United States presidential election in Vermont, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States Presidential Election which was held throughout all contemporary 50 states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Vermont voted overwhelmingly for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Edward H. Johannson of Minnesota, over the Democratic nominee, Georgia Governor John C. Dickenson. Johannson ran with Vice President Neel Kashkari, while Dickenson ran with Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.

Johannson won in a massive landslide, taking 78.22 percent of the vote, while Dickenson took 21.77 percent, a Republican victory margin of 56.45 percentage points.

Vermont historically has been a bastion of liberal northeastern Republicanism, and Johannson, who was fiscally conservative and socially liberal, proved to be an excellent fit for the state's electorate, as he was for every other New England state.

Dickenson, by contrast, was viewed as out of step due to his socially conservative views and his opposition to the President's Contract with America agenda. Dickenson was also undermined by the strategic and verbal gaffes that he made during his campaign and by the high approval ratings enjoyed by Johannson.

Johannson swept every county in Vermont by landslide margins, taking more than seventy percent of the vote in all fourteen. Johannson broke seventy percent of the vote in four counties, and even broke eighty percent in ten.

Vermont was the most Republican state in the nation in terms of both victory margin and percentage of the popular vote during the 2016 election, and weighed in 34.15 percentage points more Republican than the national average.