34.03%		2,330
	Henderson		1,978		55.44%		1,541		43.19%		49		1.37%		437		12.25%		3,568
	Henry		12,332		50.53%		11,583		47.46%		490		2.01%		749		3.07%		24,405
	Iroquois		3,413		26.64%		9,120		71.19%		278		2.17%		-5,707		-44.55%		12,811
	Jackson		13,319		55.26%		9,864		40.92%		921		3.82%		3,455		14.34%		24,104
	Jasper		1,436		28.48%		3,514		69.68%		93		1.84%		-2,078		-41.20%		5,043
	Jefferson		6,089		37.31%		9,811		60.12%		420		2.57%		-3,722		-22.81%		16,320
	Jersey		3,667		36.67%		6,039		60.38%		295		2.95%		-2,372		-23.71%		10,001
	Jo Daviess		5,667		49.58%		5,534		48.42%		228		2.00%		133		1.16%		11,429
	Johnson		1,572		27.61%		3,963		69.60%		159		2.79%		-2,391		-41.99%		5,694
	Kane		90,332		49.71%		88,335		48.61%		3,058		1.68%		1,997		1.10%		181,725
	Kankakee		21,595		47.30%		23,136		50.68%		923		2.02%		-1,541		-3.38%		45,654
	Kendall		22,471		47.39%		24,047		50.71%		900		1.90%		-1,576		-3.32%		47,418
	Knox		13,451		57.59%		9,408		40.28%		497		2.13%		4,043		17.31%		23,356
	Lake		153,757		53.48%		129,764		45.14%		3,972		1.38%		23,993		8.34%		287,493
	LaSalle		23,073		48.67%		23,256		49.06%		1,076		2.27%		-183		-0.39%		47,405
	Lawrence		2,011		33.58%		3,857		64.40%		121		2.02%		-1,846		-30.82%		5,989
	Lee		6,937		45.20%		8,059		52.51%		352		2.29%		-1,122		-7.31%		15,348
	Livingston		5,020		33.30%		9,753		64.69%		304		2.01%		-4,733		-31.39%		15,077
	Logan		3,978		32.91%		7,844		64.89%		266		2.20%		-3,866		-31.98%		12,088
	Macon		22,780		46.46%		25,309		51.62%		941		1.92%		-2,529		-5.16%		49,030
	Macoupin		9,464		44.89%		10,946		51.92%		673		3.19%		-1,482		-7.03%		21,083
	Madison		58,922		47.95%		60,608		49.32%		3,355		2.73%		-1,686		-1.37%		122,885
	Marion		6,225		39.35%		9,248		58.46%		347		2.19%		-3,023		-19.11%		15,820
	Marshall		2,455		41.83%		3,290		56.06%		124		2.11%		-835		-14.23%		5,869
	Mason		2,867		45.54%		3,265		51.86%		164		2.60%		-398		-6.32%		6,296
	Massac		2,092		32.21%		4,278		65.87%		125		1.92%		-2,186		-33.66%		6,495
	McDonough		5,967		47.91%		6,147		49.36%		340		2.73%		-180		-1.45%		12,454
	McHenry		59,797		44.55%		71,598		53.34%		2,842		2.11%		-11,801		-8.79%		134,237
	McLean		31,883		43.40%		39,947		54.37%		1,639		2.23%		-8,064		-10.97%		73,469
	Menard		2,100		34.14%		3,948		64.18%		103		1.68%		-1,848		-30.04%		6,151
	Mercer		4,507		52.60%		3,876		45.24%		185		2.16%		631		7.36%		8,568
	Monroe		6,215		35.53%		10,888		62.24%		391		2.23%		-4,673		-26.71%		17,494
	Montgomery		5,058		41.50%		6,776		55.60%		354		2.90%		-1,718		-14.10%		12,188
	Morgan		5,806		41.06%		7,972		56.37%		364		2.57%		-2,166		-15.31%		14,142
	Moultrie		2,144		35.29%		3,784		62.29%		147		2.42%		-1,640		-27.00%		6,075
	Ogle		9,514		40.72%		13,422		57.44%		431		1.84%		-3,908		-16.72%		23,367
	Peoria		40,209		51.28%		36,774		46.90%		1,428		1.82%		3,435		4.38%		78,411
	Perry		3,819		39.99%		5,507		57.67%		223		2.34%		-1,688		-17.68%		9,549
	Piatt		3,090		35.35%		5,413		61.92%		239		2.73%		-2,323		-26.57%		8,742
	Pike		2,278		31.20%		4,860		66.56%		164		2.24%		-2,582		-35.36%		7,302
	Pope		650		29.25%		1,512		68.05%		60		2.70%		-862		-38.80%		2,222
	Pulaski		1,389		46.12%		1,564		51.93%		59		1.95%		-175		-5.81%		3,012
	Putnam		1,559		49.60%		1,502		47.79%		82		2.61%		57		1.81%		3,143
	Randolph		5,759		39.89%		8,290		57.42%		389		2.69%		-2,531		-17.53%		14,438
	Richland		2,362		32.44%		4,756		65.31%		164		2.25%		-2,394		-32.87%		7,282
	Rock Island		39,157		60.04%		24,934		38.23%		1,126		1.73%		14,223		21.81%		65,217
	Saline		3,701		34.52%		6,806		63.49%		213		1.99%		-3,105		-28.97%		10,720
	Sangamon		42,107		44.65%		50,225		53.26%		1,965		2.09%		-8,118		-8.61%		94,297
	Schuyler		1,727		44.26%		2,069		53.02%		106		2.72%		-342		-8.76%		3,902
	Scott		910		35.44%		1,587		61.80%		71		2.76%		-677		-26.36%		2,568
	Shelby		3,342		32.01%		6,843		65.55%		254		2.44%		-3,501		-33.54%		10,439
	St. Clair		67,285		56.15%		50,125		41.83%		2,417		2.02%		17,160		14.32%		119,827
	Stark		1,095		41.13%		1,528		57.40%		39		1.47%		-433		-16.27%		2,662
	Stephenson		10,165		48.11%		10,512		49.75%		451		2.14%		-347		-1.64%		21,128
	Tazewell		24,438		39.88%		35,335		57.66%		1,509		2.46%		-10,897		-17.78%		61,282
	Union		3,137		37.71%		4,957		59.59%		224		2.70%		-1,820		-21.88%		8,318
	Vermilion		12,878		42.36%		16,892		55.57%		630		2.07%		-4,014		-13.21%		30,400
	Wabash		1,590		30.97%		3,478		67.74%		66		1.29%		-1,888		-36.77%		5,134
	Warren		4,044		51.73%		3,618		46.28%		156		1.99%		426		5.45%		7,818
	Washington		2,450		32.95%		4,792		64.45%		193		2.60%		-2,342		-31.50%		7,435
	Wayne		1,514		19.67%		5,988		77.80%		195		2.53%		-4,474		-58.13%		7,697
	White		2,188		30.90%		4,731		66.80%		163		2.30%		-2,543		-35.90%		7,082
	Whiteside		14,833		57.43%		10,448		40.45%		547		2.12%		4,385		16.98%		25,828
	Will		144,229		51.85%		128,969		46.36%		4,967		1.79%		15,260		5.49%		278,165
	Williamson		10,647		36.40%		17,909		61.22%		698		2.38%		-7,262		-24.82%		29,254
	Winnebago		61,732		51.70%		55,138		46.18%		2,527		2.12%		6,594		5.52%		119,397
	Woodford		5,572		29.42%		12,961		68.44%		405		2.14%		-7,389		-39.02%		18,938

County Flips: {{col-begin}}

Democratic Republican ]]

;Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Boone (largest city: Belvidere)
Bureau (largest city: Princeton)
Calhoun (largest village: Hardin)
Cass (largest city: Beardstown)
Coles (largest city: Charleston)
Gallatin (largest city: Shawneetown)
Grundy (largest city: Morris)
Kankakee (largest city: Kankakee)
Kendall (largest village: Oswego)
LaSalle (largest city: Ottawa)
Macon (largest city: Decatur)
Mason (largest city: Havana)
Macoupin (largest city: Carlinville)
Madison (largest city: Granite City)
McDonough (largest city: Macomb)
McHenry (largest city: Crystal Lake)
McLean (largest city: Bloomington)
Montgomery (largest city: Litchfield)
Pulaski (largest city: Mounds)
Sangamon (largest city: Springfield)
Schuyler (largest city: Rushville)
Stephenson (largest city: Freeport)
Vermilion (largest city: Danville)

By congressional district

Obama won 12 of 18 congressional districts.

District	Romney	Representative
20.25%	78.94%	Bobby Rush
18.53%	80.7%	Jesse Jackson Jr.
42.98%	55.93%	Dan Lipinski
17.06%	80.9%	Luis Gutierrez
31.81%	66%	Mike Quigley
53.31%	45.1%	Peter Roskam
11.79%	87.22%	Danny K. Davis
40.94%	57.39%	Tammy Duckworth
33.29%	65%	Jan Schakowsky
41.14%	57.52%	Brad Schneider
40.64%	57.82%	Bill Foster
48.13%	49.74%	William Enyart
48.95%	48.64%	Rodney Davis
54.2%	44.18%	Randy Hultgren
63.94%	34.06%	John Shimkus
52.89%	45.17%	Adam Kinzinger
40.64%	57.58%	Cheri Bustos
60.66%	37.4%	Aaron Schock

Analysis

While Obama only won 23% of the counties in Illinois, most of the counties he won were heavily populated. His 17-point victory is attributed to his landslide performance in Cook County where he received 73.88% of the vote and victories in the once Republican-favored collar counties (DuPage, Will and Lake). He also performed well in the East St. Louis area. Cook County, which encompasses the Chicago Metropolitan Area, provides a crucial advantage for the Democratic Party. If Cook County's vote were excluded, Romney would have won the state with 1,639,684 to Obama's 1,530,975.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time a Democrat has won Alexander, Carroll, Fulton, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer, Putnam, Warren and Whiteside counties. Also, as a result of this election, Clark, Clay, Effingham, Edwards, Iroquois, Jasper, Massac, Richland, Wabash and Wayne are the only counties in the state that never voted for Obama in his two runs for the presidency or in his landslide election to the Senate.

References

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Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Barack Obama (incumbent)	652,583	99.98%	189
Randall Terry	134	0.02%	0
Totals	652,717	100.00%	189