The 2012 Alabama Republican presidential primary took place on March 13, 2012, on the same day as the
Mississippi Republican primary and the
Hawaii Republican caucuses.
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Richard John Santorum ( ; born May 10, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and was the Senate's thir ...
was declared the winner.
Significance
The Alabama and Mississippi primaries were seen as a last possible point for the Newt Gingrich campaign to stay afloat in a primary season where he had only won two states up to that point; South Carolina
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in January and Georgia
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during Super Tuesday
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. Alabama and Mississippi were the keystones of his "Southern Strategy". Gingrich ignored other upcoming primaries to focus on campaigning in the two neighboring Gulf
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states.
Results
Santorum won most of the counties and thus five out of seven congressional districts
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, especially in the northern parts including Huntsville
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. Gingrich did the best in the southeast, winning its 2nd congressional district. Romney won in big cities such as Birmingham
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, Montgomery and Mobile
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. He was able to only win the Mobile metropolitan based 1st congressional district.brokered convention
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.
See also
* 2012 Republican Party presidential debates and forums
* 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
Voters of the Republican Party elected state delegations to the 2012 Republican National Convention in presidential primaries. The national convention then selected its nominee to run for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential ...
* Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
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* Alabama Republican Party
The Alabama Republican Party is the state affiliate of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in Alabama. It is the dominant political party in Alabama. The state party is governed by the Alabama Republican Executive Committee. T ...
References
External links
The Green Papers
for Alabama
The Green Papers
Major state elections in chronological order
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2012
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