California presidential election results 2012

Barack Obama carried California by 23.12 points (3,014,327 votes), winning 55 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 55
Votes counted: 13,038,547
CA result: D+23.1
Compared with the nation: 19.2 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2008: 0.9 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Barack Obama	Democratic	7,854,285	60.20%	55
Mitt Romney	Republican	4,839,958	37.10%	—
Total votes		13,038,547

Sources: ca.pdf · 2012

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California Secretary of State, Statement of Vote, November 6, 2012 General Election; President by County (printed pages 17-22 = PDF pages 19-24; the write-in candidates continue in a second column block). * = incumbent
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All 14 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Barack Obama* DEM	DEM	7,854,285	60.24%
Mitt Romney REP	REP	4,839,958	37.12%
Gary Johnson LIB	LIB	143,221	1.10%
Jill Stein GRN	GRN	85,638	0.66%
Roseanne Barr PF	PF	53,824	0.41%
Thomas Hoefling AI	AI	38,372	0.29%
Ron Paul NPP (W/I)	W/I	21,461	0.16%
Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson NPP (W/I)	W/I	992	0.01%
Virgil Goode NPP (W/I)	W/I	503	0.00%
Stewart Alexander NPP (W/I)	W/I	82	0.00%
Jerry White NPP (W/I)	W/I	79	0.00%
James Harris NPP (W/I)	W/I	72	0.00%
Stephen Durham NPP (W/I)	W/I	54	0.00%
Shelia "Samm" Tittle NPP (W/I)	W/I	6	0.00%

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

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Thomas Hoefling	Jill Stein	Gary Johnson	Roseanne Barr	Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson NPP	Shelia "Samm" Tittle NPP	Stephen Durham NPP	Ron Paul NPP	James Harris NPP	Virgil Goode NPP	Jerry White NPP	Stewart Alexander NPP	Total	Margin
Alameda	469,684	108,182	1,212	7,502	5,471	2,890	69	0	1	602	5	15	7	2	595,642	60.7
Alpine	389	236	1	8	8	5	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	653	23.4
Amador	6,830	10,281	79	88	242	75	0	0	0	54	0	0	0	0	17,649	19.6
Butte	42,669	44,479	454	840	1,334	562	21	0	0	385	0	3	1	4	90,752	2.0
Calaveras	8,670	12,365	110	122	327	100	6	0	0	86	0	0	0	0	21,786	17.0
Colusa	2,314	3,601	17	17	47	18	2	0	0	18	0	0	0	0	6,034	21.3
Contra Costa	290,824	136,517	1,391	2,879	4,372	1,543	43	0	3	627	6	20	0	1	438,226	35.2
Del Norte	3,791	4,614	70	90	109	62	3	0	0	31	0	0	0	0	8,770	9.4
El Dorado	35,166	50,973	336	410	1,278	312	8	0	0	284	0	7	0	0	88,774	17.8
Fresno	129,129	124,490	434	1,101	2,262	898	8	3	0	485	0	16	0	1	258,827	1.8
Glenn	3,301	5,632	57	30	106	65	1	0	0	19	0	0	0	0	9,211	25.3
Humboldt	34,457	18,825	105	2,505	910	370	26	0	0	266	0	4	0	2	57,470	27.2
Imperial	25,136	12,777	135	112	227	146	1	0	0	28	0	2	0	1	38,565	32.0
Inyo	3,422	4,340	43	70	94	35	0	0	0	29	0	1	0	2	8,036	11.4
Kern	89,495	126,618	963	672	2,195	1,070	10	0	1	431	0	16	1	0	221,472	16.8
Kings	12,979	17,671	160	120	251	170	3	0	0	62	0	1	0	1	31,418	14.9
Lake	13,163	9,200	139	264	323	229	7	0	0	66	0	0	0	0	23,391	16.9
Lassen	3,053	7,296	49	42	138	69	0	0	0	36	0	0	0	0	10,683	39.7
Los Angeles	2,216,903	885,333	10,408	20,404	31,917	14,649	93	1	10	1,258	19	34	22	16	3,181,067	41.9
Madera	16,018	22,852	174	175	342	200	7	0	0	93	1	4	0	0	39,866	17.1
Marin	99,896	30,880	181	1,558	1,333	401	38	0	1	217	3	7	0	1	134,516	51.3
Mariposa	3,498	5,140	49	87	124	75	0	0	0	25	0	2	0	0	9,000	18.2
Mendocino	23,193	9,658	161	998	482	328	19	0	0	177	0	0	1	0	35,017	38.7
Merced	33,005	27,581	265	243	516	311	3	0	0	130	0	3	0	0	62,057	8.7
Modoc	1,111	2,777	11	20	42	21	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	3,986	41.8
Mono	2,733	2,285	17	36	85	12	1	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	5,181	8.6
Monterey	82,920	37,390	338	757	1,341	524	14	0	0	227	0	6	0	1	123,518	36.9
Napa	35,870	19,526	160	455	601	241	1	0	0	107	0	4	1	2	56,968	28.7
Nevada	24,663	24,986	72	661	830	198	8	0	1	256	0	1	0	0	51,676	0.6
Orange	512,440	582,332	2,999	4,792	14,132	3,348	65	1	1	2,485	3	58	1	7	1,122,664	6.2
Placer	66,818	99,921	502	683	2,307	580	6	0	0	502	0	2	0	1	171,322	19.3
Plumas	4,026	5,721	22	71	128	40	1	0	0	38	0	0	0	0	10,047	16.9
Riverside	329,063	318,127	2,350	2,243	6,223	2,609	20	0	0	1,212	0	45	5	10	661,907	1.7
Sacramento	300,503	202,514	1,532	2,753	6,134	2,419	37	0	1	879	1	32	3	1	516,809	19.0
San Benito	11,276	7,343	57	78	164	96	1	0	0	29	0	0	0	0	19,044	20.7
San Bernardino	305,109	262,358	2,418	2,227	5,883	2,608	13	0	0	878	0	22	0	1	581,517	7.4
San Diego	626,957	536,726	1,614	5,787	14,656	3,231	70	1	0	3,140	10	70	13	7	1,192,282	7.6
San Francisco	301,723	47,076	439	5,494	4,096	1,897	86	0	28	347	10	2	5	6	361,209	70.5
San Joaquin	114,121	86,071	553	773	1,839	920	6	0	0	402	1	10	1	0	204,697	13.7
San Luis Obispo	61,258	59,967	420	1,085	1,776	460	17	0	0	631	1	21	2	0	125,638	1.0
San Mateo	206,085	72,756	597	1,957	2,926	819	27	0	1	535	6	5	2	4	285,720	46.7
Santa Barbara	94,129	64,606	438	1,322	2,063	509	14	0	0	234	1	3	1	0	163,320	18.1
Santa Clara	450,818	174,843	1,712	4,391	7,889	2,298	75	0	0	1,040	2	13	5	5	643,091	42.9
Santa Cruz	90,805	24,047	278	1,857	1,971	675	39	0	2	415	0	5	1	0	120,095	55.6
Shasta	25,819	48,067	434	389	926	403	5	0	0	285	0	7	0	0	76,335	29.1
Sierra	653	1,056	12	24	19	16	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	0	1,795	22.5
Siskiyou	8,046	11,077	117	152	242	133	2	0	0	141	0	0	0	0	19,910	15.2
Solano	96,783	52,092	563	641	1,445	620	13	0	1	278	2	6	0	0	152,444	29.3
Sonoma	153,942	54,784	758	2,745	2,754	1,128	34	0	0	355	0	2	4	2	216,508	45.8
Stanislaus	77,724	73,459	747	563	1,499	966	6	0	0	390	0	15	0	0	155,369	2.7
Sutter	12,192	18,122	157	89	298	124	1	0	0	43	0	0	0	0	31,026	19.1
Tehama	7,934	14,235	190	125	244	186	0	0	0	63	0	0	0	0	22,977	27.4
Trinity	2,674	2,716	30	98	89	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,674	0.7
Tulare	41,752	56,956	428	388	792	464	4	0	0	297	0	19	0	0	101,100	15.0
Tuolumne	9,998	13,880	141	145	315	129	0	0	0	79	0	0	0	0	24,687	15.7
Ventura	170,929	147,958	1,049	1,661	3,735	1,087	30	0	1	503	1	16	2	2	326,974	7.0
Yolo	48,715	23,368	113	729	1,063	280	24	0	2	174	0	4	1	2	74,475	34.0
Yuba	7,711	11,275	111	110	306	133	2	0	0	52	0	0	0	0	19,700	18.1

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

The 'Percent' line under each county 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)

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Questions and answers

Who won California in 2012?

Barack Obama won California by 23.12 percentage points (3,014,327 votes).

How many electoral votes did California have in 2012?

California cast 55 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in California in 2012?

13,038,547 votes were counted for president.

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

Barack Obama 31, Mitt Romney 27 (out of 58 counties with results).

How did California change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 0.9 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 24.1 points to Democratic by 23.1 points.

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