Elections / 2012 · President

Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney.

Barack Obama (D) vs Mitt Romney (R). Every state below links to its full contest page with county-level results.

Nominees: Barack Obama (D) · Mitt Romney (R)

National popular vote

129,246,600 votes counted

Obama (D)

65,914,211

51.0%

Romney (R)

60,931,874

47.1%

All others

2,400,515

1.9%

Margin

D+3.9

The county map

3,143 county-level results on record for 2012

Democrats carried 709 counties, Republicans 2,434. 213 counties flipped parties from the previous cycle.

Biggest county swings: Northwest Arctic Borough, AK (D+50.9 swing) · Kusilvak Census Area, AK (D+44.6 swing) · Boone County, WV (R+42.2 swing) · Knott County, KY (R+39.7 swing) · Bethel Census Area, AK (D+39.5 swing) · North Slope Borough, AK (D+38.9 swing)

Results by state

Every row links to the state's contest page with its county map.

State	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Alaska	R	−14.0%	122,641	164,675	300,495
Alabama	R	−22.2%	795,396	1,255,925	2,070,353
Arkansas	R	−23.7%	394,409	647,744	1,069,468
Arizona	R	−9.0%	1,025,232	1,233,654	2,306,559
California	D	+23.1%	7,854,285	4,839,958	13,055,815
Colorado	D	+5.4%	1,323,102	1,185,243	2,571,846
Connecticut	D	+17.3%	905,088	634,881	1,558,036
District of Columbia	D	+83.6%	267,070	21,381	293,764
Delaware	D	+18.6%	242,584	165,484	413,890
Florida	D	+0.9%	4,237,756	4,163,447	8,474,179
Georgia	R	−7.8%	1,773,807	2,078,688	3,908,349
Hawaii	D	+42.7%	306,266	120,937	434,221
Iowa	D	+5.8%	822,544	730,617	1,582,180
Idaho	R	−31.9%	212,787	420,911	652,274
Illinois	D	+16.8%	3,019,512	2,135,216	5,251,432
Indiana	R	−10.2%	1,154,275	1,422,872	2,633,143
Kansas	R	−21.6%	439,908	689,809	1,157,532
Kentucky	R	−22.7%	679,370	1,087,190	1,798,048
Louisiana	R	−17.2%	809,141	1,152,262	1,994,065
Massachusetts	D	+23.1%	1,921,761	1,188,460	3,167,767
Maryland	D	+26.1%	1,677,844	971,869	2,707,327
Maine	D	+15.2%	399,235	291,418	710,126
Michigan	D	+9.5%	2,564,569	2,115,256	4,745,316
Minnesota	D	+7.7%	1,546,167	1,320,225	2,936,561
Missouri	R	−9.4%	1,223,796	1,482,440	2,763,689
Mississippi	R	−11.5%	562,949	710,746	1,285,584
Montana	R	−13.6%	201,839	267,928	484,484
North Carolina	R	−2.0%	2,178,391	2,270,395	4,505,372
North Dakota	R	−19.6%	124,827	188,163	322,627
Nebraska	R	−21.8%	302,081	475,064	794,379
New Hampshire	D	+5.6%	369,561	329,918	710,972
New Jersey	D	+17.7%	2,126,610	1,478,749	3,651,140
New Mexico	D	+10.1%	415,335	335,788	783,757
Nevada	D	+6.7%	531,373	463,567	1,014,918
New York	D	+28.2%	4,485,877	2,490,496	7,081,536
Ohio	D	+3.0%	2,827,709	2,661,439	5,634,017
Oklahoma	R	−33.5%	443,547	891,325	1,334,872
Oregon	D	+12.1%	970,488	754,175	1,789,270
Pennsylvania	D	+5.4%	2,990,274	2,680,434	5,755,620
Rhode Island	D	+27.4%	279,409	157,151	445,716
South Carolina	R	−10.5%	865,941	1,071,645	1,964,118
South Dakota	R	−18.0%	145,039	210,610	363,815
Tennessee	R	−20.4%	960,709	1,462,330	2,460,904
Texas	R	−15.8%	3,308,124	4,569,843	7,999,657
Utah	R	−47.9%	251,813	740,600	1,020,861
Virginia	D	+3.9%	1,970,595	1,820,995	3,851,684
Vermont	D	+35.6%	199,239	92,698	299,290
Washington	D	+14.8%	1,755,396	1,290,670	3,145,958
Wisconsin	D	+6.9%	1,620,985	1,407,966	3,068,434
West Virginia	R	−26.7%	238,269	417,655	672,119
Wyoming	R	−40.8%	69,286	170,962	249,061