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



The 2016 United States presidential election in Illinois was held on November 8, 2016. Incumbent President Johannson won the state of Illinois with 68% of the vote, carrying the state's 30 electoral votes. He defeated his opponent, Democratic candidate John C. Dickenson, in Illinois by an overwhelming margin of 35.62 percentage points.

Johannson won all 102 of Illinois' counties, making Illinois one of thirty states throughout the country where the President won every county. He was the first Republican to prevail in historically Democratic Gallatin County since Nelson D. Rockefeller had done so in 1968. Johannson was also the first Republican to carry St. Clair County since Calvin Coolidge had done so in 1924. Illinois weighed in as 13.07% more Republican than the national average.