Likewise ineligible to run for additional terms as president were past two-term presidents Speculation about the 2016 campaign began almost immediately following the 2012 campaign, with With seventeen major candidates entering the race, starting with Between March 16 and May 3, 2016, only three candidates remained in the race: Trump, Cruz, and Kasich. Return here to share it.Share or Embed your Map: Select 'Share Map' button above.

Polls Closing: 11:00 PM ET. 2016 Presidential election results. Trump then augmented his lead by scoring landslide victories in New York and five Northeastern states in April, followed by a decisive victory in Indiana on May 3, 2016, securing all 57 of the state's delegates. 99.5% Reporting Electoral Votes: 3. The other faithless elector in Texas, Bill Greene, cast his presidential vote for Ron Paul but cast his vice presidential vote for Mike Pence, as pledged. Trump won states (and one district in Maine) worth 306 electoral votes (this map). Issues of the Day: Health care costs, Economic inequality, Terrorism, Foreign policy (Russia, Iran, Syria, Brexit), Gun control, Treatment of minorities, Immigration policy, Shifting media landscape One of only 5 elections (1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016) where the popular vote winner was defeated; Hillary Clinton first female presidential nominee of a major political party CNN's full results for the 2016 presidential election, state maps and Senate, House and governor races. Mr Trump was especially popular among non-college-educated white men, receiving seven in 10 votes from that demographic group and six in 10 votes from non-college-educated white women. Setting the popular vote will also set the color of a state On March 3, 2016, Libertarian Gary Johnson addressed the In response to Johnson's growing poll numbers, the The following table is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it is reported to The 2016 presidential election was the first in 50 years without all the protections of the original Other traditionally Republican papers, including the President-elect Trump originally called the report fabricated,The first method detailed in the final report was the usage of the Internet Research Agency, waging "a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton".The second method of Russian interference saw the Russian intelligence service, the To establish whether a crime was committed by members of the Trump campaign with regard to Russian interference, the special counsel's investigators "applied the framework of The Mueller Report writes that the investigation "identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign", found that Russia "perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency" and that the 2016 Trump presidential campaign "expected it would benefit electorally" from Russian hacking efforts. A smaller proportion of Hispanic votes went to Mrs Clinton than to President Obama in 2012, according to the exit poll.As well as taking hold of the White House, the Republicans have also retained their majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The exact numbers of write-in votes have been published for three states: California, Vermont, and New Hampshire.Two faithless electors from Texas cast their presidential votes for Ron Paul and John Kasich, respectively. Fred Andrew Wright and Alec Aidan Wright, "How Surprising Was Trump's Victory? The news media and election experts were surprised at Trump's winning the electoral college. If you prefer, you can also use the 2016 electoral map or the 2018 midterm election vote as the starting point for your own electoral forecast. Trump confirmed these reports in a message On October 20, 2015, Webb announced his withdrawal from the primaries, and explored a potential Independent run.On February 1, 2016, in an extremely close contest, Clinton won the Although Sanders had not formally dropped out of the race, he announced on June 16, 2016, that his main goal in the coming months would be to work with Clinton to defeat Trump in the general election.The following candidates were frequently interviewed by major broadcast networks and cable news channels or were listed in publicly published national polls.

By continuing to use the website cookies for non personal advertisements and analytics will still run. Use it as a starting point to create your own 2020 presidential election forecast. The winner of the presidential election must win the majority of the electoral votes — that is at least 270 out of the 538 available. Initially, Trump won exactly 100 more Electoral College votes than Mitt Romney had in 2012, with two lost to The table below displays the official vote tallies by each state's Electoral College voting method. Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote (Red-Purple-Blue view) POLITICO's Live 2016 California Election Results and Maps by State, County and District. Cruz won the most delegates in four Western contests and in Wisconsin, keeping a credible path to denying Trump the nomination on the first ballot with 1,237 delegates. Plus exit polls and ballot measures. From the beginning of his campaign through February 2016, Trump received almost $2 billion in free media attention, twice the amount that Clinton received.Both Clinton and Trump were seen unfavorably by the general public, and their controversial nature set the tone of the campaign.Clinton's practice during her time as Secretary of State of Also, on September 9, 2016, Clinton said: "You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the On September 11, 2016, Clinton left a 9/11 memorial event early due to illness.Donald Trump also delivered strong and controversial statements towards Muslims and Islam on the campaign trail, saying, "I think Islam hates us".The ongoing controversy of the election made third parties attract voters' attention. This map shows the winner of the popular vote in each state for the 2016 presidential election.