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Election 2012 Results

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2012 presidential election in New York

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat Mitt Romney (Republican) in New York in 2012, 63.3% to 35.2%, a margin of 28.2 points and 1,995,310 votes.

New York voted 24.3 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 36 of the 62 counties and Republicans in 26. The largest, Kings, cast 738,630 votes and went to the Democrat by 63.0 points. The closest was Madison, where 204 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	4,485,741	63.3%
Mitt Romney	Republican	2,490,431	35.2%
All other candidates		104,987	1.5%
Total		7,081,159

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Total	Margin
Kings	601,897 81.5%	136,733 18.5%	738,630	D+63.0
New York	504,331 83.3%	101,025 16.7%	605,356	D+66.6
Queens	478,624 79.7%	121,608 20.3%	600,232	D+59.5
Suffolk	298,258 52.3%	271,757 47.7%	570,015	D+4.6
Nassau	305,667 55.1%	248,789 44.9%	554,456	D+10.3
Erie	235,816 58.1%	169,992 41.9%	405,808	D+16.2
Westchester	243,547 63.5%	139,790 36.5%	383,337	D+27.1
Bronx	347,098 91.3%	33,016 8.7%	380,114	D+82.6
Monroe	192,860 58.9%	134,539 41.1%	327,399	D+17.8
Onondaga	121,858 60.6%	79,367 39.4%	201,225	D+21.1
Richmond	78,379 52.3%	71,512 47.7%	149,891	D+4.6
Orange	73,384 53.6%	63,574 46.4%	136,958	D+7.2
Albany	87,115 64.9%	47,111 35.1%	134,226	D+29.8
Rockland	66,295 54.6%	55,067 45.4%	121,362	D+9.3
Dutchess	64,381 53.4%	56,075 46.6%	120,456	D+6.9
Saratoga	52,903 51.6%	49,589 48.4%	102,492	D+3.2
Niagara	43,400 50.3%	42,915 49.7%	86,315	D+0.6
Oneida	40,489 48.3%	43,364 51.7%	83,853	R+3.4
Broome	41,464 52.3%	37,837 47.7%	79,301	D+4.6
Ulster	45,474 59.2%	31,364 40.8%	76,838	D+18.4
Rensselaer	36,694 55.3%	29,671 44.7%	66,365	D+10.6
Schenectady	36,650 57.6%	26,929 42.4%	63,579	D+15.3
Chautauqua	23,302 45.7%	27,644 54.3%	50,946	R+8.5
Ontario	22,889 49.4%	23,459 50.6%	46,348	R+1.2
Oswego	23,006 53.0%	20,389 47.0%	43,395	D+6.0
Putnam	19,231 45.0%	23,475 55.0%	42,706	R+9.9
Tompkins	25,801 65.7%	13,461 34.3%	39,262	D+31.4
Steuben	15,576 42.1%	21,392 57.9%	36,968	R+15.7
St. Lawrence	21,253 58.3%	15,194 41.7%	36,447	D+16.6
Wayne	16,320 45.1%	19,845 54.9%	36,165	R+9.7
Jefferson	16,837 48.7%	17,718 51.3%	34,555	R+2.5
Chemung	16,810 49.6%	17,107 50.4%	33,917	R+0.9
Cayuga	16,707 54.9%	13,703 45.1%	30,410	D+9.9
Clinton	18,747 62.1%	11,447 37.9%	30,194	D+24.2
Warren	14,809 51.5%	13,920 48.5%	28,729	D+3.1
Cattaraugus	12,490 43.6%	16,126 56.4%	28,616	R+12.7
Columbia	15,810 55.6%	12,634 44.4%	28,444	D+11.2
Sullivan	15,158 54.7%	12,556 45.3%	27,714	D+9.4
Madison	13,725 50.4%	13,521 49.6%	27,246	D+0.7
Livingston	11,515 44.7%	14,255 55.3%	25,770	R+10.6
Herkimer	11,230 46.5%	12,930 53.5%	24,160	R+7.0
Genesee	9,432 39.8%	14,240 60.2%	23,672	R+20.3
Otsego	11,961 51.0%	11,470 49.0%	23,431	D+2.1
Washington	11,404 50.9%	11,009 49.1%	22,413	D+1.8
Tioga	8,863 42.7%	11,878 57.3%	20,741	R+14.5
Greene	8,697 44.2%	10,996 55.8%	19,693	R+11.7
Cortland	10,337 54.1%	8,787 45.9%	19,124	D+8.1
Fulton	8,642 45.3%	10,432 54.7%	19,074	R+9.4
Chenango	8,965 48.0%	9,708 52.0%	18,673	R+4.0
Delaware	8,175 45.5%	9,785 54.5%	17,960	R+9.0
Montgomery	8,409 47.8%	9,170 52.2%	17,579	R+4.3
Essex	9,718 59.2%	6,685 40.8%	16,403	D+18.5
Allegany	6,085 37.6%	10,086 62.4%	16,171	R+24.7
Franklin	9,888 62.9%	5,824 37.1%	15,712	D+25.9
Wyoming	5,557 35.8%	9,986 64.2%	15,543	R+28.5
Orleans	5,711 40.6%	8,370 59.4%	14,081	R+18.9
Seneca	6,966 53.9%	5,959 46.1%	12,925	D+7.8
Schoharie	5,310 41.9%	7,358 58.1%	12,668	R+16.2
Lewis	4,699 46.3%	5,451 53.7%	10,150	R+7.4
Yates	4,418 48.4%	4,715 51.6%	9,133	R+3.3
Schuyler	3,573 45.5%	4,277 54.5%	7,850	R+9.0
Hamilton	1,133 38.0%	1,847 62.0%	2,980	R+24.0

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

New York in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+12.6
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+23.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+22.5
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+28.2
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+26.9
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+18.3
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+25.0
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+28.9
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+15.8
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.1
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+8.0
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+2.7
1976	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+4.4
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+17.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+5.5
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+37.3
1960	John F. Kennedy (D)	D+5.3
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+22.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+11.9
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+1.0
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+5.0
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+3.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+19.9
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+12.7
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+2.3
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.6
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+37.6
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+7.0
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+12.6
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+12.4
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+10.9
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+9.3
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+18.9
1892	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+3.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+1.1
1884	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+0.1
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.9
1876	Samuel J. Tilden (D)	D+3.2
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+6.5
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+1.2

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