Massachusetts · 2012 presidential election
Massachusetts presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Massachusetts by 23.14 points (732,976 votes), winning 11 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 11
- Votes counted
- 3,167,767
- MA result
- D+23.1
- Compared with the nation
- 19.2 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 2.7 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 1,921,290 | 60.70% | 11 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 1,188,314 | 37.50% | — | |
| Total votes | 3,167,767 | ||||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obama and Biden (Democratic) | Democratic | 1,921,290 | 60.78% |
| Romney and Ryan (Republican) | Republican | 1,188,314 | 37.59% |
| Johnson and Gray (Libertarian) | Libertarian | 30,920 | 0.98% |
| Stein and Honkala (Green-Rainbow) | Green-Rainbow | 20,691 | 0.65% |
| Write-in / scattering | 6,552 | ||
| Blank ballots | 16,429 | ||
| Total as printed | 3,184,196 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Leader dots between the ticket and the figure are kept out of the label; 'All others' is write_in, 'Blanks' blank_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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable | 70,822 | 60,446 | 1,847 | 133,115 | 7.8 |
| Berkshire | 48,843 | 14,252 | 1,391 | 64,486 | 53.6 |
| Bristol | 142,962 | 93,752 | 4,795 | 241,509 | 20.4 |
| Dukes | 7,978 | 2,792 | 198 | 10,968 | 47.3 |
| Essex | 210,302 | 150,480 | 5,575 | 366,357 | 16.3 |
| Franklin | 27,072 | 9,344 | 1,342 | 37,758 | 47.0 |
| Hampden | 123,619 | 73,392 | 3,388 | 200,399 | 25.1 |
| Hampshire | 57,359 | 21,480 | 2,782 | 81,621 | 44.0 |
| Middlesex | 471,804 | 267,321 | 15,045 | 754,170 | 27.1 |
| Nantucket | 3,830 | 2,187 | 103 | 6,120 | 26.8 |
| Norfolk | 202,714 | 148,393 | 5,416 | 356,523 | 15.2 |
| Plymouth | 131,845 | 121,086 | 3,600 | 256,531 | 4.2 |
| Suffolk | 223,896 | 59,999 | 5,203 | 289,098 | 56.7 |
| Worcester | 198,244 | 163,390 | 7,478 | 369,112 | 9.4 |
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 Massachusetts in 2012?
Barack Obama won Massachusetts by 23.14 percentage points (732,976 votes).
How many electoral votes did Massachusetts have in 2012?
Massachusetts cast 11 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Massachusetts in 2012?
3,167,767 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Massachusetts in 2012?
Barack Obama 14 (out of 14 counties with results).
How did Massachusetts change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 2.7 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 25.8 points to Democratic by 23.1 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data