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- The 2012 United States presidential election in West Virginia 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. West Virginia voters chose five 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. Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama in the state of West Virginia by a landslide 26.76-point margin. The Republican ticket took 62.30% of the vote to the Democratic ticket's 35.54%, sweeping every county in the state. Romney became the first presidential candidate from any party since West Virginia's admission to the Union in 1863 to sweep every single county in the state and the first Republican candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972 to carry over 60% of the state's votes. This represented a historic loss for the Democrats in West Virginia, which had been a Democratic stronghold from the New Deal up through the 1990s. This is the first election in which the Democratic Party failed to win a single county within the state. With 62.14% of the popular vote, West Virginia would prove to be Romney's fifth strongest state in the 2012 election after Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Idaho. As of 2022, this is the last time the Democratic nominee has received more than 30% of the vote in the Mountain State. It was also the first time since 1948 that West Virginia voted to the right of neighboring Kentucky, and the last time it voted to the left of Utah, Idaho, or Oklahoma (or any state besides Wyoming) as of 2022. (en)
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