Missouri presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Missouri by 9.38 points (258,644 votes), winning 10 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 10
Votes counted: 2,757,323
MO result: R+9.4
Compared with the nation: 13.3 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 9.2 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	1,482,440	53.80%	10
Barack Obama	Democratic	1,223,796	44.40%	—
Total votes		2,757,323

Sources: mo.pdf · 2012

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Missouri Secretary of State, Election Night Reporting, Nov 6, 2012 General Election official returns (as announced by the Board of State Canvassers December 05, 2012; printed 12/14/2012): President, Vice President - County table (pages 2-4; page 1 holds the statewide summary)
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All 4 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan (REP)	REP	1,482,440	53.76%
Barack Obama, Joe Biden (DEM)	DEM	1,223,796	44.38%
Gary Johnson, James P. Gray (LIB)	LIB	43,151	1.56%
Virgil Goode, Jim Clymer (CST)	CST	7,936	0.29%

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

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Gary Johnson, James P. Gray	Virgil Goode, Jim Clymer	Total	Margin
Adair	4,219	5,651	225	31	10,126	14.1
Andrew	2,649	5,457	164	36	8,306	33.8
Atchison	756	1,902	45	6	2,709	42.3
Audrain	3,539	6,186	188	39	9,952	26.6
Barry	3,667	9,832	244	63	13,806	44.7
Barton	1,230	4,418	87	11	5,746	55.5
Bates	2,557	5,020	157	37	7,771	31.7
Benton	2,925	6,069	138	25	9,157	34.3
Bollinger	1,213	4,095	114	34	5,456	52.8
Boone	39,847	37,404	1,948	223	79,422	3.1
Buchanan	15,594	18,660	702	150	35,106	8.7
Butler	4,363	12,248	238	40	16,889	46.7
Caldwell	1,312	2,721	109	25	4,167	33.8
Callaway	6,071	11,745	353	63	18,232	31.1
Camden	6,458	15,092	332	63	21,945	39.3
Cape Girardeau	9,728	25,370	560	58	35,716	43.8
Carroll	1,154	3,072	62	16	4,304	44.6
Carter	754	1,978	49	18	2,799	43.7
Cass	17,044	30,912	798	159	48,913	28.4
Cedar	1,537	4,376	104	28	6,045	47.0
Chariton	1,339	2,402	66	14	3,821	27.8
Christian	9,813	27,473	566	112	37,964	46.5
Clark	1,398	1,730	79	18	3,225	10.3
Clay	47,310	56,191	1,829	259	105,589	8.4
Clinton	3,688	5,931	201	41	9,861	22.7
Cole	12,005	24,490	510	57	37,062	33.7
Cooper	2,474	4,887	125	25	7,511	32.1
Crawford	2,951	6,434	153	41	9,579	36.4
Dade	939	2,895	51	11	3,896	50.2
Dallas	2,122	4,992	111	54	7,279	39.4
Daviess	1,125	2,290	93	13	3,521	33.1
De Kalb	1,194	3,056	76	24	4,350	42.8
Dent	1,585	4,883	125	50	6,643	49.6
Douglas	1,710	4,649	150	48	6,557	44.8
Dunklin	3,636	6,850	131	34	10,651	30.2
Franklin	16,347	29,396	835	177	46,755	27.9
Gasconade	2,099	4,895	117	23	7,134	39.2
Gentry	937	1,988	63	11	2,999	35.0
Greene	46,219	76,900	2,362	367	125,848	24.4
Grundy	1,212	3,030	106	26	4,374	41.6
Harrison	984	2,624	67	20	3,695	44.4
Henry	3,606	6,229	240	48	10,123	25.9
Hickory	1,733	2,835	88	24	4,680	23.5
Holt	551	1,725	31	3	2,310	50.8
Howard	1,723	3,017	115	12	4,867	26.6
Howell	4,395	11,544	322	85	16,346	43.7
Iron	1,669	2,252	89	21	4,031	14.5
Jackson	78,283	93,199	2,721	561	174,764	8.5
Jasper	12,809	31,349	919	141	45,218	41.0
Jefferson	41,564	53,978	1,715	354	97,611	12.7
Johnson	7,667	12,763	501	90	21,021	24.2
Kansas City	105,670	29,509	1,412	222	136,813	55.7
Knox	698	1,205	41	13	1,957	25.9
Laclede	4,093	10,934	277	58	15,362	44.5
Lafayette	5,655	9,803	277	60	15,795	26.3
Lawrence	4,017	11,421	251	66	15,755	47.0
Lewis	1,508	2,677	74	20	4,279	27.3
Lincoln	7,734	14,332	476	110	22,652	29.1
Linn	2,041	3,344	137	28	5,550	23.5
Livingston	1,906	4,006	127	15	6,054	34.7
Macon	2,309	4,701	119	31	7,160	33.4
Madison	1,588	3,227	100	15	4,930	33.2
Maries	1,299	3,165	61	13	4,538	41.1
Marion	4,031	7,923	188	16	12,158	32.0
McDonald	1,920	5,694	161	42	7,817	48.3
Mercer	353	1,255	36	11	1,655	54.5
Miller	2,651	8,099	232	37	11,019	49.4
Mississippi	1,858	2,997	59	6	4,920	23.2
Moniteau	1,608	4,704	108	23	6,443	48.1
Monroe	1,398	2,564	83	12	4,057	28.7
Montgomery	1,740	3,490	77	20	5,327	32.9
Morgan	2,773	5,733	149	33	8,688	34.1
New Madrid	2,814	4,284	127	25	7,250	20.3
Newton	6,425	18,181	398	79	25,083	46.9
Nodaway	3,172	5,593	173	38	8,976	27.0
Oregon	1,419	2,886	84	32	4,421	33.2
Osage	1,473	5,329	102	15	6,919	55.7
Ozark	1,261	3,080	86	26	4,453	40.8
Pemiscot	2,671	3,598	58	8	6,335	14.6
Perry	2,184	5,669	117	17	7,987	43.6
Pettis	5,904	10,842	366	63	17,175	28.8
Phelps	5,798	11,895	431	66	18,190	33.5
Pike	2,582	4,577	117	45	7,321	27.3
Platte	19,175	25,618	662	97	45,552	14.1
Polk	3,580	9,252	230	57	13,119	43.2
Pulaski	4,199	9,092	229	51	13,571	36.1
Putnam	587	1,673	41	8	2,309	47.0
Ralls	1,736	3,231	51	18	5,036	29.7
Randolph	3,031	6,667	213	33	9,944	36.6
Ray	4,275	5,815	224	53	10,367	14.9
Reynolds	1,157	1,931	94	20	3,202	24.2
Ripley	1,396	3,743	102	22	5,263	44.6
Saline	3,790	5,104	189	25	9,108	14.4
Schuyler	697	1,174	58	10	1,939	24.6
Scotland	643	1,246	40	7	1,936	31.1
Scott	5,122	11,623	219	35	16,999	38.2
Shannon	1,302	2,262	91	37	3,692	26.0
Shelby	966	2,188	65	13	3,232	37.8
St. Charles	71,838	110,784	2,709	359	185,690	21.0
St. Clair	1,460	3,019	115	32	4,626	33.7
St. Francois	8,829	13,248	448	57	22,582	19.6
St. Louis City	118,780	22,943	1,674	210	143,607	66.7
St. Louis County	297,097	224,742	5,748	1,089	528,676	13.7
Ste. Genevieve	3,813	4,055	169	33	8,070	3.0
Stoddard	3,153	9,496	187	30	12,866	49.3
Stone	3,923	11,787	236	38	15,984	49.2
Sullivan	908	1,610	51	26	2,595	27.1
Taney	5,479	15,746	349	85	21,659	47.4
Texas	2,871	7,618	215	60	10,764	44.1
Vernon	2,580	5,758	142	41	8,521	37.3
Warren	5,219	9,150	248	59	14,676	26.8
Washington	3,417	5,071	157	50	8,695	19.0
Wayne	1,813	3,790	103	14	5,720	34.6
Webster	4,409	10,708	245	67	15,429	40.8
Worth	341	664	40	3	1,048	30.8
Wright	1,953	5,830	129	43	7,955	48.7

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

Column headers are printed over several lines; spelled out from the page (candidate, running mate, party).
The county table has no total line; the statewide row comes from the summary table on page 1 (labels mapped to the county-table columns: Democrat = DEM, Republican = REP, Libertarian = LIB, Constitution = CST).

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 Missouri in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Missouri by 9.38 percentage points (258,644 votes).

How many electoral votes did Missouri have in 2012?

Missouri cast 10 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Missouri in 2012?

2,757,323 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 112, Barack Obama 2 (out of 114 counties with results).

How did Missouri change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 9.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 0.1 points to Republican by 9.4 points.

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