Electoral history of Barack Obama

Senator Obama on the campaign trail

Illinois Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections (1996–2002)

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1996

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 1998

Illinois Senate, 13th district, 2002

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Illinois, 2004

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%)

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%)

Excluding penalized contests,^[1] only primary and caucuses votes:

Including penalized contests:

Hillary 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

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

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 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%)

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Count	Percentage	Electoral vote	Vice-presidential candidate	Home state	Electoral vote
Barack Obama	Democratic	Illinois	69,456,897	52.92%	365	Joe Biden	Delaware	365
John McCain	Republican	Arizona	59,934,786	45.66%	173	Sarah Palin	Alaska	173
Ralph Nader	Independent	Connecticut	738,475	0.56%	0	Matt Gonzalez	Texas	0
Bob Barr	Libertarian	Georgia	523,686	0.40%	0	Wayne Allyn Root	New York	0
Chuck Baldwin	Constitution	Florida	199,314	0.15%	0	Darrell Castle	Tennessee	0
Cynthia McKinney	Green	Georgia	161,603	0.12%	0	Rosa Clemente	New York	0
Other			226,908	0.17%	—	Other		—
Total			131,241,669	100%	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

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)

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Count	Percentage	Electoral vote	Vice-presidential candidate	Home state	Electoral vote
Barack Obama (Incumbent)	Democratic	Illinois	65,915,795	51.06%	332	Joe Biden	Delaware	332
Mitt Romney	Republican	Massachusetts	60,933,504	47.20%	206	Paul Ryan	Wisconsin	206
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	New Mexico	1,275,971	0.99%	0	James P. Gray	California	0
Jill Stein	Green	Massachusetts	469,627	0.36%	0	Cheri Honkala	Pennsylvania	0
Virgil Goode	Constitution	Virginia	122,389	0.09%	0	Jim Clymer	Pennsylvania	0
Roseanne Barr	Peace and Freedom	Hawaii	67,326	0.05%	0	Cindy Sheehan	California	0
Rocky Anderson	Justice	Utah	43,018	0.03%	0	Luis J. Rodriguez	California	0
Tom Hoefling	America's	Iowa	40,628	0.03%	0	J.D. Ellis	Tennessee	0
Other			217,152	0.19%	—	Other		—
Total			129,085,409	100%	538			538
Needed to win					270			270

↑ Florida and Michigan violated Democratic National Committee rules by moving their primaries before February 5, 2008, resulting in a nullification of their primaries, until the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to restore half their delegates.

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