Mississippi · 2012 presidential election

Mississippi presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Mississippi by 11.50 points (147,797 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,285,584
MS result: R+11.5
Compared with the nation: 15.4 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 1.7 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	710,746	55.30%	6
Barack Obama	Democratic	562,949	43.80%	—
Total votes		1,285,584

Sources: ms.pdf · 2012

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Mississippi Secretary of State, Total Votes Reported by County for the 2012 General Election, United States President and Vice President (25 pages): each county's votes and percentage per ticket with 'Total For County', and the state totals ('Totals Reporting from County Level') on the last page
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All 6 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Mitt Romney for President and Paul Ryan for Vice President, Republican	—	710,746	55.29%
Barack Obama for President and Joe Biden for Vice President, Democrat	—	562,949	43.79%
Gary Johnson for President and James P. Gray for Vice President, Libertarian	—	6,676	0.52%
Virgil Goode for President and Jim Clymer for Vice President, Constitution	—	2,609	0.20%
Jill Stein for President and Cheri Honkala for Vice President, Green	—	1,588	0.12%
Barbara Dale Washer for President and Cathy L. Toole for Vice President, Reform	—	1,016	0.08%
Total as printed		1,285,584

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

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Virgil Goode for President and Jim Clymer for Vice President, Constitution	Gary Johnson for President and James P. Gray for Vice President, Libertarian	Jill Stein for President and Cheri Honkala for Vice President, Green	Barbara Dale Washer for President and Cathy L. Toole for Vice President, Reform	Total	Margin
Adams	9,061	6,293	14	60	13	6	15,447	17.9
Alcorn	3,511	11,111	39	129	28	12	14,830	51.2
Amite	3,242	4,414	16	21	6	7	7,706	15.2
Attala	3,927	5,126	11	21	3	4	9,092	13.2
Benton	2,051	2,041	6	9	6	3	4,116	0.2
Bolivar	10,582	4,701	49	54	23	19	15,428	38.1
Calhoun	2,586	4,412	17	34	5	14	7,068	25.8
Carroll	2,007	3,960	9	13	1	2	5,992	32.6
Chickasaw	4,378	3,994	73	37	14	7	8,503	4.5
Choctaw	1,428	2,812	10	15	4	4	4,273	32.4
Claiborne	4,838	625	10	7	2	2	5,484	76.8
Clarke	3,111	5,049	48	32	5	8	8,253	23.5
Clay	6,712	4,291	19	27	17	6	11,072	21.9
Coahoma	7,792	2,712	9	24	10	2	10,549	48.2
Copiah	7,749	6,282	25	42	15	10	14,123	10.4
Covington	3,878	5,405	18	32	7	8	9,348	16.3
Desoto	21,575	43,559	105	438	73	44	65,794	33.4
Forrest	13,272	16,574	47	255	69	19	30,236	10.9
Franklin	1,726	2,735	8	15	5	4	4,493	22.5
George	1,359	8,376	37	51	19	14	9,856	71.2
Greene	1,325	4,531	19	35	6	6	5,922	54.1
Grenada	5,288	5,986	19	24	13	5	11,335	6.2
Hancock	3,917	12,964	38	185	39	24	17,167	52.7
Harrison	23,119	39,470	88	464	107	80	63,328	25.8
Hinds	76,112	29,664	142	359	139	75	106,491	43.6
Holmes	7,812	1,435	11	17	6	7	9,288	68.7
Humphreys	3,903	1,293	2	7	2	5	5,212	50.1
Issaquena	479	302	1	4	1	0	787	22.5
Itawamba	1,706	7,393	77	106	17	19	9,318	61.0
Jackson	17,299	35,747	102	396	84	27	53,655	34.4
Jasper	5,097	4,193	16	24	4	6	9,340	9.7
Jefferson Davis	4,267	2,507	54	20	10	6	6,864	25.6
Jefferson	3,951	468	3	6	3	2	4,433	78.6
Jones	9,211	20,687	54	164	22	21	30,159	38.1
Kemper	3,239	1,789	9	12	3	0	5,052	28.7
Lafayette	8,091	11,075	40	243	47	9	19,505	15.3
Lamar	5,494	19,101	74	173	29	18	24,889	54.7
Lauderdale	13,814	18,700	49	157	36	21	32,777	14.9
Lawrence	2,468	4,192	12	15	8	3	6,698	25.7
Leake	4,079	4,863	12	13	7	9	8,983	8.7
Lee	12,563	22,415	61	204	35	28	35,306	27.9
Leflore	9,119	3,587	15	34	11	7	12,773	43.3
Lincoln	5,471	10,839	24	56	14	10	16,414	32.7
Lowndes	13,388	13,518	110	97	30	15	27,158	0.5
Madison	20,722	28,507	64	219	45	14	49,571	15.7
Marion	4,393	8,237	20	49	15	15	12,729	30.2
Marshall	9,650	6,473	30	56	22	9	16,240	19.6
Monroe	7,056	9,723	45	62	19	13	16,918	15.8
Montgomery	2,675	2,947	3	13	4	3	5,645	4.8
Neshoba	3,089	7,837	23	44	10	12	11,015	43.1
Newton	3,319	6,394	18	39	6	1	9,777	31.5
Noxubee	4,920	1,325	3	10	5	1	6,264	57.4
Oktibbeha	9,095	8,761	40	168	48	5	18,117	1.8
Panola	9,079	7,629	28	64	13	13	16,826	8.6
Pearl River	4,366	17,549	60	195	31	23	22,224	59.3
Perry	1,527	4,137	10	32	9	7	5,722	45.6
Pike	9,650	8,181	35	82	16	10	17,974	8.2
Pontotoc	2,804	9,448	39	90	21	9	12,411	53.5
Prentiss	2,817	7,075	40	74	18	9	10,033	42.4
Quitman	2,837	1,116	6	10	7	3	3,979	43.3
Rankin	14,988	48,444	98	436	89	90	64,145	52.2
Scott	5,031	6,089	26	44	6	6	11,202	9.4
Sharkey	1,782	737	4	5	1	3	2,532	41.3
Simpson	4,723	7,424	32	47	12	11	12,249	22.1
Smith	1,979	6,049	20	36	9	6	8,099	50.3
Stone	2,003	5,420	20	67	10	12	7,532	45.4
Sunflower	8,199	2,929	54	28	11	7	11,228	46.9
Tallahatchie	3,959	2,499	7	24	11	3	6,503	22.5
Tate	4,933	7,332	29	72	27	13	12,406	19.3
Tippah	2,317	6,717	37	66	12	15	9,164	48.0
Tishomingo	1,643	6,133	36	89	15	20	7,936	56.6
Tunica	3,475	883	4	12	3	5	4,382	59.2
Union	2,742	8,498	35	75	7	8	11,365	50.6
Walthall	3,422	4,051	32	29	9	8	7,551	8.3
Warren	10,786	10,457	21	96	17	14	21,391	1.5
Washington	13,981	5,651	21	38	15	9	19,715	42.3
Wayne	4,148	6,111	10	43	9	11	10,332	19.0
Webster	1,190	3,992	5	29	11	7	5,234	53.5
Wilkinson	3,412	1,415	5	20	0	1	4,853	41.1
Winston	4,607	5,168	15	24	13	2	9,829	5.7
Yalobusha	3,030	3,276	6	24	6	12	6,354	3.9
Yazoo	6,603	4,941	26	34	8	8	11,620	14.3

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

Ticket labels wrap over two lines ('Barack Obama for President and Joe Biden for' / 'Vice President, Democrat'); the lines are joined. Percentages are kept under pct per row.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber); county blocks with wrapped candidate lines, figures matched against PyMuPDF's words of the same lines (second extraction)

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Questions and answers

Who won Mississippi in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Mississippi by 11.50 percentage points (147,797 votes).

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 2012?

Mississippi cast 6 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Mississippi in 2012?

1,285,584 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 51, Barack Obama 31 (out of 82 counties with results).

How did Mississippi change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 1.7 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 13.2 points to Republican by 11.5 points.

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