Delaware · 2012 presidential election
Delaware presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Delaware by 18.63 points (77,100 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 413,921
- DE result
- D+18.6
- Compared with the nation
- 14.7 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 6.4 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 242,584 | 58.60% | 3 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 165,484 | 40.00% | — | |
| Total votes | 413,921 | ||||
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
- Each party line is printed above its candidate line; the label joins both ('DEMOCRATIC PARTY * BARACK OBAMA', * = incumbent). The percentage is printed as '58 . 6 %', which the text layer splits into two numbers (kept as Percent (whole) / (decimal)).
- The page lists the four ballot candidates only; the UCSB total (413,921) is 31 above their sum, write-in votes not printed on this page.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | 35,527 | 32,135 | 1,034 | 68,696 | 4.9 |
| New Castle | 167,082 | 81,230 | 3,700 | 252,012 | 34.1 |
| Sussex | 39,975 | 52,119 | 1,135 | 93,229 | 13.0 |
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 Delaware in 2012?
Barack Obama won Delaware by 18.63 percentage points (77,100 votes).
How many electoral votes did Delaware have in 2012?
Delaware cast 3 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Delaware in 2012?
413,921 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Delaware in 2012?
Barack Obama 2, Mitt Romney 1 (out of 3 counties with results).
How did Delaware change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 6.4 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 25.0 points to Democratic by 18.6 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data