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Election 2012 Results

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2012 presidential election in Colorado

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat Mitt Romney (Republican) in Colorado in 2012, 51.5% to 46.1%, a margin of 5.4 points and 137,859 votes.

Colorado voted 1.5 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.9.

The Democratic hold continued from 2008, when Barack Obama also won.

Republicans led in 37 of the 64 counties and Democrats in 27. The largest, Jefferson, cast 311,052 votes and went to the Democrat by 4.9 points. The closest was Chaffee, where 16 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Barack Obama won	Democratic	1,323,102	51.5%
Mitt Romney	Republican	1,185,243	46.1%
All other candidates		61,173	2.4%
Total		2,569,518

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Jefferson	159,296 51.2%	144,197 46.4%	7,559	311,052	D+4.9
Denver	222,018 73.6%	73,111 24.2%	6,565	301,694	D+49.4
El Paso	111,819 38.5%	170,952 58.9%	7,404	290,175	R+20.4
Arapahoe	153,905 53.9%	125,588 44.0%	6,023	285,516	D+9.9
Larimer	92,747 51.5%	82,376 45.7%	5,057	180,180	D+5.8
Boulder	125,091 69.7%	49,981 27.8%	4,427	179,499	D+41.8
Adams	100,649 57.1%	70,972 40.3%	4,609	176,230	D+16.8
Douglas	60,991 36.4%	104,204 62.1%	2,586	167,781	R+25.8
Weld	49,050 42.3%	63,775 55.0%	3,041	115,866	R+12.7
Pueblo	42,551 55.8%	31,894 41.9%	1,749	76,194	D+14.0
Mesa	23,846 32.7%	47,472 65.1%	1,629	72,947	R+32.4
Broomfield	16,966 51.8%	15,008 45.8%	803	32,777	D+6.0
La Plata	15,489 53.1%	12,794 43.8%	901	29,184	D+9.2
Garfield	11,305 46.3%	12,535 51.4%	568	24,408	R+5.0
Eagle	12,792 56.4%	9,411 41.5%	465	22,668	D+14.9
Fremont	6,704 32.8%	13,174 64.5%	538	20,416	R+31.7
Montrose	6,138 30.5%	13,552 67.3%	440	20,130	R+36.8
Delta	4,622 29.0%	10,915 68.5%	388	15,925	R+39.5
Summit	9,347 61.0%	5,571 36.4%	394	15,312	D+24.7
Elbert	3,603 25.4%	10,266 72.4%	309	14,178	R+47.0
Teller	4,333 32.3%	8,702 64.9%	372	13,407	R+32.6
Routt	7,547 56.7%	5,469 41.1%	301	13,317	D+15.6
Montezuma	4,542 36.9%	7,401 60.1%	375	12,318	R+23.2
Morgan	3,912 36.3%	6,602 61.3%	263	10,777	R+25.0
Chaffee	5,086 48.6%	5,070 48.5%	306	10,462	D+0.2
Pitkin	6,849 68.0%	3,024 30.0%	202	10,075	D+38.0
Park	3,862 41.2%	5,236 55.9%	268	9,366	R+14.7
Logan	2,712 29.7%	6,179 67.7%	233	9,124	R+38.0
Gunnison	5,044 58.2%	3,341 38.5%	282	8,667	D+19.6
Otero	3,647 44.5%	4,382 53.5%	163	8,192	R+9.0
Grand	3,684 45.0%	4,253 51.9%	250	8,187	R+7.0
Las Animas	3,445 50.2%	3,263 47.6%	154	6,862	D+2.7
Archuleta	2,679 39.8%	3,872 57.5%	183	6,734	R+17.7
Alamosa	3,811 56.8%	2,705 40.3%	199	6,715	D+16.5
Moffat	1,330 21.6%	4,695 76.1%	143	6,168	R+54.6
Clear Creek	3,119 54.3%	2,430 42.3%	194	5,743	D+12.0
Rio Grande	2,478 44.8%	2,918 52.7%	137	5,533	R+8.0
Prowers	1,519 31.2%	3,230 66.4%	114	4,863	R+35.2
Yuma	987 21.6%	3,490 76.3%	100	4,577	R+54.7
San Miguel	2,992 70.3%	1,154 27.1%	110	4,256	D+43.2
Conejos	2,213 54.0%	1,835 44.7%	53	4,101	D+9.2
Huerfano	1,953 52.6%	1,646 44.3%	115	3,714	D+8.3
Kit Carson	838 22.6%	2,785 75.2%	79	3,702	R+52.6
Rio Blanco	568 16.9%	2,724 80.9%	77	3,369	R+64.0
Gilpin	1,892 56.7%	1,346 40.3%	100	3,338	D+16.4
Ouray	1,646 51.4%	1,481 46.3%	75	3,202	D+5.2
Lake	1,839 60.5%	1,098 36.1%	103	3,040	D+24.4
Saguache	1,864 63.6%	964 32.9%	102	2,930	D+30.7
Custer	868 32.0%	1,788 65.9%	59	2,715	R+33.9
Washington	468 18.1%	2,076 80.1%	47	2,591	R+62.1
Lincoln	552 24.1%	1,687 73.8%	48	2,287	R+49.6
Phillips	588 26.0%	1,637 72.3%	40	2,265	R+46.3
Baca	467 22.2%	1,559 74.0%	80	2,106	R+51.9
Bent	815 42.0%	1,075 55.4%	52	1,942	R+13.4
Costilla	1,340 72.9%	446 24.3%	51	1,837	D+48.7
Crowley	535 35.6%	924 61.5%	43	1,502	R+25.9
Sedgwick	419 31.3%	881 65.8%	38	1,338	R+34.5
Dolores	334 26.8%	859 69.0%	52	1,245	R+42.2
Cheyenne	172 15.7%	889 81.3%	32	1,093	R+65.6
Jackson	216 25.5%	600 70.8%	32	848	R+45.3
Kiowa	118 14.4%	677 82.5%	26	821	R+68.1
Mineral	291 44.8%	344 52.9%	15	650	R+8.2
Hinsdale	229 38.2%	353 58.8%	18	600	R+20.7
San Juan	266 52.6%	212 41.9%	28	506	D+10.7

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+11.0
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+13.5
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+4.9
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+5.4
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+9.0
2004	George W. Bush (R)	R+4.7
2000	George W. Bush (R)	R+8.4
1996	Bob Dole (R)	R+1.4
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+4.3
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+7.8
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+28.3
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+24.0
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+11.4
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+28.0
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+23.1
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.7
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+19.7
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.3
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+5.4
1944	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+6.8
1940	Wendell Willkie (R)	R+2.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.3
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+13.4
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.8
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+35.0
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+23.4
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+26.0
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+20.9
1908	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+1.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+14.2
1900	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+13.4
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+71.1
1892	James B. Weaver (other)
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+14.4
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+12.6
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+5.2

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