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2012 presidential election in New Hampshire

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat Mitt Romney (Republican) in New Hampshire in 2012, 52.0% to 46.4%, a margin of 5.6 points and 39,643 votes.

New Hampshire voted 1.7 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.

Democrats led in 7 of the 10 counties and Republicans in 3. The largest, Hillsborough, cast 205,672 votes and went to the Democrat by 1.1 points. The closest was Carroll, where 230 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

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Barack Obama won Democratic 369,561 52.0%
Mitt Romney Republican 329,918 46.4%
All other candidates 11,493 1.6%
Total710,972

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Hillsborough 102,303 49.7% 99,991 48.6% 3,378 205,672 D+1.1
Rockingham 80,142 47.0% 87,921 51.6% 2,356 170,419 R+4.6
Merrimack 44,756 55.6% 34,524 42.9% 1,218 80,498 D+12.7
Strafford 36,026 56.3% 26,729 41.8% 1,205 63,960 D+14.5
Grafton 29,826 60.9% 18,208 37.2% 971 49,005 D+23.7
Cheshire 25,380 61.4% 15,156 36.6% 827 41,363 D+24.7
Belknap 15,890 46.9% 17,571 51.9% 425 33,886 R+5.0
Carroll 13,977 48.9% 14,207 49.7% 408 28,592 R+0.8
Sullivan 12,166 55.7% 9,269 42.5% 399 21,834 D+13.3
Coos 9,095 57.9% 6,342 40.4% 265 15,702 D+17.5

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

New Hampshire in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+2.8
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+7.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+0.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+1.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+1.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+26.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+37.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+29.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.3
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+29.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+27.8
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+6.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.6
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+25.1
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+2.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+21.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+22.3
1900 William McKinley (R) R+20.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+4.0
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.6
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+4.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+3.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+7.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.5