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Election 2012 Results

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2012 presidential election in West Virginia

Mitt Romney (Republican) beat Barack Obama (Democrat) in West Virginia in 2012, 62.3% to 35.5%, a margin of 26.8 points and 179,386 votes.

West Virginia voted 30.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.9.

The Republican hold continued from 2008, when John McCain won.

Republicans led in 55 of the 55 counties. The largest, Kanawha, cast 75,077 votes and went to the Republican by 11.8 points. The closest was Calhoun, where 501 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
Mitt Romney won Republican 417,655 62.3%
Barack Obama Democratic 238,269 35.5%
All other candidates 14,514 2.2%
Total670,438

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 32,480 43.3% 41,364 55.1% 1,233 75,077 R+11.8
Berkeley 14,275 38.4% 22,156 59.6% 741 37,172 R+21.2
Wood 11,230 33.1% 22,183 65.3% 564 33,977 R+32.2
Cabell 13,568 42.2% 17,985 56.0% 591 32,144 R+13.7
Monongalia 13,826 43.9% 16,831 53.5% 818 31,475 R+9.5
Raleigh 7,739 26.8% 20,614 71.5% 476 28,829 R+44.7
Harrison 9,732 37.2% 15,876 60.7% 539 26,147 R+23.5
Putnam 7,256 30.7% 16,032 67.7% 385 23,673 R+37.1
Jefferson 10,398 47.0% 11,258 50.9% 482 22,138 R+3.9
Marion 8,959 41.6% 12,054 56.0% 529 21,542 R+14.4
Mercer 5,432 25.5% 15,450 72.6% 394 21,276 R+47.1
Ohio 6,786 37.9% 10,768 60.1% 357 17,911 R+22.2
Fayette 5,419 38.5% 8,350 59.3% 301 14,070 R+20.8
Wayne 4,931 35.3% 8,688 62.3% 336 13,955 R+26.9
Greenbrier 4,710 36.3% 7,930 61.2% 323 12,963 R+24.8
Marshall 4,484 34.7% 8,135 63.0% 297 12,916 R+28.3
Hancock 4,627 38.2% 7,226 59.6% 265 12,118 R+21.4
Logan 3,469 29.0% 8,222 68.8% 255 11,946 R+39.8
Jackson 3,854 33.4% 7,408 64.2% 282 11,544 R+30.8
Preston 2,931 26.3% 7,889 70.7% 335 11,155 R+44.4
Mineral 2,885 26.3% 7,833 71.3% 261 10,979 R+45.1
Mason 3,778 38.6% 5,741 58.6% 270 9,789 R+20.1
Randolph 3,342 34.3% 6,160 63.1% 254 9,756 R+28.9
Brooke 4,005 43.1% 5,060 54.4% 229 9,294 R+11.4
Mingo 2,428 27.5% 6,191 70.1% 211 8,830 R+42.6
Nicholas 2,664 30.3% 5,898 67.1% 223 8,785 R+36.8
Boone 2,790 32.8% 5,467 64.3% 243 8,500 R+31.5
Upshur 2,158 26.1% 5,939 71.8% 176 8,273 R+45.7
Hampshire 2,299 28.8% 5,523 69.2% 164 7,986 R+40.4
Wyoming 1,583 21.0% 5,769 76.7% 171 7,523 R+55.6
Morgan 2,363 33.5% 4,513 64.1% 168 7,044 R+30.5
Lincoln 2,227 32.7% 4,383 64.3% 208 6,818 R+31.6
Lewis 1,736 27.6% 4,375 69.6% 176 6,287 R+42.0
McDowell 2,109 34.1% 3,959 64.0% 120 6,188 R+29.9
Taylor 1,941 32.9% 3,840 65.0% 127 5,908 R+32.1
Wetzel 2,217 37.9% 3,473 59.3% 166 5,856 R+21.4
Barbour 1,768 30.7% 3,824 66.4% 169 5,761 R+35.7
Monroe 1,455 27.9% 3,616 69.4% 141 5,212 R+41.5
Hardy 1,482 28.7% 3,536 68.4% 150 5,168 R+39.7
Roane 1,939 38.4% 2,982 59.1% 126 5,047 R+20.7
Braxton 1,998 41.6% 2,725 56.7% 81 4,804 R+15.1
Summers 1,621 34.2% 2,981 63.0% 133 4,735 R+28.7
Grant 718 15.7% 3,783 82.5% 85 4,586 R+66.8
Ritchie 768 20.3% 2,921 77.1% 99 3,788 R+56.8
Pocahontas 1,303 36.4% 2,182 61.0% 91 3,576 R+24.6
Tyler 890 27.1% 2,314 70.6% 75 3,279 R+43.4
Pendleton 1,074 33.2% 2,095 64.7% 70 3,239 R+31.5
Tucker 880 28.0% 2,176 69.3% 82 3,138 R+41.3
Clay 931 30.9% 1,971 65.4% 110 3,012 R+34.5
Pleasants 955 33.6% 1,825 64.3% 60 2,840 R+30.6
Doddridge 575 20.8% 2,130 76.9% 64 2,769 R+56.2
Webster 947 34.4% 1,710 62.1% 98 2,755 R+27.7
Gilmer 840 33.5% 1,595 63.6% 74 2,509 R+30.1
Calhoun 818 37.1% 1,319 59.8% 70 2,207 R+22.7
Wirt 676 31.1% 1,427 65.7% 68 2,171 R+34.6

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

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6