2012 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

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Election Name:2012 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:Louisiana
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2008 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:2008
Election Date:November 6, 2012
Next Election:2016 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Next Year:2016
Image1:Mitt_Romney_by_Gage_Skidmore_6_cropped.jpg
Nominee1:Mitt Romney
Party1:Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:Massachusetts
Running Mate1:Paul Ryan
Electoral Vote1:8
Popular Vote1:1,152,262
Percentage1:57.78%
Nominee2:Barack Obama
Party2:Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:Illinois
Running Mate2:Joe Biden
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:809,141
Percentage2:40.58%
President
Before Election:Barack Obama
Before Party:Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:Barack Obama
After Party:Democratic Party (United States)

The 2012 United States presidential election in Louisiana 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. Louisiana voters chose eight 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.

Romney carried Louisiana's eight electoral votes with 57.78% of the popular vote. Louisiana was one of six states where Obama did better in 2012 than in 2008, with his margin of loss decreasing from 18.63% to 17.20%. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time that a Democrat has won over 40% of the vote in the state. Obama is the only Democrat to ever win two terms without carrying the state at least once.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Election Name:2012 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary
Country:Louisiana
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2008 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary
Previous Year:2008
Next Election:2016 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary
Next Year:2016
Candidate1:Barack Obama
Home State1:Illinois
Delegate Count1:60
Popular Vote1:115,150
Percentage1:76.46%
Home State2:Tennessee
Delegate Count2:4
Popular Vote2:17,804
Percentage2:11.82%
Home State4:Illinois
Delegate Count4:0
Popular Vote4:9,897
Percentage4:6.57%
Candidate5:Darcy Richardson
Home State5:Florida
Delegate Count5:0
Popular Vote5:7,750
Percentage5:5.15%
Map Size:250px
Color1:1E90FF
Color2:800080
Color4:81f7f3
Color5:808000

President Barack Obama received little serious opposition in the 2012 Democratic primaries, handily winning overall with over 76% of the vote. However, Tennessee attorney and perennial political candidate John Wolfe Jr. challenged President Obama in the primaries, and received nearly 12% of the vote. Entrepreneur Bob Ely and historian Darcy Richardson also participated, and received a little over 6% and 5% of the vote, respectively. On the date of the primary, President Obama swept nearly every parish in the state, with Wolfe winning LaSalle, Grant, and Cameron parishes. Although Wolfe qualified for four delegates, the Louisiana Democratic Party announced that they would not award the delegates to Wolfe on technical grounds.[1]

2012 Louisiana Democratic
presidential primary[2] ! style="text-align:left;"
CandidateVotes%Pledged
delegates[3]
Barack Obama (incumbent)115,15076.4660
John Wolfe, Jr.17,80411.824
Bob Ely9,8976.570
Darcy Richardson7,7505.150
Total150,601100%64

Republican primary and caucuses

Election Name:2012 Louisiana Republican primary and caucuses
Country:Louisiana
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2008 Louisiana Republican caucuses and primary
Previous Year:2008
Next Election:2016 Louisiana Republican presidential primary
Next Year:2016
Image1:Rick Santorum by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Candidate1:Rick Santorum
Home State1:Pennsylvania
Delegate Count1:10
Popular Vote1:91,321
Percentage1:49.0%
Candidate2:Mitt Romney
Home State2:Massachusetts
Delegate Count2:5
Popular Vote2:49,758
Percentage2:26.7%
Image4:Newt Gingrich by Gage Skidmore 3 (cropped).jpg
Candidate4:Newt Gingrich
Home State4:Georgia
Delegate Count4:0
Popular Vote4:29,656
Percentage4:15.9%
Image5:Ron Paul by Gage Skidmore 3 crop.jpg
Candidate5:Ron Paul
Home State5:Texas
Delegate Count5:0
Popular Vote5:11,467
Percentage5:6.2%
Map Size:250px
Color1:008000
Color2:ff6600
Color4:800080
Color5:ffcc00

The 2012 Louisiana Republican primary took place on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Additionally, caucuses were held on April 28.[4] [5]

Louisiana had 46 delegates to the Republican National Convention. 20 were awarded based on the primary outcome, and the other 26 by the caucuses.

Primary

The 20 delegate allocation was proportional among candidates who received at least 25% of the statewide vote. Candidates who did not reach the 25% threshold lost the delegates they otherwise would have won, and those delegates became uncommitted then.[6]

On March 24, Rick Santorum was declared the winner of the state's primary.[7]

2012 Louisiana Republican primary
CandidateVotesPercentageProjected delegate count
GP
[8] 		CNN
[9] 		MSNBC
[10]
Rick Santorum91,32148.99%101010
Mitt Romney49,75826.69%556
Newt Gingrich29,65615.91%000
Ron Paul11,4676.15%000
Buddy Roemer2,2031.18%000
Rick Perry9550.51%000
Michele Bachmann6220.33%000
Jon Huntsman, Jr.2420.13%000
Randy Crow1860.10%000
Unprojected delegates:554
Total:186,410100.00%202020
[11]

Caucuses, delegate dispute, and ultimate agreement

Although Ron Paul won just 6% of the vote in the primary on March 24 (in which almost 190,000 voters cast ballots), he carried four of Louisiana's six congressional districts in the congressional district caucuses held the following month (in which fewer than 10,000 people took part).[12]

Paul's showing in the April district caucuses "guaranteed him 12 of the state's 46 national convention delegates and, as important, gave his forces 111 of the 180 delegates to the state convention," which chose the actual delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.[13] [12]

In advance of the June 2 Louisiana State Republican Convention in Shreveport, pro-Paul delegates and others clashed with officials and loyalists of the state Republican Party, which "issued supplemental rules on the eve of the convention to keep the Paul forces from wresting more than the 17 delegates which, in their view, was their due."[12] The convention itself was described as a "riotous" and chaotic scene, as the police removed two Paul supporters, arresting one, and the convention devolved into two separate conventions, "as the Paul delegates turned their chairs around and conducted their convention facing one way, while the state party and its loyalists conducted their parallel convention facing the other."[12]

The split convention resulted in two rival slates of 46 delegates.[12] [14] The national Republican Party accepted the slate submitted by Louisiana Republican Party chairman Roger Villere as the official slate.[14] In late July, however, Paul's campaign announced that it would challenge all the Louisiana delegates, asserting that "our rump convention is the legitimate delegation and they have a right to be seated at the Republican National Convention."[15] In its official challenge to the delegate slate filed in August, Paul's campaign likened Villere to the leader of "a North Korean politburo"; in response, the executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party said that Paul's challenge was "full of personal attacks, hyperbole and unfounded assumption."[16] The dispute was to be adjudicated by the Contest Committee of the national Republican Party, with a possible appeal to the full Republican National Committee and then to the Credential Committee of the convention.[12] However, in late August - one week prior to the convention - the Paul campaign made an agreement with the Republican Party of Louisiana in which Paul would get 17 of the state's 46 delegates, with the rest of the state's delegates supporting then-presumptive nominee Mitt Romney.[17]

General election

Results

2012 United States presidential election in Louisiana[18]
PartyCandidateRunning mateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
RepublicanMitt RomneyPaul Ryan1,152,26257.78%8
DemocraticBarack Obama (incumbent)Joe Biden (incumbent)809,14140.58%0
LibertarianJim Gray18,1570.91%0
GreenJill SteinCheri Honkala6,9780.35%0
ConstitutionVirgil GoodeJim Clymer2,5080.13%0
Others1,7660.09%0
JusticeRocky AndersonLuis J. Rodriguez1,3680.07%0
Socialism and LiberationPeta LindsayYari Osorio6220.03%0
Prohibition PartyJack FellureToby Davis5190.03%0
Alyson Kennedy3890.02%0
Phyllis Scherrer3550.02%0
Totals1,994,065100.00%8
Voter turnout (registered voters)67.26%

By parish

ParishMitt Romney
Republican		Barack Obama
Democratic		Various candidates
Other parties		MarginTotal
%%%%
Acadia19,93174.27%6,56024.45%3441.28%13,37149.82%26,835
Allen6,49569.79%2,61728.12%1952.09%3,87841.67%9,307
Ascension33,85666.29%16,34932.01%8681.70%17,50734.28%51,073
Assumption6,08355.34%4,75443.25%1551.41%1,32912.09%10,992
Avoyelles10,67062.65%6,07735.68%2851.67%4,59326.97%17,032
Beauregard11,11278.12%2,82824.45%2852.00%8,28453.67%14,225
Bienville3,64150.55%3,49048.45%721.00%1512.10%7,203
Bossier34,98872.05%12,95626.68%6181.27%22,03245.37%48,562
Caddo52,45946.94%58,04251.93%1,2641.13%-5,583-4.99%111,765
Calcasieu51,85063.44%28,35934.70%1,5171.86%23,49128.74%81,726
Caldwell3,64077.18%1,01621.54%601.28%2,62455.64%4,716
Cameron3,26087.07%40810.90%762.03%2,85276.17%3,744
Catahoula2,74465.44%1,40833.58%410.98%1,33631.86%4,193
Claiborne3,64954.20%3,01444.77%691.03%6359.43%6,732
Concordia5,45058.10%3,83340.86%971.04%1,61717.24%9,380
DeSoto7,35356.34%5,55342.55%1451.11%1,80013.79%13,051
East Baton Rouge92,29246.57%102,65651.80%3,2231.63%-10,364-5.23%198,171
East Carroll1,50837.62%2,47861.83%220.55%-970-24.21%4,008
East Feliciana5,39752.87%4,64845.53%1641.60%7497.34%10,209
Evangeline10,18164.56%5,33033.80%2591.64%4,85130.76%15,770
Franklin6,29467.42%2,92131.29%1211.29%3,37336.13%9,336
Grant7,08281.71%1,42216.41%1631.88%5,66065.30%8,667
Iberia20,89262.56%12,13236.33%3731.11%8,76026.23%33,397
Iberville7,27142.74%9,54856.12%1951.14%-2,277-13.38%17,014
Jackson5,13268.16%2,30530.61%921.23%2,82737.55%7,529
Jefferson102,53658.15%70,38439.91%3,4231.94%32,15218.24%176,343
Jefferson Davis10,01472.91%3,48425.37%2361.72%6,53047.54%13,734
Lafayette64,99265.89%31,76832.21%1,8821.90%33,22433.68%98,642
Lafourche28,59273.17%9,62324.63%8602.20%18,96948.54%39,075
LaSalle5,72687.13%76411.63%821.24%4,96275.50%6,572
Lincoln10,73956.54%7,95641.89%2981.57%2,78314.65%18,993
Livingston45,51384.19%7,45113.78%1,0982.03%38,06270.41%54,062
Madison2,00038.56%3,15460.81%330.63%-1,154-22.25%5,187
Morehouse6,59152.25%5,88846.68%1351.07%7035.57%12,614
Natchitoches9,07752.60%7,94246.02%2391.38%1,1356.58%17,258
Orleans28,00317.74%126,72280.30%3,0881.96%-98,719-62.56%157,813
Ouachita40,94859.80%26,64538.91%8811.29%14,30320.89%68,474
Plaquemines6,47163.20%3,59935.15%1691.65%2,87228.05%10,239
Pointe Coupee6,54853.91%5,43644.75%1631.34%1,1129.16%12,147
Rapides37,19364.10%20,04534.55%7811.35%17,14829.55%58,019
Red River2,48351.65%2,25346.87%711.48%2304.78%4,807
Richland5,84662.66%3,38736.31%961.03%2,45926.35%9,329
Sabine7,73876.97%2,19421.82%1211.21%5,54455.15%10,053
St. Bernard8,50160.92%5,05936.25%3952.83%3,44224.67%13,955
St. Charles15,93762.91%8,89635.12%5001.97%7,04127.79%25,333
St. Helena2,52939.55%3,78059.12%851.33%-1,251-19.57%6,394
St. James5,20942.03%7,05956.95%1271.02%-1,850-14.92%12,395
St. John the Baptist7,62036.07%13,17962.39%3241.54%-5,559-26.32%21,123
St. Landry21,47551.56%19,66847.23%5041.21%1,8074.33%41,647
St. Martin15,65361.55%9,42237.05%3581.40%6,23124.50%25,433
St. Mary13,88558.74%9,45039.97%3051.29%4,43518.77%23,640
St. Tammany84,72375.04%25,72822.79%2,4512.17%58,99552.25%112,902
Tangipahoa31,59063.06%17,72235.37%7871.57%13,86827.69%50,099
Tensas1,23043.74%1,56455.62%180.64%-334-11.88%2,812
Terrebonne29,50369.68%12,07428.52%7641.80%17,42941.16%42,341
Union7,56170.23%3,07528.56%1301.21%4,48641.67%10,766
Vermilion18,91075.68%5,72022.89%3571.43%13,19052.79%24,987
Vernon12,15077.83%3,17320.33%2871.84%8,97757.50%15,610
Washington11,79863.49%6,46634.80%3171.71%5,33228.69%18,581
Webster11,40061.90%6,80236.94%2141.16%4,59824.96%18,416
West Baton Rouge6,92254.19%5,69244.56%1601.25%1,2309.63%12,774
West Carroll3,62879.77%85318.76%671.47%2,77561.01%4,548
West Feliciana3,25756.38%2,44142.25%791.37%81614.13%5,777
Winn4,54169.50%1,91929.37%741.13%2,62240.13%6,534
Totals1,152,26257.78%809,14140.58%32,6621.64%343,12117.20%1,994,065

By congressional district

Romney won 5 of 6 congressional districts.[19]

DistrictRomneyObamaRepresentative
70.85%26.86%Steve Scalise
22.81%75.84%Cedric Richmond
66.1%32.26%Charles Boustany
59%39.66%John Fleming
61%37.66%Rodney Alexander
66.15%31.96%Bill Cassidy

See also

External links

for Louisiana

Major state elections in chronological order

Notes and References

  1. News: Louisiana Democratic Party denies 3 delegates to fringe candidate. NOLA.com. 2017-01-16.
  2. Web site: Louisiana Secretary of State - Election Results. voterportal.sos.la.gov. 2020-03-28.
  3. Web site: Louisiana Democratic Delegation 2012. www.thegreenpapers.com. 2020-03-28.
  4. News: Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar. CNN. January 11, 2012.
  5. News: Presidential Primary Dates. Federal Election Commission. January 23, 2012.
  6. Web site: G.O.P. Campaign Could End Soon — But Not in Louisiana. Nate Silver. Nate Silver. March 24, 2012. March 25, 2012. FiveThirtyEight.
  7. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-louisiana-primary-santorum-wins-20120324,0,2608863.story?track=rss Rick Santorum wins Louisiana primary
  8. The Green Papers, "2012 Louisiana Republican Primary" . The Green Papers.
  9. CNN, "Republican Primary" . CNN.
  10. MSNBC, "Republican Primary" . MSNBC.
  11. Web site: Unofficial Election Results . LA Secretary of State . March 25, 2012.
  12. Jonathan Tilove, Louisiana Republican convention devolves into separate meetings, The Times-Picayune (June 10, 2012).
  13. Web site: Ron Paul supporters dominate Louisiana's Republican presidential caucuses . April 28, 2012. The Times-Picayune. Tilove . Jonathan.
  14. Melina Deslatte, Dispute over La. delegates to GOP convention goes national, Associated Press (August 1, 2012).
  15. Adam Levy, Ron Paul campaign to challenge all Louisiana delegates, CNN (July 27, 2012).
  16. Jonathan Tilove Ron Paul supporters won't back down in Louisiana GOP dispute, The Times-Picayune (August 6, 2012).
  17. Stephen Ohlemacher, Paul adds delegates in Louisiana compromise, Associated Press (August 21, 2012).
  18. Web site: Louisiana Secretary of State. Louisiana Secretary of State.
  19. Web site: Daily Kos Elections' statewide election results by congressional and legislative districts. Daily Kos. 11 August 2020.

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