2016 United States presidential election in Delaware

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election

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]

2016 United States presidential election in Delaware

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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 Precinct results State House Results Clinton   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Trump   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% No Votes
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

Treemap of the popular vote by county

Clinton carried the state with 53.1% of the vote to Trump's 41.7%, a victory margin of 11.38%^[2] Although Democrats continued their streak of winning Delaware, a state that has not gone to the Republicans in a presidential election since 1988, it swung 7.19% to the right relative to 2012, and Trump managed to flip Kent County. This was the first time since 1968 that Delaware did not vote for the same candidate as neighboring Pennsylvania.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Main article: 2016 Delaware Democratic presidential primary

Five candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:

• Hillary Clinton
• Rocky De La Fuente
• Martin O'Malley (withdrawn)
• Bernie Sanders

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

e • d 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Delaware
– Summary of results –

Candidate	Popular vote		Estimated delegates
	Count	Percentage	Pledged	Unpledged	Total
Hillary Clinton	55,954	59.75%	12	11	23
Bernie Sanders	36,662	39.15%	9	0	9
Roque De La Fuente	1,024	1.09%
Uncommitted	—		0	0	0
Total	93,640	100%	21	11	32
Source: The Green Papers, Delaware Department of Elections - Official Primary Results

Republican primary

Republican primary results by county:

  Donald Trump

•   50–60%
•   60–70%
•   70–80%

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 four 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

General election

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

Results

2016 United States presidential election in Delaware^[11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	235,603	53.09%
	Republican	Donald Trump	185,127	41.72%
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	14,757	3.33%
	Green	Jill Stein	6,103	1.37%
	Independent	Evan McMullin (write-in)	706	0.16%
	Constitution	Darrell Castle (write-in)	74	0.02%
		Write-in (other)	1,444	0.32%
Total votes			443,814	100.00%

By county

County	Hillary Clinton Democratic		Donald Trump Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Kent	33,351	44.63%	36,991	49.50%	4,387	5.87%	-3,640	-4.87%	74,729
New Castle	162,919	61.95%	85,525	32.52%	14,535	5.53%	77,394	29.43%	262,979
Sussex	39,333	37.07%	62,611	59.01%	4,162	3.92%	-23,278	-21.94%	106,106
Totals	235,603	53.09%	185,127	41.71%	23,084	5.20%	50,476	11.38%	443,814

Swing by county

Legend

•   Democratic — +2.5-5%
•   Republican — +0-2.5%
•   Republican — +2.5-5%
•   Republican — +7.5-10%

Trend relative to the state by county

Legend

•   Democratic — +2.5-5%
•   Republican — +0-2.5%
•   Republican — +2.5-5%
•   Republican — +7.5-10%

County flips

Legend

• Democratic   Hold

  Republican   Hold   Gain from Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Kent (largest city: Dover)^[13]

By congressional district

Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district is called the At-Large district, because it covers the entire state, and thus is equivalent to the statewide election results.

District	Trump	Clinton	Representative
At-large	41.72%	53.09%	Lisa Blunt Rochester

Turnout

According to Delaware's Elections website, voter turnout was 65.57% with 445,228 ballots cast out of 679,027 registered voters.^[14]

See also

• United States presidential elections in Delaware
• 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

1. "Distribution of Electoral Votes". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
2. "Connecticut Election Results 2016 – The New York Times". Retrieved November 10, 2016.
3. "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner". elections.delaware.gov. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
4. "GPDE Annual Meeting Notes 2016-04-02". Retrieved May 4, 2016.
5. "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours". Los Angeles Times. November 6, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
6. Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
7. "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report. November 7, 2016. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
8. "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
9. Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
10. "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
11. "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/stwoff_kns.shtml/ Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine"
12. "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/pdf/2016%20General%20Election%20-%20Write-In%20Candidates%20Votes.pdf Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine"
13. Bump, Philip. "The counties that flipped parties to swing the 2016 election". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
14. https://elections.delaware.gov/reports/pdfs/agprpt_2016.pdf Page 1 Last edited 2016-21-16 Retrieved 2020-07-08

External links

• RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions