2016 Democrat Presidential Primaries

As the incumbent president, Barack Obama was expected to be re-nominated by the DNC without a major challenge. John Wolfe Jr and Randall Terry challenged Obama, but neither won a state or more than 300,000 total votes. Barack Obama won every contest and 95.98% of the vote share. On August 11, 2012, Barack Obama and his running mate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, were officially re-nominated as the Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates at the Democratic National Convention.