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U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2012

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Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election
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The 2012 presidential election in the United States pitted incumbent President and Democrat Barack Obama against Republican Mitt Romney. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2012 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. Romney won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned as being won by Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.
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