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Senate participating in the first senate election in which both major party candidates were african american the other being alan keyes.

Election presidential election results obama. Barack obama served as the 44th president of the united states. Barack obama became the 44th president of the united states in 2008 credit. The 2008 united states presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election held on tuesday november 4 2008.

The 2016 united states presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election held on tuesday november 8 2016. Senator from virginia tim kaine. Senator from illinois and joe biden the senior u s.

When mr obama left the white house republican donald trump became the 45th president of the united states in 2016. Trump took office as the 45th president and pence as the 48th vice president on january 20 2017. President trump received more votes than any previous incumbent seeking reelection.

First consider some facts. The republican ticket of businessman donald trump and indiana governor mike pence defeated the democratic ticket of former secretary of state hillary clinton and u s. By way of comparison president obama was comfortably reelected in 2012 with 3 5 million fewer votes than he received in 2008.

Mr trump is up against democrat joe biden in the 2020 election. Former president obama ushered in the previous low in 2012 winning re election with just 689 counties or 22 per cent breaking his own record set in 2008 where he won with 875 counties or 28 per cent. Senator from delaware defeated the republican ticket of john mccain the senior senator from arizona and sarah palin the governor of alaska.

In 2004 obama campaigned for the u s. He got 11 million more votes than in 2016 the third largest rise in support ever for an incumbent. See maps and real time presidential election results for the 2020 us election.