Oklahoma presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Oklahoma by 33.54 points (447,778 votes), winning 7 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 7
Votes counted: 1,334,872
OK result: R+33.5
Compared with the nation: 37.4 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 2.2 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	891,325	66.80%	7
Barack Obama	Democratic	443,547	33.20%	—
Total votes		1,334,872

Sources: ok.pdf · 2012

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Total	Margin
Adair	2,127	4,381	6,508	34.6
Alfalfa	322	1,761	2,083	69.1
Atoka	1,243	3,538	4,781	48.0
Beaver	244	2,062	2,306	78.8
Beckham	1,417	5,508	6,925	59.1
Blaine	992	2,824	3,816	48.0
Bryan	3,681	9,520	13,201	44.2
Caddo	3,164	5,687	8,851	28.5
Canadian	10,537	35,625	46,162	54.3
Carter	4,908	12,214	17,122	42.7
Cherokee	6,144	8,162	14,306	14.1
Choctaw	1,494	3,572	5,066	41.0
Cimarron	115	1,082	1,197	80.8
Cleveland	34,771	59,116	93,887	25.9
Coal	649	1,710	2,359	45.0
Comanche	12,521	17,664	30,185	17.0
Cotton	657	1,796	2,453	46.4
Craig	1,747	3,559	5,306	34.2
Creek	7,128	18,986	26,114	45.4
Custer	2,359	7,446	9,805	51.9
Delaware	4,196	10,080	14,276	41.2
Dewey	301	1,792	2,093	71.2
Ellis	226	1,575	1,801	74.9
Garfield	4,733	15,177	19,910	52.5
Garvin	2,559	6,925	9,484	46.0
Grady	4,786	14,833	19,619	51.2
Grant	393	1,675	2,068	62.0
Greer	488	1,344	1,832	46.7
Harmon	264	659	923	42.8
Harper	173	1,261	1,434	75.9
Haskell	1,175	3,069	4,244	44.6
Hughes	1,370	2,838	4,208	34.9
Jackson	1,954	5,965	7,919	50.7
Jefferson	605	1,634	2,239	46.0
Johnston	1,137	2,649	3,786	39.9
Kay	4,627	11,499	16,126	42.6
Kingfisher	898	4,870	5,768	68.9
Kiowa	1,106	2,316	3,422	35.4
Latimer	1,170	2,628	3,798	38.4
Le Flore	4,662	11,177	15,839	41.1
Lincoln	3,273	9,553	12,826	49.0
Logan	4,724	12,314	17,038	44.5
Love	1,034	2,436	3,470	40.4
Major	446	2,700	3,146	71.6
Marshall	1,396	3,744	5,140	45.7
Mayes	4,823	9,637	14,460	33.3
McClain	3,194	11,112	14,306	55.3
McCurtain	2,440	7,635	10,075	51.6
McIntosh	2,779	4,509	7,288	23.7
Murray	1,540	3,606	5,146	40.1
Muskogee	9,952	13,404	23,356	14.8
Noble	1,143	3,488	4,631	50.6
Nowata	1,244	2,832	4,076	39.0
Okfuskee	1,256	2,335	3,591	30.0
Oklahoma	106,982	149,728	256,710	16.7
Okmulgee	5,432	7,731	13,163	17.5
Osage	6,704	11,242	17,946	25.3
Ottawa	3,509	6,466	9,975	29.6
Pawnee	1,813	4,232	6,045	40.0
Payne	9,198	16,481	25,679	28.4
Pittsburg	4,831	10,841	15,672	38.3
Pontotoc	3,947	8,945	12,892	38.8
Pottawatomie	7,188	16,250	23,438	38.7
Pushmataha	1,043	3,087	4,130	49.5
Roger Mills	272	1,402	1,674	67.5
Rogers	9,148	27,553	36,701	50.1
Seminole	2,600	4,856	7,456	30.3
Sequoyah	4,193	9,578	13,771	39.1
Stephens	3,939	12,908	16,847	53.2
Texas	862	4,930	5,792	70.2
Tillman	906	1,815	2,721	33.4
Tulsa	82,744	145,062	227,806	27.4
Wagoner	7,791	20,900	28,691	45.7
Washington	5,532	15,668	21,200	47.8
Washita	822	3,494	4,316	61.9
Woods	671	2,727	3,398	60.5
Woodward	1,133	5,945	7,078	68.0

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

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

Certified state documentCertified

Oklahoma State Election Board, General Election 11/6/2012 results (printed 11/20/2012, headed 'UNOFFICAL RESULTS'), For President and Vice President statewide by vote method (absentee mail, early voting, election day, total)
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 2 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
MITT ROMNEY (REP)	REP	891,325	66.77%
BARACK OBAMA (DEM)	DEM	443,547	33.23%
Total as printed		1,334,872

Notes on how this document was read

The document is headed 'UNOFFICAL RESULTS' (sic); it is the file the UCSB page links.

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 Oklahoma in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Oklahoma by 33.54 percentage points (447,778 votes).

How many electoral votes did Oklahoma have in 2012?

Oklahoma cast 7 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Oklahoma in 2012?

1,334,872 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 77 (out of 77 counties with results).

How did Oklahoma change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 2.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 31.3 points to Republican by 33.5 points.

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