Wisconsin · 2012 presidential election
Wisconsin presidential election results 2012
Barack Obama carried Wisconsin by 6.84 points (210,019 votes), winning 10 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 10
- Votes counted
- 3,071,434
- WI result
- D+6.8
- Compared with the nation
- 2.9 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2008
- 7.1 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 1,620,985 | 52.90% | 10 | |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 1,410,966 | 46.00% | — | |
| Total votes | 3,071,434 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 5,542 | 4,644 | 101 | 10,287 | 8.7 |
| Ashland | 5,399 | 2,820 | 153 | 8,372 | 30.8 |
| Barron | 10,890 | 11,443 | 359 | 22,692 | 2.4 |
| Bayfield | 6,033 | 3,603 | 152 | 9,788 | 24.8 |
| Brown | 62,526 | 64,836 | 1,566 | 128,928 | 1.8 |
| Buffalo | 3,570 | 3,364 | 105 | 7,039 | 2.9 |
| Burnett | 3,986 | 4,550 | 141 | 8,677 | 6.5 |
| Calumet | 11,489 | 14,539 | 392 | 26,420 | 11.5 |
| Chippewa | 15,237 | 15,322 | 373 | 30,932 | 0.3 |
| Clark | 6,172 | 7,412 | 217 | 13,801 | 9.0 |
| Columbia | 17,175 | 13,026 | 345 | 30,546 | 13.6 |
| Crawford | 4,629 | 3,067 | 121 | 7,817 | 20.0 |
| Dane | 216,071 | 83,644 | 4,466 | 304,181 | 43.5 |
| Dodge | 18,762 | 25,211 | 515 | 44,488 | 14.5 |
| Door | 9,357 | 8,121 | 193 | 17,671 | 7.0 |
| Douglas | 14,863 | 7,705 | 326 | 22,894 | 31.3 |
| Dunn | 11,316 | 10,224 | 452 | 21,992 | 5.0 |
| Eau Claire | 30,666 | 23,256 | 884 | 54,806 | 13.5 |
| Florence | 953 | 1,645 | 27 | 2,625 | 26.4 |
| Fond du Lac | 22,379 | 30,355 | 668 | 53,402 | 14.9 |
| Forest | 2,425 | 2,172 | 51 | 4,648 | 5.4 |
| Grant | 13,594 | 10,255 | 399 | 24,248 | 13.8 |
| Green | 11,206 | 7,857 | 259 | 19,322 | 17.3 |
| Green Lake | 3,793 | 5,782 | 100 | 9,675 | 20.6 |
| Iowa | 8,105 | 4,287 | 142 | 12,534 | 30.5 |
| Iron | 1,784 | 1,790 | 58 | 3,632 | 0.2 |
| Jackson | 5,298 | 3,900 | 115 | 9,313 | 15.0 |
| Jefferson | 20,158 | 23,517 | 606 | 44,281 | 7.6 |
| Juneau | 6,242 | 5,411 | 174 | 11,827 | 7.0 |
| Kenosha | 44,867 | 34,977 | 1,053 | 80,897 | 12.2 |
| Kewaunee | 5,153 | 5,747 | 137 | 11,037 | 5.4 |
| La Crosse | 36,693 | 25,751 | 1,018 | 63,462 | 17.2 |
| Lafayette | 4,536 | 3,314 | 102 | 7,952 | 15.4 |
| Langlade | 4,573 | 5,816 | 130 | 10,519 | 11.8 |
| Lincoln | 7,563 | 7,455 | 198 | 15,216 | 0.7 |
| Manitowoc | 20,403 | 21,604 | 610 | 42,617 | 2.8 |
| Marathon | 32,363 | 36,617 | 882 | 69,862 | 6.1 |
| Marinette | 9,882 | 10,619 | 276 | 20,777 | 3.5 |
| Marquette | 4,014 | 3,992 | 99 | 8,105 | 0.3 |
| Menominee | 1,191 | 179 | 7 | 1,377 | 73.5 |
| Milwaukee | 332,438 | 154,924 | 5,214 | 492,576 | 36.0 |
| Monroe | 9,515 | 9,675 | 295 | 19,485 | 0.8 |
| Oconto | 8,865 | 10,741 | 253 | 19,859 | 9.4 |
| Oneida | 10,452 | 10,917 | 283 | 21,652 | 2.1 |
| Outagamie | 45,659 | 47,372 | 1,565 | 94,596 | 1.8 |
| Ozaukee | 19,159 | 36,077 | 581 | 55,817 | 30.3 |
| Pepin | 1,876 | 1,794 | 29 | 3,699 | 2.2 |
| Pierce | 10,235 | 10,397 | 388 | 21,020 | 0.8 |
| Polk | 10,073 | 12,094 | 406 | 22,573 | 9.0 |
| Portage | 22,075 | 16,615 | 647 | 39,337 | 13.9 |
| Price | 3,887 | 3,884 | 130 | 7,901 | 0.0 |
| Racine | 53,008 | 49,347 | 1,009 | 103,364 | 3.5 |
| Richland | 4,969 | 3,573 | 113 | 8,655 | 16.1 |
| Rock | 49,219 | 30,517 | 954 | 80,690 | 23.2 |
| Rusk | 3,397 | 3,676 | 118 | 7,191 | 3.9 |
| Sauk | 18,736 | 12,838 | 353 | 31,927 | 18.5 |
| Sawyer | 4,486 | 4,442 | 97 | 9,025 | 0.5 |
| Shawano | 9,000 | 11,022 | 257 | 20,279 | 10.0 |
| Sheboygan | 27,918 | 34,072 | 661 | 62,651 | 9.8 |
| St. Croix | 19,910 | 25,503 | 812 | 46,225 | 12.1 |
| Taylor | 3,763 | 5,601 | 148 | 9,512 | 19.3 |
| Trempealeau | 7,605 | 5,707 | 169 | 13,481 | 14.1 |
| Vernon | 8,044 | 5,942 | 283 | 14,269 | 14.7 |
| Vilas | 5,951 | 7,749 | 142 | 13,842 | 13.0 |
| Walworth | 22,552 | 29,006 | 745 | 52,303 | 12.3 |
| Washburn | 4,447 | 4,699 | 141 | 9,287 | 2.7 |
| Washington | 23,166 | 54,765 | 811 | 78,742 | 40.1 |
| Waukesha | 78,779 | 162,798 | 2,279 | 243,856 | 34.5 |
| Waupaca | 11,578 | 17,002 | 260 | 28,840 | 18.8 |
| Waushara | 5,335 | 6,562 | 151 | 12,048 | 10.2 |
| Winnebago | 45,449 | 42,122 | 1,602 | 89,173 | 3.7 |
| Wood | 18,581 | 19,704 | 615 | 38,900 | 2.9 |
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 9 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARACK OBAMA/JOE BIDEN Democrat | — | 1,620,985 | 52.87% |
| MITT ROMNEY/PAUL RYAN Republican | — | 1,410,966 | 46.02% |
| GARY JOHNSON/JAMES P. GRAY Independent | — | 20,439 | 0.67% |
| JILL STEIN/BEN MANSKI Independent | — | 7,665 | 0.25% |
| VIRGIL GOODE/JIM CLYMER CON | CON | 4,930 | 0.16% |
| JERRY WHITE/PHYLLIS SCHERRER Independent | — | 553 | 0.02% |
| GLORIA LA RIVA/FILBERTO RAMIREZ, JR. Independent | — | 526 | 0.02% |
| ROSS C. ROCKY ANDERSON/LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Independent | — | 112 | 0.00% |
| ROSEANNE BARR/CINDY LEE SHEEHAN (WRITE IN) Independent | — | 88 | 0.00% |
| Write-in / scattering | 5,170 | ||
| Total as printed | 3,071,434 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Each candidate line prints the votes and percentage before the name; the address lines under each candidate are not rows. 'Winner' before Obama's figures is kept under trailing_text. Percentages like '.16%' have no leading digit and are not read as numbers (percent null for those 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 Wisconsin in 2012?
Barack Obama won Wisconsin by 6.84 percentage points (210,019 votes).
How many electoral votes did Wisconsin have in 2012?
Wisconsin cast 10 electoral votes in 2012.
How many people voted for president in Wisconsin in 2012?
3,071,434 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Wisconsin in 2012?
Mitt Romney 37, Barack Obama 35 (out of 72 counties with results).
How did Wisconsin change from 2008 to 2012?
The margin moved 7.1 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 13.9 points to Democratic by 6.8 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data