Election 2012: Did Orland Choose Obama or Romney?
President Barack Obama keeps his title for the next four years, but who did Orland Park and Orland Hills choose to lead the country? We gathered precinct data to show who how our area voted.
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President Barack Obama may have won the electoral votes and popular vote across the country, but in Orland Park and Orland Hills, Gov. Mitt Romney was the clear favorite, according to data from Cook and Will County clerks' offices.
In Orland Township, Obama took only seven of 50 precincts with 12,620 votes, compared to 17,232 votes for Mitt Romney. A small segment of Orland Park is in Frankfort Township's 2nd Precinct, but they picked Romney as well with 540 votes compared to 330 votes for Obama, according to the Will County Clerk's Office.
Read: The Race for President: How Illinois Voted
Neither candidate completely ran away with any of the Orland Park and Orland Hills precincts. The widest disparity was found in Orland Township's 75th precinct, with 175 votes for Obama compared to 496 votes for Romney, at a difference of 321 votes.
Read: 2012 Election Results: How Orland Park Voted
In total, Orland Township cast 19,022 votes for Obama and 24,497 votes for Romney, from 44,250 ballots cast out of 65,867 total registered voters.
Take a look at how the precincts in Orland Park and Orland Hills voted. The bolded indicate precincts where Obama won.
| Precinct | Obama-Biden (D) | Romney-Ryan (R) | Johnson-Gray (L) | Stein-Hawkins (G) |
| Orland 1 | 285 | 363 | 4 | 3 |
| Orland 2 | 305 | 436 | 6 | 3 |
| Orland 3 | 221 | 157 | 0 | 1 |
| Orland 4 | 223 | 264 | 6 | 3 |
| Orland 7 | 203 | 193 | 2 | 2 |
| Orland 8 | 271 | 233 | 4 | 1 |
| Orland 9 | 345 | 370 | 4 | 3 |
| Orland 10 | 264 | 341 | 4 | 2 |
| Orland 12 | 149 | 140 | 1 | 1 |
| Orland 15 | 250 | 500 | 3 | 1 |
| Orland 16 |
221 | 414 | 5 | 4 |
| Orland 18 | 329 | 395 | 6 | 1 |
| Orland 19 | 191 | 270 | 8 | 3 |
| Orland 20 | 122 | 222 | 1 | 2 |
| Orland 21 | 273 | 505 | 6 | 1 |
| Orland 22 | 286 | 319 | 6 | 8 |
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Orland 24 |
248 | 338 | 9 | 1 |
| Orland 25 | 464 | 528 | 3 | 3 |
| Orland 26 | 296 | 229 | 4 | 0 |
| Orland 27 | 194 | 225 | 4 | 1 |
| Orland 28 | 158 | 282 | 5 | 3 |
| Orland 29 | 257 | 535 | 4 | 2 |
| Orland 30 | 185 | 227 | 4 | 1 |
| Orland 31 | 228 | 250 | 2 | 2 |
| Orland 32 | 174 | 216 | 6 | 2 |
| Orland 33 | 241 | 295 | 6 | 2 |
| Orland 34 | 258 | 429 | 7 | 1 |
| Orland 35 | 287 | 362 | 1 | 4 |
| Orland 36 | 425 | 269 | 7 | 2 |
| Orland 37 |
325 | 386 | 2 | 0 |
| Orland 38 | 171 | 176 | 5 | 3 |
| Orland 39 |
200 | 305 | 2 | 2 |
| Orland 40 | 324 | 418 | 9 | 2 |
| Orland 47 |
266 | 521 | 3 | 1 |
| Orland 48 | 294 | 319 | 5 | 4 |
| Orland 52 |
233 | 418 | 8 | 3 |
| Orland 53 | 218 | 299 | 5 | 2 |
| Orland 54 | 340 | 514 | 3 | 0 |
| Orland 55 |
230 | 257 | 1 | 2 |
| Orland 56 | 165 | 381 | 1 | 2 |
| Orland 57 | 250 | 395 | 4 | 2 |
| Orland 59 | 285 | 365 | 3 | 2 |
| Orland 60 | 186 | 256 | 3 | 2 |
| Orland 62 | 291 | 388 | 4 | 3 |
| Orland 64 | 295 | 528 | 7 | 5 |
| Orland 65 | 209 | 349 | 4 | 0 |
| Orland 66 | 201 | 332 | 4 | 5 |
| Orland 68 | 197 | 278 | 9 | 2 |
| Orland 69 | 250 | 114 | 4 | 1 |
| Orland 71 | 162 | 430 | 4 | 1 |
| Orland 75 | 175 | 496 | 3 | 0 |
| Totals | 12,620 | 17,232 | 221 | 107 |
Source: Cook County Clerk's Office
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