Colorado · 2012 presidential election
Colorado presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Colorado by 5.37 points (137,858 votes), winning 9 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 9
- Votes counted
- 2,569,520
- CO result
- D+5.4
- Compared with the nation
- 1.5 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 3.6 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 1,323,101 | 51.50% | 9 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 1,185,243 | 46.10% | — | |
| Total votes | 2,569,520 | ||||
Certified state documentCertified
Not shown: the figures read from this document do not match the summary table, so the statewide figures above are used instead. Check the original document for statewide detail.
Notes on how this document was read
- Ticket names wrap onto the line after the numbers; the lines are joined in printed order.
- The page's contest total (2,569,516) is the sum of the listed tickets; the UCSB total is 4 votes higher, which matches the separately linked 'Statewide Write-in Results' page that is not part of this document.
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
Download CSV| County | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 100,649 | 70,972 | 4,609 | 176,230 | 16.8 |
| Alamosa | 3,811 | 2,705 | 199 | 6,715 | 16.5 |
| Arapahoe | 153,905 | 125,588 | 6,023 | 285,516 | 9.9 |
| Archuleta | 2,679 | 3,872 | 183 | 6,734 | 17.7 |
| Baca | 467 | 1,559 | 80 | 2,106 | 51.9 |
| Bent | 815 | 1,075 | 52 | 1,942 | 13.4 |
| Boulder | 125,091 | 49,981 | 4,427 | 179,499 | 41.8 |
| Broomfield | 16,966 | 15,008 | 803 | 32,777 | 6.0 |
| Chaffee | 5,086 | 5,070 | 306 | 10,462 | 0.2 |
| Cheyenne | 172 | 889 | 32 | 1,093 | 65.6 |
| Clear Creek | 3,119 | 2,430 | 194 | 5,743 | 12.0 |
| Conejos | 2,213 | 1,835 | 53 | 4,101 | 9.2 |
| Costilla | 1,340 | 446 | 51 | 1,837 | 48.7 |
| Crowley | 535 | 924 | 43 | 1,502 | 25.9 |
| Custer | 868 | 1,788 | 59 | 2,715 | 33.9 |
| Delta | 4,622 | 10,915 | 388 | 15,925 | 39.5 |
| Denver | 222,018 | 73,111 | 6,565 | 301,694 | 49.4 |
| Dolores | 334 | 859 | 52 | 1,245 | 42.2 |
| Douglas | 60,991 | 104,204 | 2,586 | 167,781 | 25.8 |
| Eagle | 12,792 | 9,411 | 465 | 22,668 | 14.9 |
| El Paso | 111,819 | 170,952 | 7,404 | 290,175 | 20.4 |
| Elbert | 3,603 | 10,266 | 309 | 14,178 | 47.0 |
| Fremont | 6,704 | 13,174 | 538 | 20,416 | 31.7 |
| Garfield | 11,305 | 12,535 | 568 | 24,408 | 5.0 |
| Gilpin | 1,892 | 1,346 | 100 | 3,338 | 16.4 |
| Grand | 3,684 | 4,253 | 250 | 8,187 | 7.0 |
| Gunnison | 5,044 | 3,341 | 282 | 8,667 | 19.6 |
| Hinsdale | 229 | 353 | 18 | 600 | 20.7 |
| Huerfano | 1,953 | 1,646 | 115 | 3,714 | 8.3 |
| Jackson | 216 | 600 | 32 | 848 | 45.3 |
| Jefferson | 159,296 | 144,197 | 7,559 | 311,052 | 4.9 |
| Kiowa | 118 | 677 | 26 | 821 | 68.1 |
| Kit Carson | 838 | 2,785 | 79 | 3,702 | 52.6 |
| La Plata | 15,489 | 12,794 | 901 | 29,184 | 9.2 |
| Lake | 1,839 | 1,098 | 103 | 3,040 | 24.4 |
| Larimer | 92,747 | 82,376 | 5,057 | 180,180 | 5.8 |
| Las Animas | 3,445 | 3,263 | 154 | 6,862 | 2.7 |
| Lincoln | 552 | 1,687 | 48 | 2,287 | 49.6 |
| Logan | 2,712 | 6,179 | 233 | 9,124 | 38.0 |
| Mesa | 23,846 | 47,472 | 1,629 | 72,947 | 32.4 |
| Mineral | 291 | 344 | 15 | 650 | 8.2 |
| Moffat | 1,330 | 4,695 | 143 | 6,168 | 54.6 |
| Montezuma | 4,542 | 7,401 | 375 | 12,318 | 23.2 |
| Montrose | 6,138 | 13,552 | 440 | 20,130 | 36.8 |
| Morgan | 3,912 | 6,602 | 263 | 10,777 | 25.0 |
| Otero | 3,647 | 4,382 | 163 | 8,192 | 9.0 |
| Ouray | 1,646 | 1,481 | 75 | 3,202 | 5.2 |
| Park | 3,862 | 5,236 | 268 | 9,366 | 14.7 |
| Phillips | 588 | 1,637 | 40 | 2,265 | 46.3 |
| Pitkin | 6,849 | 3,024 | 202 | 10,075 | 38.0 |
| Prowers | 1,519 | 3,230 | 114 | 4,863 | 35.2 |
| Pueblo | 42,551 | 31,894 | 1,749 | 76,194 | 14.0 |
| Rio Blanco | 568 | 2,724 | 77 | 3,369 | 64.0 |
| Rio Grande | 2,478 | 2,918 | 137 | 5,533 | 8.0 |
| Routt | 7,547 | 5,469 | 301 | 13,317 | 15.6 |
| Saguache | 1,864 | 964 | 102 | 2,930 | 30.7 |
| San Juan | 266 | 212 | 28 | 506 | 10.7 |
| San Miguel | 2,992 | 1,154 | 110 | 4,256 | 43.2 |
| Sedgwick | 419 | 881 | 38 | 1,338 | 34.5 |
| Summit | 9,347 | 5,571 | 394 | 15,312 | 24.7 |
| Teller | 4,333 | 8,702 | 372 | 13,407 | 32.6 |
| Washington | 468 | 2,076 | 47 | 2,591 | 62.1 |
| Weld | 49,050 | 63,775 | 3,041 | 115,866 | 12.7 |
| Yuma | 987 | 3,490 | 100 | 4,577 | 54.7 |
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 Colorado in 2012?
Barack Obama won Colorado by 5.37 percentage points (137,858 votes).
How many electoral votes did Colorado have in 2012?
Colorado cast 9 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Colorado in 2012?
2,569,520 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Colorado in 2012?
Mitt Romney 37, Barack Obama 27 (out of 64 counties with results).
How did Colorado change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 3.6 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 9.0 points to Democratic by 5.4 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data