Election in Delaware
Main article: 2016 United States presidential election
2016 United States presidential election in Delaware Turnout 65.35%
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%
County Results
Clinton
60–70%
Trump
40–50%
50–60%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic
Elected President Donald Trump Republican
Treemap of the popular vote by county.
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 won the state with 53.4% of the vote. Conversely, Trump received 41.9% of the vote.[2] 2012 election , and Kent County flipped red. However, as of 2020 , it is the last time the county was red in a presidential election. This was the first time since 1968 that Delaware did not vote for the same candidate as neighboring Pennsylvania .
Primary elections [ ] Democratic 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
Republican primary [ ] Six candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[3]
Jeb Bush (withdrawn)Ben Carson (withdrawn)Ted Cruz John Kasich Marco Rubio (suspended, to convention)Donald Trump Opinion polling [ ] See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Republican Party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Ben Carson (withdrawn)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Marco Rubio (withdrawn)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 4 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
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
General election [ ] Statewide results [ ] Results by county [ ]
County
Trump#
Trump%
Clinton#
Clinton%
Johnson#
Johnson%
Stein#
Stein%
McMullin#
McMullin%
Other#
Other%
Total
Kent 36,991 49.6% 33,351
44.7%
2,876
3.9%
1,042
1.4%
109
0.2%
229
0.3%
74,598
New Castle 85,525
32.6%
162,919 62.1% 9,107
3.5%
3,956
1.5%
514
0.2%
370
0.1%
262,391
Sussex 62,611 59.1% 39,333
37.1%
2,774
2.6%
1,105
1.0%
83
0.1%
102
0.1%
106,008
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican [ ] Kent (largest city: Dover ) [13] Turnout [ ] According to the Delaware's Elections website, voter turnout was 65.57% with 445,228 ballots cast out of 679,027 registered voters.
[14]
See also [ ] References [ ]
^ "Distribution of Electoral Votes" . National Archives and Records Administration . Retrieved November 23, 2020 .^ "Connecticut Election Results 2016 – The New York Times" . Retrieved November 10, 2016 .^ "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner" . elections.delaware.gov . Retrieved 2016-06-20 .^ "GPDE Annual Meeting Notes 2016-04-02" . Retrieved May 4, 2016 .^ "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2016-11-13 .^ Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map" . CNN . Retrieved March 3, 2019 .^ "2016 Electoral Scorecard" . The Cook Political Report . Retrieved March 3, 2019 .^ "2016 Electoral Map Prediction" . Electoral-vote.com . Retrieved March 3, 2019 .^ Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President" . University of Virginia Center for Politics . Retrieved March 3, 2019 .^ "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge" . Fox News . 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13 .^ "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/stwoff_kns.shtml/ "
^ "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/pdf/2016%20General%20Election%20-%20Write-In%20Candidates%20Votes.pdf "
^ Bump, Philip. "The counties that flipped parties to swing the 2016 election" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2020-09-01 . ^ https://elections.delaware.gov/reports/pdfs/agprpt_2016.pdf Page 1 Last edited 2016-21-16 Retrieved 2020-07-08
External links [ ]
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Federal government
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