Election 2012: Did Oak Lawn Choose Obama or Romney?
President Barack Obama keeps his title for the next four years, but who did Oak Lawn choose to lead the country? We gathered precinct data to show how our area voted.
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There was no conservative revolution in Oak Lawn this presidential election, which is now relegated to history.
Oak Lawn mirrored the rest of the country’s voting patterns, with Democrat President Barack Obama winning the electoral and popular votes over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. In Oak Lawn, Obama was the clear favorite, according to data from the Cook County Clerk’s office.
In the Worth Township precincts located in Oak Lawn, Romney took six out of the 41 local precincts; in some only a few votes separated the candidates.
Obama took 12,792 votes to Romney’s 10,186 of votes cast in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Cook County Clerk’s office.
Out of Worth Township’s 1,417,811 registered voters, 985,401 ballots were cast.
Read: The Race for President: How Illinois Voted
Take a look at how the precincts in Oak Lawn voted. The bolded indicate precincts where Romney won.
| Precinct | (D) Obama-Biden | (R) Romeny-Ryan |
| Oak Lawn 1 | 216 |
153 |
| Oak Lawn 2 | 365 | 324 |
| Oak Lawn 3 | 344 | 279 |
| Oak Lawn 4 | 538 | 277 |
| Oak Lawn 5 | 304 | 357 |
| Oak Lawn 11 | 322 | 283 |
| Oak Lawn 21 | 511 | 309 |
| Oak Lawn 25 | 380 | 302 |
| Oak Lawn 26 | 296 | 182 |
| Oak Lawn 27 | 248 | 243 |
| Oak Lawn 28 | 246 | 136 |
| Oak Lawn 30 | 366 | 260 |
| Oak Lawn 33 | 319 | 241 |
| Oak Lawn 35 | 363 | 323 |
| Oak Lawn 36 | 392 | 255 |
| Oak Lawn 40 | 411 | 235 |
| Oak Lawn 41 | 196 | 158 |
| Oak Lawn 44 | 255 | 166 |
| Oak Lawn 46 | 419 | 316 |
| Oak Lawn 48 | 214 | 205 |
| Oak Lawn 49 | 192 | 201 |
| Oak Lawn 56 | 275 | 401 |
| Oak Lawn 58 | 388 | 278 |
| Oak Lawn 60 | 163 | 216 |
| Oak Lawn 62 | 162 | 163 |
| Oak Lawn 63 | 368 | 216 |
| Oak Lawn 66 | 262 | 217 |
| Oak Lawn 74 | 182 | 158 |
| Oak Lawn 75 | 389 | 360 |
| Oak Lawn 76 | 198 | 99 |
| Oak Lawn 77 | 370 | 282 |
| Oak Lawn 84 | 377 | 299 |
| Oak Lawn 85 | 310 | 281 |
| Oak Lawn 91 | 183 | 191 |
| Oak Lawn 92 | 329 | 326 |
| Oak Lawn 93 | 216 | 134 |
| Oak Lawn 94 | 381 | 292 |
| Oak Lawn 96 | 461 | 217 |
| Oak Lawn 98 | 379 | 341 |
| Oak Lawn 99 | 173 | 191 |
| Oak Lawn 100 | 329 | 319 |
| Totals | 12,792 | 10,186 |
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ChicagoisnotObamashometown
8:16 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
How can you say there was NO conservative revolution? This is the tightest presidential race in Cook County in decades. People are waking up.
justthenewsplease
9:24 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
As a news source you should have no opinion just state the facts. Well ay least that is how journalism used to be.
James Longstreet
11:50 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Amen to that!
Julie
10:15 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Geepers! What did Lorraine give an opinion on? Mittens didn't win, so she is just stating the facts folks. I will now return you to 1953. Enjoy.
James Longstreet
11:52 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Four more years of gridlock!
Meesch
3:12 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Gridlock??? Bush is the one who messed the United States up for Obama to fix.
James Longstreet
5:23 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Didn'the Democrats contro; the House and the Senate the last two years of the Bush administration? Correct me i I am wrong. How is Obama going tofix it pray tell? We are now at $16 TRILLION as far as the debt goes and Obama doesn't have a clue as to how to lower it. Neither did Romney when you get down to it. So here we sit waiting for the bottom to fall out at the end of the year! Nancy anf Harry sure don't know what to do! Wasn't it Nancy that said that the health care bill had to be passed and THEN read! And now we have companys cutting back on hours because they don't want to pay the costs of health insurance. And to make mattere worse this president may have the opportunity to appoint 3-4 new judges to the Supreme Court. Gee! I wonder if Mrs. Obama is going to take the kids on another taxpayer paid vacation? So yes there will continue to be gridlock! I can see why there are states that want to leave the Union and I can see why there has been a BIG surge in the purchase of guns and ammo. Times are a changing Meesch...for the worse!
CAJ
10:34 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Than when is Barry going to fix-it and stop blaming President Bush??????
Barry wanted the job, so he should do it already. After all, he's the guy who's supposed to have been able to walk on water.
O.L. Taxpayer
7:59 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
I love how out of one side of the Democratic mouth comes " Bush ruined America and the global economy" then out of the other side ,( which no one can argue) " He is the dumbest person in the world". How could he be to blame for being the mastermind of the decline of a Global economy? Give it up folks.