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



The 2016 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 8, 2016. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice-president of the United States.

Virginia was won by incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson with 53.54 percent of the vote, who was running against U.S. Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama. Ferguson also won the national election in a landslide with 61.05 percent of the vote. Ferguson was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since Al Gore in 2004.

Ferguson became the first Democrat to win the independent city of Virginia Beach and Waynesboro City since Lyndon B. Johnson did so in 1964. Nevertheless, Virginia was one of four states won by Ferguson where he failed to win the majority of counties, with Florida, Idaho, and Nebraska being the others. It was also his fourth-closest state win, following these same three states.