Rhode Island · 2012 presidential election
Rhode Island presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Rhode Island by 27.46 points (122,473 votes), winning 4 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 4
- Votes counted
- 446,049
- RI result
- D+27.5
- Compared with the nation
- 23.6 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 0.5 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 279,677 | 62.70% | 4 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 157,204 | 35.20% | — | |
| Total votes | 446,049 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol | 14,974 | 9,231 | 471 | 24,676 | 23.3 |
| Kent | 45,564 | 31,567 | 1,792 | 78,923 | 17.7 |
| Newport | 23,463 | 15,202 | 787 | 39,452 | 20.9 |
| Providence | 159,520 | 75,785 | 4,484 | 239,789 | 34.9 |
| Washington | 35,888 | 25,366 | 1,625 | 62,879 | 16.7 |
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
- 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
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 7 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barack OBAMA (DEM) | DEM | 279,677 | 62.90% |
| Mitt ROMNEY (REP) | REP | 157,204 | 35.35% |
| Gary JOHNSON (Lib) | Lib | 4,388 | 0.99% |
| Jill STEIN (GRN) | GRN | 2,421 | 0.54% |
| Virgil GOODE (Con) | Con | 430 | 0.10% |
| Ross C. "Rocky" ANDERSON (Jus) | Jus | 416 | 0.09% |
| Peta LINDSAY (SL) | SL | 132 | 0.03% |
| Write-in / scattering | 1,381 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- The 'Polling place:' and 'Mail ballots:' breakout lines under each candidate are not rows.
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 Rhode Island in 2012?
Barack Obama won Rhode Island by 27.46 percentage points (122,473 votes).
How many electoral votes did Rhode Island have in 2012?
Rhode Island cast 4 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Rhode Island in 2012?
446,049 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Rhode Island in 2012?
Barack Obama 5 (out of 5 counties with results).
How did Rhode Island change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 0.5 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 27.9 points to Democratic by 27.5 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data