Barack Obama wins re-election

Barack Obama today won a second term in office overcoming a stiff initial challenge from his Republican challenger Mitt Romney after clinching convincing victory in the crucial state of California.

November 07, 2012 / 12:51 IST

Barack Obama today won a second term in office overcoming a stiff initial challenge from his Republican challenger Mitt Romney after clinching convincing victory in the crucial state of California.

The 51-year-old first African-American President was projected by television channel CNN as having won the second term with 274 electoral votes after exit polls gave him California in west coast which has 55 electoral votes.

It projected Romney has having secured 201 votes in an electoral college of 535 votes. The winner has to garner at least 270 votes. Till California was called, Romney had a comfortable lead over the President with another crucial state Florida saw a tight race between the two with a slight edge for Obama. Florida has 29 electoral votes.

first published: Nov 7, 2012 10:32 am

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