The 2012 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose 16 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.
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Romney won Georgia by a 7.82% margin, an improvement from 2008 when McCain won by 5.2%. Romney received 53.30% of the vote to Obama's 45.48%. Obama is the first (and so far only) Democrat to win two terms without winning Georgia either time. Early County flipped from supporting the Republican candidate to the Democratic candidate, while Chattahoochee flipped from Democratic to Republican.
As of 2020, this is the last time that Cobb, Gwinnett, and Henry counties voted for the Republican candidate in a presidential election. All three counties are massive counties in the Atlanta metropolitan area that were historically Republican bastions but have been instrumental in Democratic gains in the Peach State with an increasing African American population and "suburban revolt" amongst white suburban voters. This is also the last time a Democratic presidential nominee won the rural Black Belt counties of Baker, Dooly, Early, Peach, Quitman and Twiggs, along with the most recent presidential election when Georgia backed the losing candidate nationwide.
This was the first election since 1980 in which Georgia voted to the left of Missouri, and the last time, as of 2020, that Georgia voted to the right of Ohio or Iowa.
Democratic primary
Incumbent president Barack Obama was unopposed in the Georgia primary, therefore winning all of the state's delegates.
Republican primary
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Georgia results by county Newt Gingrich Mitt Romney |
The 2012 Georgia Republican primary took place on March 6, 2012.[2][3]
Georgia has 76 delegates to the Republic National Convention. The three super delegates are awarded winner-take-all to the statewide winner. Thirty-one delegates are awarded proportionately among candidates winning at least 20% of the vote statewide. Another 42 delegates are allocated by Congressional district, 3 delegates for each district. If a candidate gets a majority in a district, he wins all 3 delegates. If no one get majority, the delegates are split 2 and 1 between the top two candidates respectively.[4]
Georgia Republican primary, 2012[5] | |||
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Estimated national delegates [6] |
Newt Gingrich | 425,395 | 47.2% | 54 |
Mitt Romney | 233,611 | 25.9% | 19 |
Rick Santorum | 176,259 | 19.6% | 3 |
Ron Paul | 59,100 | 6.6% | 0 |
Jon Huntsman Jr. | 1,813 | 0.2% | 0 |
Michele Bachmann | 1,714 | 0.2% | 0 |
Rick Perry | 1,696 | 0.2% | 0 |
Buddy Roemer | 1,142 | 0.13% | 0 |
Gary Johnson | 740 | 0.08% | 0 |
Undecided or Other | 0 | ||
Totals | 901,470 | 100.0% | 76 |
Key: | Withdrew prior to contest. |
General election
Candidate Ballot Access:
- Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan, Republican
- Barack Obama/Joseph Biden, Democratic
- Gary Johnson/James P. Gray, Libertarian
Write-In Candidate Access:
- Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala, Green
- Virgil Goode/Jim Clymer, Constitution
- Rocky Anderson/Luis J. Rodriguez, Justice
Results
Out of a total of 6,066,961 registered voters at the time of the presidential election, turnout for the general election was 3,908,369, or 64.42% of registered voters.
United States presidential election in Georgia, 2012[7] | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | Paul Ryan | 2,078,688 | 53.30% | 16 | |
Democratic | Barack Obama | Joe Biden | 1,773,827 | 45.48% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Jim Gray | 45,324 | 1.16% | 0 | |
Green (Write-in) | Jill Stein | Cheri Honkala | 1,516 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Constitution (Write-in) | Virgil Goode | Jim Clymer | 432 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Justice (Write-in) | Rocky Anderson | Luis J. Rodriguez | 154 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Other Write-ins | Other Write-ins | 109 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Totals | 3,900,050 | 100.00% | 16 | |||
Voter turnout (registered voters) | 71.36% |
By county
County | Obama% | Obama# | Romney% | Romney# | Others% | Others# | Total |
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Appling | 24.78% | 1,758 | 73.78% | 5,233 | 1.44% | 102 | 7,093 |
Atkinson | 31.99% | 930 | 66.67% | 1,938 | 1.34% | 39 | 2,907 |
Bacon | 20.10% | 791 | 78.58% | 3,093 | 1.32% | 52 | 3,936 |
Baker | 49.91% | 794 | 49.34% | 785 | 0.75% | 12 | 1,591 |
Baldwin | 52.14% | 8,483 | 46.64% | 7,589 | 1.22% | 198 | 16,270 |
Banks | 12.57% | 780 | 86.30% | 5,354 | 1.13% | 70 | 6,204 |
Barrow | 23.85% | 6,028 | 74.10% | 18,725 | 2.05% | 517 | 25,270 |
Bartow | 23.39% | 8,396 | 74.87% | 26,876 | 1.74% | 625 | 35,897 |
Ben Hill | 42.08% | 2,512 | 56.88% | 3,396 | 1.04% | 62 | 5,970 |
Berrien | 20.45% | 1,273 | 77.81% | 4,843 | 1.74% | 108 | 6,224 |
Bibb | 59.54% | 38,585 | 39.54% | 25,623 | 0.92% | 595 | 64,803 |
Bleckley | 25.79% | 1,269 | 72.91% | 3,587 | 1.30% | 64 | 4,920 |
Brantley | 15.60% | 939 | 82.46% | 4,964 | 1.94% | 117 | 6,020 |
Brooks | 46.46% | 3,138 | 52.62% | 3,554 | 0.92% | 62 | 6,754 |
Bryan | 27.51% | 3,707 | 70.94% | 9,560 | 1.55% | 209 | 13,476 |
Bulloch | 39.75% | 9,593 | 58.73% | 14,174 | 1.52% | 366 | 24,133 |
Burke | 55.19% | 5,405 | 43.92% | 4,301 | 0.89% | 87 | 9,793 |
Butts | 31.57% | 2,968 | 67.09% | 6,306 | 1.34% | 126 | 9,400 |
Calhoun | 59.30% | 1,298 | 40.34% | 883 | 0.37% | 8 | 2,189 |
Camden | 35.33% | 6,377 | 62.84% | 11,343 | 1.83% | 330 | 18,050 |
Candler | 32.77% | 1,157 | 66.38% | 2,344 | 0.85% | 30 | 3,531 |
Carroll | 30.45% | 12,688 | 67.86% | 28,280 | 1.69% | 704 | 41,672 |
Catoosa | 22.55% | 5,365 | 75.06% | 17,858 | 2.39% | 568 | 23,791 |
Charlton | 31.79% | 1,197 | 67.12% | 2,527 | 1.09% | 41 | 3,765 |
Chatham | 55.36% | 60,246 | 43.38% | 47,204 | 1.26% | 1,371 | 108,821 |
Chattahoochee | 48.83% | 729 | 49.23% | 735 | 1.94% | 29 | 1,493 |
Chattooga | 28.36% | 2,232 | 69.28% | 5,452 | 2.35% | 185 | 7,869 |
Cherokee | 20.16% | 19,841 | 77.73% | 76,514 | 2.12% | 2,084 | 98,439 |
Clarke | 62.77% | 25,431 | 34.10% | 13,815 | 3.13% | 1,269 | 40,515 |
Clay | 61.44% | 862 | 38.28% | 537 | 0.29% | 4 | 1,403 |
Clayton | 84.67% | 81,479 | 14.72% | 14,164 | 0.61% | 587 | 96,230 |
Clinch | 34.54% | 860 | 64.46% | 1,605 | 1.00% | 25 | 2,490 |
Cobb | 42.83% | 133,124 | 55.25% | 171,722 | 1.93% | 5,989 | 310,835 |
Coffee | 34.94% | 5,057 | 63.89% | 9,248 | 1.17% | 169 | 14,474 |
Colquitt | 29.77% | 3,973 | 69.25% | 9,243 | 0.98% | 131 | 13,347 |
Columbia | 27.85% | 16,451 | 70.70% | 41,765 | 1.45% | 855 | 59,071 |
Cook | 33.80% | 2,042 | 65.14% | 3,935 | 1.06% | 64 | 6,041 |
Coweta | 27.22% | 15,168 | 71.17% | 39,653 | 1.61% | 897 | 55,718 |
Crawford | 33.16% | 1,706 | 65.47% | 3,368 | 1.36% | 70 | 5,144 |
Crisp | 42.80% | 3,167 | 56.51% | 4,182 | 0.69% | 51 | 7,400 |
Dade | 23.33% | 1,411 | 73.94% | 4,471 | 2.73% | 165 | 6,047 |
Dawson | 12.09% | 1,241 | 86.19% | 8,847 | 1.71% | 176 | 10,264 |
Decatur | 43.72% | 4,591 | 55.47% | 5,824 | 0.81% | 85 | 10,500 |
DeKalb | 77.63% | 238,224 | 20.98% | 64,392 | 1.38% | 4,242 | 306,858 |
Dodge | 31.49% | 2,442 | 67.24% | 5,214 | 1.26% | 98 | 7,754 |
Dooly | 53.11% | 2,285 | 46.14% | 1,985 | 0.74% | 32 | 4,302 |
Dougherty | 69.24% | 26,295 | 30.15% | 11,449 | 0.61% | 231 | 37,975 |
Douglas | 51.36% | 28,441 | 47.38% | 26,241 | 1.26% | 697 | 55,379 |
Early | 51.60% | 2,765 | 47.71% | 2,557 | 0.69% | 37 | 5,359 |
Echols | 15.66% | 173 | 82.99% | 917 | 1.36% | 15 | 1,105 |
Effingham | 23.72% | 4,947 | 74.79% | 15,596 | 1.49% | 311 | 20,854 |
Elbert | 39.00% | 3,181 | 59.58% | 4,859 | 1.42% | 116 | 8,156 |
Emanuel | 36.18% | 2,927 | 63.05% | 5,100 | 0.77% | 62 | 8,089 |
Evans | 35.57% | 1,268 | 63.62% | 2,268 | 0.81% | 29 | 3,565 |
Fannin | 20.16% | 2,028 | 78.10% | 7,857 | 1.74% | 175 | 10,060 |
Fayette | 33.61% | 19,736 | 64.83% | 38,075 | 1.56% | 917 | 58,728 |
Floyd | 29.28% | 9,640 | 69.04% | 22,733 | 1.68% | 554 | 32,927 |
Forsyth | 17.79% | 14,571 | 80.47% | 65,908 | 1.74% | 1,421 | 81,900 |
Franklin | 19.27% | 1,499 | 78.62% | 6,114 | 2.11% | 164 | 7,777 |
Fulton | 64.13% | 255,470 | 34.42% | 137,124 | 1.44% | 5,752 | 398,346 |
Gilmer | 17.71% | 1,958 | 80.76% | 8,926 | 1.53% | 169 | 11,053 |
Glascock | 13.17% | 176 | 84.96% | 1,135 | 1.87% | 25 | 1,336 |
Glynn | 36.00% | 11,950 | 62.95% | 20,893 | 1.05% | 348 | 33,191 |
Gordon | 20.31% | 3,440 | 77.91% | 13,197 | 1.78% | 302 | 16,939 |
Grady | 36.32% | 3,419 | 62.93% | 5,924 | 0.74% | 70 | 9,413 |
Greene | 38.44% | 3,201 | 60.90% | 5,071 | 0.66% | 55 | 8,327 |
Gwinnett | 44.56% | 132,509 | 53.76% | 159,855 | 1.68% | 4,992 | 297,356 |
Habersham | 15.68% | 2,301 | 82.90% | 12,166 | 1.42% | 209 | 14,676 |
Hall | 21.13% | 12,999 | 77.19% | 47,481 | 1.68% | 1,032 | 61,512 |
Hancock | 80.88% | 3,308 | 18.80% | 769 | 0.32% | 13 | 4,090 |
Haralson | 17.19% | 1,789 | 81.16% | 8,446 | 1.65% | 172 | 10,407 |
Harris | 26.71% | 4,145 | 72.14% | 11,197 | 1.79% | 279 | 15,621 |
Hart | 30.12% | 2,870 | 68.39% | 6,517 | 1.49% | 142 | 9,529 |
Heard | 22.69% | 948 | 75.63% | 3,160 | 1.68% | 70 | 4,178 |
Henry | 47.81% | 43,761 | 51.10% | 46,774 | 1.09% | 996 | 91,531 |
Houston | 39.02% | 22,702 | 59.58% | 34,662 | 1.39% | 811 | 58,175 |
Irwin | 30.72% | 1,141 | 68.34% | 2,538 | 0.94% | 35 | 3,714 |
Jackson | 17.85% | 4,238 | 80.59% | 19,135 | 1.57% | 372 | 23,745 |
Jasper | 30.54% | 1,845 | 68.45% | 4,136 | 1.01% | 61 | 6,042 |
Jeff Davis | 23.88% | 1,275 | 74.85% | 3,996 | 1.27% | 68 | 5,339 |
Jefferson | 58.36% | 4,261 | 41.08% | 2,999 | 0.56% | 41 | 7,301 |
Jenkins | 43.84% | 1,488 | 55.60% | 1,887 | 0.56% | 19 | 3,394 |
Johnson | 34.56% | 1,305 | 64.62% | 2,440 | 0.82% | 31 | 3,776 |
Jones | 35.27% | 4,274 | 63.90% | 7,744 | 0.83% | 101 | 12,119 |
Lamar | 34.18% | 2,602 | 64.36% | 4,899 | 1.46% | 111 | 7,612 |
Lanier | 37.41% | 1,114 | 61.11% | 1,820 | 1.48% | 44 | 2,978 |
Laurens | 38.26% | 7,513 | 60.85% | 11,950 | 0.90% | 176 | 19,639 |
Lee | 23.42% | 3,196 | 75.58% | 10,314 | 1.00% | 136 | 13,646 |
Liberty | 64.57% | 10,457 | 34.36% | 5,565 | 1.07% | 173 | 16,195 |
Lincoln | 35.80% | 1,586 | 63.36% | 2,807 | 0.84% | 37 | 4,430 |
Long | 37.80% | 1,442 | 60.45% | 2,306 | 1.76% | 67 | 3,815 |
Lowndes | 44.54% | 17,470 | 54.38% | 21,327 | 1.08% | 424 | 39,221 |
Lumpkin | 18.77% | 2,055 | 78.98% | 8,647 | 2.25% | 246 | 10,948 |
Macon | 67.09% | 3,211 | 32.28% | 1,545 | 0.63% | 30 | 4,786 |
Madison | 22.40% | 2,494 | 75.84% | 8,443 | 1.76% | 196 | 11,133 |
Marion | 44.42% | 1,412 | 54.51% | 1,733 | 1.07% | 34 | 3,179 |
McDuffie | 42.10% | 4,044 | 57.00% | 5,475 | 0.90% | 86 | 9,605 |
McIntosh | 45.07% | 2,864 | 53.65% | 3,409 | 1.27% | 81 | 6,354 |
Meriwether | 46.70% | 4,331 | 52.36% | 4,856 | 0.94% | 87 | 9,274 |
Miller | 30.65% | 852 | 68.53% | 1,905 | 0.83% | 23 | 2,780 |
Mitchell | 49.28% | 4,081 | 50.18% | 4,155 | 0.54% | 45 | 8,281 |
Monroe | 30.78% | 3,785 | 68.00% | 8,361 | 1.21% | 149 | 12,295 |
Montgomery | 29.60% | 1,135 | 69.41% | 2,662 | 0.99% | 38 | 3,835 |
Morgan | 30.45% | 2,753 | 68.42% | 6,186 | 1.13% | 102 | 9,041 |
Murray | 22.59% | 2,542 | 75.02% | 8,443 | 2.40% | 270 | 11,255 |
Muscogee | 60.20% | 42,573 | 38.90% | 27,510 | 0.89% | 632 | 70,715 |
Newton | 50.45% | 21,851 | 48.45% | 20,982 | 1.10% | 476 | 43,309 |
Oconee | 24.76% | 4,421 | 73.34% | 13,098 | 1.90% | 340 | 17,859 |
Oglethorpe | 30.45% | 1,914 | 67.64% | 4,251 | 1.91% | 120 | 6,285 |
Paulding | 27.50% | 15,825 | 70.98% | 40,846 | 1.52% | 872 | 57,543 |
Peach | 53.29% | 6,148 | 45.83% | 5,287 | 0.88% | 102 | 11,537 |
Pickens | 15.55% | 1,975 | 83.03% | 10,547 | 1.42% | 180 | 12,702 |
Pierce | 16.40% | 1,124 | 82.67% | 5,667 | 0.93% | 64 | 6,855 |
Pike | 16.66% | 1,356 | 81.93% | 6,668 | 1.41% | 115 | 8,139 |
Polk | 26.49% | 3,615 | 71.89% | 9,811 | 1.63% | 222 | 13,648 |
Pulaski | 33.08% | 1,219 | 66.32% | 2,444 | 0.60% | 22 | 3,685 |
Putnam | 31.70% | 2,926 | 67.34% | 6,215 | 0.95% | 88 | 9,229 |
Quitman | 54.26% | 612 | 45.21% | 510 | 0.53% | 6 | 1,128 |
Rabun | 20.88% | 1,559 | 77.08% | 5,754 | 2.04% | 152 | 7,465 |
Randolph | 57.84% | 1,770 | 41.54% | 1,271 | 0.62% | 19 | 3,060 |
Richmond | 66.39% | 52,560 | 32.64% | 25,845 | 0.97% | 769 | 79,174 |
Rockdale | 57.72% | 22,023 | 41.19% | 15,716 | 1.09% | 417 | 38,156 |
Schley | 25.57% | 448 | 73.40% | 1,286 | 1.03% | 18 | 1,752 |
Screven | 45.39% | 2,774 | 53.79% | 3,287 | 0.82% | 50 | 6,111 |
Seminole | 39.13% | 1,478 | 59.44% | 2,245 | 1.43% | 54 | 3,777 |
Spalding | 39.37% | 9,898 | 59.31% | 14,911 | 1.31% | 330 | 25,139 |
Stephens | 22.35% | 2,131 | 75.74% | 7,221 | 1.91% | 182 | 9,534 |
Stewart | 63.73% | 1,323 | 35.89% | 745 | 0.39% | 8 | 2,076 |
Sumter | 53.77% | 6,375 | 45.36% | 5,378 | 0.87% | 103 | 11,856 |
Talbot | 64.84% | 2,265 | 34.41% | 1,202 | 0.74% | 26 | 3,493 |
Taliaferro | 66.04% | 636 | 33.54% | 323 | 0.42% | 4 | 963 |
Tattnall | 28.41% | 1,897 | 70.48% | 4,706 | 1.11% | 74 | 6,677 |
Taylor | 44.41% | 1,572 | 55.03% | 1,948 | 0.56% | 20 | 3,540 |
Telfair | 41.61% | 1,805 | 57.17% | 2,480 | 1.22% | 53 | 4,338 |
Terrell | 57.73% | 2,544 | 41.62% | 1,834 | 0.66% | 29 | 4,407 |
Thomas | 40.30% | 7,653 | 58.74% | 11,156 | 0.96% | 183 | 18,992 |
Tift | 33.42% | 4,660 | 65.88% | 9,185 | 0.70% | 97 | 13,942 |
Toombs | 29.35% | 2,746 | 69.72% | 6,524 | 0.93% | 87 | 9,357 |
Towns | 20.39% | 1,273 | 78.09% | 4,876 | 1.52% | 95 | 6,244 |
Treutlen | 39.04% | 1,074 | 60.05% | 1,652 | 0.91% | 25 | 2,751 |
Troup | 40.51% | 10,547 | 58.30% | 15,179 | 0.01% | 3 | 25,729 |
Turner | 42.33% | 1,510 | 56.85% | 2,028 | 0.81% | 29 | 3,567 |
Twiggs | 53.98% | 2,270 | 45.35% | 1,907 | 0.67% | 28 | 4,205 |
Union | 19.25% | 2,139 | 78.97% | 8,773 | 1.77% | 197 | 11,109 |
Upson | 35.10% | 3,959 | 64.10% | 7,230 | 0.80% | 90 | 11,279 |
Walker | 23.98% | 5,274 | 73.86% | 16,247 | 2.16% | 475 | 21,996 |
Walton | 21.63% | 8,148 | 77.07% | 29,036 | 1.31% | 493 | 37,677 |
Ware | 32.63% | 3,900 | 66.44% | 7,941 | 0.94% | 112 | 11,953 |
Warren | 60.51% | 1,529 | 39.18% | 990 | 0.32% | 8 | 2,527 |
Washington | 53.46% | 4,714 | 45.76% | 4,035 | 0.77% | 68 | 8,817 |
Wayne | 25.23% | 2,596 | 73.45% | 7,557 | 1.31% | 135 | 10,288 |
Webster | 48.99% | 582 | 50.59% | 601 | 0.42% | 5 | 1,188 |
Wheeler | 35.66% | 772 | 63.09% | 1,366 | 1.25% | 27 | 2,165 |
White | 15.88% | 1,671 | 82.21% | 8,651 | 1.91% | 201 | 10,523 |
Whitfield | 26.74% | 7,210 | 71.58% | 19,305 | 1.68% | 453 | 26,968 |
Wilcox | 33.84% | 1,060 | 65.55% | 2,053 | 0.61% | 19 | 3,132 |
Wilkes | 43.80% | 2,087 | 55.30% | 2,635 | 0.90% | 43 | 4,765 |
Wilkinson | 48.95% | 2,181 | 50.40% | 2,246 | 0.65% | 29 | 4,456 |
Worth | 29.48% | 2,487 | 69.57% | 5,869 | 0.95% | 80 | 8,436 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Chattahoochee (largest city: Cusseta)
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
- Early (largest city: Blakely)
See also
- 2012 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
- Republican Party presidential debates, 2012
- Results of the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
- Georgia Democratic Party
- Georgia Republican Party
References
- ^ ("Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2012". United States Census Bureau. May 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2021.)
- ^ "Primary and Caucus Printable Calendar". CNN. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ^ "Presidential Primary Dates" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ Nate Silver (March 4, 2012). "Romney Could Win Majority of Super Tuesday Delegates". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ Georgia Election Results, Retrieved March 23, 2012.
- ^ Georgia Republican Delegation 2012 The Green Papers. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
- ^ "Georgia Election Results". Secretary of State of Georgia. 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
External links
- The Green Papers: for Georgia
- The Green Papers: Major state elections in chronological order