Electoral history of Barack Obama

Senator Obama on the campaign trail

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (2009–2017); United States Senator from Illinois (2005–2008).

Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1996

• Barack Obama (D) - 48,592 (82.16%)
• David Whitehead (Harold Washington Party) - 7,461 (12.62%)
• Rosette Caldwell Peyton (R) - 3,091 (5.23%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1998

• Barack Obama (D) (inc.) - 45,486 (89.17%)
• Yesse B. Yehudah (R) - 5,526 (10.83%)

US House, Illinois's 1st district, 2000 (Democratic primary), 2000

• Bobby Rush (inc.) - 59,599 (61.03%)
• Barack Obama - 29,649 (30.36%)
• Donne E. Trotter - 6,915 (7.08%)
• George Roby - 1,501 (1.54%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 2002

• Barack Obama (inc.) - 48,717 (100.00%)

United States Senate election (2004)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Illinois, 2004

• Barack Obama - 655,923 (52.77%)
• Dan Hynes - 294,717 (23.71%)
• Blair Hull - 134,453 (10.82%)
• Maria Pappas - 74,987 (6.03%)
• Gery Chico - 53,433 (4.30%)
• Nancy Skinner - 16,098 (1.30%)
• Joyce Washington - 13,375 (1.08%)
• Estella Johnson-Hunt (write-in) - 10 (0.00%)

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004

• Barack Obama (D) - 3,598,277 (69.97%)
• Alan Keyes (R) - 1,391,030 (27.05%)
• Albert J. Franzen (I) - 81,186 (1.58%)
• Jerry Kohn (LBT) - 69,276 (1.35%)
• Mark Kuhnke (R) (write-in) - 2,268 (0.04%)
• Scott Doddy (I) (write-in) - 339 (0.01%)
• Donald McArthur-Self (I) (write-in) - 134 (0.00%)
• Kathy Campbell (I) (write-in) - 129 (0.00%)
• Shaun Bill (I) (write-in) - 37 (0.00%)
• Marcus Hester (I) (write-in) - 23 (0.00%)

Presidential primaries (2008)

2008 Democratic presidential primaries

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

• Barack Obama - 16,706,853
• Hillary Clinton - 16,239,821
• John Edwards - 742,010
• Bill Richardson - 89,054
• Uncommitted - 82,660
• Dennis Kucinich - 68,482
• Joe Biden - 64,041
• Mike Gravel - 27,662
• Christopher Dodd - 25,300
• Others - 22,556

Including penalized contests:

• Hillary Clinton - 18,225,175 (48.03%)
• Barack Obama - 17,988,182 (47.41%)
• John Edwards - 1,006,275 (2.65%)
• Uncommitted - 299,610 (0.79%)
• 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%)

2008 Democratic delegate counts:

(2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination)

Pledged delegates"^[2]

• Barack Obama - 1,765
• Hillary Clinton - 1,637
• John Edwards - 4

Including superdelegates

• Barack Obama - 2,156 (52.79%)
• Hillary Clinton - 1,922 (47.06%)
• John Edwards - 6 (0.15%)

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:

• 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* (write-in) - 5,525 (5.14%)
• Hillary Clinton* (write-in) - 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%)

2008 United States Presidential Election

Popular vote:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic) - 69,456,897 (52.92%)
• John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican) - 59,934,786 (45.66%)
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (Independent) - 738,475 (0.56%)
• Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian) - 523,686 (0.40%)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution) - 199,314 (0.15%)
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green) - 161,603 (0.12%)
• Other candidates - 226,908 (0.17%)

Electoral vote:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 365 (28 states as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, and the District of Columbia)
• John McCain/Sarah Palin - 173 (21 states carried plus, Nebraska's two At-large votes and Nebraska's 1st and 3rd congressional districts)

2012 United States Presidential Election

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
			Count	Pct		Vice-presidential candidate	Home state	Elect. vote
Barack Obama	Democratic	Illinois	65,465,269	50.95%	332	Joe Biden	Delaware	332
Mitt Romney	Republican	Massachusetts	60,782,804	47.31%	206	Paul Ryan	Wisconsin	206
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	New Mexico	1,272,586	0.99%	0	James P. Gray	California	0
Jill Stein	Green	Massachusetts	465,781	0.36%	0	Cheri Honkala	Pennsylvania	0
Virgil Goode[3]	Constitution	Virginia	120,747	0.09%	0	Jim Clymer	Pennsylvania	0
Roseanne Barr[3]	Peace and Freedom	Hawaii	67,229	0.05%	0	Cindy Sheehan	California	0
Rocky Anderson[3]	Justice	Utah	41,986	0.03%	0	Luis J. Rodriguez	California	0
Tom Hoefling[3]	America's	Iowa	40,515	0.03%	0	Jonathan D. Ellis	Tennessee	0
Other			222,200	0.17%	—	Other		—
Total			128,479,117	100%	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

References

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.
2. Political Dashboard - 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News
3. "U.S. Election Results by State". Retrieved December 1, 2012.