Vermont · 2012 presidential election
Vermont presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Vermont by 35.60 points (106,541 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 299,290
- VT result
- D+35.6
- Compared with the nation
- 31.7 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 1.4 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 199,239 | 66.60% | 3 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 92,698 | 31.00% | — | |
| Total votes | 299,290 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison | 12,257 | 5,203 | 450 | 17,910 | 39.4 |
| Bennington | 11,514 | 5,687 | 392 | 17,593 | 33.1 |
| Caledonia | 8,192 | 5,088 | 381 | 13,661 | 22.7 |
| Chittenden | 53,626 | 21,571 | 1,883 | 77,080 | 41.6 |
| Essex | 1,539 | 1,164 | 95 | 2,798 | 13.4 |
| Franklin | 12,057 | 7,405 | 426 | 19,888 | 23.4 |
| Grand Isle | 2,531 | 1,471 | 73 | 4,075 | 26.0 |
| Lamoille | 8,371 | 3,342 | 275 | 11,988 | 42.0 |
| Orange | 9,076 | 4,588 | 389 | 14,053 | 31.9 |
| Orleans | 7,117 | 4,306 | 269 | 11,692 | 24.0 |
| Rutland | 17,088 | 10,835 | 686 | 28,609 | 21.9 |
| Washington | 20,351 | 8,093 | 863 | 29,307 | 41.8 |
| Windham | 16,026 | 5,347 | 564 | 21,937 | 48.7 |
| Windsor | 19,494 | 8,598 | 607 | 28,699 | 38.0 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARACK OBAMA, Illinois* | — | 199,239 | 67.03% |
| MITT ROMNEY, Massachusetts | — | 92,698 | 31.19% |
| GARY JOHNSON, New Mexico | — | 3,487 | 1.17% |
| ROSS "ROCKY" C. ANDERSON, Utah | — | 1,128 | 0.38% |
| PETA LINDSAY, California | — | 695 | 0.23% |
| Write-in / scattering | 2,043 | ||
| Total as printed | 299,290 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- 'Combined Write-in votes' is write_in; the candidate's home state printed after the name is part of the label as printed.
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 Vermont in 2012?
Barack Obama won Vermont by 35.60 percentage points (106,541 votes).
How many electoral votes did Vermont have in 2012?
Vermont cast 3 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Vermont in 2012?
299,290 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Vermont in 2012?
Barack Obama 14 (out of 14 counties with results).
How did Vermont change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 1.4 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 37.0 points to Democratic by 35.6 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data