Canada

Mexico

United States

North America

A map highlights the North American Free Trade Agreement Members such as Canada, U S, and Mexico in green.

Member states of the North American Free Trade Agreement, an organization founded in 1994 to create a trade bloc in North America with Canada, Mexico, and the United States

Countries

World

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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Members

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.

Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election

US Counties

Data.gov

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

Alaska

Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

Hawaii

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Alberta

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Québec

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

None

A world map illustrates seasonal precipitation from April to September across different regions globally, measured in inches.

Average precipitation between April 1 and September 30

Seasonal Precipitation, April to September

Areas with the least seasonal precipitation, April to September, ranging from 0 to 5 inches, are marked in the lightest blue. Regions include the Arctic areas of Canada (Northern Yukon, Northwest Territories), Greenland, the western United States (Nevada, Western Utah), parts of Mexico (Baja California), central Asia (Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia), the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Yemen), northern Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt), and interior regions of Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia).Regions with 5 to 10 inches of precipitation, shown in light blue, cover central Canada (British Columbia, Northern Alberta), parts of the western United States (Colorado, Wyoming, Western Kansas), central Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland), parts of northern Asia (Eastern Kazakhstan, Northern China), and eastern regions of Australia (New South Wales).Areas receiving 10 to 20 inches, highlighted in medium blue, include the central United States (Iowa, Missouri, Illinois), parts of northern South America (Venezuela, Northern Brazil), northern Europe (United Kingdom, Denmark), eastern Europe (Poland, Belarus), parts of Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan), and northern regions of Africa (Tunisia, Libya).Regions with 20 to 40 inches, marked in blue, span the southeastern United States (Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia), central South America (Bolivia, Paraguay), central Africa (Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo), western Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland), parts of South Asia (India, Nepal), and southeastern Australia (Victoria, Tasmania).Darker blue areas, indicating 40 to 80 inches of precipitation, include the Pacific Northwest of the United States (Washington, Oregon), the Andean regions of South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam), parts of Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), and the island of New Guinea.The highest precipitation, over 80 inches, represented in darkest blue, is found in the central America (Costa Rica), South America (Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela), parts of west Africa (Guinea, and Cameroon), parts of Asia (western coastal areas of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Western Philippines), and Papua New Guinea.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Members	Display by:	Seasonal Precipitation, April to September
Value	U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2012	0-5	5-10	10-20	20-40	40-80

		25.6%	39.1%	40.3%	37.6%	1.06%