How America Moves

How America Votes

2012 presidential election results by county: who got the votes, where, and by how much. Certified returns, presented as numbers only.

Barack Obama
Democratic
65,753,019
51.0% of votes cast
Mitt Romney
Republican
60,666,387
47.0% of votes cast
All others
combined
2,629,510
2.0% of votes cast

129,048,916 total votes counted nationwide

Republican wonDemocratic wonIndependent / other
Which party received the most votes, as a solid color.Winning margin as a share of all votes cast.Change in margin since 2008, in percentage points.Total votes cast, all candidates.
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Hover an area for its results; click to open its page. The toggle switches between county and state granularity. Alaska reports results by legislative district rather than borough, so it has no county shading; its statewide totals are on the state view and in the table below. Kansas City, MO reports separately from its surrounding counties, so those counties' shading excludes the city's votes.

Results by state

Popular vote by state, 2012. Click a column to sort; click a state for its migration and county pages.

Alabama795,6961,255,92518,732R +22.22,070,353
Alaska122,640164,67613,179R +14.0300,495
Arizona1,025,2321,233,65440,368R +9.12,299,254
Arkansas394,409647,74427,315R +23.71,069,468
California7,854,2854,839,958344,304D +23.113,038,547
Colorado1,322,9981,185,05061,169D +5.42,569,217
Connecticut905,083634,89218,828D +17.31,558,803
Delaware242,584165,4845,869D +18.6413,937
District of Columbia267,07021,3815,313D +83.6293,764
Florida4,237,7564,163,44772,976D +0.98,474,179
Georgia1,773,8272,078,68847,535R +7.83,900,050
Hawaii306,266120,9377,018D +42.7434,221
Idaho212,787420,91118,576R +31.9652,274
Illinois3,019,5122,135,10287,277D +16.95,241,891
Indiana1,152,8871,420,54351,104R +10.22,624,534
Iowa822,544730,61729,019D +5.81,582,180
Kansas439,908689,80926,537R +21.61,156,254
Kentucky679,3701,087,19030,652R +22.71,797,212
Louisiana809,1411,152,26232,662R +17.21,994,065
Maine401,306292,27619,598D +15.3713,180
Maryland1,677,844971,86957,614D +26.12,707,327
Massachusetts1,921,2901,188,31458,163D +23.13,167,767
Michigan2,564,5692,115,25651,136D +9.54,730,961
Minnesota1,546,1671,320,22570,169D +7.72,936,561
Mississippi562,949710,74611,889R +11.51,285,584
Missouri1,223,7961,482,44051,076R +9.42,757,312
Montana201,839267,92814,165R +13.7483,932
Nebraska302,081475,06417,234R +21.8794,379
Nevada531,373463,56719,978D +6.71,014,918
New Hampshire369,561329,91811,452D +5.6710,931
New Jersey2,125,1011,477,56837,623D +17.83,640,292
New Mexico415,335335,78832,635D +10.1783,758
New York4,324,2282,223,397514,300D +29.77,061,925
North Carolina2,178,3912,270,39556,586R +2.04,505,372
North Dakota124,966188,3209,646R +19.6322,932
Ohio2,827,6212,661,40791,794D +3.05,580,822
Oklahoma443,547891,3250R +33.51,334,872
Oregon970,488754,17564,607D +12.11,789,270
Pennsylvania2,990,2742,680,43471,332D +5.45,742,040
Rhode Island279,677157,2049,171D +27.5446,052
South Carolina865,9411,071,64526,532R +10.51,964,118
South Dakota145,039210,6108,166R +18.0363,815
Tennessee960,7091,462,33035,538R +20.42,458,577
Texas3,308,1244,569,843115,884R +15.87,993,851
Utah251,813740,60025,027R +48.01,017,440
Vermont199,23992,6987,353D +35.6299,290
Virginia1,971,8201,822,52260,147D +3.93,854,489
Washington1,755,3961,290,67079,450D +14.93,125,516
West Virginia238,269417,65514,516R +26.8670,440
Wisconsin1,620,9851,410,96639,483D +6.83,071,434
Wyoming69,286170,9628,813R +40.8249,061

Margins are the popular-vote gap as a share of all votes cast in the state. Electoral votes are not shown here.

Results compiled from certified state returns by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (CC0). Numbers only, no interpretation. Election results and migration data are separate datasets; this site does not connect one to the other.