2016 United States presidential election in Delaware
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Turnout65.35% Increase
 
Nominee Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Tim Kaine Mike Pence
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 235,603 185,127
Percentage 53.09% 41.72%
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Barack Obama
Democratic

Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

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The 2016 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Delaware voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Delaware has three electoral votes in the Electoral College.[1]

Clinton carried the state with 53.4% of the vote to Trump's 41.9%, a victory margin of 11.37%.[2] Although Democrats continued their streak of winning Delaware, a state that has not gone to the Republicans in a presidential election since 1988, it swung 7.19% to the right relative to 2012, and Trump managed to flip Kent County. This was the first time since 1968 that Delaware did not vote for the same candidate as neighboring Pennsylvania.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Main article: 2016 Delaware Democratic presidential primary

Five candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:

Opinion polling

See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries § Delaware

Results

Election results by county.
  Hillary Clinton
  Bernie Sanders

See also: Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries


e • d 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Delaware
– Summary of results –
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 55,954 59.75% 12 11 23
Bernie Sanders 36,662 39.15% 9 0 9
Roque De La Fuente 1,024 1.09%
Uncommitted — 0 0 0
Total 93,640 100% 21 11 32
Source: The Green Papers, Delaware Department of Elections - Official Primary Results

Republican primary

Republican primary results by county:
  Donald Trump
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%

Six candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[3]

Opinion polling

See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries § Delaware

Results

Delaware Republican primary, April 26, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Donald Trump 42,472 60.77% 16 0 16
John Kasich 14,225 20.35% 0 0 0
Ted Cruz 11,110 15.90% 0 0 0
Ben Carson (withdrawn) 885 1.27% 0 0 0
Marco Rubio (withdrawn) 622 0.89% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 578 0.83% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 69,892 100.00% 16 0 16
Source: The Green Papers

Green convention

On April 2, 2016, the Green Party of Delaware announced that all four of its delegates would support Jill Stein at the national convention.[4]

Delaware Green Party Convention, April 2, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates
Jill Stein 14 100% 4
William Kreml - - -
Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza Curry - - -
Kent Mesplay - - -
Darryl Cherney - - -
Total 14 100% 4

General election

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
Los Angeles Times[5] Safe D November 6, 2016
CNN[6] Safe D November 4, 2016
Cook Political Report[7] Safe D November 7, 2016
Electoral-vote.com[8] Safe D November 8, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball[9] Safe D November 7, 2016
Fox News[10] Safe D November 7, 2016

Polling

See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election § Delaware

Statewide results

2016 United States presidential election in Delaware[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Hillary Clinton 235,603 53.09%
Republican Donald Trump 185,127 41.72%
Libertarian Gary Johnson 14,757 3.33%
Green Jill Stein 6,103 1.37%
Independent Evan McMullin (write-in) 706 0.16%
Constitution Darrell Castle (write-in) 74 0.02%
Write-in (other) 1,444 0.32%
Total votes 443,814 100.00%

Results by county

County Hillary Clinton
Democratic 		Donald Trump
Republican 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Kent 33,351 44.63% 36,991 49.50% 4,387 5.87% -3,640 -4.87% 74,729
New Castle 162,919 61.95% 85,525 32.52% 14,535 5.53% 77,394 29.43% 262,979
Sussex 39,333 37.07% 62,611 59.01% 4,162 3.92% -23,278 -21.94% 106,106
Totals 235,603 53.09% 185,127 41.71% 23,084 5.20% 50,476 11.38% 443,814

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

By congressional district

Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district is called the At-Large district, because it covers the entire state, and thus is equivalent to the statewide election results.

District Trump Clinton Representative
At-large 41.72% 53.09% Lisa Blunt Rochester

Turnout

According to Delaware's Elections website, voter turnout was 65.57% with 445,228 ballots cast out of 679,027 registered voters.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Distribution of Electoral Votes". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Connecticut Election Results 2016 – The New York Times". Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  3. ^ "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner". elections.delaware.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  4. ^ "GPDE Annual Meeting Notes 2016-04-02". Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  5. ^ "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours". Los Angeles Times. November 6, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  6. ^ Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  7. ^ "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report. November 7, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  8. ^ "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  9. ^ Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  10. ^ "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  11. ^ "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/stwoff_kns.shtml/ Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine"
  12. ^ "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/pdf/2016%20General%20Election%20-%20Write-In%20Candidates%20Votes.pdf Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine"
  13. ^ Bump, Philip. "The counties that flipped parties to swing the 2016 election". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  14. ^ https://elections.delaware.gov/reports/pdfs/agprpt_2016.pdf Page 1 Last edited 2016-21-16 Retrieved 2020-07-08

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