2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee

2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee

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Turnout	62% [1]
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 1,522,925 870,695 Percentage 60.72% 34.72%
County Results Trump   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Clinton   50–60%   60–70%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

The 2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Tennessee 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.

On March 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Tennessee voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated chose any one primary in which to vote.

Trump won the election in the Volunteer State with 60.7% of the vote. Clinton received 34.7% of the vote.^[2] This is the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate for either party in the state since 1972 with Richard Nixon, and also the first time since that either party has earned over 60% of the vote in Tennessee. Tennessee was one of eleven states won by Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 but lost by Hillary Clinton.

Background[]

Tennessee has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1996. In 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney won the state by a margin of more than twenty points, due to the unpopularity of the Obama administration in the conservative state. Typically Democrats do very well in the urban regions of Memphis and Nashville, while Republicans dominate the rural and suburban areas. Tennessee is considered a safe Republican state. In 2016, it stayed that way with Trump winning the state with 60.7% of the vote.

Primary elections[]

Democratic primary[]

This section should include a summary of Tennessee Democratic primary, 2016. See Wikipedia:Summary style for information on how to incorporate it into this article's main text. (July 2016)

Results

Tennessee Democratic primary, March 1, 2016
Candidate	Popular vote		Estimated delegates
	Count	Percentage	Pledged	Unpledged	Total
Hillary Clinton	245,930	66.07%	44	7	51
Bernie Sanders	120,800	32.45%	23	0	23
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn)	2,025	0.54%
Uncommitted	3,467	0.93%	0	1	1
Total	372,222	100%	67	8	75
Source: The Green Papers

Republican primary[]

2016 Tennessee Republican primary

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Candidate Donald Trump Ted Cruz Marco Rubio Home state New York Texas Florida Delegate count 33 16 9 Popular vote 333,180 211,471 181,274 Percentage 38.94% 24.71% 21.18%   Candidate Ben Carson John Kasich Home state Maryland Ohio Delegate count 0 0 Popular vote 64,951 45,301 Percentage 7.59% 5.29%

Tennessee results by county   Donald Trump   Marco Rubio

Tennessee Republican primary, March 1, 2016

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Donald Trump	333,180	38.94%	33	0	33
Ted Cruz	211,471	24.71%	16	0	16
Marco Rubio	181,274	21.18%	9	0	9
Ben Carson	64,951	7.59%	0	0	0
John Kasich	45,301	5.29%	0	0	0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn)	9,551	1.12%	0	0	0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)	2,415	0.28%	0	0	0
Rand Paul (withdrawn)	2,350	0.27%	0	0	0
Uncommitted	1,849	0.22%	0	0	0
Chris Christie (withdrawn)	1,256	0.15%	0	0	0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn)	715	0.08%	0	0	0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn)	710	0.08%	0	0	0
Jim Gilmore (withdrawn)	267	0.03%	0	0	0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn)	253	0.03%	0	0	0
George Pataki (withdrawn)	186	0.02%	0	0	0
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:	855,729	100.00%	58	0	58
Source: The Green Papers

Polling[]

General election[]

Predictions[]

1. CNN: Solid Trump^[3]
2. Cook Political Report: Solid Trump^[4]
3. Electoral-vote.com: Likely Trump^[5]
4. Los Angeles Times: Solid Trump^[6]
5. NBC: Likely Trump^^[7]
6. RealClearPolitics: Likely Trump^[8]
7. Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Trump^[9]

^Highest rating given

Results[]

2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Donald Trump/Mike Pence	1,522,925	60.72%
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine	870,695	34.72%
	Independent	Gary Johnson	70,397	2.81%
	Independent	Jill Stein	15,993	0.64%
	Independent	Evan McMullin (write-in)	11,991	0.48%
	Independent	Mike Smith	7,276	0.29%
	Independent	Rocky De La Fuente	4,075	0.16%
	Independent	Alyson Kennedy	2,877	0.12%
	Write-in		1,798	0.07%
Total votes			2,508,027	100.00%

By congressional district[]

Trump won 7 of 9 congressional districts.^[11]

District	Trump	Clinton	Representative
1st	76%	20%	Phil Roe
2nd	65%	30%	Jimmy Duncan
3rd	61%	38%	Chuck Fleischmann
4th	68%	27%	Scott DesJarlais
5th	38%	56%	Jim Cooper
6th	72%	24%	Diane Black
7th	67%	28%	Marsha Blackburn
8th	66%	31%	Stephen Fincher
			David Kustoff
9th	20%	77%	Steve Cohen

By county[]

County	Clinton%	Clinton#	Trump%	Trump#	Others%	Others#	Total
Anderson	30.16%	9,013	64.30%	19,212	5.54%	1,656	29,881
Bedford	22.11%	3,395	74.80%	11,486	3.09%	474	15,355
Benton	23.29%	1,474	74.53%	4,716	2.18%	138	6,328
Bledsoe	19.23%	897	77.66%	3,622	3.11%	145	4,664
Blount	23.18%	12,100	71.72%	37,443	5.10%	2,665	52,208
Bradley	18.28%	7,070	76.99%	29,768	4.73%	1,828	38,666
Campbell	17.94%	2,248	78.76%	9,870	3.30%	414	12,532
Cannon	21.21%	1,127	75.40%	4,007	3.39%	180	5,314
Carroll	22.41%	2,327	74.69%	7,756	2.90%	301	10,384
Carter	16.38%	3,453	80.15%	16,898	3.48%	733	21,084
Cheatham	24.35%	3,878	70.94%	11,297	4.70%	749	15,924
Chester	19.10%	1,243	78.09%	5,081	2.81%	183	6,507
Claiborne	17.06%	1,832	80.09%	8,602	2.85%	306	10,740
Clay	24.21%	707	73.32%	2,141	2.47%	72	2,920
Cocke	16.34%	1,981	80.74%	9,791	2.92%	354	12,126
Coffee	23.75%	4,743	72.19%	14,417	4.06%	811	19,971
Crockett	24.14%	1,303	73.78%	3,982	2.08%	112	5,397
Cumberland	19.73%	5,202	77.44%	20,413	2.83%	745	26,360
Davidson	59.77%	148,864	33.95%	84,550	6.29%	15,654	249,068
Decatur	19.47%	894	78.14%	3,588	2.40%	110	4,592
DeKalb	22.56%	1,569	74.35%	5,171	3.09%	215	6,955
Dickson	25.25%	4,722	70.77%	13,233	3.98%	744	18,699
Dyer	21.12%	2,816	76.33%	10,180	2.55%	340	13,336
Fayette	30.29%	5,874	67.31%	13,055	2.40%	465	19,394
Fentress	15.00%	1,100	82.34%	6,038	2.66%	195	7,333
Franklin	26.66%	4,374	70.30%	11,532	3.04%	498	16,404
Gibson	26.90%	5,258	70.53%	13,786	2.57%	503	19,547
Giles	26.19%	2,917	71.56%	7,970	2.24%	250	11,137
Grainger	14.41%	1,154	82.74%	6,626	2.85%	228	8,008
Greene	17.88%	4,216	78.71%	18,562	3.41%	805	23,583
Grundy	20.97%	999	76.34%	3,636	2.69%	128	4,763
Hamblen	19.69%	4,075	76.63%	15,857	3.67%	760	20,692
Hamilton	38.84%	55,316	55.29%	78,733	5.87%	8,359	142,408
Hancock	14.43%	322	82.61%	1,843	2.96%	66	2,231
Hardeman	45.13%	4,185	53.05%	4,919	1.82%	169	9,273
Hardin	16.30%	1,622	80.53%	8,012	3.17%	315	9,949
Hawkins	16.88%	3,507	80.14%	16,648	2.98%	619	20,774
Haywood	54.30%	3,711	44.09%	3,013	1.61%	110	6,834
Henderson	17.62%	1,800	79.65%	8,138	2.73%	279	10,217
Henry	23.66%	3,063	73.45%	9,508	2.89%	374	12,945
Hickman	23.35%	1,824	72.89%	5,695	3.76%	294	7,813
Houston	27.34%	866	68.88%	2,182	3.79%	120	3,168
Humphreys	27.50%	1,967	68.92%	4,930	3.58%	256	7,153
Jackson	25.28%	1,129	72.46%	3,236	2.26%	101	4,466
Jefferson	18.32%	3,494	77.47%	14,776	4.21%	802	19,072
Johnson	15.02%	988	82.23%	5,410	2.75%	181	6,579
Knox	34.80%	62,878	58.53%	105,767	6.67%	12,052	180,697
Lake	29.29%	577	68.88%	1,357	1.83%	36	1,970
Lauderdale	37.79%	3,056	60.39%	4,884	1.82%	147	8,087
Lawrence	18.01%	2,821	79.28%	12,420	2.71%	425	15,666
Lewis	19.26%	890	77.56%	3,585	3.18%	147	4,622
Lincoln	19.13%	2,554	77.90%	10,398	2.97%	396	13,348
Loudon	21.03%	4,919	75.29%	17,610	3.69%	862	23,391
Macon	14.29%	1,072	83.46%	6,263	2.25%	169	7,504
Madison	40.52%	15,448	55.97%	21,335	3.51%	1,337	38,120
Marion	26.07%	2,832	70.85%	7,696	3.07%	334	10,862
Marshall	24.90%	2,852	71.44%	8,184	3.66%	419	11,455
Maury	28.38%	10,038	67.29%	23,799	4.33%	1,532	35,369
McMinn	18.72%	3,510	78.33%	14,691	2.95%	554	18,755
McNairy	18.41%	1,848	78.11%	7,841	3.48%	349	10,038
Meigs	19.81%	856	77.36%	3,342	2.82%	122	4,320
Monroe	18.64%	3,186	78.24%	13,374	3.12%	533	17,093
Montgomery	37.66%	21,699	56.13%	32,341	6.21%	3,580	57,620
Moore	16.95%	496	79.46%	2,325	3.59%	105	2,926
Morgan	15.72%	1,054	81.15%	5,441	3.13%	210	6,705
Obion	19.81%	2,426	77.77%	9,526	2.42%	297	12,249
Overton	23.64%	1,945	73.63%	6,059	2.73%	225	8,229
Perry	20.91%	597	75.90%	2,167	3.19%	91	2,855
Pickett	20.50%	536	77.28%	2,021	2.22%	58	2,615
Polk	19.20%	1,252	78.17%	5,097	2.62%	171	6,520
Putnam	25.18%	6,851	69.83%	19,002	4.99%	1,359	27,212
Rhea	17.56%	1,942	78.29%	8,660	4.16%	460	11,062
Roane	22.32%	4,837	73.28%	15,880	4.39%	952	21,669
Robertson	24.48%	6,637	71.59%	19,410	3.93%	1,066	27,113
Rutherford	34.17%	36,706	60.05%	64,515	5.78%	6,215	107,436
Scott	13.11%	934	84.85%	6,044	2.04%	145	7,123
Sequatchie	18.49%	1,053	77.99%	4,441	3.51%	200	5,694
Sevier	17.34%	6,297	78.84%	28,629	3.82%	1,386	36,312
Shelby	61.95%	208,992	34.48%	116,344	3.57%	12,047	337,383
Smith	22.71%	1,689	73.88%	5,494	3.40%	253	7,436
Stewart	23.06%	1,222	72.92%	3,864	4.02%	213	5,299
Sullivan	20.20%	12,578	75.43%	46,979	4.37%	2,721	62,278
Sumner	25.40%	18,161	70.11%	50,129	4.50%	3,215	71,505
Tipton	24.64%	5,785	72.02%	16,910	3.35%	786	23,481
Trousdale	29.94%	946	66.55%	2,103	3.51%	111	3,160
Unicoi	17.54%	1,262	78.82%	5,671	3.64%	262	7,195
Union	16.20%	1,012	80.89%	5,053	2.91%	182	6,247
Van Buren	22.28%	539	75.24%	1,820	2.48%	60	2,419
Warren	25.97%	3,535	70.09%	9,540	3.95%	537	13,612
Washington	26.18%	13,024	68.85%	34,252	4.97%	2,474	49,750
Wayne	12.24%	717	85.98%	5,036	1.78%	104	5,857
Weakley	22.75%	2,772	73.93%	9,008	3.32%	404	12,184
White	18.78%	1,845	78.08%	7,671	3.15%	309	9,825
Williamson	29.18%	31,013	64.19%	68,212	6.63%	7,046	106,271
Wilson	25.36%	14,385	69.46%	39,406	5.19%	2,943	56,734

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican[]

• Hardeman (largest city: Bolivar)

See also[]

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References[]

External links[]

• RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process
• Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions
• Decision Desk Headquarter Results for Tennessee