A county result
Gallia County, presidential election of 2012
Gallia County
61.53%Mitt Romney (R), the most votes12,595Votes counted for president57.59%Ballots cast per registered voter
What this is
Gallia County counted 12,595 votes for president across 3 candidates in 2012. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.
The count, as certified
Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 7,750 | 61.53% |
| Barack Obama | Democratic | 4,557 | 36.18% |
| Other | Other | 288 | 2.29% |
| Ballots cast, all offices | — | 12,826 | 57.59% of registered voters |
This year in context
Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.
- Ohio that year
- Ohio went to Barack H. Obama (Democratic) with 50.67%, a 3.0-point margin over Mitt Romney. The country elected Barack Obama.
- Against the state
- Gallia County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+25.4 against Ohio's D+3.0: 28.3 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 19th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 2008
- From 2008 to 2012 the county's lean moved 0.7 points toward the Democrats, from R+26.1 to R+25.4.
- Matched
- Gallia County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
- Ballots cast
- 12,826
- Turnout
- 57.59%
- Registered voters
- 22,273
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
- County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2024 (V20) · MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL), Harvard Dataverse · 2012-11-06 · accessed 2026-09-17
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