Georgia presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Georgia by 7.82 points (304,861 votes), winning 16 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 16
Votes counted: 3,900,050
GA result: R+7.8
Compared with the nation: 11.7 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 2.6 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	2,078,688	53.30%	16
Barack Obama	Democratic	1,773,827	45.50%	—
Total votes		3,900,050

Sources: ga.pdf · 2012

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Georgia Secretary of State, Election Night Reporting (Clarity) statewide results, General Election November 6, 2012, official results (website last updated 11/21/2012; printed 12/14/2012); President of the United States statewide
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County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Others	Total	Margin
Appling	1,758	5,233	95	7,086	49.0
Atkinson	930	1,938	34	2,902	34.7
Bacon	791	3,093	47	3,931	58.6
Baker	794	785	10	1,589	0.6
Baldwin	8,483	7,589	166	16,238	5.5
Banks	780	5,354	61	6,195	73.8
Barrow	6,028	18,725	446	25,199	50.4
Bartow	8,396	26,876	530	35,802	51.6
Ben Hill	2,512	3,396	48	5,956	14.8
Berrien	1,273	4,843	85	6,201	57.6
Bibb	38,585	25,623	510	64,718	20.0
Bleckley	1,269	3,587	51	4,907	47.2
Brantley	939	4,964	99	6,002	67.1
Brooks	3,138	3,554	50	6,742	6.2
Bryan	3,707	9,560	186	13,453	43.5
Bulloch	9,593	14,174	318	24,085	19.0
Burke	5,405	4,301	73	9,779	11.3
Butts	2,968	6,306	107	9,381	35.6
Calhoun	1,298	883	7	2,188	19.0
Camden	6,377	11,343	263	17,983	27.6
Candler	1,157	2,344	27	3,528	33.6
Carroll	12,688	28,280	581	41,549	37.5
Catoosa	5,365	17,858	455	23,678	52.8
Charlton	1,197	2,527	40	3,764	35.3
Chatham	60,246	47,204	1,178	108,628	12.0
Chattahoochee	729	735	26	1,490	0.4
Chattooga	2,232	5,452	138	7,822	41.2
Cherokee	19,841	76,514	1,865	98,220	57.7
Clarke	25,431	13,815	1,122	40,368	28.8
Clay	862	537	3	1,402	23.2
Clayton	81,479	14,164	424	96,067	70.1
Clinch	852	1,598	22	2,472	30.2
Cobb	133,124	171,722	5,270	310,116	12.4
Coffee	5,057	9,248	149	14,454	29.0
Colquitt	3,973	9,243	112	13,328	39.5
Columbia	16,451	41,765	707	58,923	43.0
Cook	2,042	3,935	54	6,031	31.4
Coweta	15,168	39,653	734	55,555	44.1
Crawford	1,706	3,368	59	5,133	32.4
Crisp	3,167	4,182	47	7,396	13.7
Dade	1,411	4,471	138	6,020	50.8
Dawson	1,241	8,847	156	10,244	74.2
DeKalb	238,224	64,392	3,649	306,265	56.8
Decatur	4,591	5,824	70	10,485	11.8
Dodge	2,442	5,214	77	7,733	35.8
Dooly	2,285	1,985	28	4,298	7.0
Dougherty	26,295	11,449	175	37,919	39.2
Douglas	28,441	26,241	585	55,267	4.0
Early	2,765	2,557	31	5,353	3.9
Echols	173	917	12	1,102	67.5
Effingham	4,947	15,596	273	20,816	51.2
Elbert	3,181	4,859	103	8,143	20.6
Emanuel	2,927	5,100	56	8,083	26.9
Evans	1,268	2,268	27	3,563	28.1
Fannin	2,028	7,857	132	10,017	58.2
Fayette	19,736	38,075	757	58,568	31.3
Floyd	9,640	22,733	456	32,829	39.9
Forsyth	14,571	65,908	1,252	81,731	62.8
Franklin	1,499	6,114	149	7,762	59.5
Fulton	255,470	137,124	4,819	397,413	29.8
Gilmer	1,958	8,926	134	11,018	63.2
Glascock	176	1,135	22	1,333	71.9
Glynn	11,950	20,893	290	33,133	27.0
Gordon	3,440	13,197	260	16,897	57.7
Grady	3,419	5,924	53	9,396	26.7
Greene	3,201	5,071	51	8,323	22.5
Gwinnett	132,509	159,855	4,364	296,728	9.2
Habersham	2,301	12,166	174	14,641	67.4
Hall	12,999	47,481	884	61,364	56.2
Hancock	3,308	769	11	4,088	62.1
Haralson	1,789	8,446	141	10,376	64.2
Harris	4,145	11,197	146	15,488	45.5
Hart	2,870	6,517	124	9,511	38.3
Heard	948	3,160	64	4,172	53.0
Henry	43,761	46,774	843	91,378	3.3
Houston	22,702	34,662	692	58,056	20.6
Irwin	1,141	2,538	30	3,709	37.7
Jackson	4,238	19,135	331	23,704	62.8
Jasper	1,845	4,136	50	6,031	38.0
Jeff Davis	1,275	3,996	65	5,336	51.0
Jefferson	4,261	2,999	38	7,298	17.3
Jenkins	1,488	1,887	15	3,390	11.8
Johnson	1,305	2,440	27	3,772	30.1
Jones	4,274	7,744	87	12,105	28.7
Lamar	2,602	4,899	91	7,592	30.3
Lanier	1,114	1,820	38	2,972	23.8
Laurens	7,513	11,950	141	19,604	22.6
Lee	3,196	10,314	118	13,628	52.2
Liberty	10,457	5,565	148	16,170	30.3
Lincoln	1,586	2,807	33	4,426	27.6
Long	1,442	2,306	54	3,802	22.7
Lowndes	17,470	21,327	340	39,137	9.9
Lumpkin	2,055	8,647	203	10,905	60.4
Macon	3,211	1,545	25	4,781	34.8
Madison	2,494	8,443	167	11,104	53.6
Marion	1,412	1,733	25	3,170	10.1
McDuffie	4,044	5,475	73	9,592	14.9
McIntosh	2,864	3,409	68	6,341	8.6
Meriwether	4,331	4,856	77	9,264	5.7
Miller	852	1,905	18	2,775	37.9
Mitchell	4,081	4,155	39	8,275	0.9
Monroe	3,785	8,361	131	12,277	37.3
Montgomery	1,135	2,662	35	3,832	39.8
Morgan	2,753	6,186	88	9,027	38.0
Murray	2,542	8,443	232	11,217	52.6
Muscogee	42,573	27,510	520	70,603	21.3
Newton	21,851	20,982	401	43,234	2.0
Oconee	4,421	13,098	298	17,817	48.7
Oglethorpe	1,914	4,251	108	6,273	37.3
Paulding	15,825	40,846	728	57,399	43.6
Peach	6,148	5,287	81	11,516	7.5
Pickens	1,975	10,547	158	12,680	67.6
Pierce	1,124	5,667	55	6,846	66.4
Pike	1,356	6,668	85	8,109	65.5
Polk	3,615	9,811	182	13,608	45.5
Pulaski	1,219	2,444	19	3,682	33.3
Putnam	2,926	6,215	81	9,222	35.7
Quitman	612	510	6	1,128	9.0
Rabun	1,559	5,754	150	7,463	56.2
Randolph	1,770	1,271	17	3,058	16.3
Richmond	52,560	25,845	615	79,020	33.8
Rockdale	22,023	15,716	346	38,085	16.6
Schley	448	1,286	14	1,748	47.9
Screven	2,774	3,287	39	6,100	8.4
Seminole	1,478	2,245	46	3,769	20.4
Spalding	9,898	14,911	279	25,088	20.0
Stephens	2,131	7,221	146	9,498	53.6
Stewart	1,323	745	8	2,076	27.8
Sumter	6,375	5,378	78	11,831	8.4
Talbot	2,265	1,202	24	3,491	30.4
Taliaferro	636	323	4	963	32.5
Tattnall	1,897	4,706	64	6,667	42.1
Taylor	1,572	1,948	18	3,538	10.6
Telfair	1,805	2,480	51	4,336	15.6
Terrell	2,544	1,834	20	4,398	16.1
Thomas	7,653	11,156	144	18,953	18.5
Tift	4,660	9,185	82	13,927	32.5
Toombs	2,746	6,524	74	9,344	40.4
Towns	1,273	4,876	62	6,211	58.0
Treutlen	1,074	1,652	24	2,750	21.0
Troup	10,547	15,179	260	25,986	17.8
Turner	1,510	2,028	21	3,559	14.6
Twiggs	2,270	1,907	25	4,202	8.6
Union	2,139	8,773	167	11,079	59.9
Upson	3,959	7,230	74	11,263	29.0
Walker	5,274	16,247	375	21,896	50.1
Walton	8,148	29,036	428	37,612	55.5
Ware	3,900	7,941	98	11,939	33.8
Warren	1,529	990	7	2,526	21.3
Washington	4,714	4,035	59	8,808	7.7
Wayne	2,596	7,557	116	10,269	48.3
Webster	582	601	4	1,187	1.6
Wheeler	772	1,366	22	2,160	27.5
White	1,671	8,651	166	10,488	66.6
Whitfield	7,210	19,305	361	26,876	45.0
Wilcox	1,060	2,053	16	3,129	31.7
Wilkes	2,087	2,635	39	4,761	11.5
Wilkinson	2,181	2,246	23	4,450	1.5
Worth	2,487	5,869	63	8,419	40.2

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

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 Georgia in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Georgia by 7.82 percentage points (304,861 votes).

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 2012?

Georgia cast 16 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Georgia in 2012?

3,900,050 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Georgia in 2012?

Mitt Romney 125, Barack Obama 34 (out of 159 counties with results).

How did Georgia change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 2.6 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 5.2 points to Republican by 7.8 points.

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