United States presidential election in Ohio, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

Ohio was overwhelmingly won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson, who carried the state with 62.94 percent of the vote against Republican William H. Pryor Jr.'s 37.06 percent.

This is the first time since 1916 that Delaware County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Ferguson was also the first Democrat to win Fulton County since Franklin D. Roosevelt did so in 1932, and the first since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to win Clinton and Geauga Counties. Overall, he carried 80 of Ohio's 88 counties.