Electoral history of Ron Paul

Congressman Ron Paul

Electoral history of Ron Paul, Republican U.S. Representative from Texas (1976-1977, 1979-1985, 1997-2013), 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential nominee and candidate for the 2008 and 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

House and Senate races (1974-1984)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1974:

• Robert R. Casey (D) (inc.) – 47,783 (69.54%)
• Ron Paul (R) – 19,483 (28.35%)
• James T. Smith (American) – 847 (1.23%)
• Jill Fein (Socialist Workers) – 602 (0.88%)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1976 (special election):

• Robert Gammage (D) – 15,287 (42.07%)
• Ron Paul (R) – 14,386 (39.59%)
• John S. Brunson (D) – 3,670 (10.10%)
• Roy Ybarra (D) – 1,456 (4.01%)
• J. Charles Whitfield (I) – 776 (2.14%)
• Joe W. Jones (I) – 568 (1.56%)
• Erich J. Brann (I) – 197 (0.54%)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1976 (special election runoff):

• Ron Paul (R) – 39,041 (56.16%)
• Robert Gammage (D) – 30,483 (43.85%)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1976:

• Robert Gammage (D) – 96,535 (50.07%)
• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 96,267 (49.93%)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1978:

• Ron Paul (R) – 54,643 (50.56%)
• Robert Gammage (D) (inc.) – 53,443 (49.45%)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1980:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 106,797 (51.04%)
• Mike Andrews (D) – 101,094 (48.31%)
• Vaudie V. Nance (LBT) – 1,360 (0.65%)

Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1982:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 66,536 (100.00%)

Republican primary for the United States Senate from Texas, 1984:

• Phil Gramm – 246,716 (73.25%)
• Ron Paul – 55,431 (16.46%)
• Robert Mosbacher, Jr. – 26,279 (7.80%)
• Hank Grover – 8,388 (2.49%)

1988 presidential election

1987 Libertarian National Convention:

• Ron Paul – 196 (51.31%)
• Russell Means – 120 (31.41%)
• James A. Lewis – 49 (12.83%)
• None – 17 (4.45%)

1988 North Dakota Libertarian presidential primary:

• Ron Paul – 985 (100.00%)

United States presidential election, 1988:

• George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle (R) – 48,886,597 (53.4%) and 426 electoral votes (79.18%, 40 states carried)
• Michael Dukakis/Lloyd Bentsen (D) – 41,809,476 (45.6%) and 111 electoral votes (20.63%, 10 states and D.C. carried)
• Lloyd Bentsen/Michael Dukakis (D) – 1 electoral vote (0.19%, West Virginia faithless elector)
• Ron Paul/Andre Marrou (LBT) – 431,750 (0.5%)
• Lenora Fulani (New Alliance) – 217,221 (0.2%)
• Others – 249,642 (0.3%)

House races (from 1996)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 1996 (Republican primary):

• Greg Laughlin (inc.) – 14,777 (42.52%)
• Ron Paul – 11,112 (31.97%)
• Jim Deats – 8,466 (24.36%)
• Ted Bozarth – 398 (1.15%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 1996 (Republican primary runoff):

• Ron Paul – 11,244 (54.06%)
• Greg Laughlin (inc.) – 9,555 (45.94%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 1996:

• Ron Paul (R) – 99,961 (51.08%)
• Charles Morris (D) – 93,200 (47.62%)
• Ed Fasanella (Natural Law) – 2,538 (1.30%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 1998:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 84,459 (55.25%)
• Loy Sneary (D) – 68,014 (44.49%)
• Write-in – 390 (0.26%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2000:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 137,370 (59.71%)
• Loy Sneary (D) – 92,689 (40.29%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2002:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 102,905 (68.09%)
• Corby Windham (D) – 48,224 (31.91%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2004:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 173,668 (100.00%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2006 (Republican primary):

• Ron Paul (inc.) – 24,075 (77.65%)
• Cynthia Sinatra – 6,931 (22.35%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2006:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 94,380 (60.19%)
• Shane Sklar (D) – 62,429 (39.81%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2008 (Republican primary):

• Ron Paul (inc.) – 37,777 (70.43%)
• Chris Peden – 15,859 (29.56%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2008:

• Ron Paul (R) (inc.) – 191,293 (100.00%)

Texas's 14th congressional district, 2010

• Ron Paul (inc.) – 140,441 (76.0%)
• Robert Pruett – 44,345 (24.0%)

2008 presidential election

Iowa Republican straw poll, 2008:

• Mitt Romney – 4,516 (31.58%)
• Mike Huckabee – 2,587 (18.09%)
• Sam Brownback – 2,192 (15.33%)
• Tom Tancredo – 1,961 (13.71%)
• Ron Paul – 1,305 (9.13%)
• Tommy Thompson – 1,039 (7.27%)
• Fred Thompson – 203 (1.42%)
• Rudy Giuliani – 183 (1.28%)
• Duncan Hunter – 174 (1.22%)
• John McCain – 101 (0.71%)
• John Cox – 41 (0.29%)

Republican New Hampshire Vice Presidential primary, 2008:

• John Barnes, Jr. – 40,207 (62.43%)
• John McCain* – 4,305 (6.68%)
• Mike Huckabee* – 3,227 (5.01%)
• Rudy Giuliani* – 3,164 (4.91%)
• Mitt Romney* – 2,396 (3.72%)
• Ron Paul* – 1,938 (3.01%)
• Fred Thompson* – 1,496 (2.32%)
• Duncan Hunter* – 901 (1.40%)
• Others – 3,982 (6.18%)

(* – write in)

Liberty Union Party presidential primary, 2008:

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

Constitution Party presidential primaries, 2008:

• Don J. Grundmann – 16,105 (36.07%)
• Diane Beall Templin – 14,835 (33.22%)
• Max Riekse – 13,597 (30.45%)
• Ron Paul – 65 (0.15%)
• David Andrew Larson – 18 (0.04%)
• Bryan Malatesta – 18 (0.04%)
• Undecided – 7 (0.02%)
• Mike Huckabee – 3 (0.01%)
• Alan Keyes – 3 (0.01%)
• Mitt Romney – 2 (0.00%)
• Jerome Corsi – 1 (0.00%)
• Others – 1 (0.00%)

Minnesota Independence Party presidential caucus, 2008:

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

2008 Libertarian National Convention (Presidential tally):

First ballot:

• Bob Barr – 153
• Mary Ruwart – 152
• Wayne Allyn Root – 123
• Mike Gravel – 71
• George Phillies – 49
• Steve Kubby – 41
• Michael Jingozian – 23
• Ron Paul – 6
• Christine Smith – 6
• Penn Jillette – 3
• Daniel Imperato – 1
• William Koehler – 1
• None of the above – 2

Second ballot:

• 'Bob Barr – 188
• Mary Ruwart – 162
• Wayne Allyn Root – 138
• Mike Gravel – 71
• George Phillies – 38
• Steve Kubby – 32
• Ron Paul – 3
• Stephen Colbert – 1
• Jesse Ventura – 1
• None of the above – 1

Third ballot:

• Bob Barr – 186
• Mary Ruwart – 186
• Wayne Allyn Root – 146
• Mike Gravel – 71
• George Phillies – 31
• Ron Paul – 1
• None of the above – 2

Sixth ballot:

• Bob Barr – 324
• Mary Ruwart – 276
• Ralph Nader – 1
• Ron Paul – 1
• None of the above – 26

Republican presidential primaries, 2008:

• John McCain – 9,926,234 (46.80%)
• Mitt Romney – 4,663,847 (21.99%)
• Mike Huckabee – 4,280,723 (20.18%)
• Ron Paul – 1,210,022 (5.71%)
• Rudy Giuliani – 597,494 (2.82%)
• Fred Thompson – 294,607 (1.39%)
• Uncommitted – 70,866 (0.33%)
• Alan Keyes – 59,637 (0.28%)
• Scattering – 42,822 (0.20%)
• Duncan Hunter – 39,895 (0.19%)
• Tom Tancredo – 8,595 (0.04%)
• John Cox – 3,351 (0.02%)
• Sam Brownback – 2,838 (0.01%)

2008 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

• John McCain – 2,343 (99.28%)
• Ron Paul – 15 (0.64%)
• Mitt Romney – 2 (0.09%)

United States presidential election, 2008:

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden (D) – 69,498,215 (52.91%) and 365 electoral votes (28 states+D.C.+NE-02 carried)
• John McCain/Sarah Palin (R) – 59,948,240 (45.66%) and 173 electoral votes (22 states carried)
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales (I) – 738,475 (0.56%)
• Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (LBT) – 523,686 (0.40%)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (CST) – 199,314 (0.15%)
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green) – 161,603 (0.12%)
• Alan Keyes/Brian Rohrbough – 47,694 (0.04%)
• Ron Paul/With Multiple VP candidates – 42,426 (0.03%)
• Gloria La Riva/Eugene Puryear (Socialism & Liberation) – 6,808 (0.01%)
• Brian Moore/Stewart Alexander (Socialist) – 6,528 (0.01%)

See also

• Hart's Location, New Hampshire
• Ron Paul presidential campaign, 1988
• Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008