Presidential Election Results in Florida: 74K Votes Separate Obama, Romney in Final Count

Four days after the presidential election, Florida has declared a winner for its 29 electoral votes.

With 50.01 percent of the votes newly reelected President Obama carried the state. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney got 49.13 percent of the votes. Nearly 74,000 votes separated the two candidates.

Unless waived by the Romney camp, a recount would have been necessary if less than half-percent separated them.

Overseas and military ballots must be counted by Nov. 16, but will have no effect on the race.

The Florida win brought Obama electoral votes to 332 and Romney's remained at

206.

"The last-minute surge of some 54,000 absentees cast up until the closing of the polls on Election Day caused an extraordinary delay in tabulating the final results," The Miami Herald reported. "Elections workers counted about 31,750 absentee votes on Wednesday and Thursday alone. In total, Miami-Dade voters cast more than 242,000 absentee ballots. Officials said Thursday they could not provide information on the number of rejected absentees."

In addition to Florida, Obama won nearly all of the swing states - Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada. Romney carried North Carolina.

In an email to supporters, the president's Campaign Manager Jim Messina thanked supporters.

"So many times in this election, this campaign was counted out," Messina wrote. "They said our supporters wouldn't turn out, and we'd never see the kind of voter participation we saw in 2008. They said we'd be buried in money and special-interest influence. And they said that no campaign could overcome the political headwinds we faced. You also proved that millions of ordinary people taking ownership of a cause is still the most powerful force in our political process. You showed that grassroots organizing and small donations are not only the right way to win, but also the most effective way."