2012 United States presidential election in Kansas

2012 United States presidential election in Kansas
Romney 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% 90-100%	Obama 60-70%
President before election; Barack Obama; Democratic	Elected President ; Barack Obama; Democratic

The 2012 United States presidential election in Kansas 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. Kansas voters chose six 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 and Ryan carried the state with 59.66% of the popular vote to Obama's and Biden's 38.05%, thus winning the state's six electoral votes.^[1]

Obama carried only two counties: Douglas, home to Lawrence and the University of Kansas; and Wyandotte, home to Kansas City and the state's largest concentration of nonwhite voters. He lost Crawford County, home to Pittsburg State University, which he won in 2008.

Democratic caucuses[]

No major Democratic candidate challenged President Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012. Obama thus won all 517 votes at the State Convention on June 9 and all 53 delegates.

Republican caucuses[]

The Republican caucuses were held on Saturday, March 10, 2012.^[2]^[3] Kansas has 40 delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention. 25 of these delegates are allocated proportionally to candidates who exceed a 20% threshold in the statewide vote tally. The 15 remaining delegates are 'winner-take-all' delegates. 12 delegates are given (3 each) to the candidates with most votes in each of Kansas's 4 congressional districts. 3 delegates are awarded to the candidate with most votes statewide.^[4]

Rick Santorum won the caucus and will receive 33 delegates. He won the state with 51% of the statewide vote and received most votes in all of the congressional districts, thus winning 15 delegates. As only Santorum and Mitt Romney exceeded the 20% threshold, 18 of the 25 proportionally allocated delegates were allocated to Santorum and 7 to Romney.

2012 Kansas Republican caucuses
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Rick Santorum	15,290	51.2%	33
Mitt Romney	6,250	20.9%	7
Newt Gingrich	4,298	14.4%	0
Ron Paul	3,767	12.6%	0
Uncommitted	122	0.4%	0
Herman Cain	39	0.1%	0
Jon Huntsman	38	0.1%	0
Rick Perry	37	0.1%	0
Michele Bachmann	16	0.1%	0
Totals	29,857	100%	0

Key:

Withdrew
prior to contest

General election[]

Results[]

2012 United States presidential election in Kansas
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	689,809	59.66%	6
	Democratic	Barack Obama	Joe Biden	439,908	38.05%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	Jim Gray	20,409	1.77%	0
	Reform	Chuck Baldwin	Joseph Martin	4,990	0.43%	0
	Green (Write-In)	Jill Stein	Cheri Honkala	714	0.06%	0
	Constitution (Write-In)	Virgil Goode	Jim Clymer	187	0.02%	0
	Justice (Write-In)	Rocky Anderson	Luis J. Rodriguez	95	0.01%	0
	Peace & Freedom (Write-In)	Roseanne Barr	Cindy Sheehan	58	0.01%	0
	Other Write-Ins	Other Write-Ins		84	0.01%	0
Totals				1,156,254	100.00%	6

By county[]

County	Obama%	Obama#	Romney%	Romney#	Others%	Others#	Total
Allen	35.20%	1,869	62.45%	3,316	2.35%	125	5,310
Anderson	28.48%	944	68.66%	2,276	2.87%	95	3,315
Atchison	38.46%	2,567	58.69%	3,917	2.85%	190	6,674
Barber	20.83%	482	76.58%	1,772	2.59%	60	2,314
Barton	22.21%	2,297	76.14%	7,874	1.64%	170	10,341
Bourbon	31.92%	1,996	65.59%	4,102	2.49%	156	6,254
Brown	26.95%	1,076	70.85%	2,829	2.20%	88	3,993
Butler	27.92%	7,282	69.61%	18,157	2.48%	646	26,085
Chase	28.17%	358	68.84%	875	2.99%	38	1,271
Chautauqua	17.18%	280	80.00%	1,304	2.82%	46	1,630
Cherokee	34.19%	2,930	63.66%	5,456	2.16%	185	8,571
Cheyenne	16.34%	233	81.28%	1,159	2.38%	34	1,426
Clark	17.11%	174	79.15%	805	3.74%	38	1,017
Clay	22.63%	834	75.64%	2,788	1.74%	64	3,686
Cloud	24.00%	974	72.79%	2,954	3.20%	130	4,058
Coffey	22.99%	898	74.32%	2,903	2.69%	105	3,906
Comanche	15.41%	143	82.65%	767	1.94%	18	928
Cowley	33.98%	4,319	63.58%	8,081	2.44%	310	12,710
Crawford	45.67%	6,826	51.58%	7,708	2.75%	411	14,945
Decatur	17.36%	266	79.50%	1,218	3.13%	48	1,532
Dickinson	25.12%	2,020	72.52%	5,832	2.36%	190	8,042
Doniphan	26.51%	902	70.94%	2,414	2.56%	87	3,403
Douglas	60.79%	29,267	36.14%	17,401	3.07%	1,477	48,145
Edwards	21.52%	298	76.46%	1,059	2.02%	28	1,385
Elk	20.53%	281	76.63%	1,049	2.85%	39	1,369
Ellis	26.10%	3,057	71.70%	8,399	2.20%	258	11,714
Ellsworth	25.88%	702	71.17%	1,930	2.95%	80	2,712
Finney	29.52%	2,682	68.46%	6,219	2.01%	183	9,084
Ford	31.09%	2,600	66.99%	5,602	1.91%	160	8,362
Franklin	33.61%	3,694	63.55%	6,984	2.84%	312	10,990
Geary	42.47%	3,332	55.73%	4,372	1.80%	141	7,845
Gove	12.73%	176	84.45%	1,168	2.82%	39	1,383
Graham	19.10%	256	78.81%	1,056	2.09%	28	1,340
Grant	19.77%	456	78.53%	1,811	1.69%	39	2,306
Gray	16.55%	324	81.87%	1,603	1.58%	31	1,958
Greeley	16.87%	113	81.04%	543	2.09%	14	670
Greenwood	22.52%	478	74.89%	1,590	2.59%	55	2,123
Hamilton	18.59%	163	79.02%	693	2.39%	21	877
Harper	23.02%	550	73.63%	1,759	3.35%	80	2,389
Harvey	37.59%	5,373	60.08%	8,588	2.33%	333	14,294
Haskell	15.40%	215	83.02%	1,159	1.58%	22	1,396
Hodgeman	16.89%	179	81.89%	868	1.23%	13	1,060
Jackson	34.18%	1,901	63.42%	3,527	2.39%	133	5,561
Jefferson	37.15%	2,977	60.24%	4,827	2.61%	209	8,013
Jewell	15.30%	229	82.50%	1,235	2.20%	33	1,497
Johnson	40.18%	110,526	57.58%	158,401	2.23%	6,147	275,074
Kearny	19.34%	268	79.15%	1,097	1.52%	21	1,386
Kingman	22.69%	733	74.19%	2,397	3.13%	101	3,231
Kiowa	14.25%	163	85.31%	976	.44%	5	1,144
Labette	38.78%	3,117	59.00%	4,742	2.21%	178	8,037
Lane	18.53%	172	79.63%	739	1.83%	17	928
Leavenworth	39.05%	11,357	58.65%	17,059	2.30%	669	29,085
Lincoln	19.49%	289	78.56%	1,165	1.96%	29	1,483
Linn	26.19%	1,170	71.12%	3,177	2.69%	120	4,467
Logan	14.59%	197	83.41%	1,126	2.0%	27	1,350
Lyon	43.04%	5,111	54.48%	6,470	2.48%	294	11,875
Marion	25.61%	1,385	71.90%	3,889	2.50%	135	5,409
Marshall	30.78%	1,469	66.94%	3,195	2.28%	109	4,773
McPherson	28.05%	3,449	69.49%	8,545	2.46%	303	12,297
Meade	15.10%	258	83.56%	1,428	1.35%	23	1,709
Miami	31.72%	4,712	66.36%	9,858	1.93%	286	14,856
Mitchell	19.70%	584	78.48%	2,327	1.82%	54	2,965
Montgomery	28.20%	3,501	69.50%	8,630	2.30%	286	12,417
Morris	28.02%	718	69.20%	1,773	2.77%	71	2,562
Morton	14.79%	189	83.88%	1,072	1.33%	17	1,278
Nemaha	19.90%	1,000	78.19%	3,930	1.91%	96	5,026
Neosho	31.64%	2,050	65.93%	4,272	2.44%	158	6,480
Ness	15.10%	218	83.73%	1,209	1.18%	17	1,444
Norton	17.12%	398	80.77%	1,878	2.11%	49	2,325
Osage	32.84%	2,268	64.10%	4,427	3.06%	211	6,906
Osborne County	17.63%	324	80.47%	1,479	1.90%	35	1,838
Ottawa	19.02%	558	78.25%	2,295	2.73%	80	2,933
Pawnee	27.53%	718	70.40%	1,836	2.07%	54	2,608
Phillips	14.89%	382	83.24%	2,135	1.87%	48	2,565
Pottawatomie	24.63%	2,335	71.78%	6,804	3.59%	340	9,479
Pratt	25.78%	980	72.90%	2,771	1.32%	50	3,801
Rawlins	13.16%	190	84.70%	1,223	2.15%	31	1,444
Reno	33.11%	8,085	64.36%	15,718	2.53%	619	24,422
Republic	17.76%	477	79.45%	2,134	2.79%	75	2,686
Rice	24.75%	911	72.70%	2,676	2.55%	94	3,681
Riley	42.54%	8,977	54.53%	11,507	2.92%	617	21,101
Rooks	14.67%	361	82.85%	2,038	2.48%	61	2,460
Rush	23.38%	367	74.27%	1,166	2.36%	37	1,570
Russell	18.53%	593	79.78%	2,553	1.69%	54	3,200
Saline	32.75%	7,040	64.38%	13,840	2.87%	616	21,496
Scott	13.50%	277	84.21%	1,728	2.29%	47	2,052
Sedgwick	40.13%	71,977	59.38%	106,506	.50%	891	179,374
Seward	28.79%	1,490	69.88%	3,617	1.33%	69	5,176
Shawnee	48.33%	36,975	49.38%	37,782	2.29%	1,754	76,511
Sheridan	12.52%	168	85.99%	1,154	1.49%	20	1,342
Sherman	22.00%	577	75.33%	1,976	2.67%	70	2,623
Smith	17.70%	358	80.28%	1,624	2.03%	41	2,023
Stafford	21.97%	404	75.31%	1,385	2.72%	50	1,839
Stanton	18.84%	143	79.71%	605	1.45%	11	759
Stevens	12.39%	252	85.99%	1,749	1.62%	33	2,034
Sumner	29.08%	2,658	68.48%	6,260	2.44%	223	9,141
Thomas	17.21%	598	80.25%	2,788	2.53%	88	3,474
Trego	18.43%	291	79.86%	1,261	1.71%	27	1,579
Wabaunsee	28.10%	918	69.05%	2,256	2.85%	93	3,267
Wallace	08.52%	68	90.10%	719	1.38%	11	798
Washington	18.14%	524	80.17%	2,316	1.70%	49	2,889
Wichita	15.91%	157	83.18%	821	.91%	9	987
Wilson	22.01%	818	76.00%	2,825	1.99%	74	3,717
Woodson	26.26%	380	71.53%	1,035	2.21%	32	1,447
Wyandotte	67.61%	34,302	30.54%	15,496	1.85%	940	50,738

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican[]

Crawford (largest city: Pittsburg)

References[]

^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Kansas". Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^ "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
^ "Presidential Primary Dates" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
^ Nate Silver (March 9, 2012). "Kansas Offers Santorum Chance for Big Delegate Grab". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved March 11, 2012.

External links[]

The Green Papers: for Kansas
The Green Papers: Major state elections in chronological order

[1] "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Kansas". Retrieved 4 January 2013.

[2] "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 12, 2012.

[3] "Presidential Primary Dates" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved January 23, 2012.

[4] Nate Silver (March 9, 2012). "Kansas Offers Santorum Chance for Big Delegate Grab". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved March 11, 2012.

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