Kansas presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Kansas by 21.72 points (251,908 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,159,971
KS result: R+21.7
Compared with the nation: 25.6 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 6.8 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	692,634	59.70%	6
Barack Obama	Democratic	440,726	38.00%	—
Total votes		1,159,971

Sources: ks.pdf · 2012

Certified state documentCertified

Kansas Secretary of State, 2012 General Election Official Vote Totals (21 pages); page 1 President / Vice President statewide
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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 20 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
R-Mitt Romney	—	692,634	59.71%
D-Barack Obama	—	440,726	37.99%
L-Gary Johnson	—	20,456	1.76%
F-Chuck Baldwin	—	5,017	0.43%
Jill E Stein	—	714	0.06%
Virgil Goode	—	187	0.02%
Ross "Rocky" C Anderson	—	95	0.01%
Roseanne C Barr	—	58	0.01%
Kent W Bush	—	48	0.00%
Andre Barnett	—	19	0.00%
Tom Hoefling	—	12	0.00%
Jill A. Reed	—	4	0.00%
Will Christensen	—	1	0.00%
Avery L Ayers	—	0	0.00%
Richard A Duncan	—	0	0.00%
Dennis J Knill	—	0	0.00%
Rick L Rogers	—	0	0.00%
Kevin M Thorne	—	0	0.00%
Sheila and/or Samm Tittle	—	0	0.00%
Gerald L. Warner	—	0	0.00%

Notes on how this document was read

Candidates printed with no vote figure (only '.0 %') are kept with votes null; '.0' is not read as a number.

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

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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Others	Total	Margin
Allen	1,869	3,316	125	5,310	27.3
Anderson	944	2,276	95	3,315	40.2
Atchison	2,567	3,917	190	6,674	20.2
Barber	482	1,772	60	2,314	55.7
Barton	2,297	7,874	170	10,341	53.9
Bourbon	1,996	4,102	156	6,254	33.7
Brown	1,076	2,829	88	3,993	43.9
Butler	7,282	18,157	646	26,085	41.7
Chase	358	875	38	1,271	40.7
Chautauqua	280	1,304	46	1,630	62.8
Cherokee	2,930	5,456	185	8,571	29.5
Cheyenne	233	1,159	34	1,426	64.9
Clark	174	805	38	1,017	62.0
Clay	834	2,788	64	3,686	53.0
Cloud	974	2,954	130	4,058	48.8
Coffey	898	2,903	105	3,906	51.3
Comanche	143	767	18	928	67.2
Cowley	4,319	8,081	310	12,710	29.6
Crawford	6,826	7,708	411	14,945	5.9
Decatur	266	1,218	48	1,532	62.1
Dickinson	2,020	5,832	190	8,042	47.4
Doniphan	902	2,414	87	3,403	44.4
Douglas	29,267	17,401	1,477	48,145	24.6
Edwards	298	1,059	28	1,385	54.9
Elk	281	1,049	39	1,369	56.1
Ellis	3,057	8,399	258	11,714	45.6
Ellsworth	702	1,930	80	2,712	45.3
Finney	2,682	6,219	183	9,084	38.9
Ford	2,600	5,602	160	8,362	35.9
Franklin	3,694	6,984	312	10,990	29.9
Geary	3,332	4,372	141	7,845	13.3
Gove	176	1,168	39	1,383	71.7
Graham	256	1,056	28	1,340	59.7
Grant	456	1,811	39	2,306	58.8
Gray	324	1,603	31	1,958	65.3
Greeley	113	543	14	670	64.2
Greenwood	478	1,590	55	2,123	52.4
Hamilton	163	693	21	877	60.4
Harper	550	1,759	80	2,389	50.6
Harvey	5,373	8,588	333	14,294	22.5
Haskell	215	1,159	22	1,396	67.6
Hodgeman	179	868	13	1,060	65.0
Jackson	1,901	3,527	133	5,561	29.2
Jefferson	2,977	4,827	209	8,013	23.1
Jewell	229	1,235	33	1,497	67.2
Johnson	110,526	158,401	5,438	274,365	17.4
Kearny	268	1,097	21	1,386	59.8
Kingman	733	2,397	101	3,231	51.5
Kiowa	163	976	5	1,144	71.1
Labette	3,117	4,742	178	8,037	20.2
Lane	172	739	17	928	61.1
Leavenworth	11,357	17,059	669	29,085	19.6
Lincoln	289	1,165	29	1,483	59.1
Linn	1,170	3,177	120	4,467	44.9
Logan	197	1,126	27	1,350	68.8
Lyon	5,111	6,470	294	11,875	11.4
Marion	1,385	3,889	135	5,409	46.3
Marshall	1,469	3,195	109	4,773	36.2
McPherson	3,449	8,545	303	12,297	41.4
Meade	258	1,428	23	1,709	68.5
Miami	4,712	9,858	286	14,856	34.6
Mitchell	584	2,327	54	2,965	58.8
Montgomery	3,501	8,630	286	12,417	41.3
Morris	718	1,773	71	2,562	41.2
Morton	189	1,072	17	1,278	69.1
Nemaha	1,000	3,930	96	5,026	58.3
Neosho	2,050	4,272	158	6,480	34.3
Ness	218	1,209	17	1,444	68.6
Norton	398	1,878	49	2,325	63.7
Osage	2,268	4,427	211	6,906	31.3
Osborne	324	1,479	35	1,838	62.8
Ottawa	558	2,295	80	2,933	59.2
Pawnee	718	1,836	54	2,608	42.9
Phillips	382	2,135	48	2,565	68.3
Pottawatomie	2,335	6,804	340	9,479	47.1
Pratt	980	2,771	50	3,801	47.1
Rawlins	190	1,223	31	1,444	71.5
Reno	8,085	15,718	619	24,422	31.3
Republic	477	2,134	75	2,686	61.7
Rice	911	2,676	94	3,681	47.9
Riley	8,977	11,507	617	21,101	12.0
Rooks	361	2,038	61	2,460	68.2
Rush	367	1,166	37	1,570	50.9
Russell	593	2,553	54	3,200	61.3
Saline	7,040	13,840	616	21,496	31.6
Scott	277	1,728	47	2,052	70.7
Sedgwick	71,977	106,506	4,412	182,895	18.9
Seward	1,490	3,617	69	5,176	41.1
Shawnee	36,975	37,782	1,751	76,508	1.1
Sheridan	168	1,154	20	1,342	73.5
Sherman	577	1,976	70	2,623	53.3
Smith	358	1,624	41	2,023	62.6
Stafford	404	1,385	50	1,839	53.3
Stanton	143	605	11	759	60.9
Stevens	252	1,749	33	2,034	73.6
Sumner	2,658	6,260	223	9,141	39.4
Thomas	598	2,788	88	3,474	63.0
Trego	291	1,261	27	1,579	61.4
Wabaunsee	918	2,256	93	3,267	41.0
Wallace	68	719	11	798	81.6
Washington	524	2,316	49	2,889	62.0
Wichita	157	821	9	987	67.3
Wilson	818	2,825	74	3,717	54.0
Woodson	380	1,035	32	1,447	45.3
Wyandotte	34,302	15,496	940	50,738	37.1

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 Kansas in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Kansas by 21.72 percentage points (251,908 votes).

How many electoral votes did Kansas have in 2012?

Kansas cast 6 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Kansas in 2012?

1,159,971 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 103, Barack Obama 2 (out of 105 counties with results).

How did Kansas change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 6.8 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 15.0 points to Republican by 21.7 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data