2012 United States presidential election in New Hampshire country United States of America
The 2012 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 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. New Hampshire voters chose four 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.
New Hampshire voters chose to re-elect President Barack Obama, giving him 51.98% of the vote to Mitt Romney's 46.40%, a Democratic victory margin of 5.58%. Despite Obama winning all of the state's counties in 2008 (the first presidential candidate to do so since George H. W. Bush in 1988, and the first Democrat since Franklin Pierce in 1852) he lost three of them to Romney this election: Belknap, Carroll, and Rockingham.
As of 2020, this is the most recent election in which the Democratic candidate won Coös County. This is also the most recent election that New Hampshire voted to the right of Wisconsin, Michigan or Iowa, and the most recent election it voted to the left of Colorado or Virginia.
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