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2012 United States presidential election in Maine

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Field	Value
election_name	2012 United States presidential election in Maine
country	Maine
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	2008 United States presidential election in Maine
previous_year	2008
election_date	November 6, 2012
next_election	2016 United States presidential election in Maine
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	4
popular_vote1	401,306
percentage1	56.27%
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	292,276
percentage2	40.98%
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)

| [[File:Maine Presidential Election Results 2012.svg|350px]] | County results | [[File:United States House of Representatives elections in Maine, 2018 results by district.svg|350px]] | Congressional district results | [[File:Maine Presidential Results 2012 by Municipality.svg|350px]] | Municipality results Obama Romney Write-in Tie Main article: 2012 United States presidential election

The 2012 United States presidential election in Maine 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. Maine voters chose four 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. Obama and Biden carried Maine with 56.27% of the popular vote to Romney's and Ryan's 40.98%, thus winning the state's four electoral votes.

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election that the Democratic candidate won Maine's second congressional district along with a majority of counties in the state, as well as these counties (all of which comprise that district): Androscoggin, Aroostook, Franklin, Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset, and Washington. This is also the last election in which Maine was won by double digits.

Caucuses

Democratic caucuses

Republican caucuses

Main article: 2012 Maine Republican presidential caucuses

The Republican caucuses were held between Sunday, January 29, and Saturday, March 3, at various locations throughout the state of Maine. Presidential preference polls (straw polls) were held at the caucuses, but those polls were not binding on the choices of delegates to the Maine Republican Party convention. The caucuses chose delegates in processes separate from the straw polling.

The state party encouraged all municipal committees to hold their caucuses between February 4 and February 11, although each committee was free to choose a different date. The first caucus was in Waldo County on January 29 and the last one in Castine (Hancock County) on March 3. On Saturday, February 11, after 84% of precincts had completed voting, state-party officials announced results of straw polls. The results were revised in a second declaration on February 17 to include previously missing results from several caucuses. Those statewide totals still did not include the caucuses in Washington County, which had been scheduled for February 11 but postponed to February 18 by predictions of bad weather, nor did they include caucuses originally scheduled to occur between February 16 and March 3. The state Republican Party issued a third statewide compilation on February 24, adding all the February 18 caucuses (scheduled and postponed), but not those for February 16 or March 3. All three statewide totals showed former Governor Mitt Romney leading Representative Ron Paul by small margins, with other candidates well behind.

At the State Convention held over the weekend of May 5–6, Ron Paul won 20 out of 24 national delegates. One elected delegate, Governor Paul LePage was uncommitted. Of the three delegates qualified by the party offices they already hold, the state party chairman, Charlie Webster was also uncommitted, while the then National Committeeman and Committeewoman committed to Mitt Romney.

Updated results were released by the Maine GOP on February 24. The new table does not show returns from Rome on February 16 or Castine on March 3, but does include returns from the towns listed above for February 18.

Maine Republican caucuses, 2012	Candidate	Votes
(Feb. 11
count)	Votes
(Feb. 17
count)	Votes
(Feb. 24
count)	Percent
(Feb. 11
count)	Percent
(Feb. 17
count)	Percent
(Feb. 24
count)	Projected Delegates	Chosen at State Convention	GP	CNN	AP
Mitt Romney	2,190	2,269	2,373	39.2%	39.0%	38.0%	10	9	11	0
Ron Paul	1,996	2,030	2,258	35.7%	34.9%	36.1%	8	9	10	20
Rick Santorum	989	1,052	1,136	17.7%	18.1%	18.2%	4	3	0	0
Newt Gingrich	349	391	405	6.2%	6.7%	6.5%	1	0	0	0
Others & undecided	61	72	78	1.1%	1.2%	1.2%	0	0	0	1
Total:	5,585	5,814	6,250	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	21	21	21	21
**Ex officio delegates** (not chosen through caucus process):	1	3	3	3
Total Maine delegates to the Republican National Convention:	24	24	24	24

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

Source	Ranking (1st)	Ranking (2nd)	As of
New York Times			November 6, 2012
Sabato's Crystal Ball			November 5, 2012

Results

2012 United States presidential election in Maine	Party	Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage
Democratic	Barack Obama (incumbent)	Joe Biden (incumbent)	401,306	56.27%	4
Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	292,276	40.98%	0
Libertarian	Gary Johnson	Jim Gray	9,352	1.31%	0
Green	Jill Stein	Cheri Honkala	8,119	1.14%	0
Write-ins	Write-ins	2,127	0.30%	0
Totals	724,758	100.00%	4

By county

County	Barack Obama
Democratic	Mitt Romney
Republican	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total	401,306	56.27%	292,276	40.98%	19,598	2.75%	109,030	15.29%	713,180
	Androscoggin		28,989		54.84%		22,232		42.06%		1,641		3.10%		6,757		12.78%		52,862
	Aroostook		17,777		52.50%		15,196		44.88%		887		2.62%		2,581		7.62%		33,860
	Cumberland		101,950		62.25%		57,821		35.30%		4,015		2.45%		44,129		26.95%		163,786
	Franklin		9,367		57.53%		6,369		39.12%		546		3.35%		2,998		18.41%		16,282
	Hancock		17,569		57.04%		12,324		40.01%		906		2.95%		5,245		17.03%		30,799
	Kennebec		35,068		55.23%		26,519		41.76%		1,910		3.01%		8,549		13.47%		63,497
	Knox		13,223		59.92%		8,248		37.38%		596		2.70%		4,975		22.54%		22,067
	Lincoln		11,315		54.51%		8,899		42.87%		543		2.62%		2,416		11.64%		20,757
	Oxford		16,330		55.51%		11,996		40.77%		1,094		3.72%		4,334		14.74%		29,420
	Penobscot		38,811		50.20%		36,547		47.28%		1,948		2.52%		2,264		2.92%		77,306
	Piscataquis		4,149		46.33%		4,530		50.59%		276		3.08%		-381		-4.26%		8,955
	Sagadahoc		11,821		56.85%		8,429		40.54%		544		2.61%		3,392		16.31%		20,794
	Somerset		12,216		49.28%		11,800		47.61%		771		3.11%		416		1.67%		24,787
	Waldo		11,296		53.63%		9,058		43.01%		707		3.36%		2,238		10.62%		21,061
	Washington		7,803		49.27%		7,550		47.68%		483		3.05%		253		1.59%		15,836
	York		61,551		56.96%		43,900		40.63%		2,606		2.41%		17,651		16.33%		108,057

By congressional district

Obama won both of Maine's two congressional districts.

District	Obama	Romney	Representative
59.57%	38.18%		Chellie Pingree
52.94%	44.38%		Mike Michaud

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