Michigan presidential election results 2012

Barack Obama carried Michigan by 9.50 points (449,313 votes), winning 16 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 16
Votes counted: 4,730,961
MI result: D+9.5
Compared with the nation: 5.6 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2008: 7.0 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Barack Obama	Democratic	2,564,569	54.20%	16
Mitt Romney	Republican	2,115,256	44.70%	—
Total votes		4,730,961

Sources: mi.pdf · 2012

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Michigan Department of State, Bureau of Elections, 2012 Official Michigan General Election Results - President of the United States, official as of November 26, 2012 (miboecfr.nictusa.com; 16 pages): county table in four column blocks (Romney/Obama with Total By County; Goode/Stein/Anderson; Alexander/Hoefling/Johnson write-ins; Jerry White write-in), each with a Totals line
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All 9 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Barack Obama (DEM)	DEM	2,564,569	54.21%
Mitt Romney (REP)	REP	2,115,256	44.71%
Jill Stein (GRN)	GRN	21,897	0.46%
Virgil Goode, Jr. (UST)	UST	16,119	0.34%
Gary Johnson (WRITE-IN)	WRITE-IN	7,774	0.16%
Ross Anderson (NLP)	NLP	5,147	0.11%
Stewart Alexander (WRITE-IN)	WRITE-IN	89	0.00%
Jerry White (WRITE-IN)	WRITE-IN	68	0.00%
Tom Hoefling (WRITE-IN)	WRITE-IN	42	0.00%
Total as printed		4,730,961

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

County	Mitt Romney	Barack Obama	Virgil Goode, Jr.	Jill Stein	Ross Anderson	Stewart Alexander	Tom Hoefling	Gary Johnson	Jerry White	Total	Margin
Alcona	3,571	2,472	27	17	9	0	0	8	0	6,104	18.0
Alger	2,330	2,212	23	34	5	0	0	14	0	4,618	2.6
Allegan	31,123	20,806	263	280	67	0	1	79	0	52,619	19.6
Alpena	7,298	6,549	60	87	20	0	0	0	0	14,014	5.3
Antrim	7,917	5,107	56	88	16	0	0	11	0	13,195	21.3
Arenac	4,057	3,669	39	48	16	0	0	12	0	7,841	4.9
Baraga	1,866	1,574	22	21	7	0	0	0	0	3,490	8.4
Barry	16,655	11,491	153	152	31	0	0	30	0	28,512	18.1
Bay	24,911	27,877	236	269	53	0	0	35	0	53,381	5.6
Benzie	5,075	4,685	39	46	8	39	0	9	0	9,901	3.9
Berrien	38,209	33,465	243	323	82	1	2	172	0	72,497	6.5
Branch	10,035	6,913	67	92	23	0	0	16	1	17,147	18.2
Calhoun	28,333	29,267	276	300	48	0	0	102	1	58,327	1.6
Cass	12,659	9,591	95	93	25	0	0	27	0	22,490	13.6
Charlevoix	8,000	5,939	29	81	21	0	0	20	0	14,090	14.6
Cheboygan	7,286	5,831	75	76	24	0	0	19	0	13,311	10.9
Chippewa	8,278	7,100	83	83	20	0	0	0	0	15,564	7.6
Clare	6,988	6,338	79	69	19	0	0	11	0	13,504	4.8
Clinton	20,650	18,191	144	124	40	0	0	86	0	39,235	6.3
Crawford	3,744	2,994	36	31	9	0	0	0	0	6,814	11.0
Delta	9,534	8,330	85	76	19	0	0	6	0	18,050	6.7
Dickinson	7,688	4,952	63	63	19	0	0	25	0	12,810	21.4
Eaton	26,197	27,913	277	273	52	0	0	76	0	54,788	3.1
Emmet	10,253	7,225	77	95	22	0	0	37	0	17,709	17.1
Genesee	71,808	128,978	763	931	230	0	4	219	0	202,933	28.2
Gladwin	6,661	5,760	69	50	12	0	0	31	0	12,583	7.2
Gogebic	3,444	4,058	22	43	9	0	0	0	0	7,576	8.1
Gd. Traverse	26,534	20,875	145	302	47	0	0	96	0	47,999	11.8
Gratiot	8,241	7,610	63	86	20	0	0	15	0	16,035	3.9
Hillsdale	11,727	7,106	99	119	30	0	0	19	0	19,100	24.2
Houghton	8,196	6,801	74	141	25	0	0	45	0	15,282	9.1
Huron	8,806	6,518	77	60	17	0	0	6	0	15,484	14.8
Ingham	45,306	80,847	395	755	160	1	6	439	1	127,910	27.8
Ionia	14,315	11,018	194	154	47	0	0	33	0	25,761	12.8
Iosco	6,909	6,242	75	85	22	0	0	11	0	13,344	5.0
Iron	3,224	2,687	34	28	14	0	0	1	0	5,988	9.0
Isabella	10,800	13,038	104	151	26	0	0	0	0	24,119	9.3
Jackson	36,298	32,301	313	343	68	1	0	122	0	69,446	5.8
Kalamazoo	52,662	69,051	344	692	139	3	3	283	1	123,178	13.3
Kalkaska	4,901	3,272	44	54	19	0	0	9	0	8,299	19.6
Kent	155,925	133,408	1,018	1,677	331	1	6	616	3	292,985	7.7
Keweenaw	774	582	13	19	0	0	0	4	0	1,392	13.8
Lake	2,487	2,752	24	20	4	0	0	0	0	5,287	5.0
Lapeer	23,734	18,796	249	184	80	0	0	72	0	43,115	11.5
Leelanau	7,483	6,576	31	59	15	0	0	12	0	14,176	6.4
Lenawee	22,351	21,776	234	209	51	0	0	103	0	44,724	1.3
Livingston	60,083	37,216	308	375	90	0	0	265	0	98,337	23.3
Luce	1,580	991	6	16	3	0	0	0	0	2,596	22.7
Mackinac	3,397	2,652	24	16	9	0	0	1	0	6,099	12.2
Macomb	191,913	208,016	1,368	1,729	403	1	1	653	2	404,086	4.0
Manistee	5,737	6,473	71	96	15	0	0	10	0	12,402	5.9
Marquette	13,606	18,115	120	252	37	0	1	63	0	32,194	14.0
Mason	7,580	6,856	56	81	15	0	0	15	1	14,604	5.0
Mecosta	9,176	7,515	90	79	20	0	0	33	0	16,913	9.8
Menominee	5,564	5,242	55	46	12	0	0	4	0	10,923	2.9
Midland	23,919	17,450	159	185	41	0	0	0	0	41,754	15.5
Missaukee	4,665	2,274	44	32	9	0	0	3	0	7,027	34.0
Monroe	35,593	36,310	312	382	85	0	0	167	4	72,853	1.0
Montcalm	13,621	11,430	160	122	46	0	0	52	0	25,431	8.6
Montmorency	2,928	2,049	35	27	12	0	0	0	0	5,051	17.4
Muskegon	30,884	44,436	298	343	95	0	0	107	0	76,163	17.8
Newaygo	12,457	8,728	124	97	23	0	10	39	0	21,478	17.4
Oakland	296,514	349,002	1,515	2,641	566	11	1	1,322	35	651,607	8.1
Oceana	6,239	5,063	68	48	20	0	0	12	0	11,450	10.3
Ogemaw	5,437	4,791	63	50	20	0	0	0	0	10,361	6.2
Ontonagon	1,906	1,586	23	17	4	1	0	2	0	3,539	9.0
Osceola	6,141	3,981	64	59	21	0	0	12	0	10,278	21.0
Oscoda	2,308	1,657	28	27	10	0	0	12	0	4,042	16.1
Otsego	7,011	4,681	54	72	14	0	0	0	0	11,832	19.7
Ottawa	88,166	42,737	423	559	125	1	0	301	0	132,312	34.3
Presque Isle	3,794	3,192	37	40	14	0	0	3	0	7,080	8.5
Roscommon	6,701	6,198	50	68	15	0	0	0	0	13,032	3.9
Saginaw	42,720	54,381	299	398	118	0	0	146	0	98,062	11.9
St. Clair	39,271	33,983	348	356	117	0	1	105	0	74,181	7.1
St. Joseph	12,978	10,112	113	95	25	0	0	18	0	23,341	12.3
Sanilac	10,963	7,212	75	85	26	0	0	8	0	18,369	20.4
Schoolcraft	2,142	1,865	18	15	6	0	0	2	0	4,048	6.8
Shiawassee	15,962	17,197	207	170	54	0	0	89	0	33,679	3.7
Tuscola	14,240	11,425	150	131	33	0	0	24	0	26,003	10.8
Van Buren	16,141	16,290	162	174	34	0	0	36	0	32,837	0.5
Washtenaw	56,412	120,890	359	1,188	276	2	1	452	12	179,592	35.9
Wayne	213,814	595,846	1,830	2,752	692	6	5	873	7	815,825	46.8
Wexford	8,450	6,184	72	91	21	21	0	14	0	14,853	15.3

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

County rows carry a two-digit county code before the name (stripped). The four column blocks are merged by county; each block's Totals line gives the statewide figures.

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)

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Questions and answers

Who won Michigan in 2012?

Barack Obama won Michigan by 9.50 percentage points (449,313 votes).

How many electoral votes did Michigan have in 2012?

Michigan cast 16 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Michigan in 2012?

4,730,961 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 63, Barack Obama 20 (out of 83 counties with results).

How did Michigan change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 7.0 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 16.5 points to Democratic by 9.5 points.

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