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Overview of the 2008 Election |
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Barack Hussein Obama II Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
Party:
DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Obama - IL; VP - DE
Electoral Votes:
365
Popular Votes:
69,297,997 (52.9%) |
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John Sidney McCain III Sarah Louise Heath Palin
Party:
REPUBLICAN
Home State: McCain - AZ
; VP - AK
Electoral Votes:
173
Popular Votes:
59,597,520 (45.5%) |
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Other Candidates
Party:
Independent, Libertarian, Constitution, et al.
Electoral Votes:
0
Popular Votes:
2,137,282 (1.6%) |
Total electoral votes - 538 (from 50 states and DC)
Majority needed to win - 270
Total popular vote: 131,032,799
Percentage of eligible population voting: 56.7% |
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2008 State-by-State Results |
STATE | OBAMA | MCCAIN | OTHERS | ST. | ELECTORS | EVs | |
ALABAMA | 813,479 (38.7%) | 1,266,546 (60.3%) | 19,794 (0.9%) | AL | Les Barnett, Will Sellers, Ralph (Al) Blythe, W. Jack Stiefel, J. Elbert Peters, Matthew Fridy, Robert (Bob) A. Cusanelli, Cam Ward, James (Jim) Eldon Wilson | 9 | |
ALASKA | 123,594 (37.9%) | 193,841 (59.4%) | 8,762 (2.7%) | AK | Roy Burkhart, Hope Nelson, Robert Brodie | 3 | |
ARIZONA | 1,034,707 (45.1%) | 1,230,111 (53.6%) | 28,657 (1.2%) | AZ | Bruce Ash, Kurt Davis, Wes Gullett, Sharon Harper, Jack Londen, Beverly Lockett Miller, Lee Miller, Bettina Nava, Randy Pullen, Michael Rappoport | 8 | |
ARKANSAS | 422,310 (38.9%) | 638,017 (58.7%) | 26,290 (2.4%) | AR | Jim Burnett, Reta Hamilton, Rose Bryant Jones, Phyllis Kincannon, Steve Lux, Kermit Parks | 6 | |
CALIFORNIA | 8,274,473 (61.5%) | 5,011,781 (37.2%) | 178,241 (1.3%) | CA | Ian Robert Blue, Mark H Cibula, Richard Allen Hundrieser, Lawrence Steven Du Bois, Mark Friedman, Mary W Hubert, Fred D Jackson, LeRoy King, Roberta C Brooks, Audrey Gordon, Michael McNerney, Nancy Jean Parrish, James Paul Farley, John Freidenrich, Jeremy Seiji Nishihara, Jaime A Alvarado, Vinz J Koller, Gregory Ray Olzack, David A. Sanchez, Larry Sheingold, Stephen Allen Smith, Mark A Macarro, Nathan Eric Brostrom, Robert \"Bob\" M Handy, Robert D. Conaway, Greg Warner, Lane Sherman, Ilene Haber, Kenneth Sulzer, Sanford Weiner, Ana Delgado Mascarenas, Joe Perez, Gwen Moore, Anthony Rendon, Karen D. Waters, Kelley Schnaitter Willis, Silissa Uriarte-Smith, Norma Judith Torres, Alma Marquez, Ray L Cordova, Patrick Kelly Kahler, Aaruni Kumar Thakur, Joe Baca Jr., Juadina Stallings, Betty McMillion, William F. Gusta Ayer, Gregory Howes Willenborg, James L. Yedor, Bobby Gene Glaser, Mary Elizabeth Keadle, Frank G. Salazar, Christine Raye Young, Sid Voorakkara, Aleita Huguenin, Lou Paulson | 54 | |
COLORADO | 1,288,576 (53.7%) | 1,073,589 (44.7%) | 39,196 (1.6%) | CO | Wellington Webb, Terry Phillips, Camilla Auger, Pam Shaddock, Jennifer Trujillo-Sanchez, Don Strickland, Ann Knollman, Polly Baca, Margaret Atencio | 8 | |
CONNECTICUT | 997,763 (60.6%) | 629,428 (38.2%) | 19,592 (1.2%) | CT | Shirley W. Steinmetz, Nicholas Paindiris, Andrea Jackson Brooks, Jim Ezzes, Lorraine McQueen, Deborah McFadden, Ken Delacruz | 8 | |
DELAWARE | 255,459 (61.9%) | 152,374 (36.9%) | 4,579 (1.1%) | DE | James Johnson, Edward Kaufman, Harriet Smith Windsor | 3 | |
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | 245,800 (92.5%) | 17,367 (6.5%) | 2,686 (1.0%) | DC | Muriel Bowser, Jerry S. Cooper, Vincent C. Gray | 3 | |
FLORIDA | 4,282,074 (51.0%) | 4,045,624 (48.2%) | 63,046 (0.8%) | FL | Wills Chip Arndt, Jr., T. Wayne Bailey, Fred Balsera, Terrie Bradv, Karl Flagg, Joe Gibbons, Janet Goen, James Golden, Chris Hand, Marlon Hill, Tony Hill, Joan Joseph, Allan Katz, Gena Keebler, Joan Lane, Caren Lobo, Rick Minor, Jared Moskowitz, Angela Rodante, Frank Sanchez, Juanita Scott, Geraldine Thompson, Karen Thurman, Carmen Torres, Kirk Wagarof Miami, FL, at-large elector , Enoch Williams, Frederica Wilson | 25 | |
GEORGIA | 1,844,137 (47.0%) | 2,048,744 (52.2%) | 28,812 (0.7%) | GA | Esther Clark, Dennis Coxwell, Norma Edenfield, Randy Evans, Sue P. Everhart, Leigh Ann Gillis, Judy Goddard, Linda Herren, Rufus Montgomery, Clint Murphy, Sunny Park, Alec Poitevint, John Sours, Allan Vigil, John White | 13 | |
HAWAII | 325,871 (71.8%) | 120,566 (26.6%) | 7,131 (1.6%) | HI | Joy Kobashigawa Lewis, Marie Dolores Strazar, Amefil Agbayani, Frances K. Kagawa | 4 | |
IDAHO | 236,440 (36.1%) | 403,012 (61.5%) | 15,580 (2.4%) | ID | Darlene Bramon, Ben Doty, John Erickson, Melinda Smyser | 4 | |
ILLINOIS | 3,419,673 (62.0%) | 2,031,527 (36.8%) | 62,435 (1.1%) | IL | Constance A. Howard, Carrie Austin, Andrew Madigan,, Ricardo Mu–oz, James DeLeo, Marge Friedman, Vera Davis, Nancy Shepardson, William Marovitz, Lauren Beth Gash, Debbie Halvorson, Molly McKenzie, Julia Kennedy Beckman, Mark Guethle, Lynn Foster, John M. Nelson, Mary Boland, Shirley McCombs, Don Johnston, Barbara Flynn Currie, John R. Daley | 22 | |
INDIANA | 1,374,039 (49.9%) | 1,345,648 (48.9%) | 31,367 (1.1%) | IN | Jeffrey L. Chidester, Owen "Butch" Morgan, Michelle Boxell, Charlotte Martin, Jerry J. Lux, Connie Southworth, Alan P. Hogan, Myrna E. Brown, Clarence Benjamin Leatherbury, Daniel J. Parker, Cordelia Lewis Burks | 12 | |
IOWA | 828,940 (54.2%) | 682,379 (44.6%) | 19,067 (1.2%) | IA | Elwood Thompson, Slayton Thompson, Kathleen O\'Leary, Jon Heitland, Dennis Ryan, Joe Judge, Audrey Linville | 7 | |
KANSAS | 514,765 (41.7%) | 699,655 (56.6%) | 21,381 (1.7%) | KS | Tom Arpke, Jeff Colyer, David Kensinger, Kris Kobach, Mike Pompeo, Helen Van Etten | 6 | |
KENTUCKY | 751,985 (41.2%) | 1,048,462 (57.4%) | 26,173 (1.4%) | KY | James Henry Snider, Walter A. Baker, Edna M. Fulkerson, Amy B. Towles, Nancy Mitchell, Don Ball, Robert Gable, Elizabeth G. Thomas | 8 | |
LOUISIANA | 782,989 (39.9%) | 1,148,275 (58.6%) | 29,497 (1.5%) | LA | Lynn E. Skidmore, Joe Lavigne, Gordon J. Giles, Alan Seabaugh, Karen Haymon, Charles Davis, Charlie Buckels, Dianne Christopher, Roger F. Villere, Jr. | 9 | |
MAINE District 1 | 232,145 (60.5%) | 144,604 (37.7%) | 6,877 (1.8%) | ME | Jill Duson | 1 |
MAINE District 2 | 189,778 (54.6%) | 150,669 (43.3%) | 7,090 (2.0%) | | Samuel Shapiro | 1 |
MAINE At-Large | 421,923 (57.7%) | 295,273 (40.4%) | 13,967 (1.9%) | | Robert O'Brien, Tracie Reed | 2 | |
MARYLAND | 1,629,467 (62.1%) | 959,862 (36.6%) | 33,220 (1.3%) | MD | Gene Ransom, Delores Kelley, Guy Guzzone, Nathaniel Exum, Christopher Reynolds, A.G. Bobby Fouche, Elizabeth Bobo, Michael Barnes, Susan Lee, Rainier Harvey | 10 | |
MASSACHUSETTS | 1,904,097 (61.8%) | 1,108,854 (36.0%) | 68,034 (2.2%) | MA | Samuel Poulten, Melvin Poindexter, Jason Whittet, Joseph H. Kaplan, John P. Brissette, Raymond A. Jordan, Patricia Marcus, Brenda Brathwaite, Carol Pacheco, Mary Anne Dube, Faye Morrison, Corinne Wingard | 12 | |
MICHIGAN | 2,872,579 (57.4%) | 2,048,639 (41.0%) | 80,548 (1.6%) | MI | Brenda Abbey, Dallas Dean, Ida DeHaas, Ron Gettelfinger, James Hoffa, Kenneth Paul Jenkins, Harry Kalogerakos, Jessica Mistak, Arturo Reyes, Griffin Rivers, Gary Shepherd, Roger Short, Arthur Shy, Richard West, Whitney Randall Wolcott, David Woodward, Charlene Yarbrough | 18 | |
MINNESOTA | 1,573,354 (54.2%) | 1,275,409 (44.0%) | 52,110 (1.8%) | MN | Arthur A. Anderson, Jim Gremmels, David W. Lee, Al Patton, Joan M. Wittman, William J. Davis, Benjamin F. Gross, Matt Little, Jackie Stevenson, Susan Kay Moravec | 10 | |
MISSISSIPPI | 554,662 (43.0%) | 724,597 (56.2%) | 10,606 (0.8%) | MS | Jim Barksdale, Barry Bridgforth, Fred Carl, Bobby Chain, Charles Doty, Victor Mavar | 7 | |
MISSOURI | 1,441,911 (49.3%) | 1,445,814 (49.4%) | 37,480 (1.3%) | MO | Willis Corbett, Scott Dickenson, Robert Haul, Ronny Margason, Cathy Owens, Ron Muck, Gene Hall, R. Mellene Schudy, Nadine Thurman, Paul Nahon, Jerry Dowell | 11 | |
MONTANA | 231,667 (47.3%) | 242,763 (49.5%) | 15,679 (3.2%) | MT | Thelma Baker, John Brenden, Errol Galt | 3 | |
NEBRASKA District 1 | 121,468 (44.3%) | 148,179 (54.1%) | 4,311 (1.6%) | NE | Charles Thone | 1 |
NEBRASKA District 2 | 138,752 (50.0%) | 135,439 (48.8%) | 3,553 (1.3%) | | William Forsee | 1 |
NEBRASKA District 3 | 73,099 (29.6%) | 169,361 (68.6%) | 4,282 (1.7%) | | D. Neal Smith | 1 |
NEBRASKA At-Large | 333,319 (41.7%) | 452,979 (56.7%) | 12,146 (1.5%) | | Norman Riffel, Patricia Dorwart | 2 | |
NEVADA | 533,736 (55.5%) | 412,827 (42.9%) | 15,018 (1.6%) | NV | Maggie Carlton, Tahis Castro, Ruby Duncan, Ron Hibble, Theresa Navarro | 4 | |
NEW HAMPSHIRE | 384,826 (54.4%) | 316,534 (44.7%) | 6,251 (0.9%) | NH | Martha Fuller Clark, Gaeten DiGangi, Edgar "Ned" Helms, Kathleen N. Sullivan | 4 | |
NEW JERSEY | 2,215,422 (57.3%) | 1,613,207 (41.7%) | 39,608 (1.0%) | NJ | Jose Colon, William Fontanez, Gina Genovese, Wilma Grey, Kevin G. Halpern, Victor J. Herlinsky, Jr., Stacy Lubrecht, Salaheddin Mustafa, Peter D. Nichols, William W. Northgrave, Ken Saunders, Ginger Gold Schnitzer, Carl E. Styles, Shavonda Sumter, Stephen S. Weinstein | 15 | |
NEW MEXICO | 472,422 (56.9%) | 346,832 (41.8%) | 10,904 (1.3%) | NM | Brian S. Colon, Annadelle Sanchez, Tom Buckner, Christy French, Alvin Warren | 5 | |
NEW YORK | 4,610,809 (60.7%) | 2,409,077 (31.7%) | 570,665 (7.5%) | NY | Velda Jeffrey, June F. O'Neill, Dennis Mehiel, David Paterson, Andrew Cuomo, Thomas DiNapoli, Sheldon Silver, Malcolm Smith, Maria Luna, Robert Master, Pamela Green-Perkins, Helen D. Foster, Jon Cooper, Hakeem Jeffries, Richard Fife, Deborah A. Slott, Terrence Yang, George Arthur, George Gresham, Alan Van Capelle, Inez Dickens, Suzy Ballantyne, Alan Lubin, Bethaida Gonz‡lez, Christine Quinn, Bill Thompson, Stuart Applebaum, Maritza Davila, Ivan Young, Barbara Fiala, Frank A. Bolz, III | 33 | |
NORTH CAROLINA | 2,142,651 (49.9%) | 2,128,474 (49.5%) | 25,722 (0.6%) | NC | Janice Cole, Louise Sewell, Virginia Tillett, Linda Gunter, Timothy Futrelle, Wayne Abraham, Armin J. Ancis, Wendy Wood, Michael Cognac, Dan W. DeHart, Harley Caldwell, Samuel Spencer IV, Patricia Hawkins, David Crawford, Kara Hollingsworth | 14 | |
NORTH DAKOTA | 141,278 (44.6%) | 168,601 (53.3%) | 6,742 (2.1%) | ND | Theresa Tokach, Susan Wefald, Cleo Thompson | 3 | |
OHIO | 2,933,388 (51.5%) | 2,674,491 (46.9%) | 90,048 (1.6%) | OH | Catherine Barret, Barbara Tuckerman, Wade Kapszukiewicz, Tamela Lee, Renee Cafaro, Victoria Wulsin, Craig Brown, Jimmy Cotner, Janet Carson, Bruce Johnson, Nannette Whaley, Martha Jane Brooks, Eugene Miller, Fran Alberty, Chris Redfern, John Kostyo, Kelly Gillis, Charleta Tavares, Michael Todd, Ted Strickland | 21 | |
OKLAHOMA | 502,496 (34.4%) | 960,165 (65.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | OK | Virginia Chrisco, Gail Stice, Pete Katzdorn, Robert Cleveland, Mary Phyllis Gorman, Bunny Chambers, Diane Murphy Gunther | 8 | |
OREGON | 1,037,291 (57.2%) | 738,475 (40.7%) | 38,485 (2.1%) | OR | Michael J. Bohan, Shirley A. Cairns, R.P. Joe Smith, John C. McColgan, Meredith Wood Smith, Frank James Dixon, Bernard Gorter | 7 | |
PENNSYLVANIA | 3,276,363 (54.7%) | 2,651,812 (44.3%) | 64,209 (1.1%) | PA | Lynne Abraham, Christopher Lewis, John S. Brenner, Valerie McDonald-Roberts, Eileen Connell, Thomas McMahon, Kathi Cozzone, Robert Mellow, John K. Fetterman, Michael A. Nutter, William George, Corey D. O'Brien, Patrick Gillespie, Joshua Shapiro, J. Richard Gray, Jack Wagner, Franco Harris, Michael J. Washo, George Hartwick, Wendell Young, IV, Daylin Leach | 23 | |
RHODE ISLAND | 296,571 (62.9%) | 165,391 (35.1%) | 9,804 (2.1%) | RI | Maryellen Goodwin, Charlene Lima, John J. McConnell, Jr., Mark Weiner | 4 | |
SOUTH CAROLINA | 862,449 (44.9%) | 1,034,896 (53.9%) | 23,624 (1.2%) | SC | Wayland Moody, Benny Kinlaw, Susan Aiken, Betty Sheppard Poe, Rebecca W. Delleney, Shelby M. Phillips, Katon E. Dawson, Patrick Bonner Haddon | 8 | |
SOUTH DAKOTA | 170,924 (44.7%) | 203,054 (53.2%) | 7,997 (2.1%) | SD | Mike Rounds, Dennis Daugaard, Larry Long | 3 | |
TENNESSEE | 1,087,437 (41.8%) | 1,479,178 (56.9%) | 33,134 (1.3%) | TN | Sara Sellers, Jim Haslam II, J. Wayne Cropp, Lisa Wheeler, Beth Campbell, Albert McCall, Shirley Curry, Marilucile Counce, Colin Richmond, Winfield Dunn, Chrystal Horne | 11 | |
TEXAS | 3,528,633 (43.7%) | 4,479,328 (55.5%) | 69,834 (0.9%) | TX | Marcia Daughtrey, Virgil Vickery, Charlie O\'Reilly, Brenda Zielke, Mary Darby, Melba McDow, Paul Pressler, James Wiggins, Deborah B. Cupples, Frank E. Alvarez II, Russ Duerstine, Zan Prince, Bruce Harris, Gordon Starkenburg, Sandra Cararas, Donene O\'Dell, Larry Lovelace, Nelda Eppes, Kenneth Corbin, Gene Ryder, Robert E. Hierynomus, Terese Raia, Arturo Martinez de Vara, Thomas Ferguson, Robert K. Long, Pat Peale, Joel Yowell, Judith Hooge, Giovanna Searcy, Patricia Ann Van Winkle, Ronny Risinger, Frank Eikenburg, Genny Hensz, Talmadge Heflin | 32 | |
UTAH | 327,670 (34.8%) | 596,030 (63.2%) | 18,978 (2.0%) | UT | Scott Simpson, Richard Snelgrove, Stan Lockhart, Enid Greene Mickelesen, Mark Shurtleff | 5 | |
VERMONT | 219,262 (67.5%) | 98,974 (30.4%) | 6,810 (2.1%) | VT | Claire D. Ayer, Euan Bear, Kevin B. Christie | 3 | |
VIRGINIA | 1,959,532 (52.7%) | 1,725,005 (46.4%) | 32,368 (0.9%) | VA | Christia V. Rey, Sandra W. Brandt, Betty L. Squire, Susan Johnston Rowland, Marc L. Finney, Dorothy S. Blackwell, James Harold Allen Boyd, Marian A. Van Landingham, Robert Edgar Childress, Jr., Rolland D. Winter, Janet A. Carver, Michael Jon Khandelwal, Sophie Ann Salley | 13 | |
WASHINGTON | 1,750,848 (57.7%) | 1,229,216 (40.5%) | 56,814 (1.9%) | WA | Jafar Siddiqui,, Maggie J. Hanson, Jane M. Buchanan?Banks, Pat M. Notter, Marcus Riccelli, Bradford L. Donovan, Lesley G. Ahmed, Di A. Irons, Calvin L. Edwards, Kristine F. Fallstone, John M. Daniels | 11 | |
WEST VIRGINIA | 303,857 (42.6%) | 397,466 (55.7%) | 12,128 (1.7%) | WV | Robert Fish, Zane Lawhorn, Catherine Sue McKinney, Mary (Marti) Riggall, Theresa A. Waxman | 5 | |
WISCONSIN | 1,677,211 (56.4%) | 1,262,393 (42.4%) | 36,752 (1.2%) | WI | Ray Rivera, Fred Risser, Rollie Hicks, Annette Polly Williams, Dian Palmer, Gordon Hintz, Christine Bremer-Muggli, Donsia Strong Hill, Jim Doyle, Joe Wineke | 11 | |
WYOMING | 82,868 (32.7%) | 164,958 (65.2%) | 5,311 (2.1%) | WY | Rosa L. Goolsby, Ron Micheli, Susan Thomas | 3 | |
TOTAL | 69,297,997 (52.9%) | 59,597,520 (45.5%) | 2,137,282 (1.6%) | |
ELECTORAL VOTES | 365 | 173 | 0 | |
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