Connecticut · 2012 presidential election
Connecticut presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Connecticut by 17.33 points (270,191 votes), winning 7 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 7
- Votes counted
- 1,558,960
- CT result
- D+17.3
- Compared with the nation
- 13.4 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 5.0 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 905,083 | 58.10% | 7 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 634,892 | 40.70% | — | |
| Total votes | 1,558,960 | ||||
Congressional district resultsCertified
Download CSVAll 10 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obama and Biden (Democratic) | Democratic | 905,083 | 58.06% |
| Romney and Ryan (Republican) | Republican | 634,892 | 40.73% |
| Johnson and Gray (Libertarian) | Libertarian | 12,580 | 0.81% |
| Anderson and Rodriguez (Independent) | Independent | 5,487 | 0.35% |
| Stein and Honkala (Write-In) | Write-In | 863 | 0.06% |
| Hoefling and Ellis (Write-In) | Write-In | 25 | 0.00% |
| Warner and Hood (Write-In) | Write-In | 19 | 0.00% |
| Harris and DeLuca (Write-In) | Write-In | 5 | 0.00% |
| Sizemore and Tomalin (Write-In) | Write-In | 5 | 0.00% |
| Durham and Lopez (Write-In) | Write-In | 1 | 0.00% |
| Congressional district | Mitt Romney | Barack Obama | Anderson and Rodriguez | Johnson and Gray | Durham and Lopez | Harris and DeLuca | Hoefling and Ellis | Sizemore and Tomalin | Stein and Honkala | Warner and Hood | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 112,962 | 200,910 | 1,054 | 2,510 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 317,436 | 27.7 |
| 2 | 135,212 | 177,522 | 1,552 | 3,356 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 317,642 | 13.3 |
| 3 | 110,867 | 191,197 | 1,079 | 2,197 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 305,340 | 26.3 |
| 4 | 136,527 | 170,827 | 725 | 2,010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 310,089 | 11.1 |
| 5 | 139,324 | 164,627 | 1,077 | 2,507 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 307,535 | 8.2 |
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
- Rows are the five congressional districts (labels as printed: 1-5) and the Total line (statewide). The write-in candidates' statewide totals on page 2 (printed as '1.00', '863.00' ...) are added to the statewide row; no district breakdown is printed for them.
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 Connecticut in 2012?
Barack Obama won Connecticut by 17.33 percentage points (270,191 votes).
How many electoral votes did Connecticut have in 2012?
Connecticut cast 7 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Connecticut in 2012?
1,558,960 votes were counted for president.
How did Connecticut change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 5.0 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 22.4 points to Democratic by 17.3 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data