Election 2012: Was Tinley Park an Obama or Romney Town?

Although he only won 13 out of 35 Cook County voting precincts that cover the village, President Barack Obama was still the choice of the majority of Tinley Park voters in Tuesday's election, according to data released Wednesday from the county clerk's office.

READ: The Race for President—How Illinois Voted

The re-elected president had 12,091 votes compared to Republican challenger Mitt Romney's 11,149, according to the numbers reported by the Cook County Clerk's Office. Yet Romney won the majority of the precincts that cover Tinley Park in Orland, Bremen and Rich townships. The margins of victory at those precincts, however, were very close, sometimes with only a gap of a handful of votes.

In fact, only one precinct in Tinley—Rich Township's precinct 7, which runs south of 183rd Street to Volmer Road, and east of Harlem Avenue to Central Avenue—showed overwhelming support for one candidate, with almost 2,000 voters choosing Obama, compared to 42 for Romney.

Data from the Will County precincts within the village's boundaries is not yet available.

READ: Election 2012 Results for Local and State Races

The following is a break down of voting by precincts for all the candidates on the 2012 presidential ballot. The map that runs with this article shows the 13 precincts that Obama won, which are bolded in the charts.

MAP KEY: Blue=Orland Township; Red=Bremen Township; Green=Rich Township

Patch will continue looking at Cook County voting precinct numbers to shed light on other races and voter turnout in the coming days.

Total Precinct Votes

• Barack Obama and Joe Biden (Democrat): 12,091
• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (Republican): 11,149
• Gary Johnson and James P. Gray (Libertarian): 222
• Jill Stein & Howie Hawkins (Green Party): 87

Orland Township

SOURCE: Cook County Clerk's Office

Bremen Township

SOURCE: Cook County Clerk's Office

Rich Township

SOURCE: Cook County Clerk's Office

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• Bobby Rush Wins 11th Term in Congress
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• Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow Wins Again
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