Arkansas presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Arkansas by 23.69 points (253,335 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,069,468
AR result: R+23.7
Compared with the nation: 27.6 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 3.8 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	647,744	60.60%	6
Barack Obama	Democratic	394,409	36.90%	—
Total votes		1,069,468

Sources: ar.pdf · 2012

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Arkansas Secretary of State, Election Night Reporting (Clarity) statewide results, Arkansas State General Election November 6, 2012, official results (website last updated 11/21/2012; printed 12/3/2012); U.S. President and Vice President statewide
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 5 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan (REP)	REP	647,744	60.57%
Barack Obama / Joe Biden (DEM)	DEM	394,409	36.88%
Gary Johnson / James P. Gray (LIB)	LIB	16,276	1.52%
Jill Stein / Cheri Honkala (GRN)	GRN	9,305	0.87%
Peta Lindsay / Yari Osorio (SOC)	SOC	1,734	0.16%

Notes on how this document was read

Ticket names wrap onto the line after the numbers; the lines are joined in printed order. The unlabeled figure under the contest (1,069,468) is the contest total and is not a row.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Others	Total	Margin
Arkansas	2,455	3,897	142	6,494	22.2
Ashley	2,859	4,867	195	7,921	25.4
Baxter	5,172	13,688	479	19,339	44.0
Benton	22,636	54,646	1,975	79,257	40.4
Boone	3,772	11,159	460	15,391	48.0
Bradley	1,449	2,134	69	3,652	18.8
Calhoun	660	1,458	56	2,174	36.7
Carroll	3,696	6,125	362	10,183	23.9
Chicot	2,649	1,670	42	4,361	22.4
Clark	3,811	4,343	255	8,409	6.3
Clay	1,738	3,225	147	5,110	29.1
Cleburne	2,620	8,693	334	11,647	52.1
Cleveland	845	2,313	108	3,266	44.9
Columbia	3,557	5,790	108	9,455	23.6
Conway	3,005	4,514	211	7,730	19.5
Craighead	10,527	20,350	823	31,700	31.0
Crawford	4,881	15,145	565	20,591	49.8
Crittenden	9,487	6,998	231	16,716	14.9
Cross	2,279	4,269	133	6,681	29.8
Dallas	1,337	1,665	82	3,084	10.6
Desha	2,443	1,896	81	4,420	12.4
Drew	2,630	3,887	116	6,633	19.0
Faulkner	13,621	26,722	1,117	41,460	31.6
Franklin	1,726	4,631	183	6,540	44.4
Fulton	1,452	2,949	121	4,522	33.1
Garland	13,804	26,014	910	40,728	30.0
Grant	1,468	4,829	182	6,479	51.9
Greene	4,000	9,071	690	13,761	36.9
Hempstead	2,468	4,284	169	6,921	26.2
Hot Spring	3,830	7,097	333	11,260	29.0
Howard	1,471	2,892	99	4,462	31.8
Independence	3,281	8,728	388	12,397	43.9
Izard	1,524	3,575	179	5,278	38.9
Jackson	2,095	3,072	180	5,347	18.3
Jefferson	17,470	9,520	393	27,383	29.0
Johnson	2,799	5,064	235	8,098	28.0
Lafayette	1,173	1,713	43	2,929	18.4
Lawrence	1,788	3,536	216	5,540	31.6
Lee	2,107	1,280	37	3,424	24.2
Lincoln	1,425	2,199	102	3,726	20.8
Little River	1,552	3,385	114	5,051	36.3
Logan	2,009	5,079	243	7,331	41.9
Lonoke	5,625	17,880	609	24,114	50.8
Madison	2,099	4,263	206	6,568	32.9
Marion	2,037	4,774	240	7,051	38.8
Miller	4,518	10,622	189	15,329	39.8
Mississippi	6,467	6,603	305	13,375	1.0
Monroe	1,583	1,585	62	3,230	0.1
Montgomery	920	2,369	115	3,404	42.6
Nevada	1,314	1,996	74	3,384	20.2
Newton	993	2,508	160	3,661	41.4
Ouachita	4,633	5,521	161	10,315	8.6
Perry	1,187	2,581	170	3,938	35.4
Phillips	5,202	2,598	130	7,930	32.8
Pike	851	2,847	90	3,788	52.7
Poinsett	2,390	4,974	196	7,560	34.2
Polk	1,556	5,955	215	7,726	56.9
Pope	5,126	14,763	550	20,439	47.2
Prairie	880	2,153	108	3,141	40.5
Pulaski	87,248	68,984	3,149	159,381	11.5
Randolph	2,046	3,701	209	5,956	27.8
Saline	12,869	32,963	1,230	47,062	42.7
Scott	897	2,631	112	3,640	47.6
Searcy	814	2,699	181	3,694	51.0
Sebastian	13,092	29,169	1,101	43,362	37.1
Sevier	1,042	3,136	152	4,330	48.4
Sharp	2,092	4,921	270	7,283	38.8
St. Francis	4,910	3,368	84	8,362	18.4
Stone	1,356	3,776	222	5,354	45.2
Union	6,196	10,699	282	17,177	26.2
Van Buren	1,832	4,365	233	6,430	39.4
Washington	28,236	39,688	2,536	70,460	16.3
White	5,765	20,011	738	26,514	53.7
Woodruff	1,340	1,227	118	2,685	4.2
Yell	1,722	4,042	210	5,974	38.8

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Arkansas in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Arkansas by 23.69 percentage points (253,335 votes).

How many electoral votes did Arkansas have in 2012?

Arkansas cast 6 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Arkansas in 2012?

1,069,468 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Arkansas in 2012?

Mitt Romney 66, Barack Obama 9 (out of 75 counties with results).

How did Arkansas change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 3.8 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 19.9 points to Republican by 23.7 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data