District of Columbia · 2012 presidential election
District of Columbia presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried District of Columbia by 83.63 points (245,689 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 293,764
- DC result
- D+83.6
- Compared with the nation
- 79.7 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 2.3 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 267,070 | 90.90% | 3 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 21,381 | 7.30% | — | |
| Total votes | 293,764 | ||||
Certified state documentCertified
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 4 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | — | 267,070 | 91.15% |
| Mitt Romney | — | 21,381 | 7.30% |
| Jill Stein | — | 2,458 | 0.84% |
| Gary Johnson | — | 2,083 | 0.71% |
| Write-in / scattering | 772 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- The running mate, party and elector names printed in the same table cell are not part of the label; the label is the presidential candidate as printed in the first column.
Method: page image read by Apple Vision (lines), Tesseract (words) and RapidOCR (lines); a number is kept when two engines read the same digits in the same place
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 267,070 | 21,381 | 5,313 | 293,764 | 83.6 |
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 District of Columbia in 2012?
Barack Obama won District of Columbia by 83.63 percentage points (245,689 votes).
How many electoral votes did District of Columbia have in 2012?
District of Columbia cast 3 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in District of Columbia in 2012?
293,764 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in District of Columbia in 2012?
Barack Obama 1 (out of 1 counties with results).
How did District of Columbia change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 2.3 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 85.9 points to Democratic by 83.6 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data