2016 United States presidential election in Maryland

2016 United States presidential election in Maryland

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Turnout	71.98% 2.02 pp[1]
Nominee Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Party Democratic Republican Home state New York New York Running mate Tim Kaine Mike Pence Electoral vote 10 0 Popular vote 1,677,928 943,169 Percentage 60.33% 33.91%
County Results Clinton   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Trump   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

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The 2016 United States presidential election in Maryland 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. Maryland 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. Maryland has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College.^[2]

Clinton won Maryland with 60.3% of the vote, while Trump received 33.9%.^[3] Maryland was among the eleven states in which Clinton improved on Barack Obama's 2012 raw vote total, although by just 84 votes.^[4] Maryland was one of four states in which Clinton received over 60% of the vote, the others being Massachusetts, Hawaii, and California; out of the four, however, Maryland was the only one to have voted more Democratic in both 2012 and 2016.

Clinton continued the tradition of Democratic dominance in the state of Maryland, capturing large majorities of the vote in the densely populated and heavily nonwhite Democratic Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, while Trump easily outperformed her in more white, sparsely populated regions elsewhere in the state that tend to vote Republican. While Republicans typically win more counties, they are usually swamped by the heavily Democratic counties between Baltimore and Washington. Though Trump won 17 of Maryland’s 24 county-level jurisdictions, the state's four largest county-level jurisdictions—Montgomery, Prince George's and Baltimore counties and the City of Baltimore—all broke for Clinton by double digits, enough to deliver the state to her.

Clinton became the first Democrat to win Anne Arundel County, home to the state capital of Annapolis, since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Therefore, Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Anne Arundel County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

Background[]

The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat and former U.S. Senator from Illinois, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with former Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote,^[5][6] Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes.^[7] Although Barack Obama's approval rating in the RealClearPolitics poll tracking average remained between 40 and 50% for most of his second term, it has experienced a surge in early 2016 and reached its highest point since 2012 during June of that year.^[8][9] Analyst Nate Cohn has noted that a strong approval rating for Barack Obama would equate to a strong performance for the Democratic candidate, and vice versa.^[10]

Following his second term, President Barack Obama was not eligible for another reelection. In October 2015, Obama's running-mate and two-term Vice President Joe Biden decided not to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination either.^[11] With their terms expiring on January 20, 2017, the electorate was asked to elect a new president, the 45th president and 48th vice president of the United States, respectively.

Results[]

2016 United States presidential election in Maryland

Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	%	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	Tim Kaine	1,677,928	60.33%	10
	Republican	Donald Trump	Mike Pence	943,169	33.91%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	William Weld	79,605	2.86%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Ajamu Baraka	35,945	1.29%	0
	Others	Write ins		44,799	1.61%	0
Total				2,781,446	100.00%	10

Results by county[]

County	Hillary Rodham Clinton Democratic		Donald John Trump Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Allegany	7,875	25.69%	21,270	69.39%	1,509	4.92%	−13,395	−43.70%	30,654
Anne Arundel	128,419	47.55%	122,403	45.32%	19,259	7.13%	6,016	2.23%	270,081
Baltimore County	218,412	55.91%	149,477	38.26%	22,793	5.83%	68,935	17.64%	390,682
Baltimore City	202,673	84.66%	25,205	10.53%	11,524	4.81%	177,468	74.13%	239,402
Calvert	18,225	38.44%	26,176	55.21%	3,007	6.34%	−7,951	−16.77%	47,408
Caroline	4,009	28.41%	9,368	66.38%	736	5.22%	−5,359	−37.97%	14,113
Carroll	26,567	28.92%	58,215	63.38%	7,066	7.69%	−31,648	−34.46%	91,848
Cecil	13,650	30.15%	28,868	63.77%	2,751	6.08%	−15,218	−33.62%	45,269
Charles	49,341	63.01%	25,614	32.71%	3,348	4.28%	23,727	30.30%	78,303
Dorchester	6,245	41.02%	8,413	55.26%	567	3.72%	−2,168	−14.24%	15,225
Frederick	56,522	44.97%	59,522	47.36%	9,633	7.66%	−3,000	−2.39%	125,677
Garrett	2,567	18.32%	10,776	76.91%	668	4.77%	−8,209	−58.59%	14,011
Harford	47,077	35.22%	77,860	58.25%	8,735	6.53%	−30,783	−23.03%	133,672
Howard	102,597	63.26%	47,484	29.28%	12,112	7.47%	55,113	33.98%	162,193
Kent	4,575	45.65%	4,876	48.66%	570	5.69%	−301	−3.00%	10,021
Montgomery	357,837	74.72%	92,704	19.36%	28,332	5.92%	265,133	55.37%	478,873
Prince George's	344,049	88.13%	32,811	8.40%	13,525	3.46%	311,238	79.73%	390,385
Queen Anne's	7,973	30.06%	16,993	64.07%	1,557	5.87%	−9,020	−34.01%	26,523
St. Mary's	17,534	35.18%	28,663	57.51%	3,645	7.31%	−11,129	−22.33%	49,842
Somerset	4,196	42.38%	5,341	53.95%	363	3.67%	−1,145	−11.57%	9,900
Talbot	8,653	42.10%	10,724	52.18%	1,176	5.72%	−2,071	−10.08%	20,553
Washington	21,129	32.02%	40,998	62.13%	3,864	5.86%	−19,869	−30.11%	65,991
Wicomico	18,050	42.42%	22,198	52.17%	2,299	5.40%	−4,148	−9.75%	42,547
Worcester	9,753	34.50%	17,210	60.87%	1,310	4.63%	−7,457	−26.37%	28,273
Totals	1,677,928	60.33%	943,169	33.91%	160,349	5.76%	734,759	26.42%	2,781,446

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican[]

• Somerset (largest town: Princess Anne)

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic[]

• Anne Arundel (largest community: Glen Burnie)

By congressional district[]

Clinton won 7 of the state's 8 congressional districts.^[12]

District	Clinton	Trump	Representative
1st	35%	60%	Andy Harris
2nd	58%	37%	Dutch Ruppersberger
3rd	63%	32%	John Sarbanes
4th	77%	20%	Donna Edwards
			Anthony Brown
5th	65%	31%	Steny Hoyer
6th	55%	40%	John Delaney
7th	74%	22%	Elijah Cummings
8th	64%	31%	Chris Van Hollen
			Jamie Raskin

Primary elections[]

Democratic primary[]

Maryland Democratic primary, April 26, 2016
Candidate	Popular vote		Estimated delegates
	Count	Percentage	Pledged	Unpledged	Total
Hillary Clinton	573,242	62.53%	60	17	77
Bernie Sanders	309,990	33.81%	35	1	36
Rocky De La Fuente	3,582	0.39%	N/A
Uncommitted	29,949	3.27%	0	6	6
Total	916,763	100%	95	24	119
Source: The Green Papers, Maryland State Board of Elections - Official Primary Results, MDP Announces DNC Delegates, Alternates and State DNC Members, MDP Announces District-Level Delegate Winners

Republican primary[]

Maryland Republican primary, April 26, 2016

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Donald Trump	248,343	54.10%	38	0	38
John Kasich	106,614	23.22%	0	0	0
Ted Cruz	87,093	18.97%	0	0	0
Ben Carson (withdrawn)	5,946	1.30%	0	0	0
Marco Rubio (withdrawn)	3,201	0.70%	0	0	0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn)	2,770	0.60%	0	0	0
Rand Paul (withdrawn)	1,533	0.33%	0	0	0
Chris Christie (withdrawn)	1,239	0.27%	0	0	0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn)	1,012	0.22%	0	0	0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)	837	0.18%	0	0	0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn)	478	0.10%	0	0	0
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:	459,066	100.00%	38	0	38
Source: The Green Papers

Minor parties[]

Green primary[]

Libertarian convention[]

Libertarian National Convention, Maryland Delegate Vote (Round One)^[13]

Candidate	Delegate Votes	Percentage
Gary Johnson	10	56%
Marc Allan Feldman	4	22%
Darryl W. Perry	2	11%
Austin Petersen	2	11%
Others	-	-
Total	18	100%

Libertarian National Convention, Maryland Delegate Vote (Round Two)^[13]

Candidate	Delegate Votes	Percentage
Gary Johnson	10	67%
Marc Allan Feldman	2	13%
Darryl W. Perry	2	13%
John McAfee	1	7%
Others	-	-
Total	15	100%

Polling[]

See also[]

• United States presidential elections in Maryland
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums
• 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries

References[]

External links[]

• RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process
• Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions