This is a list of straw polls that have been conducted relating to the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries.

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2012 Republican Party presidential primaries

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Candidate Mitt Romney Rick Santorum Home state Massachusetts Pennsylvania Delegate count 1,575 245 Contests won 42[1] 11[1] Popular vote 10,048,134[2] 3,938,527[2] Percentage 52.1% 20.4%   Candidate Ron Paul Newt Gingrich Home state Texas Georgia Delegate count 177 138 Contests won 4[1] 2[1] Popular vote 2,099,441[2] 2,737,442[2] Percentage 10.9% 14.2%

First place by first-instance vote First place by delegate allocation First place by convention roll call   Mitt Romney   Rick Santorum   Newt Gingrich   Ron Paul

Previous Republican nominee John McCain Republican nominee Mitt Romney

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Total Straw Poll Victories is as follows:

The number of Straw Poll victories after voting started is as follows:

Results from the 2011 New Hampshire Straw Poll were as follows:^[3]

Results from the 2011 CPAC Straw Poll were as follows:^[4]

Results from the 2011 Tea Party Straw Poll were as follows:

Results from the 2011 Dorchester Conference Straw Poll were as follows:^[5]

Results from the 2011 National League of Cities Straw Poll were as follows:^[6]

The "50 or so votes" referenced in all articles on this ballot can only mean that there were either 32 or 64 votes given the percentages above (i.e. 3% of the vote is either 1 vote or 2 votes). Human estimation tendencies would lean towards the real answer being 64 votes.

Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll at the 2011 California Republican convention:^[7]

Finishing with less than ten votes were, in order, John R. Bolton (8), Gary Johnson (7), Herman Cain (5), Haley Barbour (4), Rick Santorum (4), Jon Huntsman, Jr. (3), Donald Trump (3), Chris Christie (2), Jim DeMint (2), Marco Rubio (2), Scott Walker (2), Paul Ryan (1), Colin Powell (1), Allen West (1), Tom McClintock (1), Dana Perino (1), and None of the Above (1).^[7]

Karger wins St. Anselm straw poll

South Carolina straw poll as part of the Grassroots SC campaign:^[8]

Also appearing on the ballot but failing to get more than 5% were, in alphabetical order, Haley Barbour, John R. Bolton, Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.

Source of results: CNN^[9]

Georgia straw poll as part of the 3rd District Republican convention:^[10]

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^[13] Arithmetic shows 59 votes were canvassed in the straw poll (all rounded-percentages above are multiples of 1.69%).

Source of results: Republican Leadership Conference^[14]

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Source of results: Politico^[16]

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Source of results: Washington Examiner and National Journal^[19][20]

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Source of results: Hampton-NorthHamptonPatch^[25]

Source of results: Politico^[26]

Source of results: Republican Party of Maryland^[27]

A straw poll was held at the September 12 Republican debate, to find out who the debate audience thought were the front runners, both before and after the debate. Before the debate, Ron Paul came first, Rick Perry came second, and Michele Bachmann came third. After the debate, Ron Paul was still first, Michele Bachmann came second, and Herman Cain came third.^[28] CNN have not released the full results of this poll, instead holding an online poll which omitted Ron Paul from the choices. The winner of the online poll was Mitt Romney.

Former senator Rick Santorum won first place in a straw poll among Pennsylvania Republicans, winning 36% of the vote. Governor Mitt Romney won 25%, and Governor Rick Perry won 18%.^[29]

The California Republican Party held a straw poll in mid-September 2011, which was won by Ron Paul. The full results were:

Source of results: Politico^[30]

The Florida Republican Party held a straw poll at the end of September 2011,^[31] which was won by Herman Cain. Political analysts attributed Cain's win to Perry's poor debate performances, but others pointed to the fact that Cain won the Florida straw poll after campaigning in-person throughout the state more than Perry.^[32]

The full results were:

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The vote for Obama was attributed to a vote by one of the media members present for the event by the announcer.^[39]

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Note: the percentages only add to 83.5% because results for 3 contenders (likely Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Gary Johnson) are unknown, but they polled somewhere in between Romney and Bachmann.

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Tally 1 (Iowa voters only):

Tally 2 (non-Iowa voters)

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According to KSFY/ABC "dozens" of people participated in this straw poll. No definitive number was given.^[55]

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Note: This was an unusual straw poll in which voter's preferences were matched against each other for five rounds, with the less popular candidate being removed at each stage. There were initially 6 available choices, which were whittled down to two, with the final result being as shown above.

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Results from the 2011 Drake University Straw Poll were as follows:^[64][65]

The poll was distributed to Drake students via email to coincide with the December 10 Republican presidential debate, held on campus.

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Note: Rick Perry's campaign asked not to be included on Straw Poll Ballot.

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Paper ballots:

Text message voting:

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