Electoral history of Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

This is the electoral history of Mitt Romney, the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007) and the incumbent United States Senator from Utah. Romney ran for president in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries. In 2018, Romney declared his candidacy for the United States Senate in the state of Utah and on November 6 was declared the winner.[1]

U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts

1994

1994 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney 188,280 82.04%
Republican John Lakian 40,898 17.82%
Write-in 318 0.14%
Total votes 229,496 100.00%
Results by municipality
1994 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Ted Kennedy (incumbent) 1,266,011 58.07%
Republican Mitt Romney 894,005 41.01%
Libertarian LauraLeigh Dozier 14,484 0.66%
LaRouche for President William A. Ferguson Jr. 4,776 0.22%
Write-in 688 0.03%
Total votes 2,179,964 100.00%
Democratic hold

Gubernatorial election

2002

2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney unopposed 100.00%
Total votes 100.00%
Results by municipality
2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney 1,091,988 49.77%
Democratic Shannon O'Brien 985,981 44.94%
Green Jill Stein 76,350 3.49%
Libertarian Carla Howell 23,044 1.05%
Independent Barbara Johnson 15,335 0.70%
Write-in 1,301 0.06%
Total votes 2,194,179 100.00%
Republican hold

Presidential elections

2008

First place by popular vote and plurality of delegates
2008 Republican Party presidential primaries
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 9,787,238 46.56%
Republican Mitt Romney 4,662,443 22.18%
Republican Mike Huckabee 4,267,267 20.30%
Republican Ron Paul 1,179,004 5.61%
Republican Rudy Giuliani 597,624 2.84%
Republican Fred Thompson 294,100 1.40%
Republican Uncommitted 70,348 0.34%
Republican Alan Keyes 59,718 0.28%
Republican Duncan L. Hunter 39,928 0.19%
Republican Scattering 39,301 0.19%
Republican Tom Tancredo 8,612 0.04%
Republican John H. Cox 3,351 0.02%
Republican Sam Brownback 2,838 0.01%
Total votes 21,011,772 100.00%
2008 Republican National Convention
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 2,343 99.28%
Republican Ron Paul 15 0.64%
Republican Mitt Romney 2 0.09%
Republican Abstention 14 0.59%
Total votes 2,380 100.00%

2012

First place by first-instance vote
2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney 9,685,780 51.50%
Republican Rick Santorum 3,909,621 20.79%
Republican Newt Gingrich 2,718,937 14.46%
Republican Ron Paul 2,049,410 10.90%
Republican Jon Huntsman Jr. 84,730 0.45%
Republican Rick Perry 54,769 0.29%
Republican Michele Bachmann 41,429 0.22%
Total votes 18,544,676 100.00%
2012 Republican National Convention
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney 2,061 90.16%
Republican Ron Paul 190 8.31%
Republican Rick Santorum 9 0.39%
Republican Jon Huntsman Jr. 1 0.04%
Republican Michele Bachmann 1 0.04%
Republican Buddy Roemer 1 0.04%
Republican Abstention 23 1.01%
Total votes 2,286 100.00%
2012 Electoral college results
  • Obama: 332 votes (26 states + DC)
  • Romney: 206 votes (24 states)
2012 United States presidential election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Barack Obama (inc.) / 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 / Jim 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%
Independent Tom Hoefling / J.D. Ellis 40,628 0.03%
N/A Other 217,152 0.17%
Total votes 129,085,410 100.00%
Democratic hold

U.S. Senate election in Utah

2018

2018 United States Senate election in Utah, Republican primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney 240,021 71.27%
Republican Mike Kennedy 96,771 28.73%
Total votes 336,792 100.00%
Results by county
2018 United States Senate election in Utah
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mitt Romney 665,215 62.59%
Democratic Jenny Wilson 328,541 30.91%
Constitution Tim Aalders 28,774 2.71%
Libertarian Craig Bowden 27,607 2.60%
Independent American Reed McCandless 12,708 1.20%
Write-in 52 0.00%
Total votes 1,062,897 100.00%
Republican hold

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mitt Romney wins Senate race in Utah". 6 November 2018.
  2. ^ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2002/races/ma_governor.html [dead link]