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The 2012 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the
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in which all 50 states plus the
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participated.
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voters chose five electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting
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and his running mate,
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Joe Biden, against
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challenger and former
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Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama in the state of West Virginia by a landslide 26.76-point margin. The Republican ticket took 62.30% of the vote to the Democratic ticket's 35.54%, sweeping every county in the state. Romney became the first presidential candidate from any party since West Virginia's admission to the Union in 1863 to sweep every single county in the state and the first Republican candidate since
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to carry over 60% of the state's votes. This represented a historic loss for the Democrats in West Virginia, which had been a Democratic stronghold from the New Deal up through the 1990s. This is the first election in which the Democratic Party failed to win a single county within the state. With 62.14% of the popular vote, West Virginia would prove to be Romney's fifth strongest state in the 2012 election after
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. As of 2022, this is the last time the Democratic nominee has received more than 30% of the vote in the Mountain State. It was also the first time since 1948 that West Virginia voted to the right of neighboring Kentucky, and the last time it voted to the left of
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, or Oklahoma (or any state besides
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) as of 2022.


Primaries


Democratic

Barack Obama defeated
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, a convicted felon serving a federal prison sentence in Texarkana, TX, by a surprisingly narrow 59% to 41%.


Republican

The Republican primary took place on May 8, 2012.


Results


Results by county


General election


Results


Results by county


Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

* Boone (largest city: Madison) * Braxton (largest town:
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) * Jefferson (largest city: Charles Town) *
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(largest city: Fairmont) * McDowell (largest city: Welch) * Monongalia (largest city: Morgantown) * Webster (largest town: Webster Springs)


See also

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Republican Party presidential debates, 2012 A series of political debates were held prior to and during the 2012 Republican primaries, among candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in the national election of 2012. The first debate occurred on May 5, 2011, in Greenville, S ...
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Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries This article contains the results of the 2012 Republican presidential primaries and caucuses, which resulted in the nomination of Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for President of the United States. The 2012 Republican primaries were the s ...
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United States presidential election in Virginia, 2012 The 2012 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Virginia voters chose 13 electors to represent them ...
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West Virginia Republican Party The West Virginia Republican Party is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in West Virginia. Mark Harris is the party chair. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling all three of West Virginia's U.S. House seat ...


References


External links


The Green Papers
for West Virginia
The Green Papers
Major state elections in chronological order {{U.S. presidential primaries
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West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the B ...