South Carolina · 2012 presidential election
South Carolina presidential election results 2012
Mitt Romney carried South Carolina by 10.47 points (205,704 votes), winning 9 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 9
- Votes counted
- 1,964,118
- SC result
- R+10.5
- Compared with the nation
- 14.4 pts more Republican
- Swing since 2008
- 1.5 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 1,071,645 | 54.60% | 9 | |
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 865,941 | 44.10% | — | |
| Total votes | 1,964,118 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbeville | 4,543 | 5,981 | 147 | 10,671 | 13.5 |
| Aiken | 25,322 | 44,042 | 999 | 70,363 | 26.6 |
| Allendale | 3,297 | 838 | 28 | 4,163 | 59.1 |
| Anderson | 22,405 | 48,709 | 1,098 | 72,212 | 36.4 |
| Bamberg | 4,624 | 2,194 | 64 | 6,882 | 35.3 |
| Barnwell | 5,188 | 4,659 | 76 | 9,923 | 5.3 |
| Beaufort | 29,848 | 42,687 | 762 | 73,297 | 17.5 |
| Berkeley | 28,542 | 38,475 | 1,178 | 68,195 | 14.6 |
| Calhoun | 4,045 | 3,707 | 82 | 7,834 | 4.3 |
| Charleston | 81,487 | 77,629 | 2,591 | 161,707 | 2.4 |
| Cherokee | 7,231 | 13,314 | 228 | 20,773 | 29.3 |
| Chester | 7,891 | 6,367 | 149 | 14,407 | 10.6 |
| Chesterfield | 7,958 | 8,490 | 146 | 16,594 | 3.2 |
| Clarendon | 9,091 | 7,071 | 130 | 16,292 | 12.4 |
| Colleton | 8,475 | 8,443 | 168 | 17,086 | 0.2 |
| Darlington | 15,457 | 14,434 | 259 | 30,150 | 3.4 |
| Dillon | 7,523 | 5,427 | 85 | 13,035 | 16.1 |
| Dorchester | 23,445 | 32,531 | 879 | 56,855 | 16.0 |
| Edgefield | 4,967 | 6,512 | 107 | 11,586 | 13.3 |
| Fairfield | 7,777 | 3,999 | 119 | 11,895 | 31.8 |
| Florence | 28,614 | 28,961 | 547 | 58,122 | 0.6 |
| Georgetown | 14,163 | 16,526 | 276 | 30,965 | 7.6 |
| Greenville | 68,070 | 121,685 | 3,434 | 193,189 | 27.8 |
| Greenwood | 11,972 | 16,348 | 352 | 28,672 | 15.3 |
| Hampton | 5,834 | 3,312 | 60 | 9,206 | 27.4 |
| Horry | 38,885 | 72,127 | 1,381 | 112,393 | 29.6 |
| Jasper | 5,757 | 4,169 | 95 | 10,021 | 15.8 |
| Kershaw | 11,259 | 16,324 | 363 | 27,946 | 18.1 |
| Lancaster | 13,419 | 19,333 | 392 | 33,144 | 17.8 |
| Laurens | 10,318 | 14,746 | 352 | 25,416 | 17.4 |
| Lee | 5,977 | 2,832 | 98 | 8,907 | 35.3 |
| Lexington | 34,148 | 76,662 | 1,813 | 112,623 | 37.7 |
| Marion | 9,688 | 5,164 | 134 | 14,986 | 30.2 |
| Marlboro | 6,100 | 3,676 | 77 | 9,853 | 24.6 |
| McCormick | 2,653 | 2,467 | 40 | 5,160 | 3.6 |
| Newberry | 6,913 | 9,260 | 178 | 16,351 | 14.4 |
| Oconee | 8,550 | 21,611 | 505 | 30,666 | 42.6 |
| Orangeburg | 30,720 | 12,022 | 299 | 43,041 | 43.4 |
| Pickens | 11,156 | 33,474 | 919 | 45,549 | 49.0 |
| Richland | 103,989 | 53,105 | 2,060 | 159,154 | 32.0 |
| Saluda | 3,328 | 5,135 | 101 | 8,564 | 21.1 |
| Spartanburg | 41,461 | 66,969 | 1,476 | 109,906 | 23.2 |
| Sumter | 27,589 | 19,274 | 446 | 47,309 | 17.6 |
| Union | 5,796 | 6,584 | 161 | 12,541 | 6.3 |
| Williamsburg | 11,335 | 4,824 | 145 | 16,304 | 39.9 |
| York | 39,131 | 59,546 | 1,533 | 100,210 | 20.4 |
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 5 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan (REP) | REP | 1,071,645 | 54.56% |
| Barack Obama / Joe Biden (DEM) | DEM | 865,941 | 44.09% |
| Gary Johnson / James P Gray (LIB) | LIB | 16,321 | 0.83% |
| Jill Stein / Cheri Honkala (GRN) | GRN | 5,446 | 0.28% |
| Virgil Goode / Jim Clymer (CON) | CON | 4,765 | 0.24% |
Notes on how this document was read
- Ticket names wrap onto the line after the numbers; the lines are joined in printed order. The '{2}' footnote mark after Romney's line is kept under trailing_text.
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 South Carolina in 2012?
Mitt Romney won South Carolina by 10.47 percentage points (205,704 votes).
How many electoral votes did South Carolina have in 2012?
South Carolina cast 9 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in South Carolina in 2012?
1,964,118 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in South Carolina in 2012?
Mitt Romney 25, Barack Obama 21 (out of 46 counties with results).
How did South Carolina change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 1.5 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 9.0 points to Republican by 10.5 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data