November 7th: Barack Obama handily
won the American presidential election, gaining an expected 332
electoral-college votes to Mitt Romney’s 206, and taking about 50% of
the popular vote to the Republican’s 48% (Mr Obama’s margin over Mr
Romney in the popular vote may rise a bit once California completes its
count). In the end, Mr Romney only managed to turn Indiana and North
Carolina from blue to red. Florida was the closest race; Mr Obama's
margin of victory there was only about 0.6 of a percentage point. He won
Ohio by two points, and Colorado and Virginia by three. But he did even
better in the crucial Midwest, a region that Mr Romney had to make a
big dent in to stand any chance of victory. Mr Obama won Michigan and
Wisconsin (Paul Ryan's home state) by seven, and Iowa by six. The
president's re-election was assured once the results started coming in
from those counties in the swing states that the campaigns fought over
the hardest. For example, he won Hamilton county (which covers
Cincinnati) in Ohio by 52% to 47%, Macomb county north of Detroit by the
same margin, and Hillsborough county, which covers Tampa in Florida, by
53% to 46%.
Our
interactive map provides the latest result in each state (where
available) and nationally. Click your cursor on a state to see the
detailed result or use the “zoom to” drop-down menu to take you to a
region.
The presidential election is won by the candidate who
attains at least 270 electoral-college votes out of the 538 in total
that are spread among the states and which are distributed to take
account of population size. To view a list of the allocation of the
votes in the states click on the “Electoral college votes” tab.
Click on the “Results 2008” tab to see how the election went last time.
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