2016 United States presidential election in Arizona

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2016 United States presidential election in Arizona
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Turnout74.2% Increase
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Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New York
Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 1,252,401 1,161,167
Percentage 48.08% 44.58%
Arizona Presidential Election Results 2016.svg
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Treemap of the popular vote by county

The 2016 United States presidential election in Arizona was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Arizona 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. Arizona has 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[1]

Notably, Maricopa County, the state's most populous county, went more Democratic than the state as a whole. The county had not voted for a Democrat since Harry S. Truman in 1948. Therefore, Trump's narrow win in the county suggested the Republican Party was losing ground in the state. In fact, the county and the state would go on to vote Democratic in 2020. Despite the rest of the country swinging to the right, Arizona decreased its margin of victory from 9.0% in 2012[2] to only 3.5% in 2016.

Primary elections[]

Main article: 2016 Arizona presidential primary

Democratic primary[]

Main article: 2016 Arizona Democratic primary
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix on March 21, 2016.
Senator Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix on March 15, 2016.
Former President Bill Clinton at a campaign rally for his wife at Central High School in Phoenix on March 20, 2016.

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

Opinion polling[]

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

Results[]

See also: Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries


 • d 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Arizona
– Summary of results –
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 262,459 56.3% 42 6 48
Bernie Sanders 192,962 41.4% 33 1 34
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 3,877 0.8%
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente 2,797 0.6%
Michael Steinberg 2,295 0.5%
Henry Hewes 1,845 0.4%
Uncommitted N/A 3 3
Total 466,235 100% 75 10 85
Source: The Green Papers, Arizona Secretary of State
Detailed results per congressional district
Detailed results for the Arizona Democratic primary, April 5, 2016[4][5]
District Total Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders
Votes Delegates Votes % Delegates Votes % Delegates
1st district 63,863 6 35,445 55.5% 3 26,267 41.1% 3
2nd district 78,237 8 42,797 54.7% 4 33,891 43.3% 4
3rd district 51,520 5 30,298 58.8% 3 20,091 39.0% 2
4th district 37,273 4 15,289 55.4% 2 20,662 41.0% 2
5th district 40,847 5 22,973 56.2% 3 16,982 41.6% 2
6th district 50,465 6 29,266 58.0% 4 20,259 40.1% 2
7th district 42,199 5 24,245 57.5% 3 17,173 40.7% 2
8th district 46,491 5 27,672 59.5% 3 17,651 38.0% 2
9th district 55,340 6 29,101 52.6% 3 25,359 45.8% 3
At-large delegates 466,235 16 262,459 56.3% 9 192,962 41.4% 7
Pledged PLEOs 466,235 9 262,459 56.3% 5 192,962 41.4% 4
Total 466,235 75 262,464 56.3% 42 192,965 41.4% 33

Republican primary[]

Main article: 2016 Arizona Republican primary
Businessman Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Fountain Park in Fountain Hills on March 19, 2016.
Senator Ted Cruz at a campaign rally at Arizona Christian University in Phoenix on March 18, 2016.

Fourteen candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[6]

  • Jeb Bush (withdrawn)
  • Ben Carson (withdrawn)
  • Chris Christie (withdrawn)
  • Ted Cruz
  • Carly Fiorina (withdrawn)
  • Lindsey Graham (withdrawn)
  • Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)
  • John Kasich
  • George Pataki (withdrawn)
  • Rand Paul (withdrawn)
  • Marco Rubio (withdrawn)
  • Rick Santorum (withdrawn)
  • Tim Cook
  • Donald Trump
Arizona Republican primary, March 22, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Donald Trump 286,743 45.95% 58 0 58
Ted Cruz 172,294 27.61% 0 0 0
Marco Rubio (withdrawn) 72,304 11.59% 0 0 0
John Kasich 65,965 10.57% 0 0 0
Ben Carson (withdrawn) 14,940 2.39% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 4,393 0.70% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 2,269 0.36% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 1,300 0.21% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) 1,270 0.20% 0 0 0
Chris Christie (withdrawn) 988 0.16% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 523 0.08% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 498 0.08% 0 0 0
George Pataki (withdrawn) 309 0.05% 0 0 0
Timothy Cook (withdrawn) 243 0.04% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 624,039 100.00% 58 0 58
Source: The Green Papers

Green primary[]

Green Party candidate Jill Stein at a campaign rally at the Mesa Public Library in Mesa on March 12, 2016.

The Arizona Green Party held its primary on March 22. Jill Stein won with 82% of the vote, and the overall number of voters that took place in the primary saw an increase from 561 in 2012 to 770 in 2016.[7] Only two candidates qualified for the primary:[8]

Arizona Green Party presidential primary, March 22, 2016[9]
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates
America Symbol.svg Jill Stein 666 82% 5
Kent Mesplay 151 18% 1
Write-in/Blank 18 0% -
Total 817 100.0% 6

Polling[]

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

The first poll conducted in March 2016 showed a tie between Clinton and Trump. From March 2016 to October, the polling in this normally Republican state was quite close, with neither candidate seriously leading. In late October, Trump gained momentum and won every pre-election poll in the weeks leading up to the election. The final poll showed Trump leading Clinton 46% to 41% and the average of the final 3 polls showed Trump leading 47% to 43%, which was accurate compared to the results.[10]

General election[]

Predictions[]

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Arizona as of Election Day.

Source Ranking As of
Los Angeles Times[11] Lean D (flip) November 6, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report[12] Tilt R November 7, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball[13] Lean R November 7, 2016
CNN[14] Tossup November 8, 2016
NBC[15] Tossup November 8, 2016
RealClearPolitics[16] Tossup November 8, 2016
Fox News[17] Lean R November 7, 2016
ABC[18] Tossup November 7, 2016

Statewide results[]

2016 United States presidential election in Arizona[19]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote Swing
Count % Count %
Republican Donald Trump of New York Mike Pence of Indiana 1,252,401 48.1% 11 100.0% Decrease5.4%
Democratic Hillary Clinton of New York Tim Kaine of Virginia 1,161,167 44.6% 0 0.0% Increase0.1%
Libertarian Gary Johnson of New Mexico Bill Weld of Massachusetts 106,327 4.1% 0 0.0% Increase2.7%
Green Jill Stein of Massachusetts Ajamu Baraka of Illinois 34,345 1.3% 0 0.0% Increase1.0%
Write-in Various of Various Various of Various 31,662 1.2% 0 0.0% Increase0.9%
Independent Evan McMullin (write-in) of Utah Nathan Johnson of California 17,449 0.7% 0 0.0% Increase0.7%
Constitution Darrell Castle (write-in) of Tennessee Scott Bradley of Utah 1,058 0.0% 0 0.0% Increase0.0%
Independent Tom Hoefling (write-in) of Iowa Steve Schulin of South Carolina 85 0.0% 0 0.0% Steady
Independent Mike Smith (write-in) of Tennessee Daniel L. White of 62 0.0% 0 0.0% Steady
Independent Laurence Kotlikoff (write-in) of Massachusetts Edward E. Leamer of California 52 0.0% 0 0.0% Steady
Reform Rocky De La Fuente (write-in) of California Michael Steinberg of Florida 29 0.0% 0 0.0% Steady
Independent Joseph Allen Maldonado (write-in) of Oklahoma Douglas Terranova of 20 0.0% 0 0.0% Steady
Total 2,604,657 100.0% 11 100.0%

Results by county[]

County Trump# Trump% Clinton# Clinton% Others# Others% Total Votes
Apache 8,240 30.5% 17,083 63.2% 1,783 6.6% 27,106
Cochise 28,092 57.4% 17,450 35.7% 3,833 7.8% 49,375
Coconino 21,108 36.5% 32,404 56.4% 4,919 8.4% 58,431
Gila 14,182 63.9% 7,003 31.6% 1,123 5.0% 22,308
Graham 8,025 67.2% 3,301 27.7% 806 6.6% 12,132
Greenlee 1,892 58.3% 1,092 33.7% 286 8.8% 3,270
La Paz 4,003 68.3% 1,575 26.9% 296 5.0% 5,874
Maricopa 747,361 46.5% 702,907 43.7% 158,607 9.9% 1,608,875
Mohave 58,282 73.7% 17,455 22.1% 3,607 4.6% 79,344
Navajo 20,577 52.6% 16,459 42.0% 2,609 6.6% 39,645
Pima 167,428 40.5% 224,661 54.3% 24,297 5.8% 416,386
Pinal 72,819 57.3% 47,892 37.7% 7,524 5.9% 128,235
Santa Cruz 3,897 24.5% 11,690 71.6% 700 4.3% 16,287
Yavapai 71,330 63.4% 35,590 31.6% 6,224 5.5% 113,144
Yuma 25,165 48.1% 24,605 47.1% 2,641 5.0% 52,411

By congressional district[]

Trump won 5 of 9 congressional districts, including one represented by a Democrat. Clinton also carried a district represented by a Republican.[20]

District Trump Clinton Representative
1st 47.7% 46.6% Ann Kirkpatrick
Tom O'Halleran
2nd 44.7% 49.6% Martha McSally
3rd 32.5% 62.4% Raúl Grijalva
4th 67.7% 27.5% Paul Gosar
5th 57.6% 36.5% Matt Salmon
Andy Biggs
6th 52.4% 42.4% David Schweikert
7th 22.6% 71.8% Ruben Gallego
8th 58.1% 37.0% Trent Franks
9th 38.4% 54.7% Kyrsten Sinema

Turnout[]

Voter Turnout was 74.2% with 2,661,497 ballots cast out of 3,588,466 voters.[21]

Analysis[]

Donald Trump won Arizona with a margin of 3.5%, a reduced margin from Mitt Romney's 9.0% margin in 2012.[22] Arizona was among the eleven states in which Hillary Clinton outperformed Barack Obama's margin in 2012,[23] primarily due to an increase in Hispanic voter turnout in southern Arizona, including heavily populated Maricopa County. Maricopa County in particular went from a 10.7% margin of victory for Romney in 2012 to a 2.8% margin of victory for Trump—one of only three times that a Democrat has come closer to carrying the county since 1964. Indeed, the only closer margin since that time came in 1996, when Bill Clinton lost it by 2.2%.

Clinton also came close to winning Yuma County, and would have been the first Democrat to do so since the county was separated from La Paz County in the 1980s. Other rural counties that had been won by Bill Clinton in the 1990s continued to trend in a Republican direction.

In terms of percentage of the vote, Trump's strongest support was in the northwest of the state whereas Clinton did best in the southern-central region.

Electors[]

Arizona had 11 electors in 2016. All of them voted for Donald Trump for president and Mike Pence for vice president.

The electors were

  • Robert Graham
  • Jerry Hayden
  • James O'Connor
  • Edward Robson

See also[]

  • 2016 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums
  • 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries
  • 2016 Green Party presidential primaries
  • 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums
  • 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries

References[]

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  2. ^ Hobbs, Katie. "Arizona Secretary of State 2012 Election Information". Arizona Secretary of State. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  3. ^ "Democratic Party Candidates – Presidential Preference Election 2016". azsos.gov. Secretary of State of Arizona. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  4. ^ "Arizona Democratic Delegation 2016". www.thegreenpapers.com.
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  8. ^ "Two Candidates Qualify for Arizona Green Party Presidential Primary; Six Qualify for Democratic Primary". Ballot Access News. December 14, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
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  17. ^ "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  18. ^ "The Final 15: The Latest Polls in the Swing States That Will Decide the Election". Abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
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  20. ^ "Introducing the 2017 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index". The Cook Political Report.
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