American Psephology

The 2012 Presidential Election in Alabama

On November 6, 2012, Alabama's voters voted for nine at-large electors. Five electoral slates ran.

The Democratic candidates:

  • Percy Bernard Gill
  • Gregory Terence Graves
  • Randy Kelley
  • Henry Mark Kennedy
  • Janet Thomas May
  • Joe Louis Reed
  • Darryl R. Sinkfield
  • James Box Spearman
  • Nancy Lillian Worley

The Republican candidates:

  • At-large - Will Sellers
  • At-large - James T. Waggoner
  • 1st District - Mrs. Terry Lathan
  • 2nd District - Susan Neuwien
  • 3rd District - Robert Fincher
  • 4th District - Lynn Robinson
  • 5th District - James Elbert Peters
  • 6th District - Edward S. Allen
  • 7th District - Robert A. Cusanelli

The independent candidates pledged to Virgil H. Goode (Constitution), Gary Johnson (Libertarian), and Jill Stein (Green) are unknown.

The county returns are as follows:

Republicans Democrats Johnson Write-ins Stein Goode
Autauga 17379 6363 137 41 22 31
Baldwin 66016 18424 607 153 169 122
Barbour 5550 5912 32 8 6 9
Bibb 6132 2202 38 26 9 13
Blount 20757 2970 170 54 50 59
Bullock 1251 4061 3 0 3 4
Butler 5087 4374 20 6 6 9
Calhoun 30278 15511 291 107 92 85
Chambers 7626 6871 78 18 15 21
Cherokee 7506 2132 79 13 26 36
Chilton 13932 3397 66 23 38 29
Choctaw 4152 3786 19 8 7 4
Clarke 7470 6334 22 9 14 11
Clay 4817 1777 42 17 16 10
Cleburne 5272 971 37 14 11 14
Coffee 14666 4925 111 51 33 35
Colbert 13936 9166 201 59 36 46
Conecuh 3439 3555 15 3 9 4
Coosa 3049 2191 19 13 8 2
Covington 12153 3158 66 16 20 26
Crenshaw 4331 2050 21 6 8 8
Cullman 28999 5052 223 98 89 94
Dale 13108 5286 101 44 27 35
Dallas 6288 14612 34 11 10 9
DeKalb 18331 5239 161 87 63 69
Elmore 26253 8954 191 61 34 53
Escambia 9287 5489 55 25 18 20
Etowah 29130 12803 395 94 100 102
Fayette 6054 1817 43 12 8 24
Franklin 7567 3171 69 22 22 30
Geneva 9175 2039 63 11 15 28
Greene 804 4521 8 3 2 5
Hale 3210 5411 13 4 6 3
Henry 5628 3083 33 6 7 9
Houston 29270 12367 210 66 31 40
Jackson 14439 5822 189 55 62 65
Jefferson 141683 159876 1637 605 438 284
Lamar 5457 1646 34 10 9 20
Lauderdale 23911 12511 293 108 106 103
Lawrence 8874 5069 107 36 30 32
Lee 32194 21381 604 137 98 82
Limestone 25295 9829 218 81 54 63
Lowndes 1756 5747 15 2 1 2
Macon 1331 9045 14 2 3 1
Madison 90884 62015 1531 369 381 248
Marengo 5336 6167 15 6 9 10
Marion 9697 2249 97 24 28 34
Marshall 25867 6299 228 78 94 78
Mobile 94893 78760 822 276 251 138
Monroe 5741 4914 28 9 13 12
Montgomery 38332 63085 339 143 100 68
Morgan 35391 13439 321 136 88 84
Perry 1506 4568 15 2 8 2
Pickens 5124 4455 16 10 5 11
Pike 7963 6035 76 16 18 15
Randolph 7224 3078 55 23 22 19
Russell 8278 10500 62 31 17 22
Shelby 71436 20051 725 235 171 124
St. Clair 29031 5801 201 87 56 59
Sumter 1586 5421 18 3 2 0
Talladega 19246 13905 127 43 44 51
Tallapoosa 12396 6319 69 22 25 20
Tuscaloosa 45748 32048 553 182 130 111
Walker 21651 6557 165 64 69 79
Washington 5761 2976 22 9 9 10
Wilcox 1679 4868 2 4 1 1
Winston 8312 1286 57 14 25 34
Total 1,255,925 (60.55%) 795.696 (38.36%) 12,328 (.59%) 4011 (.19%) 3397 (.16%) 2981 (.14%)

The Republican slate was duly elected, and voted for Romney and Ryan on December 17.