Florida · 2012 presidential election
Florida presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Florida by 0.88 points (74,309 votes), winning 29 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 29
- Votes counted
- 8,474,179
- FL result
- D+0.9
- Compared with the nation
- 3.0 pts more Republican
- Swing since 2008
- 1.9 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 4,237,756 | 50.00% | 29 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 4,163,447 | 49.10% | — | |
| Total votes | 8,474,179 | ||||
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 18 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obama / Biden (DEM) | DEM | 4,237,756 | 50.01% |
| Romney / Ryan (REP) | REP | 4,163,447 | 49.13% |
| Johnson / Gray (LBT) | LBT | 44,726 | 0.53% |
| Stein / Honkala (GRE) | GRE | 8,947 | 0.11% |
| Barr / Sheehan (PFP) | PFP | 8,154 | 0.10% |
| Stevens / Link (OBJ) | OBJ | 3,856 | 0.05% |
| Goode, / Clymer (CPF) | CPF | 2,607 | 0.03% |
| Anderson / Rodriguez (JPF) | JPF | 1,754 | 0.02% |
| Hoefling / Ellis (AIP) | AIP | 946 | 0.01% |
| Barnett / Cross (REF) | REF | 820 | 0.01% |
| Alexander / Mendoza (SOC) | SOC | 799 | 0.01% |
| Lindsay / Osorio (PSL) | PSL | 322 | 0.00% |
| Reed / Cary WRI | WRI | 36 | 0.00% |
| Duncan / Johnson (WRI) | WRI | 3 | 0.00% |
| Durham / Lopez (WRI) | WRI | 3 | 0.00% |
| Magee / Harney (WRI) | WRI | 2 | 0.00% |
| Coniglio / Walsh (WRI) | WRI | 1 | 0.00% |
| Byrne / Harris (WRI) | WRI | 0 | 0.00% |
Notes on how this document was read
- Each ticket is printed as three lines (presidential candidate /, party + figures, running mate); lines closer than 8 pt are joined, label = 'President / Mate (PARTY)'.
- For tickets under 1,000 votes the text layer glues the votes to the percentage ('3,8560.05%' = 3,856 and 0.05%); split on the 0.xx% pattern and confirmed against PyMuPDF's text; the UCSB total check confirms the sum.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alachua | 69,699 | 48,797 | 1,922 | 120,418 | 17.4 |
| Baker | 2,311 | 8,975 | 82 | 11,368 | 58.6 |
| Bay | 22,051 | 56,876 | 934 | 79,861 | 43.6 |
| Bradford | 3,325 | 8,219 | 91 | 11,635 | 42.1 |
| Brevard | 122,993 | 159,300 | 3,266 | 285,559 | 12.7 |
| Broward | 508,312 | 244,101 | 4,009 | 756,422 | 34.9 |
| Calhoun | 1,664 | 4,366 | 122 | 6,152 | 43.9 |
| Charlotte | 35,906 | 47,996 | 780 | 84,682 | 14.3 |
| Citrus | 28,460 | 44,662 | 813 | 73,935 | 21.9 |
| Clay | 25,759 | 70,022 | 808 | 96,589 | 45.8 |
| Collier | 51,698 | 96,520 | 894 | 149,112 | 30.1 |
| Columbia | 8,462 | 18,429 | 272 | 27,163 | 36.7 |
| Desoto | 4,174 | 5,587 | 104 | 9,865 | 14.3 |
| Dixie | 1,798 | 5,052 | 91 | 6,941 | 46.9 |
| Duval | 196,737 | 211,615 | 3,496 | 411,848 | 3.6 |
| Escambia | 58,185 | 88,711 | 1,606 | 148,502 | 20.6 |
| Flagler | 23,207 | 26,969 | 419 | 50,595 | 7.4 |
| Franklin | 1,845 | 3,570 | 59 | 5,474 | 31.5 |
| Gadsden | 15,770 | 6,630 | 99 | 22,499 | 40.6 |
| Gilchrist | 1,885 | 5,917 | 107 | 7,909 | 51.0 |
| Glades | 1,603 | 2,344 | 42 | 3,989 | 18.6 |
| Gulf | 2,014 | 4,995 | 99 | 7,108 | 41.9 |
| Hamilton | 2,228 | 3,138 | 41 | 5,407 | 16.8 |
| Hardee | 2,463 | 4,696 | 67 | 7,226 | 30.9 |
| Hendry | 4,751 | 5,355 | 79 | 10,185 | 5.9 |
| Hernando | 37,830 | 44,938 | 899 | 83,667 | 8.5 |
| Highlands | 16,148 | 25,915 | 381 | 42,444 | 23.0 |
| Hillsborough | 286,467 | 250,186 | 5,449 | 542,102 | 6.7 |
| Holmes | 1,264 | 6,919 | 91 | 8,274 | 68.3 |
| Indian River | 27,492 | 43,450 | 522 | 71,464 | 22.3 |
| Jackson | 7,342 | 13,418 | 181 | 20,941 | 29.0 |
| Jefferson | 3,945 | 3,808 | 55 | 7,808 | 1.8 |
| Lafayette | 687 | 2,668 | 44 | 3,399 | 58.3 |
| Lake | 61,799 | 87,643 | 1,369 | 150,811 | 17.1 |
| Lee | 110,157 | 154,163 | 1,846 | 266,166 | 16.5 |
| Leon | 90,881 | 55,805 | 1,667 | 148,353 | 23.6 |
| Levy | 6,119 | 12,054 | 226 | 18,399 | 32.3 |
| Liberty | 942 | 2,301 | 41 | 3,284 | 41.4 |
| Madison | 4,176 | 4,474 | 65 | 8,715 | 3.4 |
| Manatee | 66,503 | 85,627 | 1,361 | 153,491 | 12.5 |
| Marion | 66,831 | 93,043 | 1,511 | 161,385 | 16.2 |
| Martin | 30,107 | 48,183 | 583 | 78,873 | 22.9 |
| Miami-Dade | 541,440 | 332,981 | 3,893 | 878,314 | 23.7 |
| Monroe | 19,404 | 19,234 | 419 | 39,057 | 0.4 |
| Nassau | 10,251 | 29,929 | 348 | 40,528 | 48.6 |
| Okaloosa | 23,421 | 70,168 | 1,209 | 94,798 | 49.3 |
| Okeechobee | 4,856 | 7,328 | 140 | 12,324 | 20.1 |
| Orange | 273,665 | 188,589 | 4,105 | 466,359 | 18.2 |
| Osceola | 67,239 | 40,592 | 867 | 108,698 | 24.5 |
| Palm Beach | 349,651 | 247,398 | 3,672 | 600,721 | 17.0 |
| Pasco | 98,263 | 112,427 | 2,883 | 213,573 | 6.6 |
| Pinellas | 239,104 | 213,258 | 5,340 | 457,702 | 5.6 |
| Polk | 114,622 | 131,577 | 2,484 | 248,683 | 6.8 |
| Putnam | 11,667 | 19,326 | 331 | 31,324 | 24.5 |
| Santa Rosa | 17,768 | 58,186 | 892 | 76,846 | 52.6 |
| Sarasota | 95,119 | 110,504 | 1,857 | 207,480 | 7.4 |
| Seminole | 96,445 | 109,943 | 2,232 | 208,620 | 6.5 |
| St. Johns | 35,190 | 78,513 | 1,092 | 114,795 | 37.7 |
| St. Lucie | 65,869 | 56,202 | 956 | 123,027 | 7.9 |
| Sumter | 19,524 | 40,646 | 309 | 60,479 | 34.9 |
| Suwannee | 4,751 | 12,672 | 206 | 17,629 | 44.9 |
| Taylor | 2,764 | 6,249 | 107 | 9,120 | 38.2 |
| Union | 1,339 | 3,980 | 74 | 5,393 | 49.0 |
| Volusia | 114,748 | 117,490 | 2,298 | 234,536 | 1.2 |
| Wakulla | 5,175 | 9,290 | 195 | 14,660 | 28.1 |
| Walton | 6,671 | 21,490 | 333 | 28,494 | 52.0 |
| Washington | 2,820 | 8,038 | 141 | 10,999 | 47.4 |
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 Florida in 2012?
Barack Obama won Florida by 0.88 percentage points (74,309 votes).
How many electoral votes did Florida have in 2012?
Florida cast 29 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Florida in 2012?
8,474,179 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Florida in 2012?
Mitt Romney 54, Barack Obama 13 (out of 67 counties with results).
How did Florida change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 1.9 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 2.8 points to Democratic by 0.9 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data