Maryland · 2012 presidential election
Maryland presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Maryland by 26.08 points (705,975 votes), winning 10 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 10
- Votes counted
- 2,707,327
- MD result
- D+26.1
- Compared with the nation
- 22.2 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 0.6 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 1,677,844 | 62.00% | 10 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 971,869 | 35.90% | — | |
| Total votes | 2,707,327 | ||||
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 36 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obama/ Biden Democratic | — | 1,677,844 | 62.18% |
| Romney/ Ryan Republican | — | 971,869 | 36.01% |
| Johnson/ Gray Libertarian | — | 30,195 | 1.12% |
| Stein/ Honkala Green | — | 17,110 | 0.63% |
| Santa Claus (Write In) Independent | — | 625 | 0.02% |
| Virgil Goode (Write In) Constitution | — | 418 | 0.02% |
| Anderson/ Rodriguez (Write In) (Other) | Other | 204 | 0.01% |
| Roseanne Barr (Write In) Other | — | 64 | 0.00% |
| James Clymer (Write In) Constitution | — | 35 | 0.00% |
| Miller/ Bertram (Write In) Other | — | 26 | 0.00% |
| Andre Barnett (Write In) Other | — | 19 | 0.00% |
| Durham/ Lopez (Write In) (Other) | Other | 19 | 0.00% |
| Briscoe/ Ogle (Write In) Democratic | — | 18 | 0.00% |
| Matthew Lydick (Write In) (Republican) | Republican | 18 | 0.00% |
| Richard Duncan (Write In) (Independent) | Independent | 15 | 0.00% |
| Chehade/ McAllister (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 13 | 0.00% |
| Fred Donald Dickson, Jr. (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 8 | 0.00% |
| David M. Crosby (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 7 | 0.00% |
| Darrell Hykes (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 7 | 0.00% |
| Reed/ Cary (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 7 | 0.00% |
| Michael David Boyles (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 5 | 0.00% |
| Nelson Keyton (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 3 | 0.00% |
| Dennis Knill (Write In) Democratic | — | 2 | 0.00% |
| Barbara A. Prokopich (Write In) (Republican) | Republican | 2 | 0.00% |
| Dwight Kenneth French (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 2 | 0.00% |
| Robert William Dietz (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 1 | 0.00% |
| Dean Morstad (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| Terrance James O'Hara (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 1 | 0.00% |
| Cecil James Roth (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 1 | 0.00% |
| Bruce Mlynski (Write In) Independent | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| Kevin M. Thorne (Write In) (Independent) | Independent | 0 | 0.00% |
| Christensen/ Gibbs (Write In) (Other) | Other | 0 | 0.00% |
| Leon Leo Ray (Write In) Other | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| Theodis (Ted) Brown, Sr. (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 0 | 0.00% |
| Deonia Neveu (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sheila Tittle (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| Write-in / scattering | 8,788 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- The page's left menu of election years (x < 160 pt) is ignored. Write-in candidates whose names wrap over three lines are joined (lines closer than 6 pt).
- Page 2 continues the write-in list and ends with 'Other Write-Ins N/A 8,788' (write_in).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegany | 9,805 | 19,230 | 815 | 29,850 | 31.6 |
| Anne Arundel | 126,635 | 126,832 | 6,688 | 260,155 | 0.1 |
| Baltimore | 220,322 | 154,908 | 9,552 | 384,782 | 17.0 |
| Baltimore City | 221,478 | 28,171 | 4,356 | 254,005 | 76.1 |
| Calvert | 20,529 | 23,952 | 1,037 | 45,518 | 7.5 |
| Caroline | 4,970 | 8,098 | 289 | 13,357 | 23.4 |
| Carroll | 27,939 | 56,761 | 2,836 | 87,536 | 32.9 |
| Cecil | 16,557 | 24,806 | 1,117 | 42,480 | 19.4 |
| Charles | 48,774 | 25,178 | 1,270 | 75,222 | 31.4 |
| Dorchester | 7,257 | 7,976 | 211 | 15,444 | 4.7 |
| Frederick | 55,146 | 58,798 | 3,171 | 117,115 | 3.1 |
| Garrett | 3,124 | 9,743 | 290 | 13,157 | 50.3 |
| Harford | 49,729 | 72,911 | 3,314 | 125,954 | 18.4 |
| Howard | 91,393 | 57,758 | 3,957 | 153,108 | 22.0 |
| Kent | 4,842 | 4,870 | 192 | 9,904 | 0.3 |
| Montgomery | 323,400 | 123,353 | 9,239 | 455,992 | 43.9 |
| Prince George's | 347,938 | 35,734 | 4,072 | 387,744 | 80.5 |
| Queen Anne's | 8,556 | 15,823 | 509 | 24,888 | 29.2 |
| Somerset | 5,240 | 5,042 | 117 | 10,399 | 1.9 |
| St. Mary's | 19,711 | 26,797 | 1,316 | 47,824 | 14.8 |
| Talbot | 8,808 | 11,339 | 312 | 20,459 | 12.4 |
| Washington | 25,042 | 36,074 | 1,639 | 62,755 | 17.6 |
| Wicomico | 19,635 | 21,764 | 860 | 42,259 | 5.0 |
| Worcester | 11,014 | 15,951 | 455 | 27,420 | 18.0 |
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 Maryland in 2012?
Barack Obama won Maryland by 26.08 percentage points (705,975 votes).
How many electoral votes did Maryland have in 2012?
Maryland cast 10 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Maryland in 2012?
2,707,327 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Maryland in 2012?
Mitt Romney 17, Barack Obama 7 (out of 24 counties with results).
How did Maryland change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 0.6 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 25.4 points to Democratic by 26.1 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data