2012 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

2012 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
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President before election; Barack Obama; Democratic	Elected President ; Barack Obama; Democratic

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The 2012 United States presidential election in Oklahoma 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. Voters chose seven 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. For the third election in a row since 2004, no third parties were allowed on the ballot.

Oklahoma in recent years has become one of the most conservative states in the nation. For the third cycle in a row, the Republicans won over 65% of the vote and swept every single county in the state.

With 66.77% of the popular vote to Obama's mere 33.23%, Mitt Romney, carried almost exactly 2/3 of the Oklahoma electorate while Barack Hussein Obama merely carried 1/3. Oklahoma was Romney's third strongest state in the 2012 election after Utah and Wyoming.^[1]

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Primaries

Democratic

President Obama faced four challengers in Oklahoma's Democratic primary. Challenger Randall Terry took 12 counties with candidate Jim Rogers winning in three counties. Candidates Bob Ely and Darcy Richardson also appeared on Oklahoma's ballot but failed to obtain a majority of votes in any county.

2012 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary^[2]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Projected national delegates^[2]
Barack Obama	64,259	57.07%	35
Randall Terry	20,294	18.02%	7
Jim Rogers	15,535	13.80%	3
Darcy Richardson	7,192	6.39%	0
Bob Ely	5,318	4.72%	0
Totals	112,598	100.00%	45

Republican

The Republican primary took place on Super Tuesday, March 6, 2012.^[3]^[4]

Oklahoma has 43 delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention. Three super delegates are unbound by the primary results. 15 delegates are allocated by congressional districts, 3 delegates for each district. If a candidate gets a majority in the district, he takes all 3 delegates; if no one gets a majority, the delegates are split either 2-to-1 or 1-1-1 depending on how many candidates get at least 15% of the vote. Another 25 delegates are awarded to the candidate who wins a majority in the state, or allocated proportionately among candidates winning at least 15% of the vote statewide if no one gets majority.^[5]

Results

2012 Oklahoma Republican presidential primary^[6]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Projected national delegates^[7]
Rick Santorum	96,849	33.8%	14
Mitt Romney	80,356	28.0%	13
Newt Gingrich	78,730	27.5%	13
Ron Paul	27,596	9.6%	0
Rick Perry	1,291	0.45%	0
Michele Bachmann	951	0.33%	0
Jon Huntsman	750	0.26%	0
Unprojected delegates			3
Totals	286,523	100.0%	43

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Republican Conventions for Oklahoma's Congressional Districts

Fifteen delegates to the 2012 Republican national convention were elected at congressional-district conventions March 31 to April 14, 2012 — three from each of Oklahoma's five congressional districts.^[8]^[9]

Oklahoma Republican Convention

The Oklahoma Republican State Convention was held May 11–12, 2012 in Norman. Irregularities were reported.^[8]^[10]

At least two Ron Paul supporters said they were physically attacked by Romney supporters.^[11]^[12]

Oklahoma's (Republican) Governor Mary Fallin tried to speak at the convention. After loud chants of "Ron Paul" from the floor, she stated (referring to Romney) "We have a presidential nominee", resulting in loud booing.^[12]

Paul supporters said that the convention was stopped with unfinished business, without a two-thirds vote, and therefore against parliamentary procedure.^[13] It was reported that, after the convention was said to be adjourned, a partition in the room was moved, isolating many attendees from the rest of the body. The lights were turned out momentarily.^[10]

After the convention was stopped and the chairman left, many Paul supporters assembled outside and held a rump convention, chaired by Jake Peters, at which they elected a slate of Paul supporters as delegates to the national convention.^[12]^[14]

Four Paul supporters, including Jake Peters, made a formal complaint to the Oklahoma Republican Party, saying that Party rules were broken by failing to take a roll-call vote on the delegate slate and that the convention was adjourned without the required vote. The complaint asserted that state law is involved in the Republican Party's nominating process and cited case law to the effect that party process should be considered "an integral part of the State's election system".^[13]^[15]^[16]

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General election

Results

2012 United States presidential election in Oklahoma^[17]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	891,325	66.77%	7
	Democratic	Barack Obama	Joe Biden	443,547	33.23%	0
Totals				1,334,872	100.00%	7

By county

Note: The Oklahoma SoS website only lists the Democrat and Republican results. No third-party results are available.

County	Obama%	Obama#	Romney%	Romney#	Total
Adair	32.68%	2,127	67.32%	4,381	6,508
Alfalfa	15.46%	322	84.54%	1,761	2,083
Atoka	26.00%	1,243	74.00%	3,538	4,781
Beaver	10.58%	244	89.42%	2,062	2,306
Beckham	20.46%	1,417	79.54%	5,508	6,925
Blaine	26.00%	992	74.00%	2,824	3,816
Bryan	27.88%	3,681	72.12%	9,520	13,201
Caddo	35.75%	3,164	64.25%	5,687	8,851
Canadian	22.83%	10,537	77.17%	35,625	46,162
Carter	28.66%	4,908	71.34%	12,214	17,122
Cherokee	42.95%	6,144	57.05%	8,162	14,306
Choctaw	29.49%	1,494	70.51%	3,572	5,066
Cimarron	09.61%	115	90.39%	1,082	1,197
Cleveland	37.03%	34,771	62.97%	59,116	93,887
Coal	27.51%	649	72.49%	1,710	2,359
Comanche	41.48%	12,521	58.52%	17,664	30,185
Cotton	26.78%	657	73.22%	1,796	2,453
Craig	32.92%	1,747	67.08%	3,559	5,306
Creek	27.30%	7,128	72.70%	18,986	26,114
Custer	24.06%	2,359	75.94%	7,446	9,805
Delaware	29.39%	4,196	70.61%	10,080	14,276
Dewey	14.38%	301	85.62%	1,792	2,093
Ellis	12.55%	226	87.45%	1,575	1,801
Garfield	23.77%	4,733	76.23%	15,177	19,910
Garvin	26.98%	2,559	73.02%	6,925	9,484
Grady	24.39%	4,786	75.61%	14,833	19,619
Grant	19.00%	393	81.00%	1,675	2,068
Greer	26.64%	488	73.36%	1,344	1,832
Harmon	28.60%	264	71.40%	659	923
Harper	12.06%	173	87.94%	1,261	1,434
Haskell	27.69%	1,175	72.31%	3,069	4,244
Hughes	32.56%	1,370	67.44%	2,838	4,208
Jackson	24.67%	1,954	75.33%	5,965	7,919
Jefferson	27.02%	605	72.98%	1,634	2,239
Johnston	30.03%	1,137	69.97%	2,649	3,786
Kay	28.69%	4,627	71.31%	11,499	16,126
Kingfisher	15.57%	898	84.43%	4,870	5,768
Kiowa	32.32%	1,106	67.68%	2,316	3,422
Latimer	30.81%	1,170	69.19%	2,628	3,798
Le Flore	29.43%	4,662	70.57%	11,177	15,839
Lincoln	25.52%	3,273	74.48%	9,553	12,826
Logan	27.73%	4,724	72.27%	12,314	17,038
Love	29.80%	1,034	70.20%	2,436	3,470
Major	14.18%	446	85.82%	2,700	3,146
Marshall	27.16%	1,396	72.84%	3,744	5,140
Mayes	33.35%	4,823	66.65%	9,637	14,460
McClain	22.33%	3,194	77.67%	11,112	14,306
McCurtain	24.22%	2,440	75.78%	7,635	10,075
McIntosh	38.13%	2,779	61.87%	4,509	7,288
Murray	29.93%	1,540	70.07%	3,606	5,146
Muskogee	42.61%	9,952	57.39%	13,404	23,356
Noble	24.68%	1,143	75.32%	3,488	4,631
Nowata	30.52%	1,244	69.48%	2,832	4,076
Okfuskee	34.98%	1,256	65.02%	2,335	3,591
Oklahoma	41.67%	106,982	58.33%	149,728	256,710
Okmulgee	41.27%	5,432	58.73%	7,731	13,163
Osage	37.36%	6,704	62.64%	11,242	17,946
Ottawa	35.18%	3,509	64.82%	6,466	9,975
Pawnee	29.99%	1,813	70.01%	4,232	6,045
Payne	35.82%	9,198	64.18%	16,481	25,679
Pittsburg	30.83%	4,831	69.17%	10,841	15,672
Pontotoc	30.62%	3,947	69.38%	8,945	12,892
Pottawatomie	30.67%	7,188	69.33%	16,250	23,438
Pushmataha	25.25%	1,043	74.75%	3,087	4,130
Roger Mills	16.25%	272	83.75%	1,402	1,674
Rogers	24.93%	9,148	75.07%	27,553	36,701
Seminole	34.87%	2,600	65.13%	4,856	7,456
Sequoyah	30.45%	4,193	69.55%	9,578	13,771
Stephens	23.38%	3,939	76.62%	12,908	16,847
Texas	14.88%	862	85.12%	4,930	5,792
Tillman	33.30%	906	66.70%	1,815	2,721
Tulsa	36.32%	82,744	63.68%	145,062	227,806
Wagoner	27.15%	7,791	72.85%	20,900	28,691
Washington	26.09%	5,532	73.91%	15,668	21,200
Washita	19.05%	822	80.95%	3,494	4,316
Woods	19.75%	671	80.25%	2,727	3,398
Woodward	16.01%	1,133	83.99%	5,945	7,078

By congressional district

Romney won all 5 congressional districts.^[18]

District	Romney	Obama	Representative
1st	65.8%	34.2%	Jim Bridenstine
2nd	67.8%	32.2%	Markwayne Mullin
3rd	73.9%	26.1%	Frank Lucas
4th	67.1%	32.9%	Tom Cole
5th	59.22%	40.8%	James Lankford

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Analysis

As expected, Mitt Romney swept every county in the state, carrying 66.77% of the vote to Obama's measly 33.23%. Romney capitalized on his strength amongst white and conservative voters – Oklahoma's population is 65.6% white^[19] (a demographic Romney won nationwide by 59% to Obama's 39%)^[20] and the state has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+20, tied for the second most Republican in the nation along with Utah.^[21] His strongest performance was in the Oklahoma Panhandle, one of the most staunchly conservative regions in the country, where he garnered 80% to 90% of the vote in many of these counties. Romney also performed well in the Little Dixie region and on the state's border with Texas. Despite many counties having a plurality of registered Democratic voters exceeding the number of registered Republicans (such as Comanche and Okmulgee),^[22] Obama failed to carry any counties. However, Obama was still able to garner margins of around 45% to Romney's 55% in some counties, such as Cherokee County (Obama's best performance), which is 36.4% Native American and home to the capital of the Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah,^[23]^[24] and Muskogee County, which is located in the Creek Nation.^[25] He also had a formidable, but still lackluster, performance in Oklahoma County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Oklahoma City, which is quite conservative despite being the state's most urban region.

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Source: "2012 United States presidential election in Oklahoma", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_Oklahoma.

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Barack Obama

Adair County, Oklahoma

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