A statewide result
Ohio, presidential election of 2012
Ohio
50.67%Barack H. Obama (D), the most votes5,580,822Votes counted for president70.54%Ballots cast per registered voter
What this is
Ohio counted 5,580,822 votes for president across 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barack H. Obama | Democratic | 2,827,621 | 50.67% |
| Mitt Romney | Republican | 2,661,407 | 47.69% |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 49,493 | 0.89% |
| Jill Stein | Green | 18,574 | 0.33% |
| Richard Duncan | Independent | 12,502 | 0.22% |
| Virgil Hamlin Goode Jr. | Constitution | 8,151 | 0.15% |
| Stewart Alexander | Socialist | 2,967 | 0.05% |
| Write-ins | Write-in | 107 | 0% |
| Ballots cast, all offices | — | 5,634,017 | 70.54% of registered voters |
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
- Ballots cast
- 5,634,017
- Turnout
- 70.54%
- Registered voters
- 7,987,203
This election, county by county
Adams County · Allen County · Ashland County · Ashtabula County · Athens County · Auglaize County · Belmont County · Brown County · Butler County · Carroll County · Champaign County · Clark County · Clermont County · Clinton County · Columbiana County · Coshocton County · Crawford County · Cuyahoga County · Darke County · Defiance County · Delaware County · Erie County · Fairfield County · Fayette County · Franklin County · Fulton County · Gallia County · Geauga County · Greene County · Guernsey County · Hamilton County · Hancock County · Hardin County · Harrison County · Henry County · Highland County · Hocking County · Holmes County · Huron County · Jackson County · Jefferson County · Knox County · Lake County · Lawrence County · Licking County · Logan County · Lorain County · Lucas County · Madison County · Mahoning County · Marion County · Medina County · Meigs County · Mercer County · Miami County · Monroe County · Montgomery County · Morgan County · Morrow County · Muskingum County · Noble County · Ottawa County · Paulding County · Perry County · Pickaway County · Pike County · Portage County · Preble County · Putnam County · Richland County · Ross County · Sandusky County · Scioto County · Seneca County · Shelby County · Stark County · Summit County · Trumbull County · Tuscarawas County · Union County · Van Wert County · Vinton County · Warren County · Washington County · Wayne County · Williams County · Wood County · Wyandot County
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.
- U.S. President 1976-2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL), Harvard Dataverse · accessed 2026-09-17
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