Hawaii · 2012 presidential election
Hawaii presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Hawaii by 42.71 points (185,643 votes), winning 4 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 4
- Votes counted
- 434,697
- HI result
- D+42.7
- Compared with the nation
- 38.8 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 2.6 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 306,658 | 70.50% | 4 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 121,015 | 27.80% | — | |
| Total votes | 434,697 | ||||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (D) OBAMA, Barack / BIDEN, Joe | — | 306,658 | 70.55% |
| (R) ROMNEY, Mitt / RYAN, Paul | — | 121,015 | 27.84% |
| (L) JOHNSON, Gary / GRAY, James P. | — | 3,840 | 0.88% |
| (G) STEIN, Jill / HONKALA, Cheri | — | 3,184 | 0.73% |
| Blank ballots | 2,227 | ||
| Over-votes | 235 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Only the first column of the three-column summary page is read (x < 215 pt). 'Blank Votes' and 'Over Votes' lines are blank_votes / over_votes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 47,224 | 14,753 | 1,477 | 63,454 | 51.2 |
| Honolulu | 204,349 | 88,461 | 3,932 | 296,742 | 39.1 |
| Kauai | 18,641 | 6,121 | 610 | 25,372 | 49.3 |
| Maui | 36,052 | 11,602 | 999 | 48,653 | 50.3 |
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 Hawaii in 2012?
Barack Obama won Hawaii by 42.71 percentage points (185,643 votes).
How many electoral votes did Hawaii have in 2012?
Hawaii cast 4 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Hawaii in 2012?
434,697 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Hawaii in 2012?
Barack Obama 4 (out of 4 counties with results).
How did Hawaii change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 2.6 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 45.3 points to Democratic by 42.7 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data