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Barack Obama was an Illinois State Senator, United States Senator and is currently the 44th President of the United States. He has been involved in many elections, beginning in 1996.

Contents 1 Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002) 2 United States Senate election (2004) 3 Presidential primaries (2008) 3.1 Other results 4 2008 United States Presidential Election 5 References

[edit] Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996-2002)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1996^[1]:

• Barack Obama (D) - 48,592 (82.16%)
• David Whitehead (Harold Washington Party) - 7,461 (12.62%)
• Rosette Caldwell Peyton (R) - 3,091 (5.23%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1998^[2]:

• Barack Obama (D) (inc.) - 45,486 (89.17%)
• Yesse B. Yehudah (R) - 5,526 (10.83%)

US House, Illinois's 1st district, 2000 (Democratic primary), 2000^[3]:

• Bobby Rush (inc.) - 59,599 (61.03%)
• Barack Obama - 29,649 (30.36%)
• Donne E. Trotter - 6,915 (7.08%)
• George Roby - 1,501 (1.54%)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 2002^[4]:

• Barack Obama (inc.) - 48,717 (100.00%)

[edit] United States Senate election (2004)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Illinois, 2004^[5]:

• Barack Obama - 655,923 (52.77%)
• Dan Hynes - 294,717 (23.71%)
• Blair Hull - 134,453 (10.82%)
• Maria Pappas - 74,987 (6.03%)
• Gery Chico - 53,433 (4.30%)
• Nancy Skinner - 16,098 (1.30%)
• Joyce Washington - 13,375 (1.08%)
• Estella Johnson-Hunt (write-in) - 10 (0.00%)

United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004^[6]:

• Barack Obama (D) - 3,598,277 (69.97%)
• Alan Keyes (R) - 1,391,030 (27.05%)
• Albert J. Franzen (I) - 81,186 (1.58%)
• Jerry Kohn (LBT) - 69,276 (1.35%)
• Mark Kuhnke (R) (write-in) - 2,268 (0.04%)
• Scott Doddy (I) (write-in) - 339 (0.01%)
• Donald McArthur-Self (I) (write-in) - 134 (0.00%)
• Kathy Campbell (I) (write-in) - 129 (0.00%)
• Shaun Bill (I) (write-in) - 37 (0.00%)
• Marcus Hester (I) (write-in) - 23 (0.00%)

[edit] Presidential primaries (2008)

2008 Democratic presidential primaries:^[7]

Excluding penalized contests^[8], only primary and caucuses votes:

• Barack Obama - 16,706,853
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 16,239,821
• John Edwards - 742,010
• Bill Richardson - 89,054
• Uncommitted - 82,660
• Dennis Kucinich - 68,482
• Joe Biden - 64,041
• Mike Gravel - 27,662
• Christopher Dodd - 25,300
• Others - 22,556

Including penalized contests:

• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 18,225,175 (48.03%)
• Barack Obama - 17,988,182 (47.41%)
• John Edwards - 1,006,275 (2.65%)
• Uncommitted - 299,610 (0.79%)
• Bill Richardson - 106,073 (0.28%)
• Dennis Kucinich - 103,994 (0.27%)
• Joe Biden - 81,641 (0.22%)
• Scattering - 44,348 (0.12%)
• Mike Gravel - 40,251 (0.11%)
• Christopher Dodd - 35,281 (0.09%)

2008 Democratic delegate counts:

(2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination)

Pledged delegates"^[9]

• Barack Obama - 1,765
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,637
• John Edwards - 4

Including superdelegates:^[10]

• Barack Obama - 2,156 (52.79%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,922 (47.06%)
• John Edwards - 6 (0.15%)

2008 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally)

• Barack Obama - chosen by acclamation

Unfinished roll call (13 states, D.C. Guam, American Samoa and Democrats Abroad):^[11]

• Barack Obama - 3,189 (75.93%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 1,011 (24.07%)

[edit] Other results

2008 New Hampshire Democratic Vice Presidential primary:^[12]

• Raymond Stebbins - 50,485 (46.93%)
• William Bryk - 22,965 (21.35%)
• John Edwards* - 10,553 (9.81%)
• Barack Obama* 6,402 (5.95%)
• Bill Richardson* (write-in) - 5,525 (5.14%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton* (write-in) - 3,419 (3.18%)
• Joe Biden* - 1,512 (1.41%)
• Al Gore* - 966 (0.90%)
• Dennis Kucinich* - 762 (0.71%)
• Bill Clinton* - 388 (0.36%)
• John McCain* - 293 (0.27%)
• Christopher Dodd* - 224 (0.21%)
• Ron Paul* - 176 (0.16%)
• Jack Barnes, Jr.* - 95 (0.09%)
• Mike Gravel* - 91 (0.09%)
• Joe Lieberman* - 67 (0.06%)
• Mitt Romney* - 66 (0.06%)
• Mike Huckabee* - 63 (0.06%)
• Rudy Giuliani* - 46 (0.04%)
• Darrel Hunter* - 20 (0.02%)

Vermont Liberty Union Party Presidential primary, 2008:^[13]

• Brian P. Moore - 178 (44.61%)
• Barack Obama* - 25 (6.27%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton* - 15 (3.76%)
• Ralph Nader* - 5 (1.25%)
• Eugene Victor Debs* - 1 (0.25%)
• Patrick Leahy* - 1 (0.25%)
• John McCain* - 1 (0.25%)
• Richard Norton* - 1 (0.25%)
• Ron Paul* - 1 (0.25%)
• Morgan Phillips* - 1 (0.25%)
• Others - 170 (42.61%)

Minnesota Independence Party Presidential caucus, 2008:^[14]

• Michael Bloomberg - 50 (50.00%)
• Barack Obama - 20 (20.00%)
• Ron Paul - 20 (20.00%)
• Others - 10 (10.00%)

Connecticut for Lieberman Presidential caucus, 2008:^[15]

• Barack Obama - 19 (82.61%)
• Ralph Nader - 3 (13.04%)
• No nominee - 1 (4.35%)

MoveOn.org Presidential primary, 2008:^[16]

• Barack Obama - 197,444 (70.38%)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton - 83,084 (29.62%)

[edit] 2008 United States Presidential Election

Popular vote:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic) - 69,456,897 (52.92%)
• John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican) - 59,934,786 (45.66%)
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (Independent) - 738,475 (0.56%)
• Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian) - 523,686 (0.40%)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution) - 199,314 (0.15%)
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green) - 161,603 (0.12%)
• Other candidates - 226,908 (0.17%)

Electoral vote:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden - 365 (28 states as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, and the District of Columbia)
• John McCain/Sarah Palin - 173 (21 states carried plus, Nebraska's two At-large votes and Nebraska's 1st and 3rd congressional districts)

[edit] References

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