Skip to content

Nevada · 2012 presidential election

Nevada presidential election results 2012

Barack Obama carried Nevada by 6.68 points (67,806 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
6
Votes counted
1,014,918
NV result
D+6.7
Compared with the nation
2.8 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2008
5.8 pts to R

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Barack ObamaDemocratic531,37352.40%6
Mitt RomneyRepublican463,56745.70%—
Total votes1,014,918

Sources: nv.pdf · 2012

County resultsCertified

Download CSV

Nevada Secretary of State, Nevada General Election 2012 - U.S. Presidential, official results as canvassed by the Nevada Supreme Court on November 27, 2012 (silverstateelection.com; printed 12/14/2012): statewide Total Votes (page 2) and the 17 counties (page 3)
Open the original document · pages 2, 3

All 5 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
Obama, Barack (DEM)DEM531,37352.36%
Romney, Mitt (REP)REP463,56745.68%
JOHNSON, GARY (LIB)LIB10,9681.08%
NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES—5,7700.57%
GOODE, VIRGIL (IAP)IAP3,2400.32%
Esmeralda County: Mitt Romney +51.7Mineral County: Mitt Romney +10.7White Pine County: Mitt Romney +43.7Douglas County: Mitt Romney +26.8Elko County: Mitt Romney +53.2Humboldt County: Mitt Romney +36.1Lincoln County: Mitt Romney +60.0Nye County: Mitt Romney +24.2Washoe County: Barack Obama +3.7Carson City: Mitt Romney +9.0Eureka County: Mitt Romney +68.8Pershing County: Mitt Romney +28.4Churchill County: Mitt Romney +39.9Clark County: Barack Obama +14.6Lander County: Mitt Romney +48.3Lyon County: Mitt Romney +28.6Storey County: Mitt Romney +17.3
Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.
County Barack ObamaMitt RomneyJOHNSON, GARYNONE OF THESE CANDIDATESGOODE, VIRGIL TotalMargin
Carson City 10,29112,394286212136 23,319 9.0
Churchill 2,9617,061848376 10,265 39.9
Clark 389,936289,0537,0643,4471,690 691,190 14.6
Douglas 9,29716,27627515473 26,075 26.8
Elko 3,51112,014174140147 15,986 53.2
Esmeralda 923171439 435 51.7
Eureka 10766391910 808 68.8
Humboldt 1,7373,810618056 5,744 36.1
Lander 5341,580111723 2,165 48.3
Lincoln 4001,691221425 2,152 60.0
Lyon 7,38013,520235168162 21,465 28.6
Mineral 8631,080203933 2,035 10.7
Nye 6,32010,566279185172 17,522 24.2
Pershing 6321,167253030 1,884 28.4
Storey 9201,321411517 2,314 17.3
Washoe 95,40988,4532,3321,121540 187,855 3.7
White Pine 9832,601364341 3,704 43.7

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
  • 'None of These Candidates' is a ballot option in Nevada and is kept as a candidate column.

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)

Nevada in every election · 2012 primaries · 2012 Senate race · All states in 2012 · Report an error

Questions and answers

Who won Nevada in 2012?

Barack Obama won Nevada by 6.68 percentage points (67,806 votes).

How many electoral votes did Nevada have in 2012?

Nevada cast 6 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Nevada in 2012?

1,014,918 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 15, Barack Obama 2 (out of 17 counties with results).

How did Nevada change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 5.8 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 12.5 points to Democratic by 6.7 points.

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