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



The 2016 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Arkansas voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Democratic Party's nominee, incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson, and his running mate Vice-President Amy Klobuchar, against Republican Party nominee, Alabama Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. and his running mate, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan.

President Ferguson won the state with 56.06 percent of the vote, which was a substantial increase upon his 50.19 percent from the preceding election, while the Republican vote share remained virtually unchanged at 43.41 percent. Ferguson won fifty-six of Arkansas' seventy-five counties and three of the four congressional districts. He did best in the majority African-American counties along the Mississippi River, and in Pulaski County (Little Rock), the state's most populous county, while Pryor performed strongly in the traditionally Republican Ozarks Mountain region.