How Did Wilmington Vote Last Presidential Election Cycle?

WILMINGTON, MA — If 2012's election results are any indication of what we can expect Tuesday's outcome to be, we have no idea who will win Wilmington in the 2016 presidential race.

According to the voting results on the Town of Wilmington website, Republican candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney earned 51.2 percent of the vote (6,452) compared to Democratic president Barack Obama, who won 46.8 percent (5,904). Uncommon in historically-Democratic Massachusetts, the Republican Romney defeated the Democrat Obama by a margin of just 548 votes in Wilmington.

Wilmington also favored the Republican senatorial candidate Scott Brown over Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election.

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Republicans did not win across the board in Wilmington in 2012, as Rep. James Miceli (D-Wilmington) defeated Republican candidate Douglas W. Sears by a significant margin (7,851 to 2,281). Wilmington also favored Democrat and current Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian by a count of 6, 795 over Ernesto Petrone's 3062.

According to the official results, 12,603 of 15,596 (80.8 percent) Wilmington residents cast votes in 2012. Many town and city clerks across the Commonwealth are expecting an even higher voter turnout, and the state offered early voting for the first time ever.

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