United_States_presidential_election_in_Delaware,_2016

2016 United States presidential election in Delaware

2016 United States presidential election in Delaware

Election in Delaware

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]

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election
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Treemap of the popular vote by county

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
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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

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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]

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General election

Predictions

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Polling

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

Statewide results

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Results by county

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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.

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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

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    "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner". elections.delaware.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
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    "GPDE Annual Meeting Notes 2016-04-02". Retrieved May 4, 2016.
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    Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
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    "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/doc/stwoff_kns.sdoc/ Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine"
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    Bump, Philip. "The counties that flipped parties to swing the 2016 election". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
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    https://elections.delaware.gov/reports/pdfs/agprpt_2016.pdf Page 1 Last edited 2016-21-16 Retrieved 2020-07-08
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