Virginia presidential election results 2012

Barack Obama carried Virginia by 3.87 points (149,298 votes), winning 13 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 13
Votes counted: 3,854,490
VA result: D+3.9
Compared with the nation: Same as nation
Swing since 2008: 2.4 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Barack Obama	Democratic	1,971,820	51.20%	13
Mitt Romney	Republican	1,822,522	47.30%	—
Total votes		3,854,490

Sources: va.pdf · 2012

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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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
Accomack	7,655	8,213	183	16,051	3.5
Albemarle	29,757	23,297	853	53,907	12.0
Alexandria	52,199	20,249	963	73,411	43.5
Alleghany	3,403	3,595	175	7,173	2.7
Amelia	2,490	4,331	94	6,915	26.6
Amherst	5,900	8,876	194	14,970	19.9
Appomattox	2,453	5,340	142	7,935	36.4
Arlington	81,269	34,474	1,865	117,608	39.8
Augusta	9,451	23,624	597	33,672	42.1
Bath	894	1,274	55	2,223	17.1
Bedford	10,209	26,679	537	40,230	44.0
Bedford	1,225	1,527	53	40,230	10.8
Bland	735	2,144	69	2,948	47.8
Botetourt	5,452	12,479	310	18,241	38.5
Bristol	2,492	4,780	115	7,387	31.0
Brunswick	4,994	2,968	75	8,037	25.2
Buchanan	3,094	6,436	116	9,646	34.6
Buckingham	3,750	3,569	138	7,457	2.4
Buena Vista	919	1,564	43	2,526	25.5
Campbell	7,595	17,695	406	25,696	39.3
Caroline	7,276	6,151	225	13,652	8.2
Carroll	3,685	8,736	497	12,918	39.1
Charles City	2,772	1,396	64	4,232	32.5
Charlotte	2,503	3,311	84	5,898	13.7
Charlottesville	16,510	4,844	443	21,797	53.5
Chesapeake	55,052	53,900	1,473	110,425	1.0
Chesterfield	77,694	90,934	2,360	170,988	7.7
Clarke	3,239	4,296	227	7,762	13.6
Colonial Heights	2,544	5,941	139	8,624	39.4
Covington	1,319	975	36	2,330	14.8
Craig	830	1,757	80	2,667	34.8
Culpeper	8,285	11,580	346	20,211	16.3
Cumberland	2,422	2,538	88	5,048	2.3
Danville	12,218	7,763	223	20,204	22.1
Dickenson	2,473	4,274	157	6,904	26.1
Dinwiddie	6,550	6,875	164	13,589	2.4
Emporia	1,793	886	17	2,696	33.6
Essex	3,016	2,602	57	5,675	7.3
Fairfax	315,273	206,773	7,241	540,916	20.5
Fairfax	6,651	4,775	203	540,916	16.1
Falls Church	5,015	2,147	114	7,276	39.4
Fauquier	13,965	21,034	556	35,555	19.9
Floyd	2,732	4,673	239	7,644	25.4
Fluvanna	5,893	6,678	178	12,749	6.2
Franklin	9,090	16,718	899	31,067	28.6
Franklin	2,833	1,496	31	31,067	30.7
Frederick	12,690	22,858	846	36,394	27.9
Fredericksburg	7,131	4,060	246	11,437	26.9
Galax	900	1,332	45	2,277	19.0
Giles	2,730	4,660	168	7,558	25.5
Gloucester	6,764	12,137	382	19,283	27.9
Goochland	4,676	8,448	191	13,315	28.3
Grayson	2,068	4,801	252	7,121	38.4
Greene	3,290	5,569	164	9,023	25.3
Greensville	3,135	1,766	25	4,926	27.8
Halifax	7,766	8,694	232	16,692	5.6
Hampton	46,966	18,640	884	66,490	42.6
Hanover	18,294	39,940	824	59,058	36.7
Harrisonburg	8,654	6,565	374	15,593	13.4
Henrico	89,594	70,449	2,198	162,241	11.8
Henry	10,317	13,984	662	24,963	14.7
Highland	459	924	30	1,413	32.9
Hopewell	5,179	3,739	113	9,031	15.9
Isle of Wight	8,761	11,802	264	20,827	14.6
James City	17,879	22,843	518	41,240	12.0
King George	4,477	6,604	244	11,325	18.8
King William	3,344	5,466	113	8,923	23.8
King and Queen	1,745	1,865	45	3,655	3.3
Lancaster	3,149	3,753	59	6,961	8.7
Lee	2,583	6,847	168	9,598	44.4
Lexington	1,486	1,146	55	2,687	12.7
Loudoun	82,479	75,292	2,289	160,060	4.5
Louisa	6,953	9,215	284	16,452	13.7
Lunenburg	2,684	2,969	81	5,734	5.0
Lynchburg	15,948	19,806	694	36,448	10.6
Madison	2,639	3,869	106	6,614	18.6
Manassas	8,478	6,463	259	15,200	13.3
Manassas Park	2,879	1,699	78	4,656	25.3
Martinsville	3,855	2,312	117	6,284	24.6
Mathews	1,807	3,488	79	5,374	31.3
Mecklenburg	6,921	7,973	183	15,077	7.0
Middlesex	2,370	3,619	91	6,080	20.5
Montgomery	19,903	20,006	1,100	41,009	0.3
Nelson	4,171	3,947	132	8,250	2.7
New Kent	3,555	7,246	152	10,953	33.7
Newport News	51,100	27,230	1,114	79,444	30.0
Norfolk	62,687	23,147	1,209	87,043	45.4
Northampton	3,741	2,676	74	6,491	16.4
Northumberland	3,191	4,310	57	7,558	14.8
Norton	566	895	31	1,492	22.1
Nottoway	3,344	3,409	93	6,846	0.9
Orange	6,870	9,244	240	16,354	14.5
Page	3,724	6,344	160	10,228	25.6
Patrick	2,417	5,622	220	8,259	38.8
Petersburg	14,283	1,527	98	15,908	80.2
Pittsylvania	10,858	19,263	560	30,681	27.4
Poquoson	1,679	5,312	115	7,106	51.1
Portsmouth	32,501	12,858	563	45,922	42.8
Powhatan	4,088	11,200	237	15,525	45.8
Prince Edward	5,132	3,952	155	9,239	12.8
Prince George	6,991	8,879	176	16,046	11.8
Prince William	103,331	74,458	2,406	180,195	16.0
Pulaski	5,292	8,920	468	14,680	24.7
Radford	2,732	2,520	147	5,399	3.9
Rappahannock	1,980	2,311	66	4,357	7.6
Richmond	1,574	2,160	36	101,339	15.5
Richmond	75,921	20,050	1,598	101,339	57.3
Roanoke	18,711	31,624	882	91,372	25.2
Roanoke	24,134	14,991	1,030	91,372	22.8
Rockbridge	4,088	5,898	191	10,177	17.8
Rockingham	10,065	24,186	615	34,866	40.5
Russell	3,718	8,180	190	12,088	36.9
Salem	4,760	7,299	259	12,318	20.6
Scott	2,395	7,439	158	9,992	50.5
Shenandoah	6,469	12,538	366	19,373	31.3
Smyth	4,171	8,379	227	12,777	32.9
Southampton	4,437	4,733	94	9,264	3.2
Spotsylvania	25,165	31,844	965	57,974	11.5
Stafford	27,182	32,480	921	60,583	8.7
Staunton	5,728	5,272	210	11,210	4.1
Suffolk	24,267	17,820	479	42,566	15.1
Surry	2,576	1,671	61	4,308	21.0
Sussex	3,358	2,021	61	5,440	24.6
Tazewell	3,661	13,843	228	17,732	57.4
Virginia Beach	94,299	99,291	3,051	196,641	2.5
Warren	6,452	9,869	377	16,698	20.5
Washington	7,076	18,141	415	25,632	43.2
Waynesboro	3,840	4,790	161	8,791	10.8
Westmoreland	4,295	3,731	94	8,120	6.9
Williamsburg	4,903	2,682	163	7,748	28.7
Winchester	5,094	4,946	256	10,296	1.4
Wise	3,760	11,076	182	15,018	48.7
Wythe	3,783	8,324	251	12,358	36.7
York	13,183	20,204	566	33,953	20.7

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

Virginia State Board of Elections, November 6, 2012 General Election Official Results, President and Vice President statewide (printed 12/14/2012)
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Not shown: the figures read from this document do not match the summary table, so the statewide figures above are used instead. Check the original document for statewide detail.

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The figures are printed above each candidate's name; the name line(s) after the numbers are joined to the row. The race column (x < 100 pt) and the statistics/details column (x > 260 pt) are ignored.
The page says 2,587 of 2,588 precincts reporting; the candidates plus the 'Write In' line sum to 3,854,489, one vote under the UCSB total of 3,854,490. Reported, not corrected.

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 Virginia in 2012?

Barack Obama won Virginia by 3.87 percentage points (149,298 votes).

How many electoral votes did Virginia have in 2012?

Virginia cast 13 electoral votes in 2012.

How many people voted for president in Virginia in 2012?

3,854,490 votes were counted for president.

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

Mitt Romney 88, Barack Obama 46 (out of 134 counties with results).

How did Virginia change from 2008 to 2012?

The margin moved 2.4 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 6.3 points to Democratic by 3.9 points.

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