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New York presidential election results 2012

Barack Obama carried New York by 28.13 points (1,986,439 votes), winning 29 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
29
Votes counted
7,061,925
NY result
D+28.1
Compared with the nation
24.2 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2008
1.4 pts to D

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Barack ObamaDemocratic4,471,87163.40%29
Mitt RomneyRepublican2,485,43235.20%—
Total votes7,061,925

Sources: ny.pdf · 2012

County resultsCertified

New York State Board of Elections, President and Vice-President Election Returns Nov. 6, 2012 (dated March 20, 2013, Kings update June 9, 2013): pages 1-2 the eight ballot lines by county, pages 3-4 the official write-in candidates, Blank, Void, Scattering, BVS Subtotal and Total by county
Open the original document · pages 1, 2, 3, 4

Not shown: the figures read from this document do not match the summary table (Barack Obama: document 4,485,741 vs 4,471,871; Mitt Romney: document 2,490,431 vs 2,485,432), so the statewide figures above are used instead. Check the original document for county detail.

Notes on how this document was read
  • Column headings are printed diagonally; spelled out from the page image.
  • 'Total Outside NYC' and 'Total NYC' are subtotals and are not unit rows; 'Statewide Total' is the statewide row. 'Void' and 'BVS Subtotal' (blank+void+scattering) are kept under extra; 'Scattering' is write_in, 'Blank' blank_votes, 'Total' total_votes.
  • Obama/Biden and Romney/Ryan each appear on two ballot lines (DEM + WOR, REP + CON); the UCSB figure is their sum.
  • This file is the return revised on March 20, 2013 with the Kings County update of June 9, 2013; its statewide figures (Obama 4,485,741 = DEM + WOR, Romney 2,490,431 = REP + CON) are higher than the UCSB row (4,471,871 and 2,485,432), which apparently predates the revision. Reported as a mismatch, nothing changed.

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 New York in 2012?

Barack Obama won New York by 28.13 percentage points (1,986,439 votes).

How many electoral votes did New York have in 2012?

New York cast 29 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in New York in 2012?

7,061,925 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in New York in 2012?

Barack Obama 36, Mitt Romney 26 (out of 62 counties with results).

How did New York change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 1.4 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 26.7 points to Democratic by 28.1 points.

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