Texas Almanac 2014–2015

Elections

2012 General Election Results by County 2012 Party Primaries U.S. Senate Race Service men and women watch a presidential debate. U.S. Navy Photo (CC). Elections Elections Texas Almanac 2014–2015 446 2012 Election Results for President, Senate Below are the official results by county in the races for U.S. president and senator. The Democratic Party candidate for president was President Barack Obama. The Republican Party candidate for president was Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts. The Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate was Ted Cruz. The Democratic candidate was Paul Sadler. The total number of votes, 7,993,851, was 58.57 percent of the registered voters. The voting age population was estimated at 18,279,737. The statewide turnout in the previous presidential election in 2008 was 59.50 percent of the registered voters. Source: Texas Secretary of State. COUNTY Registered Voters Turnout % PRESIDENT SENATOR Romney % Obama % Cruz % Sadler % Statewide 13,646,226 58.57 4,569,843 57.16 3,308,124 41.38 4,440,137 56.45 3,194,927 40.62 Anderson 26,494 61.19 12,262 75.63 3,813 23.51 11,487 71.75 4,154 25.94 Andrews 8,271 54.18 3,639 81.19 795 17.73 3,495 79.66 758 17.27 Angelina 49,317 57.59 20,303 71.47 7,834 27.57 19,296 69.13 8,121 29.09 Aransas 15,883 60.74 6,830 70.79 2,704 28.02 6,640 70.00 2,592 27.32 Archer 6,322 65.86 3,600 86.45 525 12.60 3,380 83.12 598 14.70 Armstrong 1,431 65.33 828 88.55 98 10.48 786 85.52 109 11.86 Atascosa 24,213 52.53 7,461 58.65 5,133 40.35 7,149 57.69 4,883 39.40 Austin 18,005 64.69 9,265 79.53 2,252 19.33 9,001 78.21 2,305 20.02 Bailey 3,527 51.48 1,339 73.73 466 25.66 1,328 74.64 421 23.66 Bandera 14,830 63.70 7,426 78.59 1,864 19.72 7,189 76.65 1,833 19.54 Bastrop 39,929 61.31 14,033 57.32 9,864 40.29 12,720 52.70 10,244 42.44 Baylor 2,532 62.87 1,297 81.46 267 16.77 1,090 73.40 332 22.35 Bee 14,886 52.92 4,356 55.28 3,452 43.81 4,158 54.83 3,235 42.66 Bell 163,528 52.46 49,574 57.50 35,512 41.19 48,913 57.71 33,427 39.43 Bexar 918,552 55.67 241,617 47.03 264,856 51.56 236,161 46.43 256,629 50.45 Blanco 7,195 69.11 3,638 73.15 1,220 24.53 3,408 69.38 1,281 26.07 Borden 431 84.22 324 89.25 32 8.81 297 86.58 39 11.37 Bosque 11,977 61.41 5,885 80.00 1,367 18.58 5,560 76.74 1,478 20.40 Bowie 57,307 61.77 24,869 70.24 10,196 28.79 21,825 63.50 11,760 34.22 Brazoria 178,505 59.79 70,862 66.38 34,421 32.24 69,497 65.52 33,744 31.81 Brazos 91,496 61.16 37,209 66.48 17,477 31.23 36,837 66.61 16,404 29,66 Brewster 6,782 57.01 1,976 51.09 1,765 45.64 1,875 50.10 1,624 43.39 Briscoe 1,141 61.52 578 82.33 117 16.66 513 76.68 142 21.22 Brooks 6,622 36.28 507 21.09 1,886 78.48 583 24.77 1,737 73.82 Brown 22,565 61.80 11,895 85.28 1,904 13.65 11,267 82.11 2,069 15.07 Burleson 10,926 59.08 4,671 72.35 1,705 26.40 4,549 70.87 1,758 27.39 Burnet 26,636 63.05 12,843 76.46 3,674 21.87 12,110 72.82 3,888 23.38 Caldwell 20,791 53.23 6,021 54.40 4,791 43.28 5,552 50.94 4,965 45.55 Calhoun 12,511 53.13...