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



The 2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Wyoming voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who selected the President and Vice President.

Wyoming was won by Republican President Edward H. Johannson of Minnesota, running with Vice President Neel Kashkari of California, with 68.49 percent of the popular vote, against the Democratic nominee and Governor of Georgia John C. Dickenson, running with Attorney General Chris Koster of Missouri, with 31.51 percent of the popular vote.

By 2016, President Johannson's approval ratings were exceptionally high throughout the United States. This was particularly true in Wyoming, a libertarian-leaning Western state that had an appreciation for the President's socially moderate views and his support for environmental protections, alternative energy, and infrastructure investment. Governor Dickenson's views, by contrast, held little appeal, and in any case, the Governor completely ignored the state while campaigning, due to its small population and poverty of electoral votes. Johannson, by contrast, made a point of visiting each of the fifty states at least once during his presidential campaign.

Wyoming consequently voted in a landslide for President Johannson, weighing in as 14.68 percent more Republican than the national average. All counties in the state voted in majority for Johannson, reflecting his nationwide results. That year, Dickenson won only seventeen counties outside of the antebellum slave states and Oklahoma, the worst such result for a Democratic presidential candidate in history. Wyoming was Johannson's ninth-best state in 2016, after Vermont, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Massachusetts.