The United States presidential election of 2012 was the 57th quadrennial Presidential Election. Democrat Barack Obama, then President of the United States from Illinois, defeated Republican Mitt Romney. The selected electors from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia voted for President and Vice President of the United States on December 12, 2012. Those votes were tallied before a joint session of Congress on January 8, 2013. Obama received 340 electoral votes, and Romney 198.
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