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The 2012 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Massachusetts voters chose 11 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.
Obama and Biden won Massachusetts with 60.67% of the popular vote to Romney's and Ryan's 37.52%, thus winning the state's 11 electoral votes by a 23.15% margin of victory, despite Massachusetts being Romney's home state where he served as governor from 2003 to 2007. [1] This was the first time a presidential candidate lost his home state since Al Gore lost Tennessee in the 2000 election. Romney also became the first Republican candidate to lose his home state since Richard Nixon lost his then-home state of New York to Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and has maintained extremely large Democratic margins since 1996. Even fending off one of the state's own former governors, Mitt Romney. Massachusetts has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984. The 2012 election was also the sixth consecutive one (since 1992) in which the Democratic presidential candidate swept every one of the state's 14 counties. Romney became the first major party nominee to lose their home state by twenty or more percentage points in 80 years, which would happen again four years later when Donald Trump lost his then-home state of New York by 22 points.
Nevertheless, Romney's 37.52% vote share still stands as of the 2020 presidential election as the highest Republican vote share in Massachusetts since 1988. Romney's 4.20% defeat in Plymouth County represents, as of 2020, the closest a Republican has come to carrying any of Massachusetts' counties since 1988.
The 2012 presidential election marks the most recent cycle that Romney would stand for public office as a resident of Massachusetts. He would be on the ballot again in 2018, but as a candidate for U.S. senator from Utah. Despite Romney's expected wide loss, this is to date the best performance of a Republican presidential candidate in Massachusetts since George H. W. Bush in 1988, when he garnered more than 40% of the state's votes and won four of its counties (making him the most recent Republican to win any Massachusetts counties). Romney outperformed George W. Bush's vote share in 2004 by 0.74%, while Obama underperformed John Kerry's vote share by 1.27%. Obama's 23% margin was the smallest margin since 1992.
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Massachusetts results by county Barack Obama |
Incumbent president Barack Obama won the Massachusetts Democratic Primary with 81% of the vote. [2] [3] He received no official opposition in the primary, with the other 19% of the vote going to "no preference," write-in candidates, or blank ballots. Through the primary and district caucuses, he won all of the state's 110 pledged delegates, which voted for him at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina (the state also had 26 superdelegates). [3]
Massachusetts Democratic primary, 2012 [2] [3] | |||
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates |
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Barack Obama | 127,909 | 86.50% | 110 |
No preference | 16,075 | 10.87% | 0 |
Write-ins | 3,889 | 2.63% | 0 |
Totals | 147,873 | 100.00% | 110 |
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The 2012 Massachusetts Republican presidential primary was held on March 6, 2012. [4] [5] Among the 41 delegates to the Republican National Convention, 38 are awarded proportionately among candidates getting at least 15% of the vote statewide, and another three super delegates are unbound. [6] As expected, Romney won Massachusetts by a landslide. He won the plurality in every town but 10 ( Rick Santorum won seven, Ron Paul won two, and no candidate won one), and earned the majority in all but 53. [7]
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Projected delegate count | ||
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Mitt Romney | 266,313 | 71.89% | - | 38 | 38 |
Rick Santorum | 44,564 | 12.03% | - | 0 | 0 |
Ron Paul | 35,219 | 9.51% | - | 0 | 0 |
Newt Gingrich | 16,991 | 4.59% | - | 0 | 0 |
Jon Huntsman (withdrawn) | 2,268 | 0.61% | - | 0 | 0 |
Rick Perry (withdrawn) | 991 | 0.27% | - | 0 | 0 |
Michele Bachmann (withdrawn) | 865 | 0.23% | - | 0 | 0 |
No preference | 1,793 | 0.48% | - | 0 | 0 |
Blanks | 818 | 0.22% | - | 0 | 0 |
Others | 613 | 0.17% | - | 0 | 0 |
Unprojected delegates: | 41 | 3 | 3 | ||
Total: | 370,425 | 100.00% | 41 | 41 | 41 |
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The 2012 Massachusetts Green-Rainbow presidential primary was held on March 6, 2012.
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates |
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Jill Stein | 1,018 | 67.06% | 8 |
No preference | 232 | 15.28% | 2 |
Kent Mesplay | 89 | 5.86% | 1 |
Harley Mikkelson | 84 | 5.53% | 1 |
Write-ins | 95 | 6.26% | 0 |
Totals | 1,518 | 100.00% | 11 |
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Barack Obama | Joe Biden | 1,921,761 | 60.67% | 11 | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | Paul Ryan | 1,188,460 | 37.52% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Jim Gray | 30,920 | 0.98% | 0 | |
Green-Rainbow | Jill Stein | Cheri Honkala | 20,691 | 0.65% | 0 | |
Others | Others | 6,552 | 0.21% | 0 | ||
Totals | 3,167,767 | 100.00% | 11 |
County | Barack Obama Democratic |
Mitt Romney Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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Barnstable | 70,822 | 53.20% | 60,446 | 45.41% | 1,847 | 1.39% | 10,376 | 7.79% | 133,115 |
Berkshire | 48,843 | 75.74% | 14,252 | 22.10% | 1,391 | 2.16% | 34,591 | 53.64% | 64,486 |
Bristol | 143,433 | 59.39% | 93,898 | 38.88% | 4,178 | 1.73% | 49,535 | 20.51% | 241,509 |
Dukes | 7,978 | 72.74% | 2,792 | 25.46% | 198 | 1.80% | 5,186 | 47.28% | 10,968 |
Essex | 210,302 | 57.40% | 150,480 | 41.07% | 5,575 | 1.53% | 59,822 | 16.33% | 366,357 |
Franklin | 27,072 | 71.70% | 9,344 | 24.75% | 1,342 | 3.55% | 17,728 | 46.95% | 37,758 |
Hampden | 123,619 | 61.69% | 73,392 | 36.62% | 3,388 | 1.69% | 50,227 | 25.07% | 200,399 |
Hampshire | 57,359 | 70.27% | 21,480 | 26.32% | 2,782 | 3.41% | 35,879 | 43.95% | 81,621 |
Middlesex | 471,804 | 62.56% | 267,321 | 35.45% | 15,045 | 1.99% | 204,483 | 27.11% | 754,170 |
Nantucket | 3,830 | 62.58% | 2,187 | 35.74% | 103 | 1.68% | 1,643 | 26.84% | 6,120 |
Norfolk | 202,714 | 56.86% | 148,393 | 41.62% | 5,416 | 1.52% | 54,321 | 15.24% | 356,523 |
Plymouth | 131,845 | 51.40% | 121,086 | 47.20% | 3,600 | 1.40% | 10,759 | 4.20% | 256,531 |
Suffolk | 223,896 | 77.45% | 59,999 | 20.75% | 5,203 | 1.80% | 163,897 | 56.70% | 289,098 |
Worcester | 198,244 | 53.71% | 163,390 | 44.27% | 7,478 | 2.02% | 34,854 | 9.44% | 369,112 |
Totals | 1,921,761 | 60.67% | 1,188,460 | 37.52% | 57,546 | 1.82% | 733,301 | 23.15% | 3,167,767 |
County | Barack Obama
Democratic |
Mitt Romney
Republican |
Various Candidates
Other parties |
Total votes cast | |||
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Abington | 49.8% | 4,104 | 49.1% | 4,051 | 1.1% | 89 | 8,244 |
Acton | 65.7% | 7,779 | 32.5% | 3,851 | 1.8% | 218 | 11,848 |
Acushnet | 57.1% | 3,021 | 41.3% | 2,183 | 1.6% | 85 | 5,289 |
Adams | 77.1% | 3,010 | 20.9% | 818 | 2.0% | 77 | 3,905 |
Agawam | 50.8% | 7,288 | 47.9% | 6,870 | 1.4% | 196 | 14,354 |
Alford | 76.6% | 233 | 21.1% | 64 | 2.3% | 7 | 304 |
Amesbury | 57.4% | 4,817 | 41.0% | 3,446 | 1.6% | 133 | 8,396 |
Amherst | 82.8% | 12,316 | 12.6% | 1,872 | 4.7% | 695 | 14,883 |
Andover | 49.9% | 9,287 | 48.7% | 9,053 | 1.4% | 258 | 18,598 |
Aquinnah | 84.5% | 251 | 12.8% | 38 | 2.7% | 8 | 297 |
Arlington | 72.0% | 18,580 | 25.8% | 6,659 | 2.2% | 560 | 25,799 |
Ashburnham | 50.5% | 1,621 | 47.6% | 1,529 | 1.9% | 62 | 3,212 |
Ashby | 45.2% | 827 | 52.5% | 961 | 2.3% | 42 | 1,830 |
Ashfield | 79.6% | 892 | 16.7% | 187 | 3.7% | 42 | 1,121 |
Ashland | 58.2% | 4,954 | 40.0% | 3,407 | 1.8% | 151 | 8,512 |
Athol | 53.6% | 2,525 | 43.9% | 2,070 | 2.5% | 117 | 4,712 |
Attleboro | 54.2% | 10,369 | 43.9% | 8,406 | 1.8% | 353 | 19,128 |
Auburn | 51.2% | 4,495 | 46.9% | 4,116 | 1.9% | 167 | 8,778 |
Avon | 51.0% | 1,221 | 47.2% | 1,131 | 1.8% | 42 | 2,394 |
Ayer | 55.5% | 2,023 | 42.7% | 1,557 | 1.8% | 64 | 3,644 |
Barnstable | 50.5% | 12,842 | 48.3% | 12,290 | 1.2% | 305 | 25,437 |
Barre | 50.1% | 1,343 | 47.7% | 1,279 | 2.3% | 61 | 2,683 |
Becket | 70.7% | 684 | 26.8% | 259 | 2.5% | 24 | 967 |
Bedford | 58.2% | 4,436 | 39.9% | 3,046 | 1.9% | 146 | 7,628 |
Belchertown | 59.9% | 4,542 | 38.0% | 2,886 | 2.1% | 159 | 7,587 |
Bellingham | 50.0% | 4,256 | 48.4% | 4,119 | 1.6% | 140 | 8,515 |
Belmont | 64.7% | 9,108 | 33.6% | 4,728 | 1.7% | 241 | 14,077 |
Berkley | 47.6% | 1,569 | 51.1% | 1,686 | 1.3% | 42 | 3,297 |
Berlin | 50.9% | 917 | 46.0% | 830 | 3.1% | 56 | 1,803 |
Bernardston | 69.4% | 809 | 28.2% | 329 | 2.4% | 28 | 1,166 |
Beverly | 58.5% | 12,075 | 40.2% | 8,304 | 1.2% | 256 | 20,635 |
Billerica | 48.9% | 9,774 | 49.6% | 9,925 | 1.5% | 299 | 19,998 |
Blackstone | 51.5% | 2,221 | 47.0% | 2,027 | 1.6% | 67 | 4,315 |
Blandford | 45.5% | 300 | 52.7% | 348 | 1.8% | 12 | 660 |
Bolton | 50.5% | 1,537 | 47.8% | 1,457 | 1.7% | 52 | 3,046 |
Boston | 78.9% | 196,096 | 19.4% | 48,227 | 1.7% | 4159 | 248,482 |
Bourne | 46.8% | 4,719 | 52.1% | 5,252 | 1.1% | 106 | 10,077 |
Boxborough | 59.3% | 1,737 | 38.7% | 1,134 | 1.9% | 57 | 2,928 |
Boxford | 39.8% | 2,049 | 59.0% | 3,032 | 1.2% | 61 | 5,142 |
Boylston | 47.9% | 1,284 | 50.1% | 1,341 | 2.0% | 53 | 2,678 |
Braintree | 51.5% | 10,015 | 47.4% | 9,217 | 1.2% | 229 | 19,461 |
Brewster | 56.3% | 3,669 | 42.2% | 2,748 | 1.5% | 100 | 6,517 |
Bridgewater | 48.0% | 5,774 | 50.7% | 6,089 | 1.3% | 157 | 12,020 |
Brimfield | 43.9% | 897 | 53.6% | 1,094 | 2.5% | 51 | 2,042 |
Brockton | 73.7% | 25,140 | 25.4% | 8,668 | 0.9% | 310 | 34,118 |
Brookfield | 47.8% | 822 | 49.6% | 853 | 2.6% | 45 | 1,720 |
Brookline | 77.9% | 21,761 | 20.5% | 5,717 | 1.6% | 457 | 27,935 |
Buckland | 72.5% | 750 | 24.4% | 252 | 3.1% | 32 | 1,034 |
Burlington | 52.3% | 6,971 | 46.5% | 6,187 | 1.2% | 160 | 13,318 |
Cambridge | 86.1% | 41,991 | 10.9% | 5,340 | 3.0% | 1456 | 48,787 |
Canton | 52.2% | 6,430 | 46.7% | 5,752 | 1.1% | 137 | 12,319 |
Carlisle | 58.5% | 1,959 | 39.4% | 1,318 | 2.1% | 71 | 3,348 |
Carver | 47.5% | 2,870 | 51.4% | 3,107 | 1.1% | 69 | 6,046 |
Charlemont | 71.4% | 456 | 26.0% | 166 | 2.7% | 17 | 639 |
Charlton | 43.4% | 2,910 | 54.6% | 3,660 | 2.0% | 136 | 6,706 |
Chatham | 49.6% | 2,287 | 49.4% | 2,278 | 1.1% | 49 | 4,614 |
Chelmsford | 49.4% | 9,606 | 49.0% | 9,534 | 1.6% | 319 | 19,459 |
Chelsea | 80.7% | 6,760 | 18.0% | 1,510 | 1.3% | 105 | 8,375 |
Cheshire | 69.8% | 1,216 | 28.3% | 493 | 1.8% | 32 | 1,741 |
Chester | 50.1% | 331 | 46.1% | 305 | 3.8% | 25 | 661 |
Chesterfield | 63.5% | 455 | 31.8% | 228 | 4.6% | 33 | 716 |
Chicopee | 62.3% | 14,292 | 35.9% | 8,237 | 1.7% | 394 | 22,923 |
Chilmark | 80.5% | 585 | 17.5% | 127 | 2.1% | 15 | 727 |
Clarksburg | 71.5% | 613 | 27.1% | 232 | 1.4% | 12 | 857 |
Clinton | 57.6% | 3,492 | 40.4% | 2,451 | 2.0% | 121 | 6,064 |
Cohasset | 45.8% | 2,226 | 53.4% | 2,595 | 0.9% | 42 | 4,863 |
Colrain | 70.1% | 618 | 26.3% | 232 | 3.5% | 31 | 881 |
Concord | 66.4% | 7,282 | 32.0% | 3,509 | 1.5% | 169 | 10,960 |
Conway | 74.1% | 926 | 23.0% | 288 | 2.9% | 36 | 1,250 |
Cummington | 69.7% | 368 | 26.3% | 139 | 4.0% | 21 | 528 |
Dalton | 71.8% | 2,433 | 26.2% | 888 | 2.0% | 67 | 3,388 |
Danvers | 50.6% | 7,344 | 48.1% | 6,984 | 1.2% | 179 | 14,507 |
Dartmouth | 61.3% | 9,817 | 37.2% | 5,964 | 1.5% | 243 | 16,024 |
Dedham | 56.7% | 7,718 | 42.0% | 5,719 | 1.3% | 174 | 13,611 |
Deerfield | 69.7% | 2,103 | 27.8% | 839 | 2.5% | 76 | 3,018 |
Dennis | 52.9% | 4,892 | 45.9% | 4,244 | 1.2% | 109 | 9,245 |
Dighton | 48.0% | 1,743 | 50.8% | 1,842 | 1.2% | 43 | 3,628 |
Douglas | 42.0% | 1,894 | 56.4% | 2,542 | 1.6% | 73 | 4,509 |
Dover | 42.8% | 1,531 | 56.1% | 2,004 | 1.1% | 39 | 3,574 |
Dracut | 45.6% | 6,925 | 52.9% | 8,026 | 1.5% | 224 | 15,175 |
Dudley | 48.7% | 2,466 | 50.2% | 2,544 | 1.1% | 57 | 5,067 |
Dunstable | 43.4% | 819 | 54.7% | 1,034 | 1.9% | 36 | 1,889 |
Duxbury | 43.9% | 3,543 | 55.2% | 4,450 | 0.9% | 72 | 8,065 |
East Bridgewater | 45.8% | 3,340 | 53.0% | 3,867 | 1.2% | 91 | 7,298 |
East Brookfield | 40.9% | 469 | 57.8% | 662 | 1.3% | 15 | 1,146 |
Eastham | 59.5% | 2,187 | 39.3% | 1,446 | 1.2% | 45 | 3,678 |
Easthampton | 69.8% | 6,281 | 27.4% | 2,463 | 2.9% | 258 | 9,002 |
East Longmeadow | 46.9% | 4,085 | 52.0% | 4,523 | 1.1% | 96 | 8,704 |
Easton | 47.5% | 5,690 | 51.4% | 6,162 | 1.1% | 137 | 11,989 |
Edgartown | 66.3% | 1,699 | 32.3% | 827 | 1.4% | 36 | 2,562 |
Egremont | 80.5% | 676 | 18.0% | 151 | 1.5% | 13 | 840 |
Erving | 72.3% | 557 | 26.0% | 200 | 1.7% | 13 | 770 |
Essex | 53.5% | 1,154 | 44.6% | 962 | 1.9% | 42 | 2,158 |
Everett | 71.6% | 9,392 | 27.3% | 3,582 | 1.0% | 136 | 13,110 |
Fairhaven | 60.8% | 5,019 | 37.3% | 3,082 | 1.9% | 154 | 8,255 |
Fall River | 73.7% | 21,724 | 24.9% | 7,323 | 1.4% | 420 | 29,467 |
Falmouth | 56.8% | 11,013 | 41.9% | 8,130 | 1.3% | 261 | 19,404 |
Fitchburg | 59.2% | 8,504 | 38.8% | 5,574 | 2.0% | 286 | 14,364 |
Florida | 65.3% | 254 | 32.6% | 127 | 2.1% | 8 | 389 |
Foxborough | 49.1% | 4,745 | 49.7% | 4,798 | 1.2% | 120 | 9,663 |
Framingham | 66.2% | 18,340 | 32.3% | 8,938 | 1.5% | 426 | 27,704 |
Franklin | 49.4% | 8,589 | 49.1% | 8,549 | 1.5% | 263 | 17,401 |
Freetown | 49.7% | 2,301 | 48.4% | 2,241 | 1.9% | 90 | 4,632 |
Gardner | 57.2% | 4,687 | 40.6% | 3,323 | 2.2% | 182 | 8,192 |
Georgetown | 46.2% | 2,272 | 52.4% | 2,577 | 1.3% | 66 | 4,915 |
Gill | 72.8% | 646 | 23.9% | 212 | 3.3% | 29 | 887 |
Gloucester | 62.7% | 9,680 | 35.7% | 5,511 | 1.5% | 236 | 15,427 |
Goshen | 64.3% | 395 | 32.2% | 198 | 3.4% | 21 | 614 |
Gosnold | 56.3% | 49 | 41.4% | 36 | 2.3% | 2 | 87 |
Grafton | 51.4% | 4,853 | 46.8% | 4,427 | 1.8% | 170 | 9,450 |
Granby | 53.4% | 1,862 | 45.0% | 1,570 | 1.5% | 54 | 3,486 |
Granville | 42.0% | 374 | 56.4% | 502 | 1.6% | 14 | 890 |
Great Barrington | 81.3% | 2,916 | 16.6% | 595 | 2.1% | 76 | 3,587 |
Greenfield | 74.0% | 6,175 | 22.7% | 1,891 | 3.3% | 274 | 8,340 |
Groton | 52.4% | 3,201 | 45.9% | 2,806 | 1.7% | 106 | 6,113 |
Groveland | 45.9% | 1,824 | 52.4% | 2,080 | 1.7% | 66 | 3,970 |
Hadley | 69.0% | 2,119 | 28.9% | 886 | 2.1% | 66 | 3,071 |
Halifax | 47.3% | 1,938 | 50.6% | 2,071 | 2.1% | 85 | 4,094 |
Hamilton | 48.7% | 2,163 | 49.6% | 2,204 | 1.8% | 79 | 4,446 |
Hampden | 44.3% | 1,286 | 54.0% | 1,569 | 1.7% | 50 | 2,905 |
Hancock | 59.7% | 228 | 37.2% | 142 | 3.1% | 12 | 382 |
Hanover | 40.2% | 3,342 | 59.0% | 4,910 | 0.9% | 71 | 8,323 |
Hanson | 45.1% | 2,512 | 53.9% | 2,999 | 1.0% | 57 | 5,568 |
Hardwick | 54.2% | 710 | 42.7% | 559 | 3.1% | 40 | 1,309 |
Harvard | 60.1% | 2,166 | 37.8% | 1,362 | 2.1% | 75 | 3,603 |
Harwich | 54.0% | 4,376 | 44.5% | 3,607 | 1.4% | 116 | 8,099 |
Hatfield | 66.9% | 1,362 | 31.4% | 638 | 1.7% | 35 | 2,035 |
Haverhill | 55.7% | 15,342 | 42.7% | 11,758 | 1.6% | 435 | 27,535 |
Hawley | 63.6% | 126 | 32.8% | 65 | 3.5% | 7 | 198 |
Heath | 68.5% | 292 | 29.1% | 124 | 2.3% | 10 | 426 |
Hingham | 47.8% | 6,750 | 51.2% | 7,231 | 1.0% | 135 | 14,116 |
Hinsdale | 68.9% | 728 | 28.1% | 297 | 3.0% | 32 | 1,057 |
Holbrook | 55.0% | 3,024 | 43.7% | 2,402 | 1.3% | 72 | 5,498 |
Holden | 48.1% | 5,055 | 50.4% | 5,294 | 1.5% | 154 | 10,503 |
Holland | 44.8% | 593 | 52.1% | 690 | 3.1% | 41 | 1,324 |
Holliston | 55.9% | 4,621 | 42.4% | 3,502 | 1.7% | 144 | 8,267 |
Holyoke | 76.2% | 12,492 | 22.2% | 3,639 | 1.6% | 257 | 16,388 |
Hopedale | 51.7% | 1,698 | 46.5% | 1,527 | 1.7% | 57 | 3,282 |
Hopkinton | 48.5% | 4,197 | 50.1% | 4,334 | 1.4% | 123 | 8,654 |
Hubbardston | 44.6% | 1,160 | 53.1% | 1,381 | 2.3% | 59 | 2,600 |
Hudson | 56.4% | 5,642 | 41.8% | 4,183 | 1.9% | 187 | 10,012 |
Hull | 58.9% | 3,576 | 39.8% | 2,417 | 1.2% | 75 | 6,068 |
Huntington | 50.4% | 554 | 43.6% | 479 | 6.0% | 66 | 1,099 |
Ipswich | 53.2% | 4,417 | 45.1% | 3,742 | 1.6% | 136 | 8,295 |
Kingston | 45.6% | 3,176 | 53.5% | 3,724 | 0.9% | 65 | 6,965 |
Lakeville | 41.7% | 2,411 | 57.1% | 3,301 | 1.2% | 72 | 5,784 |
Lancaster | 46.5% | 1,724 | 51.6% | 1,914 | 1.9% | 72 | 3,710 |
Lanesborough | 71.7% | 1,144 | 26.9% | 430 | 1.4% | 22 | 1,596 |
Lawrence | 83.3% | 18,240 | 15.8% | 3,459 | 0.8% | 185 | 21,884 |
Lee | 73.8% | 2,150 | 24.5% | 713 | 1.7% | 49 | 2,912 |
Leicester | 49.8% | 2,744 | 48.4% | 2,667 | 1.7% | 96 | 5,507 |
Lenox | 76.0% | 2,318 | 22.1% | 675 | 1.8% | 56 | 3,049 |
Leominster | 52.5% | 9,769 | 45.9% | 8,540 | 1.6% | 297 | 18,606 |
Leverett | 80.9% | 987 | 15.0% | 183 | 4.1% | 50 | 1,220 |
Lexington | 69.4% | 12,675 | 29.0% | 5,287 | 1.6% | 295 | 18,257 |
Leyden | 73.4% | 339 | 24.9% | 115 | 1.7% | 8 | 462 |
Lincoln | 69.9% | 2,558 | 28.8% | 1,055 | 1.3% | 47 | 3,660 |
Littleton | 54.2% | 2,915 | 43.8% | 2,357 | 2.0% | 110 | 5,382 |
Longmeadow | 56.3% | 4,851 | 42.5% | 3,662 | 1.2% | 101 | 8,614 |
Lowell | 66.9% | 22,597 | 31.3% | 10,586 | 1.8% | 595 | 33,778 |
Ludlow | 54.1% | 5,233 | 44.4% | 4,295 | 1.5% | 143 | 9,671 |
Lunenburg | 46.6% | 2,748 | 51.5% | 3,038 | 1.8% | 109 | 5,895 |
Lynn | 72.2% | 22,965 | 26.6% | 8,463 | 1.2% | 372 | 31,800 |
Lynnfield | 38.2% | 2,773 | 60.9% | 4,419 | 0.9% | 68 | 7,260 |
Malden | 71.3% | 14,940 | 27.3% | 5,714 | 1.5% | 314 | 20,968 |
Manchester | 54.3% | 1,886 | 44.3% | 1,539 | 1.4% | 48 | 3,473 |
Mansfield | 49.5% | 5,910 | 49.0% | 5,855 | 1.5% | 183 | 11,948 |
Marblehead | 55.2% | 6,824 | 43.9% | 5,422 | 1.0% | 118 | 12,364 |
Marion | 53.5% | 1,725 | 45.1% | 1,456 | 1.4% | 45 | 3,226 |
Marlborough | 57.3% | 9,576 | 41.1% | 6,867 | 1.6% | 263 | 16,706 |
Marshfield | 46.7% | 7,041 | 52.2% | 7,866 | 1.1% | 164 | 15,071 |
Mashpee | 49.9% | 4,133 | 49.0% | 4,058 | 1.1% | 89 | 8,280 |
Mattapoisett | 51.6% | 2,041 | 46.9% | 1,855 | 1.4% | 57 | 3,953 |
Maynard | 62.8% | 3,635 | 35.0% | 2,023 | 2.2% | 130 | 5,788 |
Medfield | 46.5% | 3,448 | 52.1% | 3,864 | 1.4% | 103 | 7,415 |
Medford | 67.9% | 18,613 | 30.3% | 8,294 | 1.8% | 494 | 27,401 |
Medway | 50.0% | 3,615 | 48.7% | 3,519 | 1.4% | 98 | 7,232 |
Melrose | 60.2% | 9,289 | 38.5% | 5,936 | 1.3% | 202 | 15,427 |
Mendon | 44.5% | 1,517 | 54.0% | 1,840 | 1.4% | 49 | 3,406 |
Merrimac | 51.7% | 1,844 | 46.5% | 1,657 | 1.8% | 65 | 3,566 |
Methuen | 51.5% | 11,048 | 47.4% | 10,168 | 1.2% | 254 | 21,470 |
Middleborough | 45.5% | 5,192 | 52.8% | 6,029 | 1.7% | 189 | 11,410 |
Middlefield | 69.4% | 202 | 26.5% | 77 | 4.1% | 12 | 291 |
Middleton | 41.4% | 1,909 | 57.5% | 2,651 | 1.1% | 50 | 4,610 |
Milford | 55.6% | 7,129 | 43.0% | 5,504 | 1.4% | 181 | 12,814 |
Millbury | 50.3% | 3,410 | 48.1% | 3,262 | 1.7% | 112 | 6,784 |
Millis | 51.1% | 2,421 | 47.1% | 2,232 | 1.8% | 83 | 4,736 |
Millville | 46.1% | 717 | 52.2% | 813 | 1.7% | 27 | 1,557 |
Milton | 60.1% | 9,499 | 38.7% | 6,122 | 1.2% | 182 | 15,803 |
Monroe | 60.4% | 32 | 39.6% | 21 | 0.0% | 0 | 53 |
Monson | 50.7% | 2,176 | 47.4% | 2,032 | 1.9% | 83 | 4,291 |
Montague | 76.3% | 3,213 | 20.7% | 873 | 3.0% | 126 | 4,212 |
Monterey | 78.8% | 417 | 18.3% | 97 | 2.8% | 15 | 529 |
Montgomery | 43.4% | 220 | 54.0% | 274 | 2.6% | 13 | 507 |
Mount Washington | 76.9% | 83 | 17.6% | 19 | 5.6% | 6 | 108 |
Nahant | 59.7% | 1,371 | 39.1% | 897 | 1.2% | 27 | 2,295 |
Nantucket | 62.8% | 3,828 | 35.8% | 2,185 | 1.4% | 84 | 6,097 |
Natick | 62.2% | 11,600 | 36.2% | 6,757 | 1.5% | 285 | 18,642 |
Needham | 60.4% | 10,207 | 38.5% | 6,513 | 1.1% | 183 | 16,903 |
New Ashford | 69.9% | 107 | 26.1% | 40 | 3.9% | 6 | 153 |
New Bedford | 75.9% | 25,205 | 22.7% | 7,541 | 1.4% | 474 | 33,220 |
New Braintree | 50.6% | 283 | 46.0% | 257 | 3.4% | 19 | 559 |
Newbury | 51.3% | 2,272 | 47.4% | 2,100 | 1.4% | 60 | 4,432 |
Newburyport | 61.6% | 6,784 | 36.9% | 4,059 | 1.5% | 168 | 11,011 |
New Marlborough | 68.4% | 572 | 28.7% | 240 | 2.9% | 24 | 836 |
New Salem | 62.9% | 381 | 33.8% | 205 | 3.3% | 20 | 606 |
Newton | 71.4% | 32,099 | 27.0% | 12,154 | 1.6% | 710 | 44,963 |
Norfolk | 42.5% | 2,424 | 56.1% | 3,199 | 1.3% | 75 | 5,698 |
North Adams | 77.5% | 4,427 | 20.0% | 1,144 | 2.4% | 139 | 5,710 |
Northampton | 82.4% | 13,110 | 13.7% | 2,179 | 3.9% | 626 | 15,915 |
North Andover | 46.2% | 6,991 | 52.8% | 7,992 | 1.0% | 148 | 15,131 |
North Attleborough | 46.7% | 6,602 | 51.8% | 7,331 | 1.5% | 214 | 14,147 |
Northborough | 52.3% | 4,387 | 46.1% | 3,872 | 1.6% | 135 | 8,394 |
Northbridge | 44.8% | 3,408 | 53.5% | 4,072 | 1.7% | 127 | 7,607 |
North Brookfield | 44.4% | 1,050 | 53.7% | 1,271 | 1.9% | 46 | 2,367 |
Northfield | 68.5% | 1,115 | 29.1% | 473 | 2.4% | 39 | 1,627 |
North Reading | 45.6% | 3,986 | 53.1% | 4,641 | 1.3% | 114 | 8,741 |
Norton | 49.2% | 4,454 | 49.1% | 4,449 | 1.6% | 149 | 9,052 |
Norwell | 42.0% | 2,714 | 57.0% | 3,684 | 1.0% | 62 | 6,460 |
Norwood | 55.5% | 8,098 | 43.1% | 6,292 | 1.4% | 206 | 14,596 |
Oak Bluffs | 70.3% | 1,955 | 28.6% | 795 | 1.1% | 31 | 2,781 |
Oakham | 44.4% | 509 | 53.1% | 609 | 2.4% | 28 | 1,146 |
Orange | 56.2% | 1,818 | 41.0% | 1,325 | 2.8% | 92 | 3,235 |
Orleans | 55.9% | 2,496 | 43.0% | 1,922 | 1.1% | 49 | 4,467 |
Otis | 59.0% | 489 | 37.5% | 311 | 3.5% | 29 | 829 |
Oxford | 48.1% | 3,125 | 50.2% | 3,261 | 1.7% | 108 | 6,494 |
Palmer | 53.6% | 3,020 | 44.0% | 2,482 | 2.4% | 134 | 5,636 |
Paxton | 44.7% | 1,119 | 54.1% | 1,354 | 1.2% | 29 | 2,502 |
Peabody | 55.8% | 15,010 | 43.2% | 11,616 | 1.0% | 264 | 26,890 |
Pelham | 82.1% | 728 | 14.9% | 132 | 3.0% | 27 | 887 |
Pembroke | 46.9% | 4,574 | 52.0% | 5,073 | 1.1% | 112 | 9,759 |
Pepperell | 45.3% | 2,936 | 52.9% | 3,426 | 1.9% | 120 | 6,482 |
Peru | 68.4% | 324 | 28.7% | 136 | 3.0% | 14 | 474 |
Petersham | 55.4% | 451 | 41.5% | 338 | 3.1% | 25 | 814 |
Phillipston | 48.8% | 464 | 49.3% | 469 | 1.9% | 18 | 951 |
Pittsfield | 78.0% | 15,600 | 20.2% | 4,044 | 1.7% | 344 | 19,988 |
Plainfield | 74.3% | 286 | 21.6% | 83 | 4.2% | 16 | 385 |
Plainville | 47.0% | 2,068 | 51.6% | 2,269 | 1.3% | 59 | 4,396 |
Plymouth | 50.8% | 15,106 | 47.9% | 14,258 | 1.3% | 372 | 29,736 |
Plympton | 44.6% | 776 | 53.4% | 928 | 2.0% | 34 | 1,738 |
Princeton | 48.3% | 1,112 | 49.9% | 1,148 | 1.8% | 42 | 2,302 |
Provincetown | 89.1% | 2,121 | 8.8% | 210 | 2.1% | 49 | 2,380 |
Quincy | 61.5% | 24,714 | 36.9% | 14,816 | 1.6% | 626 | 40,156 |
Randolph | 75.6% | 11,430 | 23.5% | 3,550 | 0.9% | 133 | 15,113 |
Raynham | 46.2% | 3,217 | 52.5% | 3,657 | 1.3% | 93 | 6,967 |
Reading | 52.2% | 7,447 | 46.6% | 6,640 | 1.2% | 170 | 14,257 |
Rehoboth | 46.5% | 2,912 | 51.9% | 3,246 | 1.6% | 99 | 6,257 |
Revere | 65.9% | 11,141 | 32.9% | 5,560 | 1.2% | 196 | 16,897 |
Richmond | 74.5% | 688 | 24.5% | 226 | 1.0% | 9 | 923 |
Rochester | 43.6% | 1,362 | 54.5% | 1,704 | 1.9% | 59 | 3,125 |
Rockland | 52.4% | 4,526 | 46.2% | 3,989 | 1.4% | 125 | 8,640 |
Rockport | 62.9% | 2,982 | 35.2% | 1,670 | 1.9% | 92 | 4,744 |
Rowe | 58.1% | 140 | 38.2% | 92 | 3.7% | 9 | 241 |
Rowley | 44.6% | 1,596 | 54.0% | 1,935 | 1.4% | 51 | 3,582 |
Royalston | 57.8% | 391 | 39.5% | 267 | 2.7% | 18 | 676 |
Russell | 49.2% | 388 | 49.0% | 386 | 1.8% | 14 | 788 |
Rutland | 46.3% | 2,071 | 52.1% | 2,329 | 1.6% | 71 | 4,471 |
Salem | 69.1% | 13,429 | 29.0% | 5,635 | 1.9% | 371 | 19,435 |
Salisbury | 53.3% | 2,278 | 45.3% | 1,938 | 1.4% | 61 | 4,277 |
Sandisfield | 64.6% | 294 | 33.8% | 154 | 1.5% | 7 | 455 |
Sandwich | 46.7% | 5,802 | 52.2% | 6,492 | 1.1% | 139 | 12,433 |
Saugus | 50.9% | 6,957 | 48.0% | 6,557 | 1.0% | 142 | 13,656 |
Savoy | 67.9% | 241 | 29.0% | 103 | 3.1% | 11 | 355 |
Scituate | 48.8% | 5,528 | 50.0% | 5,659 | 1.2% | 134 | 11,321 |
Seekonk | 51.9% | 3,772 | 46.5% | 3,382 | 1.6% | 115 | 7,269 |
Sharon | 63.4% | 6,558 | 35.4% | 3,659 | 1.2% | 121 | 10,338 |
Sheffield | 70.5% | 1,291 | 27.5% | 503 | 2.1% | 38 | 1,832 |
Shelburne | 77.0% | 873 | 19.9% | 226 | 3.1% | 35 | 1,134 |
Sherborn | 53.9% | 1,430 | 44.4% | 1,179 | 1.7% | 44 | 2,653 |
Shirley | 49.6% | 1,553 | 47.3% | 1,482 | 3.0% | 95 | 3,130 |
Shrewsbury | 53.6% | 9,674 | 45.2% | 8,154 | 1.3% | 226 | 18,054 |
Shutesbury | 82.2% | 1,028 | 12.5% | 156 | 5.3% | 66 | 1,250 |
Somerset | 61.5% | 6,091 | 37.1% | 3,674 | 1.4% | 142 | 9,907 |
Somerville | 82.2% | 28,467 | 14.1% | 4,865 | 3.7% | 1290 | 34,622 |
Southampton | 53.3% | 1,861 | 45.3% | 1,584 | 1.4% | 49 | 3,494 |
Southborough | 50.6% | 2,935 | 47.9% | 2,782 | 1.5% | 87 | 5,804 |
Southbridge | 64.4% | 4,256 | 34.7% | 2,291 | 0.9% | 57 | 6,604 |
South Hadley | 61.2% | 5,362 | 37.1% | 3,252 | 1.7% | 147 | 8,761 |
Southwick | 41.8% | 2,050 | 56.5% | 2,770 | 1.7% | 81 | 4,901 |
Spencer | 47.3% | 2,617 | 50.4% | 2,785 | 2.3% | 128 | 5,530 |
Springfield | 79.7% | 42,963 | 19.2% | 10,372 | 1.1% | 573 | 53,908 |
Sterling | 42.5% | 2,029 | 55.9% | 2,667 | 1.7% | 79 | 4,775 |
Stockbridge | 78.1% | 944 | 18.7% | 226 | 3.1% | 38 | 1,208 |
Stoneham | 53.6% | 6,634 | 45.1% | 5,580 | 1.2% | 154 | 12,368 |
Stoughton | 58.5% | 8,119 | 40.3% | 5,591 | 1.3% | 180 | 13,890 |
Stow | 55.2% | 2,348 | 43.0% | 1,831 | 1.8% | 77 | 4,256 |
Sturbridge | 47.9% | 2,514 | 49.9% | 2,615 | 2.2% | 116 | 5,245 |
Sudbury | 57.5% | 6,026 | 41.4% | 4,341 | 1.1% | 115 | 10,482 |
Sunderland | 73.2% | 1,363 | 21.7% | 404 | 5.1% | 95 | 1,862 |
Sutton | 40.7% | 2,181 | 57.6% | 3,087 | 1.7% | 89 | 5,357 |
Swampscott | 59.7% | 4,899 | 39.0% | 3,202 | 1.3% | 105 | 8,206 |
Swansea | 57.2% | 4,512 | 41.5% | 3,269 | 1.3% | 101 | 7,882 |
Taunton | 59.6% | 13,479 | 38.8% | 8,783 | 1.6% | 358 | 22,620 |
Templeton | 49.2% | 1,857 | 49.0% | 1,851 | 1.8% | 69 | 3,777 |
Tewksbury | 46.9% | 7,540 | 51.8% | 8,332 | 1.3% | 209 | 16,081 |
Tisbury | 74.2% | 1,845 | 23.9% | 595 | 1.8% | 45 | 2,485 |
Tolland | 39.6% | 110 | 55.8% | 155 | 4.7% | 13 | 278 |
Topsfield | 44.9% | 1,800 | 54.0% | 2,164 | 1.1% | 46 | 4,010 |
Townsend | 42.4% | 2,087 | 55.4% | 2,725 | 2.3% | 111 | 4,923 |
Truro | 71.0% | 1,041 | 27.2% | 399 | 1.8% | 27 | 1,467 |
Tyngsborough | 45.1% | 2,837 | 53.4% | 3,361 | 1.5% | 95 | 6,293 |
Tyringham | 67.1% | 173 | 32.9% | 85 | 0.0% | 0 | 258 |
Upton | 47.3% | 1,985 | 50.8% | 2,132 | 1.9% | 79 | 4,196 |
Uxbridge | 46.3% | 3,325 | 51.9% | 3,728 | 1.8% | 128 | 7,181 |
Wakefield | 51.7% | 7,486 | 47.0% | 6,806 | 1.3% | 186 | 14,478 |
Wales | 51.7% | 479 | 46.8% | 434 | 1.5% | 14 | 927 |
Walpole | 45.5% | 6,360 | 53.3% | 7,456 | 1.2% | 168 | 13,984 |
Waltham | 62.8% | 15,748 | 35.2% | 8,816 | 2.0% | 502 | 25,066 |
Ware | 56.2% | 2,390 | 42.0% | 1,783 | 1.8% | 76 | 4,249 |
Wareham | 55.9% | 6,069 | 42.7% | 4,632 | 1.4% | 155 | 10,856 |
Warren | 52.9% | 1,219 | 43.5% | 1,002 | 3.6% | 82 | 2,303 |
Warwick | 73.7% | 334 | 24.1% | 109 | 2.2% | 10 | 453 |
Washington | 75.9% | 239 | 21.9% | 69 | 2.2% | 7 | 315 |
Watertown | 71.1% | 11,878 | 27.0% | 4,516 | 1.9% | 322 | 16,716 |
Wayland | 62.4% | 5,153 | 36.0% | 2,975 | 1.6% | 132 | 8,260 |
Webster | 51.8% | 3,476 | 46.4% | 3,111 | 1.8% | 119 | 6,706 |
Wellesley | 56.7% | 8,243 | 42.2% | 6,144 | 1.1% | 162 | 14,549 |
Wellfleet | 69.9% | 1,568 | 27.6% | 619 | 2.5% | 55 | 2,242 |
Wendell | 76.6% | 425 | 12.6% | 70 | 10.8% | 60 | 555 |
Wenham | 44.8% | 1,058 | 53.6% | 1,265 | 1.5% | 36 | 2,359 |
Westborough | 55.8% | 4,999 | 42.6% | 3,818 | 1.5% | 135 | 8,952 |
West Boylston | 48.7% | 2,029 | 50.0% | 2,083 | 1.3% | 55 | 4,167 |
West Bridgewater | 43.8% | 1,734 | 54.8% | 2,169 | 1.3% | 52 | 3,955 |
West Brookfield | 49.5% | 964 | 48.8% | 950 | 1.6% | 32 | 1,946 |
Westfield | 52.0% | 9,228 | 46.1% | 8,178 | 1.9% | 329 | 17,735 |
Westford | 49.5% | 6,385 | 48.8% | 6,295 | 1.7% | 216 | 12,896 |
Westhampton | 60.4% | 639 | 36.4% | 385 | 3.2% | 34 | 1,058 |
Westminster | 45.4% | 1,940 | 52.5% | 2,245 | 2.1% | 91 | 4,276 |
West Newbury | 50.0% | 1,383 | 48.7% | 1,347 | 1.3% | 37 | 2,767 |
Weston | 51.2% | 3,390 | 47.7% | 3,159 | 1.1% | 72 | 6,621 |
Westport | 59.1% | 5,074 | 39.3% | 3,372 | 1.6% | 141 | 8,587 |
West Springfield | 53.6% | 6,170 | 44.9% | 5,169 | 1.5% | 176 | 11,515 |
West Stockbridge | 79.8% | 707 | 18.2% | 161 | 2.0% | 18 | 886 |
West Tisbury | 79.5% | 1,571 | 18.8% | 371 | 1.7% | 33 | 1,975 |
Westwood | 48.2% | 4,337 | 50.6% | 4,549 | 1.2% | 106 | 8,992 |
Weymouth | 54.4% | 15,130 | 44.3% | 12,341 | 1.3% | 361 | 27,832 |
Whately | 65.2% | 626 | 31.4% | 301 | 3.4% | 33 | 960 |
Whitman | 49.2% | 3,654 | 49.2% | 3,652 | 1.6% | 117 | 7,423 |
Wilbraham | 45.6% | 3,745 | 52.8% | 4,332 | 1.6% | 128 | 8,205 |
Williamsburg | 76.4% | 1,239 | 20.0% | 324 | 3.6% | 59 | 1,622 |
Williamstown | 80.9% | 3,012 | 17.2% | 640 | 1.9% | 71 | 3,723 |
Wilmington | 47.2% | 5,890 | 51.5% | 6,437 | 1.3% | 162 | 12,489 |
Winchendon | 51.5% | 2,142 | 46.5% | 1,933 | 2.0% | 85 | 4,160 |
Winchester | 54.8% | 7,000 | 43.9% | 5,602 | 1.3% | 165 | 12,767 |
Windsor | 73.8% | 385 | 24.3% | 127 | 1.9% | 10 | 522 |
Winthrop | 58.6% | 5,211 | 40.2% | 3,575 | 1.2% | 109 | 8,895 |
Woburn | 53.5% | 10,291 | 45.2% | 8,707 | 1.3% | 245 | 19,243 |
Worcester | 69.0% | 40,568 | 29.2% | 17,155 | 1.8% | 1033 | 58,756 |
Worthington | 66.5% | 481 | 28.8% | 208 | 4.7% | 34 | 723 |
Wrentham | 42.7% | 2,704 | 55.9% | 3,535 | 1.4% | 89 | 6,328 |
Yarmouth | 51.8% | 7,183 | 47.0% | 6,526 | 1.2% | 163 | 13,872 |
Obama won all 9 congressional districts. [13]
District | Obama | Romney | Representative |
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1st | 63.96% | 34.27% | Richard Neal |
2nd | 58.7% | 39.18% | Jim McGovern |
3rd | 56.91% | 41.41% | Niki Tsongas |
4th | 57.24% | 41.29% | Joseph Kennedy III |
5th | 65.19% | 33.13% | Ed Markey |
6th | 54.74% | 43.89% | John F. Tierney |
7th | 82.46% | 15.64% | Mike Capuano |
8th | 57.78% | 40.85% | Stephen Lynch |
9th | 55.54% | 43.14% | William R. Keating |
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The 2012 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Massachusetts voters chose 11 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.
Obama and Biden won Massachusetts with 60.67% of the popular vote to Romney's and Ryan's 37.52%, thus winning the state's 11 electoral votes by a 23.15% margin of victory, despite Massachusetts being Romney's home state where he served as governor from 2003 to 2007. [1] This was the first time a presidential candidate lost his home state since Al Gore lost Tennessee in the 2000 election. Romney also became the first Republican candidate to lose his home state since Richard Nixon lost his then-home state of New York to Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, and has maintained extremely large Democratic margins since 1996. Even fending off one of the state's own former governors, Mitt Romney. Massachusetts has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984. The 2012 election was also the sixth consecutive one (since 1992) in which the Democratic presidential candidate swept every one of the state's 14 counties. Romney became the first major party nominee to lose their home state by twenty or more percentage points in 80 years, which would happen again four years later when Donald Trump lost his then-home state of New York by 22 points.
Nevertheless, Romney's 37.52% vote share still stands as of the 2020 presidential election as the highest Republican vote share in Massachusetts since 1988. Romney's 4.20% defeat in Plymouth County represents, as of 2020, the closest a Republican has come to carrying any of Massachusetts' counties since 1988.
The 2012 presidential election marks the most recent cycle that Romney would stand for public office as a resident of Massachusetts. He would be on the ballot again in 2018, but as a candidate for U.S. senator from Utah. Despite Romney's expected wide loss, this is to date the best performance of a Republican presidential candidate in Massachusetts since George H. W. Bush in 1988, when he garnered more than 40% of the state's votes and won four of its counties (making him the most recent Republican to win any Massachusetts counties). Romney outperformed George W. Bush's vote share in 2004 by 0.74%, while Obama underperformed John Kerry's vote share by 1.27%. Obama's 23% margin was the smallest margin since 1992.
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Incumbent president Barack Obama won the Massachusetts Democratic Primary with 81% of the vote. [2] [3] He received no official opposition in the primary, with the other 19% of the vote going to "no preference," write-in candidates, or blank ballots. Through the primary and district caucuses, he won all of the state's 110 pledged delegates, which voted for him at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina (the state also had 26 superdelegates). [3]
Massachusetts Democratic primary, 2012 [2] [3] | |||
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Delegates |
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Barack Obama | 127,909 | 86.50% | 110 |
No preference | 16,075 | 10.87% | 0 |
Write-ins | 3,889 | 2.63% | 0 |
Totals | 147,873 | 100.00% | 110 |
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The 2012 Massachusetts Republican presidential primary was held on March 6, 2012. [4] [5] Among the 41 delegates to the Republican National Convention, 38 are awarded proportionately among candidates getting at least 15% of the vote statewide, and another three super delegates are unbound. [6] As expected, Romney won Massachusetts by a landslide. He won the plurality in every town but 10 ( Rick Santorum won seven, Ron Paul won two, and no candidate won one), and earned the majority in all but 53. [7]
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Mitt Romney | 266,313 | 71.89% | - | 38 | 38 |
Rick Santorum | 44,564 | 12.03% | - | 0 | 0 |
Ron Paul | 35,219 | 9.51% | - | 0 | 0 |
Newt Gingrich | 16,991 | 4.59% | - | 0 | 0 |
Jon Huntsman (withdrawn) | 2,268 | 0.61% | - | 0 | 0 |
Rick Perry (withdrawn) | 991 | 0.27% | - | 0 | 0 |
Michele Bachmann (withdrawn) | 865 | 0.23% | - | 0 | 0 |
No preference | 1,793 | 0.48% | - | 0 | 0 |
Blanks | 818 | 0.22% | - | 0 | 0 |
Others | 613 | 0.17% | - | 0 | 0 |
Unprojected delegates: | 41 | 3 | 3 | ||
Total: | 370,425 | 100.00% | 41 | 41 | 41 |
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The 2012 Massachusetts Green-Rainbow presidential primary was held on March 6, 2012.
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Jill Stein | 1,018 | 67.06% | 8 |
No preference | 232 | 15.28% | 2 |
Kent Mesplay | 89 | 5.86% | 1 |
Harley Mikkelson | 84 | 5.53% | 1 |
Write-ins | 95 | 6.26% | 0 |
Totals | 1,518 | 100.00% | 11 |
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2012 United States presidential election in Massachusetts [12] | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Barack Obama | Joe Biden | 1,921,761 | 60.67% | 11 | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | Paul Ryan | 1,188,460 | 37.52% | 0 | |
Libertarian | Gary Johnson | Jim Gray | 30,920 | 0.98% | 0 | |
Green-Rainbow | Jill Stein | Cheri Honkala | 20,691 | 0.65% | 0 | |
Others | Others | 6,552 | 0.21% | 0 | ||
Totals | 3,167,767 | 100.00% | 11 |
County | Barack Obama Democratic |
Mitt Romney Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Barnstable | 70,822 | 53.20% | 60,446 | 45.41% | 1,847 | 1.39% | 10,376 | 7.79% | 133,115 |
Berkshire | 48,843 | 75.74% | 14,252 | 22.10% | 1,391 | 2.16% | 34,591 | 53.64% | 64,486 |
Bristol | 143,433 | 59.39% | 93,898 | 38.88% | 4,178 | 1.73% | 49,535 | 20.51% | 241,509 |
Dukes | 7,978 | 72.74% | 2,792 | 25.46% | 198 | 1.80% | 5,186 | 47.28% | 10,968 |
Essex | 210,302 | 57.40% | 150,480 | 41.07% | 5,575 | 1.53% | 59,822 | 16.33% | 366,357 |
Franklin | 27,072 | 71.70% | 9,344 | 24.75% | 1,342 | 3.55% | 17,728 | 46.95% | 37,758 |
Hampden | 123,619 | 61.69% | 73,392 | 36.62% | 3,388 | 1.69% | 50,227 | 25.07% | 200,399 |
Hampshire | 57,359 | 70.27% | 21,480 | 26.32% | 2,782 | 3.41% | 35,879 | 43.95% | 81,621 |
Middlesex | 471,804 | 62.56% | 267,321 | 35.45% | 15,045 | 1.99% | 204,483 | 27.11% | 754,170 |
Nantucket | 3,830 | 62.58% | 2,187 | 35.74% | 103 | 1.68% | 1,643 | 26.84% | 6,120 |
Norfolk | 202,714 | 56.86% | 148,393 | 41.62% | 5,416 | 1.52% | 54,321 | 15.24% | 356,523 |
Plymouth | 131,845 | 51.40% | 121,086 | 47.20% | 3,600 | 1.40% | 10,759 | 4.20% | 256,531 |
Suffolk | 223,896 | 77.45% | 59,999 | 20.75% | 5,203 | 1.80% | 163,897 | 56.70% | 289,098 |
Worcester | 198,244 | 53.71% | 163,390 | 44.27% | 7,478 | 2.02% | 34,854 | 9.44% | 369,112 |
Totals | 1,921,761 | 60.67% | 1,188,460 | 37.52% | 57,546 | 1.82% | 733,301 | 23.15% | 3,167,767 |
County | Barack Obama
Democratic |
Mitt Romney
Republican |
Various Candidates
Other parties |
Total votes cast | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | # | % | # | % | # | ||
Abington | 49.8% | 4,104 | 49.1% | 4,051 | 1.1% | 89 | 8,244 |
Acton | 65.7% | 7,779 | 32.5% | 3,851 | 1.8% | 218 | 11,848 |
Acushnet | 57.1% | 3,021 | 41.3% | 2,183 | 1.6% | 85 | 5,289 |
Adams | 77.1% | 3,010 | 20.9% | 818 | 2.0% | 77 | 3,905 |
Agawam | 50.8% | 7,288 | 47.9% | 6,870 | 1.4% | 196 | 14,354 |
Alford | 76.6% | 233 | 21.1% | 64 | 2.3% | 7 | 304 |
Amesbury | 57.4% | 4,817 | 41.0% | 3,446 | 1.6% | 133 | 8,396 |
Amherst | 82.8% | 12,316 | 12.6% | 1,872 | 4.7% | 695 | 14,883 |
Andover | 49.9% | 9,287 | 48.7% | 9,053 | 1.4% | 258 | 18,598 |
Aquinnah | 84.5% | 251 | 12.8% | 38 | 2.7% | 8 | 297 |
Arlington | 72.0% | 18,580 | 25.8% | 6,659 | 2.2% | 560 | 25,799 |
Ashburnham | 50.5% | 1,621 | 47.6% | 1,529 | 1.9% | 62 | 3,212 |
Ashby | 45.2% | 827 | 52.5% | 961 | 2.3% | 42 | 1,830 |
Ashfield | 79.6% | 892 | 16.7% | 187 | 3.7% | 42 | 1,121 |
Ashland | 58.2% | 4,954 | 40.0% | 3,407 | 1.8% | 151 | 8,512 |
Athol | 53.6% | 2,525 | 43.9% | 2,070 | 2.5% | 117 | 4,712 |
Attleboro | 54.2% | 10,369 | 43.9% | 8,406 | 1.8% | 353 | 19,128 |
Auburn | 51.2% | 4,495 | 46.9% | 4,116 | 1.9% | 167 | 8,778 |
Avon | 51.0% | 1,221 | 47.2% | 1,131 | 1.8% | 42 | 2,394 |
Ayer | 55.5% | 2,023 | 42.7% | 1,557 | 1.8% | 64 | 3,644 |
Barnstable | 50.5% | 12,842 | 48.3% | 12,290 | 1.2% | 305 | 25,437 |
Barre | 50.1% | 1,343 | 47.7% | 1,279 | 2.3% | 61 | 2,683 |
Becket | 70.7% | 684 | 26.8% | 259 | 2.5% | 24 | 967 |
Bedford | 58.2% | 4,436 | 39.9% | 3,046 | 1.9% | 146 | 7,628 |
Belchertown | 59.9% | 4,542 | 38.0% | 2,886 | 2.1% | 159 | 7,587 |
Bellingham | 50.0% | 4,256 | 48.4% | 4,119 | 1.6% | 140 | 8,515 |
Belmont | 64.7% | 9,108 | 33.6% | 4,728 | 1.7% | 241 | 14,077 |
Berkley | 47.6% | 1,569 | 51.1% | 1,686 | 1.3% | 42 | 3,297 |
Berlin | 50.9% | 917 | 46.0% | 830 | 3.1% | 56 | 1,803 |
Bernardston | 69.4% | 809 | 28.2% | 329 | 2.4% | 28 | 1,166 |
Beverly | 58.5% | 12,075 | 40.2% | 8,304 | 1.2% | 256 | 20,635 |
Billerica | 48.9% | 9,774 | 49.6% | 9,925 | 1.5% | 299 | 19,998 |
Blackstone | 51.5% | 2,221 | 47.0% | 2,027 | 1.6% | 67 | 4,315 |
Blandford | 45.5% | 300 | 52.7% | 348 | 1.8% | 12 | 660 |
Bolton | 50.5% | 1,537 | 47.8% | 1,457 | 1.7% | 52 | 3,046 |
Boston | 78.9% | 196,096 | 19.4% | 48,227 | 1.7% | 4159 | 248,482 |
Bourne | 46.8% | 4,719 | 52.1% | 5,252 | 1.1% | 106 | 10,077 |
Boxborough | 59.3% | 1,737 | 38.7% | 1,134 | 1.9% | 57 | 2,928 |
Boxford | 39.8% | 2,049 | 59.0% | 3,032 | 1.2% | 61 | 5,142 |
Boylston | 47.9% | 1,284 | 50.1% | 1,341 | 2.0% | 53 | 2,678 |
Braintree | 51.5% | 10,015 | 47.4% | 9,217 | 1.2% | 229 | 19,461 |
Brewster | 56.3% | 3,669 | 42.2% | 2,748 | 1.5% | 100 | 6,517 |
Bridgewater | 48.0% | 5,774 | 50.7% | 6,089 | 1.3% | 157 | 12,020 |
Brimfield | 43.9% | 897 | 53.6% | 1,094 | 2.5% | 51 | 2,042 |
Brockton | 73.7% | 25,140 | 25.4% | 8,668 | 0.9% | 310 | 34,118 |
Brookfield | 47.8% | 822 | 49.6% | 853 | 2.6% | 45 | 1,720 |
Brookline | 77.9% | 21,761 | 20.5% | 5,717 | 1.6% | 457 | 27,935 |
Buckland | 72.5% | 750 | 24.4% | 252 | 3.1% | 32 | 1,034 |
Burlington | 52.3% | 6,971 | 46.5% | 6,187 | 1.2% | 160 | 13,318 |
Cambridge | 86.1% | 41,991 | 10.9% | 5,340 | 3.0% | 1456 | 48,787 |
Canton | 52.2% | 6,430 | 46.7% | 5,752 | 1.1% | 137 | 12,319 |
Carlisle | 58.5% | 1,959 | 39.4% | 1,318 | 2.1% | 71 | 3,348 |
Carver | 47.5% | 2,870 | 51.4% | 3,107 | 1.1% | 69 | 6,046 |
Charlemont | 71.4% | 456 | 26.0% | 166 | 2.7% | 17 | 639 |
Charlton | 43.4% | 2,910 | 54.6% | 3,660 | 2.0% | 136 | 6,706 |
Chatham | 49.6% | 2,287 | 49.4% | 2,278 | 1.1% | 49 | 4,614 |
Chelmsford | 49.4% | 9,606 | 49.0% | 9,534 | 1.6% | 319 | 19,459 |
Chelsea | 80.7% | 6,760 | 18.0% | 1,510 | 1.3% | 105 | 8,375 |
Cheshire | 69.8% | 1,216 | 28.3% | 493 | 1.8% | 32 | 1,741 |
Chester | 50.1% | 331 | 46.1% | 305 | 3.8% | 25 | 661 |
Chesterfield | 63.5% | 455 | 31.8% | 228 | 4.6% | 33 | 716 |
Chicopee | 62.3% | 14,292 | 35.9% | 8,237 | 1.7% | 394 | 22,923 |
Chilmark | 80.5% | 585 | 17.5% | 127 | 2.1% | 15 | 727 |
Clarksburg | 71.5% | 613 | 27.1% | 232 | 1.4% | 12 | 857 |
Clinton | 57.6% | 3,492 | 40.4% | 2,451 | 2.0% | 121 | 6,064 |
Cohasset | 45.8% | 2,226 | 53.4% | 2,595 | 0.9% | 42 | 4,863 |
Colrain | 70.1% | 618 | 26.3% | 232 | 3.5% | 31 | 881 |
Concord | 66.4% | 7,282 | 32.0% | 3,509 | 1.5% | 169 | 10,960 |
Conway | 74.1% | 926 | 23.0% | 288 | 2.9% | 36 | 1,250 |
Cummington | 69.7% | 368 | 26.3% | 139 | 4.0% | 21 | 528 |
Dalton | 71.8% | 2,433 | 26.2% | 888 | 2.0% | 67 | 3,388 |
Danvers | 50.6% | 7,344 | 48.1% | 6,984 | 1.2% | 179 | 14,507 |
Dartmouth | 61.3% | 9,817 | 37.2% | 5,964 | 1.5% | 243 | 16,024 |
Dedham | 56.7% | 7,718 | 42.0% | 5,719 | 1.3% | 174 | 13,611 |
Deerfield | 69.7% | 2,103 | 27.8% | 839 | 2.5% | 76 | 3,018 |
Dennis | 52.9% | 4,892 | 45.9% | 4,244 | 1.2% | 109 | 9,245 |
Dighton | 48.0% | 1,743 | 50.8% | 1,842 | 1.2% | 43 | 3,628 |
Douglas | 42.0% | 1,894 | 56.4% | 2,542 | 1.6% | 73 | 4,509 |
Dover | 42.8% | 1,531 | 56.1% | 2,004 | 1.1% | 39 | 3,574 |
Dracut | 45.6% | 6,925 | 52.9% | 8,026 | 1.5% | 224 | 15,175 |
Dudley | 48.7% | 2,466 | 50.2% | 2,544 | 1.1% | 57 | 5,067 |
Dunstable | 43.4% | 819 | 54.7% | 1,034 | 1.9% | 36 | 1,889 |
Duxbury | 43.9% | 3,543 | 55.2% | 4,450 | 0.9% | 72 | 8,065 |
East Bridgewater | 45.8% | 3,340 | 53.0% | 3,867 | 1.2% | 91 | 7,298 |
East Brookfield | 40.9% | 469 | 57.8% | 662 | 1.3% | 15 | 1,146 |
Eastham | 59.5% | 2,187 | 39.3% | 1,446 | 1.2% | 45 | 3,678 |
Easthampton | 69.8% | 6,281 | 27.4% | 2,463 | 2.9% | 258 | 9,002 |
East Longmeadow | 46.9% | 4,085 | 52.0% | 4,523 | 1.1% | 96 | 8,704 |
Easton | 47.5% | 5,690 | 51.4% | 6,162 | 1.1% | 137 | 11,989 |
Edgartown | 66.3% | 1,699 | 32.3% | 827 | 1.4% | 36 | 2,562 |
Egremont | 80.5% | 676 | 18.0% | 151 | 1.5% | 13 | 840 |
Erving | 72.3% | 557 | 26.0% | 200 | 1.7% | 13 | 770 |
Essex | 53.5% | 1,154 | 44.6% | 962 | 1.9% | 42 | 2,158 |
Everett | 71.6% | 9,392 | 27.3% | 3,582 | 1.0% | 136 | 13,110 |
Fairhaven | 60.8% | 5,019 | 37.3% | 3,082 | 1.9% | 154 | 8,255 |
Fall River | 73.7% | 21,724 | 24.9% | 7,323 | 1.4% | 420 | 29,467 |
Falmouth | 56.8% | 11,013 | 41.9% | 8,130 | 1.3% | 261 | 19,404 |
Fitchburg | 59.2% | 8,504 | 38.8% | 5,574 | 2.0% | 286 | 14,364 |
Florida | 65.3% | 254 | 32.6% | 127 | 2.1% | 8 | 389 |
Foxborough | 49.1% | 4,745 | 49.7% | 4,798 | 1.2% | 120 | 9,663 |
Framingham | 66.2% | 18,340 | 32.3% | 8,938 | 1.5% | 426 | 27,704 |
Franklin | 49.4% | 8,589 | 49.1% | 8,549 | 1.5% | 263 | 17,401 |
Freetown | 49.7% | 2,301 | 48.4% | 2,241 | 1.9% | 90 | 4,632 |
Gardner | 57.2% | 4,687 | 40.6% | 3,323 | 2.2% | 182 | 8,192 |
Georgetown | 46.2% | 2,272 | 52.4% | 2,577 | 1.3% | 66 | 4,915 |
Gill | 72.8% | 646 | 23.9% | 212 | 3.3% | 29 | 887 |
Gloucester | 62.7% | 9,680 | 35.7% | 5,511 | 1.5% | 236 | 15,427 |
Goshen | 64.3% | 395 | 32.2% | 198 | 3.4% | 21 | 614 |
Gosnold | 56.3% | 49 | 41.4% | 36 | 2.3% | 2 | 87 |
Grafton | 51.4% | 4,853 | 46.8% | 4,427 | 1.8% | 170 | 9,450 |
Granby | 53.4% | 1,862 | 45.0% | 1,570 | 1.5% | 54 | 3,486 |
Granville | 42.0% | 374 | 56.4% | 502 | 1.6% | 14 | 890 |
Great Barrington | 81.3% | 2,916 | 16.6% | 595 | 2.1% | 76 | 3,587 |
Greenfield | 74.0% | 6,175 | 22.7% | 1,891 | 3.3% | 274 | 8,340 |
Groton | 52.4% | 3,201 | 45.9% | 2,806 | 1.7% | 106 | 6,113 |
Groveland | 45.9% | 1,824 | 52.4% | 2,080 | 1.7% | 66 | 3,970 |
Hadley | 69.0% | 2,119 | 28.9% | 886 | 2.1% | 66 | 3,071 |
Halifax | 47.3% | 1,938 | 50.6% | 2,071 | 2.1% | 85 | 4,094 |
Hamilton | 48.7% | 2,163 | 49.6% | 2,204 | 1.8% | 79 | 4,446 |
Hampden | 44.3% | 1,286 | 54.0% | 1,569 | 1.7% | 50 | 2,905 |
Hancock | 59.7% | 228 | 37.2% | 142 | 3.1% | 12 | 382 |
Hanover | 40.2% | 3,342 | 59.0% | 4,910 | 0.9% | 71 | 8,323 |
Hanson | 45.1% | 2,512 | 53.9% | 2,999 | 1.0% | 57 | 5,568 |
Hardwick | 54.2% | 710 | 42.7% | 559 | 3.1% | 40 | 1,309 |
Harvard | 60.1% | 2,166 | 37.8% | 1,362 | 2.1% | 75 | 3,603 |
Harwich | 54.0% | 4,376 | 44.5% | 3,607 | 1.4% | 116 | 8,099 |
Hatfield | 66.9% | 1,362 | 31.4% | 638 | 1.7% | 35 | 2,035 |
Haverhill | 55.7% | 15,342 | 42.7% | 11,758 | 1.6% | 435 | 27,535 |
Hawley | 63.6% | 126 | 32.8% | 65 | 3.5% | 7 | 198 |
Heath | 68.5% | 292 | 29.1% | 124 | 2.3% | 10 | 426 |
Hingham | 47.8% | 6,750 | 51.2% | 7,231 | 1.0% | 135 | 14,116 |
Hinsdale | 68.9% | 728 | 28.1% | 297 | 3.0% | 32 | 1,057 |
Holbrook | 55.0% | 3,024 | 43.7% | 2,402 | 1.3% | 72 | 5,498 |
Holden | 48.1% | 5,055 | 50.4% | 5,294 | 1.5% | 154 | 10,503 |
Holland | 44.8% | 593 | 52.1% | 690 | 3.1% | 41 | 1,324 |
Holliston | 55.9% | 4,621 | 42.4% | 3,502 | 1.7% | 144 | 8,267 |
Holyoke | 76.2% | 12,492 | 22.2% | 3,639 | 1.6% | 257 | 16,388 |
Hopedale | 51.7% | 1,698 | 46.5% | 1,527 | 1.7% | 57 | 3,282 |
Hopkinton | 48.5% | 4,197 | 50.1% | 4,334 | 1.4% | 123 | 8,654 |
Hubbardston | 44.6% | 1,160 | 53.1% | 1,381 | 2.3% | 59 | 2,600 |
Hudson | 56.4% | 5,642 | 41.8% | 4,183 | 1.9% | 187 | 10,012 |
Hull | 58.9% | 3,576 | 39.8% | 2,417 | 1.2% | 75 | 6,068 |
Huntington | 50.4% | 554 | 43.6% | 479 | 6.0% | 66 | 1,099 |
Ipswich | 53.2% | 4,417 | 45.1% | 3,742 | 1.6% | 136 | 8,295 |
Kingston | 45.6% | 3,176 | 53.5% | 3,724 | 0.9% | 65 | 6,965 |
Lakeville | 41.7% | 2,411 | 57.1% | 3,301 | 1.2% | 72 | 5,784 |
Lancaster | 46.5% | 1,724 | 51.6% | 1,914 | 1.9% | 72 | 3,710 |
Lanesborough | 71.7% | 1,144 | 26.9% | 430 | 1.4% | 22 | 1,596 |
Lawrence | 83.3% | 18,240 | 15.8% | 3,459 | 0.8% | 185 | 21,884 |
Lee | 73.8% | 2,150 | 24.5% | 713 | 1.7% | 49 | 2,912 |
Leicester | 49.8% | 2,744 | 48.4% | 2,667 | 1.7% | 96 | 5,507 |
Lenox | 76.0% | 2,318 | 22.1% | 675 | 1.8% | 56 | 3,049 |
Leominster | 52.5% | 9,769 | 45.9% | 8,540 | 1.6% | 297 | 18,606 |
Leverett | 80.9% | 987 | 15.0% | 183 | 4.1% | 50 | 1,220 |
Lexington | 69.4% | 12,675 | 29.0% | 5,287 | 1.6% | 295 | 18,257 |
Leyden | 73.4% | 339 | 24.9% | 115 | 1.7% | 8 | 462 |
Lincoln | 69.9% | 2,558 | 28.8% | 1,055 | 1.3% | 47 | 3,660 |
Littleton | 54.2% | 2,915 | 43.8% | 2,357 | 2.0% | 110 | 5,382 |
Longmeadow | 56.3% | 4,851 | 42.5% | 3,662 | 1.2% | 101 | 8,614 |
Lowell | 66.9% | 22,597 | 31.3% | 10,586 | 1.8% | 595 | 33,778 |
Ludlow | 54.1% | 5,233 | 44.4% | 4,295 | 1.5% | 143 | 9,671 |
Lunenburg | 46.6% | 2,748 | 51.5% | 3,038 | 1.8% | 109 | 5,895 |
Lynn | 72.2% | 22,965 | 26.6% | 8,463 | 1.2% | 372 | 31,800 |
Lynnfield | 38.2% | 2,773 | 60.9% | 4,419 | 0.9% | 68 | 7,260 |
Malden | 71.3% | 14,940 | 27.3% | 5,714 | 1.5% | 314 | 20,968 |
Manchester | 54.3% | 1,886 | 44.3% | 1,539 | 1.4% | 48 | 3,473 |
Mansfield | 49.5% | 5,910 | 49.0% | 5,855 | 1.5% | 183 | 11,948 |
Marblehead | 55.2% | 6,824 | 43.9% | 5,422 | 1.0% | 118 | 12,364 |
Marion | 53.5% | 1,725 | 45.1% | 1,456 | 1.4% | 45 | 3,226 |
Marlborough | 57.3% | 9,576 | 41.1% | 6,867 | 1.6% | 263 | 16,706 |
Marshfield | 46.7% | 7,041 | 52.2% | 7,866 | 1.1% | 164 | 15,071 |
Mashpee | 49.9% | 4,133 | 49.0% | 4,058 | 1.1% | 89 | 8,280 |
Mattapoisett | 51.6% | 2,041 | 46.9% | 1,855 | 1.4% | 57 | 3,953 |
Maynard | 62.8% | 3,635 | 35.0% | 2,023 | 2.2% | 130 | 5,788 |
Medfield | 46.5% | 3,448 | 52.1% | 3,864 | 1.4% | 103 | 7,415 |
Medford | 67.9% | 18,613 | 30.3% | 8,294 | 1.8% | 494 | 27,401 |
Medway | 50.0% | 3,615 | 48.7% | 3,519 | 1.4% | 98 | 7,232 |
Melrose | 60.2% | 9,289 | 38.5% | 5,936 | 1.3% | 202 | 15,427 |
Mendon | 44.5% | 1,517 | 54.0% | 1,840 | 1.4% | 49 | 3,406 |
Merrimac | 51.7% | 1,844 | 46.5% | 1,657 | 1.8% | 65 | 3,566 |
Methuen | 51.5% | 11,048 | 47.4% | 10,168 | 1.2% | 254 | 21,470 |
Middleborough | 45.5% | 5,192 | 52.8% | 6,029 | 1.7% | 189 | 11,410 |
Middlefield | 69.4% | 202 | 26.5% | 77 | 4.1% | 12 | 291 |
Middleton | 41.4% | 1,909 | 57.5% | 2,651 | 1.1% | 50 | 4,610 |
Milford | 55.6% | 7,129 | 43.0% | 5,504 | 1.4% | 181 | 12,814 |
Millbury | 50.3% | 3,410 | 48.1% | 3,262 | 1.7% | 112 | 6,784 |
Millis | 51.1% | 2,421 | 47.1% | 2,232 | 1.8% | 83 | 4,736 |
Millville | 46.1% | 717 | 52.2% | 813 | 1.7% | 27 | 1,557 |
Milton | 60.1% | 9,499 | 38.7% | 6,122 | 1.2% | 182 | 15,803 |
Monroe | 60.4% | 32 | 39.6% | 21 | 0.0% | 0 | 53 |
Monson | 50.7% | 2,176 | 47.4% | 2,032 | 1.9% | 83 | 4,291 |
Montague | 76.3% | 3,213 | 20.7% | 873 | 3.0% | 126 | 4,212 |
Monterey | 78.8% | 417 | 18.3% | 97 | 2.8% | 15 | 529 |
Montgomery | 43.4% | 220 | 54.0% | 274 | 2.6% | 13 | 507 |
Mount Washington | 76.9% | 83 | 17.6% | 19 | 5.6% | 6 | 108 |
Nahant | 59.7% | 1,371 | 39.1% | 897 | 1.2% | 27 | 2,295 |
Nantucket | 62.8% | 3,828 | 35.8% | 2,185 | 1.4% | 84 | 6,097 |
Natick | 62.2% | 11,600 | 36.2% | 6,757 | 1.5% | 285 | 18,642 |
Needham | 60.4% | 10,207 | 38.5% | 6,513 | 1.1% | 183 | 16,903 |
New Ashford | 69.9% | 107 | 26.1% | 40 | 3.9% | 6 | 153 |
New Bedford | 75.9% | 25,205 | 22.7% | 7,541 | 1.4% | 474 | 33,220 |
New Braintree | 50.6% | 283 | 46.0% | 257 | 3.4% | 19 | 559 |
Newbury | 51.3% | 2,272 | 47.4% | 2,100 | 1.4% | 60 | 4,432 |
Newburyport | 61.6% | 6,784 | 36.9% | 4,059 | 1.5% | 168 | 11,011 |
New Marlborough | 68.4% | 572 | 28.7% | 240 | 2.9% | 24 | 836 |
New Salem | 62.9% | 381 | 33.8% | 205 | 3.3% | 20 | 606 |
Newton | 71.4% | 32,099 | 27.0% | 12,154 | 1.6% | 710 | 44,963 |
Norfolk | 42.5% | 2,424 | 56.1% | 3,199 | 1.3% | 75 | 5,698 |
North Adams | 77.5% | 4,427 | 20.0% | 1,144 | 2.4% | 139 | 5,710 |
Northampton | 82.4% | 13,110 | 13.7% | 2,179 | 3.9% | 626 | 15,915 |
North Andover | 46.2% | 6,991 | 52.8% | 7,992 | 1.0% | 148 | 15,131 |
North Attleborough | 46.7% | 6,602 | 51.8% | 7,331 | 1.5% | 214 | 14,147 |
Northborough | 52.3% | 4,387 | 46.1% | 3,872 | 1.6% | 135 | 8,394 |
Northbridge | 44.8% | 3,408 | 53.5% | 4,072 | 1.7% | 127 | 7,607 |
North Brookfield | 44.4% | 1,050 | 53.7% | 1,271 | 1.9% | 46 | 2,367 |
Northfield | 68.5% | 1,115 | 29.1% | 473 | 2.4% | 39 | 1,627 |
North Reading | 45.6% | 3,986 | 53.1% | 4,641 | 1.3% | 114 | 8,741 |
Norton | 49.2% | 4,454 | 49.1% | 4,449 | 1.6% | 149 | 9,052 |
Norwell | 42.0% | 2,714 | 57.0% | 3,684 | 1.0% | 62 | 6,460 |
Norwood | 55.5% | 8,098 | 43.1% | 6,292 | 1.4% | 206 | 14,596 |
Oak Bluffs | 70.3% | 1,955 | 28.6% | 795 | 1.1% | 31 | 2,781 |
Oakham | 44.4% | 509 | 53.1% | 609 | 2.4% | 28 | 1,146 |
Orange | 56.2% | 1,818 | 41.0% | 1,325 | 2.8% | 92 | 3,235 |
Orleans | 55.9% | 2,496 | 43.0% | 1,922 | 1.1% | 49 | 4,467 |
Otis | 59.0% | 489 | 37.5% | 311 | 3.5% | 29 | 829 |
Oxford | 48.1% | 3,125 | 50.2% | 3,261 | 1.7% | 108 | 6,494 |
Palmer | 53.6% | 3,020 | 44.0% | 2,482 | 2.4% | 134 | 5,636 |
Paxton | 44.7% | 1,119 | 54.1% | 1,354 | 1.2% | 29 | 2,502 |
Peabody | 55.8% | 15,010 | 43.2% | 11,616 | 1.0% | 264 | 26,890 |
Pelham | 82.1% | 728 | 14.9% | 132 | 3.0% | 27 | 887 |
Pembroke | 46.9% | 4,574 | 52.0% | 5,073 | 1.1% | 112 | 9,759 |
Pepperell | 45.3% | 2,936 | 52.9% | 3,426 | 1.9% | 120 | 6,482 |
Peru | 68.4% | 324 | 28.7% | 136 | 3.0% | 14 | 474 |
Petersham | 55.4% | 451 | 41.5% | 338 | 3.1% | 25 | 814 |
Phillipston | 48.8% | 464 | 49.3% | 469 | 1.9% | 18 | 951 |
Pittsfield | 78.0% | 15,600 | 20.2% | 4,044 | 1.7% | 344 | 19,988 |
Plainfield | 74.3% | 286 | 21.6% | 83 | 4.2% | 16 | 385 |
Plainville | 47.0% | 2,068 | 51.6% | 2,269 | 1.3% | 59 | 4,396 |
Plymouth | 50.8% | 15,106 | 47.9% | 14,258 | 1.3% | 372 | 29,736 |
Plympton | 44.6% | 776 | 53.4% | 928 | 2.0% | 34 | 1,738 |
Princeton | 48.3% | 1,112 | 49.9% | 1,148 | 1.8% | 42 | 2,302 |
Provincetown | 89.1% | 2,121 | 8.8% | 210 | 2.1% | 49 | 2,380 |
Quincy | 61.5% | 24,714 | 36.9% | 14,816 | 1.6% | 626 | 40,156 |
Randolph | 75.6% | 11,430 | 23.5% | 3,550 | 0.9% | 133 | 15,113 |
Raynham | 46.2% | 3,217 | 52.5% | 3,657 | 1.3% | 93 | 6,967 |
Reading | 52.2% | 7,447 | 46.6% | 6,640 | 1.2% | 170 | 14,257 |
Rehoboth | 46.5% | 2,912 | 51.9% | 3,246 | 1.6% | 99 | 6,257 |
Revere | 65.9% | 11,141 | 32.9% | 5,560 | 1.2% | 196 | 16,897 |
Richmond | 74.5% | 688 | 24.5% | 226 | 1.0% | 9 | 923 |
Rochester | 43.6% | 1,362 | 54.5% | 1,704 | 1.9% | 59 | 3,125 |
Rockland | 52.4% | 4,526 | 46.2% | 3,989 | 1.4% | 125 | 8,640 |
Rockport | 62.9% | 2,982 | 35.2% | 1,670 | 1.9% | 92 | 4,744 |
Rowe | 58.1% | 140 | 38.2% | 92 | 3.7% | 9 | 241 |
Rowley | 44.6% | 1,596 | 54.0% | 1,935 | 1.4% | 51 | 3,582 |
Royalston | 57.8% | 391 | 39.5% | 267 | 2.7% | 18 | 676 |
Russell | 49.2% | 388 | 49.0% | 386 | 1.8% | 14 | 788 |
Rutland | 46.3% | 2,071 | 52.1% | 2,329 | 1.6% | 71 | 4,471 |
Salem | 69.1% | 13,429 | 29.0% | 5,635 | 1.9% | 371 | 19,435 |
Salisbury | 53.3% | 2,278 | 45.3% | 1,938 | 1.4% | 61 | 4,277 |
Sandisfield | 64.6% | 294 | 33.8% | 154 | 1.5% | 7 | 455 |
Sandwich | 46.7% | 5,802 | 52.2% | 6,492 | 1.1% | 139 | 12,433 |
Saugus | 50.9% | 6,957 | 48.0% | 6,557 | 1.0% | 142 | 13,656 |
Savoy | 67.9% | 241 | 29.0% | 103 | 3.1% | 11 | 355 |
Scituate | 48.8% | 5,528 | 50.0% | 5,659 | 1.2% | 134 | 11,321 |
Seekonk | 51.9% | 3,772 | 46.5% | 3,382 | 1.6% | 115 | 7,269 |
Sharon | 63.4% | 6,558 | 35.4% | 3,659 | 1.2% | 121 | 10,338 |
Sheffield | 70.5% | 1,291 | 27.5% | 503 | 2.1% | 38 | 1,832 |
Shelburne | 77.0% | 873 | 19.9% | 226 | 3.1% | 35 | 1,134 |
Sherborn | 53.9% | 1,430 | 44.4% | 1,179 | 1.7% | 44 | 2,653 |
Shirley | 49.6% | 1,553 | 47.3% | 1,482 | 3.0% | 95 | 3,130 |
Shrewsbury | 53.6% | 9,674 | 45.2% | 8,154 | 1.3% | 226 | 18,054 |
Shutesbury | 82.2% | 1,028 | 12.5% | 156 | 5.3% | 66 | 1,250 |
Somerset | 61.5% | 6,091 | 37.1% | 3,674 | 1.4% | 142 | 9,907 |
Somerville | 82.2% | 28,467 | 14.1% | 4,865 | 3.7% | 1290 | 34,622 |
Southampton | 53.3% | 1,861 | 45.3% | 1,584 | 1.4% | 49 | 3,494 |
Southborough | 50.6% | 2,935 | 47.9% | 2,782 | 1.5% | 87 | 5,804 |
Southbridge | 64.4% | 4,256 | 34.7% | 2,291 | 0.9% | 57 | 6,604 |
South Hadley | 61.2% | 5,362 | 37.1% | 3,252 | 1.7% | 147 | 8,761 |
Southwick | 41.8% | 2,050 | 56.5% | 2,770 | 1.7% | 81 | 4,901 |
Spencer | 47.3% | 2,617 | 50.4% | 2,785 | 2.3% | 128 | 5,530 |
Springfield | 79.7% | 42,963 | 19.2% | 10,372 | 1.1% | 573 | 53,908 |
Sterling | 42.5% | 2,029 | 55.9% | 2,667 | 1.7% | 79 | 4,775 |
Stockbridge | 78.1% | 944 | 18.7% | 226 | 3.1% | 38 | 1,208 |
Stoneham | 53.6% | 6,634 | 45.1% | 5,580 | 1.2% | 154 | 12,368 |
Stoughton | 58.5% | 8,119 | 40.3% | 5,591 | 1.3% | 180 | 13,890 |
Stow | 55.2% | 2,348 | 43.0% | 1,831 | 1.8% | 77 | 4,256 |
Sturbridge | 47.9% | 2,514 | 49.9% | 2,615 | 2.2% | 116 | 5,245 |
Sudbury | 57.5% | 6,026 | 41.4% | 4,341 | 1.1% | 115 | 10,482 |
Sunderland | 73.2% | 1,363 | 21.7% | 404 | 5.1% | 95 | 1,862 |
Sutton | 40.7% | 2,181 | 57.6% | 3,087 | 1.7% | 89 | 5,357 |
Swampscott | 59.7% | 4,899 | 39.0% | 3,202 | 1.3% | 105 | 8,206 |
Swansea | 57.2% | 4,512 | 41.5% | 3,269 | 1.3% | 101 | 7,882 |
Taunton | 59.6% | 13,479 | 38.8% | 8,783 | 1.6% | 358 | 22,620 |
Templeton | 49.2% | 1,857 | 49.0% | 1,851 | 1.8% | 69 | 3,777 |
Tewksbury | 46.9% | 7,540 | 51.8% | 8,332 | 1.3% | 209 | 16,081 |
Tisbury | 74.2% | 1,845 | 23.9% | 595 | 1.8% | 45 | 2,485 |
Tolland | 39.6% | 110 | 55.8% | 155 | 4.7% | 13 | 278 |
Topsfield | 44.9% | 1,800 | 54.0% | 2,164 | 1.1% | 46 | 4,010 |
Townsend | 42.4% | 2,087 | 55.4% | 2,725 | 2.3% | 111 | 4,923 |
Truro | 71.0% | 1,041 | 27.2% | 399 | 1.8% | 27 | 1,467 |
Tyngsborough | 45.1% | 2,837 | 53.4% | 3,361 | 1.5% | 95 | 6,293 |
Tyringham | 67.1% | 173 | 32.9% | 85 | 0.0% | 0 | 258 |
Upton | 47.3% | 1,985 | 50.8% | 2,132 | 1.9% | 79 | 4,196 |
Uxbridge | 46.3% | 3,325 | 51.9% | 3,728 | 1.8% | 128 | 7,181 |
Wakefield | 51.7% | 7,486 | 47.0% | 6,806 | 1.3% | 186 | 14,478 |
Wales | 51.7% | 479 | 46.8% | 434 | 1.5% | 14 | 927 |
Walpole | 45.5% | 6,360 | 53.3% | 7,456 | 1.2% | 168 | 13,984 |
Waltham | 62.8% | 15,748 | 35.2% | 8,816 | 2.0% | 502 | 25,066 |
Ware | 56.2% | 2,390 | 42.0% | 1,783 | 1.8% | 76 | 4,249 |
Wareham | 55.9% | 6,069 | 42.7% | 4,632 | 1.4% | 155 | 10,856 |
Warren | 52.9% | 1,219 | 43.5% | 1,002 | 3.6% | 82 | 2,303 |
Warwick | 73.7% | 334 | 24.1% | 109 | 2.2% | 10 | 453 |
Washington | 75.9% | 239 | 21.9% | 69 | 2.2% | 7 | 315 |
Watertown | 71.1% | 11,878 | 27.0% | 4,516 | 1.9% | 322 | 16,716 |
Wayland | 62.4% | 5,153 | 36.0% | 2,975 | 1.6% | 132 | 8,260 |
Webster | 51.8% | 3,476 | 46.4% | 3,111 | 1.8% | 119 | 6,706 |
Wellesley | 56.7% | 8,243 | 42.2% | 6,144 | 1.1% | 162 | 14,549 |
Wellfleet | 69.9% | 1,568 | 27.6% | 619 | 2.5% | 55 | 2,242 |
Wendell | 76.6% | 425 | 12.6% | 70 | 10.8% | 60 | 555 |
Wenham | 44.8% | 1,058 | 53.6% | 1,265 | 1.5% | 36 | 2,359 |
Westborough | 55.8% | 4,999 | 42.6% | 3,818 | 1.5% | 135 | 8,952 |
West Boylston | 48.7% | 2,029 | 50.0% | 2,083 | 1.3% | 55 | 4,167 |
West Bridgewater | 43.8% | 1,734 | 54.8% | 2,169 | 1.3% | 52 | 3,955 |
West Brookfield | 49.5% | 964 | 48.8% | 950 | 1.6% | 32 | 1,946 |
Westfield | 52.0% | 9,228 | 46.1% | 8,178 | 1.9% | 329 | 17,735 |
Westford | 49.5% | 6,385 | 48.8% | 6,295 | 1.7% | 216 | 12,896 |
Westhampton | 60.4% | 639 | 36.4% | 385 | 3.2% | 34 | 1,058 |
Westminster | 45.4% | 1,940 | 52.5% | 2,245 | 2.1% | 91 | 4,276 |
West Newbury | 50.0% | 1,383 | 48.7% | 1,347 | 1.3% | 37 | 2,767 |
Weston | 51.2% | 3,390 | 47.7% | 3,159 | 1.1% | 72 | 6,621 |
Westport | 59.1% | 5,074 | 39.3% | 3,372 | 1.6% | 141 | 8,587 |
West Springfield | 53.6% | 6,170 | 44.9% | 5,169 | 1.5% | 176 | 11,515 |
West Stockbridge | 79.8% | 707 | 18.2% | 161 | 2.0% | 18 | 886 |
West Tisbury | 79.5% | 1,571 | 18.8% | 371 | 1.7% | 33 | 1,975 |
Westwood | 48.2% | 4,337 | 50.6% | 4,549 | 1.2% | 106 | 8,992 |
Weymouth | 54.4% | 15,130 | 44.3% | 12,341 | 1.3% | 361 | 27,832 |
Whately | 65.2% | 626 | 31.4% | 301 | 3.4% | 33 | 960 |
Whitman | 49.2% | 3,654 | 49.2% | 3,652 | 1.6% | 117 | 7,423 |
Wilbraham | 45.6% | 3,745 | 52.8% | 4,332 | 1.6% | 128 | 8,205 |
Williamsburg | 76.4% | 1,239 | 20.0% | 324 | 3.6% | 59 | 1,622 |
Williamstown | 80.9% | 3,012 | 17.2% | 640 | 1.9% | 71 | 3,723 |
Wilmington | 47.2% | 5,890 | 51.5% | 6,437 | 1.3% | 162 | 12,489 |
Winchendon | 51.5% | 2,142 | 46.5% | 1,933 | 2.0% | 85 | 4,160 |
Winchester | 54.8% | 7,000 | 43.9% | 5,602 | 1.3% | 165 | 12,767 |
Windsor | 73.8% | 385 | 24.3% | 127 | 1.9% | 10 | 522 |
Winthrop | 58.6% | 5,211 | 40.2% | 3,575 | 1.2% | 109 | 8,895 |
Woburn | 53.5% | 10,291 | 45.2% | 8,707 | 1.3% | 245 | 19,243 |
Worcester | 69.0% | 40,568 | 29.2% | 17,155 | 1.8% | 1033 | 58,756 |
Worthington | 66.5% | 481 | 28.8% | 208 | 4.7% | 34 | 723 |
Wrentham | 42.7% | 2,704 | 55.9% | 3,535 | 1.4% | 89 | 6,328 |
Yarmouth | 51.8% | 7,183 | 47.0% | 6,526 | 1.2% | 163 | 13,872 |
Obama won all 9 congressional districts. [13]
District | Obama | Romney | Representative |
---|---|---|---|
1st | 63.96% | 34.27% | Richard Neal |
2nd | 58.7% | 39.18% | Jim McGovern |
3rd | 56.91% | 41.41% | Niki Tsongas |
4th | 57.24% | 41.29% | Joseph Kennedy III |
5th | 65.19% | 33.13% | Ed Markey |
6th | 54.74% | 43.89% | John F. Tierney |
7th | 82.46% | 15.64% | Mike Capuano |
8th | 57.78% | 40.85% | Stephen Lynch |
9th | 55.54% | 43.14% | William R. Keating |
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