Texas presidential election results 2012

Mitt Romney carried Texas by 15.78 points (1,261,719 votes), winning 38 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 38
Votes counted: 7,993,851
TX result: R+15.8
Compared with the nation: 19.7 pts more Republican
Swing since 2008: 4.0 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Mitt Romney	Republican	4,569,843	57.20%	38
Barack Obama	Democratic	3,308,124	41.40%	—
Total votes		7,993,851

Sources: tx.pdf · 2012

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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	Mitt Romney	Others	Total	Margin
Anderson	3,813	12,262	137	16,212	52.1
Andrews	795	3,639	48	4,482	63.5
Angelina	7,834	20,303	269	28,406	43.9
Aransas	2,704	6,830	114	9,648	42.8
Archer	525	3,600	39	4,164	73.8
Armstrong	98	828	9	935	78.1
Atascosa	5,133	7,461	127	12,721	18.3
Austin	2,252	9,265	132	11,649	60.2
Bailey	466	1,339	11	1,816	48.1
Bandera	1,864	7,426	158	9,448	58.9
Bastrop	9,864	14,033	584	24,481	17.0
Baylor	267	1,297	28	1,592	64.7
Bee	3,452	4,356	71	7,879	11.5
Bell	35,512	49,574	1,120	86,206	16.3
Bexar	264,856	241,617	7,208	513,681	4.5
Blanco	1,220	3,638	115	4,973	48.6
Borden	32	324	7	363	80.4
Bosque	1,367	5,885	104	7,356	61.4
Bowie	10,196	24,869	339	35,404	41.4
Brazoria	34,421	70,862	1,456	106,739	34.1
Brazos	17,477	37,209	1,276	55,962	35.3
Brewster	1,765	1,976	126	3,867	5.5
Briscoe	117	578	7	702	65.7
Brooks	1,886	507	10	2,403	57.4
Brown	1,904	11,895	148	13,947	71.6
Burleson	1,705	4,671	80	6,456	45.9
Burnet	3,674	12,843	279	16,796	54.6
Caldwell	4,791	6,021	256	11,068	11.1
Calhoun	2,410	4,144	94	6,648	26.1
Callahan	751	4,378	68	5,197	69.8
Cameron	49,975	26,099	821	76,895	31.1
Camp	1,428	2,881	26	4,335	33.5
Carson	292	2,451	35	2,778	77.7
Cass	2,924	8,763	101	11,788	49.5
Castro	630	1,470	19	2,119	39.6
Chambers	2,790	11,787	158	14,735	61.1
Cherokee	3,875	12,094	157	16,126	51.0
Childress	320	1,665	11	1,996	67.4
Clay	740	4,266	51	5,057	69.7
Cochran	256	649	12	917	42.9
Coke	179	1,218	11	1,408	73.8
Coleman	442	3,012	38	3,492	73.6
Collin	101,415	196,888	4,518	302,821	31.5
Collingsworth	177	962	11	1,150	68.3
Colorado	2,029	6,026	62	8,117	49.2
Comal	11,450	39,318	761	51,529	54.1
Comanche	890	3,944	72	4,906	62.3
Concho	194	793	14	1,001	59.8
Cooke	2,246	11,951	154	14,351	67.6
Coryell	5,158	11,220	226	16,604	36.5
Cottle	180	555	6	741	50.6
Crane	275	985	23	1,283	55.3
Crockett	480	957	20	1,457	32.7
Crosby	639	1,132	16	1,787	27.6
Culberson	568	295	16	879	31.1
Dallam	253	1,248	33	1,534	64.9
Dallas	405,571	295,813	8,733	710,117	15.5
Dawson	1,019	2,591	32	3,642	43.2
Deaf Smith	1,239	3,042	28	4,309	41.8
Delta	454	1,524	40	2,018	53.0
Denton	80,978	157,579	4,224	242,781	31.6
Dewitt	1,467	5,122	49	6,638	55.1
Dickens	216	793	10	1,019	56.6
Dimmit	2,141	762	14	2,917	47.3
Donley	226	1,287	22	1,535	69.1
Duval	3,331	980	33	4,344	54.1
Eastland	970	5,444	81	6,495	68.9
Ector	8,118	24,010	385	32,513	48.9
Edwards	232	642	10	884	46.4
El Paso	112,952	57,150	2,310	172,412	32.4
Ellis	13,881	39,574	696	54,151	47.4
Erath	1,965	10,329	179	12,473	67.1
Falls	2,033	3,356	45	5,434	24.3
Fannin	2,486	8,161	157	10,804	52.5
Fayette	2,315	8,106	130	10,551	54.9
Fisher	512	1,094	23	1,629	35.7
Floyd	551	1,523	11	2,085	46.6
Foard	140	348	7	495	42.0
Fort Bend	101,144	116,126	2,219	219,489	6.8
Franklin	751	3,446	60	4,257	63.3
Freestone	1,850	5,646	74	7,570	50.1
Frio	2,376	1,559	33	3,968	20.6
Gaines	535	3,484	47	4,066	72.5
Galveston	39,511	69,059	1,508	110,078	26.8
Garza	279	1,263	18	1,560	63.1
Gillespie	2,055	10,306	189	12,550	65.7
Glasscock	44	526	8	578	83.4
Goliad	1,127	2,294	37	3,458	33.7
Gonzales	1,777	4,216	64	6,057	40.3
Gray	886	6,443	60	7,389	75.2
Grayson	10,670	30,936	658	42,264	48.0
Gregg	12,398	28,742	367	41,507	39.4
Grimes	2,339	6,141	121	8,601	44.2
Guadalupe	15,744	33,117	653	49,514	35.1
Hale	2,243	6,490	121	8,854	48.0
Hall	265	832	12	1,109	51.1
Hamilton	591	2,918	43	3,552	65.5
Hansford	159	1,788	15	1,962	83.0
Hardeman	302	1,176	17	1,495	58.5
Hardin	3,359	17,746	192	21,297	67.6
Harris	587,044	586,073	15,468	1,188,585	0.1
Harrison	8,456	17,512	202	26,170	34.6
Hartley	184	1,708	21	1,913	79.7
Haskell	553	1,424	36	2,013	43.3
Hays	25,537	31,661	1,813	59,011	10.4
Hemphill	192	1,298	19	1,509	73.3
Henderson	6,106	21,231	290	27,627	54.7
Hidalgo	97,969	39,865	1,325	139,159	41.8
Hill	2,752	9,132	161	12,045	53.0
Hockley	1,486	5,546	102	7,134	56.9
Hood	3,843	18,409	283	22,535	64.6
Hopkins	2,777	9,836	140	12,753	55.4
Houston	2,265	5,880	69	8,214	44.0
Howard	2,110	6,453	132	8,695	49.9
Hudspeth	379	471	13	863	10.7
Hunt	6,671	21,011	367	28,049	51.1
Hutchinson	1,045	6,804	79	7,928	72.6
Irion	112	668	8	788	70.6
Jack	303	2,580	25	2,908	78.3
Jackson	1,070	3,906	49	5,025	56.4
Jasper	3,423	9,957	137	13,517	48.3
Jeff Davis	440	719	33	1,192	23.4
Jefferson	44,668	43,242	717	88,627	1.6
Jim Hogg	1,301	356	10	1,667	56.7
Jim Wells	6,492	4,598	76	11,166	17.0
Johnson	10,496	37,661	681	48,838	55.6
Jones	1,226	4,262	79	5,567	54.5
Karnes	1,325	2,825	35	4,185	35.8
Kaufman	9,472	24,846	352	34,670	44.3
Kendall	3,043	14,508	232	17,783	64.5
Kenedy	82	84	1	167	1.2
Kent	66	335	4	405	66.4
Kerr	4,338	17,274	267	21,879	59.1
Kimble	217	1,667	8	1,892	76.6
King	5	139	1	145	92.4
Kinney	522	880	23	1,425	25.1
Kleberg	4,754	4,058	95	8,907	7.8
Knox	332	1,160	18	1,510	54.8
La Salle	965	669	12	1,646	18.0
Lamar	4,181	12,826	190	17,197	50.3
Lamb	998	3,058	35	4,091	50.4
Lampasas	1,479	5,621	104	7,204	57.5
Lavaca	1,428	6,796	70	8,294	64.7
Lee	1,632	4,507	82	6,221	46.2
Leon	1,062	5,814	69	6,945	68.4
Liberty	5,202	17,323	221	22,746	53.3
Limestone	2,208	5,288	67	7,563	40.7
Lipscomb	119	1,044	5	1,168	79.2
Live Oak	919	3,154	40	4,113	54.3
Llano	1,822	7,610	126	9,558	60.6
Loving	9	54	1	64	70.3
Lubbock	26,271	63,469	1,444	91,184	40.8
Lynn	506	1,439	14	1,959	47.6
Madison	967	3,028	33	4,028	51.2
Marion	1,495	2,733	54	4,282	28.9
Martin	248	1,368	8	1,624	69.0
Mason	380	1,565	23	1,968	60.2
Matagorda	3,980	8,040	113	12,133	33.5
Maverick	8,303	2,171	89	10,563	58.1
McCulloch	537	2,419	37	2,993	62.9
McLennan	25,694	47,903	944	74,541	29.8
McMullen	67	431	5	503	72.4
Medina	4,784	11,079	186	16,049	39.2
Menard	171	665	13	849	58.2
Midland	8,286	35,689	622	44,597	61.4
Milam	2,636	5,481	113	8,230	34.6
Mills	279	1,882	40	2,201	72.8
Mitchell	538	1,756	22	2,316	52.6
Montague	1,116	6,549	86	7,751	70.1
Montgomery	32,920	137,969	2,224	173,113	60.7
Moore	964	3,968	53	4,985	60.3
Morris	1,858	3,232	49	5,139	26.7
Motley	55	538	7	600	80.5
Nacogdoches	6,465	13,925	263	20,653	36.1
Navarro	4,350	10,847	167	15,364	42.3
Newton	1,677	4,112	80	5,869	41.5
Nolan	1,216	3,282	77	4,575	45.2
Nueces	45,772	48,966	1,366	96,104	3.3
Ochiltree	253	2,719	21	2,993	82.4
Oldham	71	790	8	869	82.7
Orange	6,800	23,366	352	30,518	54.3
Palo Pinto	1,811	7,393	133	9,337	59.8
Panola	2,211	7,950	69	10,230	56.1
Parker	7,853	39,243	598	47,694	65.8
Parmer	529	2,011	14	2,554	58.0
Pecos	1,591	2,512	47	4,150	22.2
Polk	4,859	14,071	204	19,134	48.1
Potter	7,126	18,918	406	26,450	44.6
Presidio	1,282	504	31	1,817	42.8
Rains	761	3,279	47	4,087	61.6
Randall	7,574	41,447	675	49,696	68.2
Reagan	158	676	9	843	61.4
Real	277	1,236	22	1,535	62.5
Red River	1,482	3,549	43	5,074	40.7
Reeves	1,655	1,188	34	2,877	16.2
Refugio	998	1,663	16	2,677	24.8
Roberts	33	468	7	508	85.6
Robertson	2,798	4,419	70	7,287	22.2
Rockwall	8,120	27,113	445	35,678	53.2
Runnels	519	3,104	45	3,668	70.5
Rusk	4,451	13,924	171	18,546	51.1
Sabine	807	3,727	44	4,578	63.8
San Augustine	1,193	2,469	28	3,690	34.6
San Jacinto	2,410	7,107	99	9,616	48.8
San Patricio	7,856	12,005	217	20,078	20.7
San Saba	323	1,905	31	2,259	70.0
Schleicher	221	787	9	1,017	55.7
Scurry	838	4,124	65	5,027	65.4
Shackelford	131	1,218	14	1,363	79.8
Shelby	2,322	6,879	83	9,284	49.1
Sherman	121	908	9	1,038	75.8
Smith	21,456	57,331	814	79,601	45.1
Somervell	613	2,871	54	3,538	63.8
Starr	10,260	1,547	76	11,883	73.3
Stephens	475	2,892	45	3,412	70.8
Sterling	31	459	4	494	86.6
Stonewall	160	507	8	675	51.4
Sutton	369	1,110	10	1,489	49.8
Swisher	579	1,655	36	2,270	47.4
Tarrant	253,071	348,920	8,899	610,890	15.7
Taylor	9,750	32,904	609	43,263	53.5
Terrell	184	358	13	555	31.4
Terry	1,059	2,602	48	3,709	41.6
Throckmorton	109	700	4	813	72.7
Titus	2,648	6,084	122	8,854	38.8
Tom Green	9,294	26,878	548	36,720	47.9
Travis	232,788	140,152	14,117	387,057	23.9
Trinity	1,614	4,537	84	6,235	46.9
Tyler	1,668	5,910	76	7,654	55.4
Upshur	2,971	12,015	152	15,138	59.7
Upton	333	953	14	1,300	47.7
Uvalde	3,825	4,529	81	8,435	8.3
Val Verde	6,285	5,635	161	12,081	5.4
Van Zandt	3,084	15,794	222	19,100	66.5
Victoria	8,802	19,692	359	28,853	37.7
Walker	6,252	12,140	293	18,685	31.5
Waller	6,514	9,244	144	15,902	17.2
Ward	841	2,366	38	3,245	47.0
Washington	3,381	10,857	159	14,397	51.9
Webb	37,597	11,078	435	49,110	54.0
Wharton	4,235	9,750	102	14,087	39.1
Wheeler	232	1,878	18	2,128	77.3
Wichita	10,525	29,812	681	41,018	47.0
Wilbarger	971	2,956	53	3,980	49.9
Willacy	3,600	1,416	48	5,064	43.1
Williamson	61,875	97,006	4,390	163,271	21.5
Wilson	4,821	12,218	166	17,205	43.0
Winkler	398	1,311	16	1,725	52.9
Wise	3,221	17,207	317	20,745	67.4
Wood	3,056	14,351	174	17,581	64.2
Yoakum	409	1,698	21	2,128	60.6
Young	992	6,225	99	7,316	71.5
Zapata	2,527	997	19	3,543	43.2
Zavala	3,042	574	37	3,653	67.6

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

Texas Secretary of State, Race Summary Report, 2012 General Election, 11/6/2012 canvass (printed 12/14/2012, 75 pages); page 1 President/Vice-President statewide (W-I = write-in)
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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 11 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Mitt Romney/ Paul Ryan REP	REP	4,569,843	57.17%
Barack Obama/ Joe Biden(I) DEM	DEM	3,308,124	41.38%
Gary Johnson/ Jim Gray LIB	LIB	88,580	1.11%
Jill Stein/ Cheri Honkala GRN	GRN	24,657	0.31%
Virgil Goode/ Jim Clymer W-I	—	1,287	0.02%
Rocky Anderson/ Luis J. Rodriguez W-I	—	426	0.01%
Tom Hoefling/ Jonathan D. Ellis W-I	—	374	0.00%
Avery Ayers/ Alejandrina Cabrera W-I	—	209	0.00%
Stewart Alexander/ Alex Mendoza W-I	—	162	0.00%
Thaddaus Hill/ Gordon F. Bailey W-I	—	102	0.00%
Andre N. Barnett/ Kenneth R. Cross W-I	—	87	0.00%
Total as printed		7,993,851

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Questions and answers

Who won Texas in 2012?

Mitt Romney won Texas by 15.78 percentage points (1,261,719 votes).

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 2012?

Texas cast 38 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Texas in 2012?

7,993,851 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 228, Barack Obama 26 (out of 254 counties with results).

How did Texas change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 4.0 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 11.8 points to Republican by 15.8 points.

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