United States presidential election state summaries, 2016

The following page provides basic summaries of results by state in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

Alabama
Alabama was won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President William J. Rutherford of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, businessman Donald J. Trump of New York. Rutherford won Alabama with 52.24% of the popular vote to Trump's 46.63%, a margin of 5.61%.

With this win, Rutherford became the first Democrat to win Alabama since Southerner Jimmy Carter of Georgia in 1976, forty years earlier. During that span, Alabama had been a Republican stronghold at the presidential level, and since 1960, had voted Democratic only once (for Carter). In fact, in 2012, Alabama had voted for Mitt Romney over Rutherford 61-39%. However, like many other typically Republican states, Alabama swung dramatically in the Democratic direction in 2016, as Trump was viewed as an immoral opportunist and demagogue by many voters throughout the country. In Alabama, Trump's complicated marital history, his prior support for abortion, and his perceived lack of firmness on economic, foreign policy, and other issues hurt him with moderate Republicans and independents. Moreover, his past comments about the Central Park Five and allegations of racial discrimination, along with derogatory comments made during the course of his campaign, energized the state's African-American voters against him. Thus, Alabama tipped in Rutherford's direction.

Nevertheless, Alabama still weighed in as 11.34% more Republican than the nation at large, and was the fifth-closest state overall. Trump still managed to break 70% in northern Alabama counties such as Blount, Winston, Cleburne, Marion, and Cullman, 60% in several others such as the populous counties of Baldwin, Bibb, and St. Clair, and obtained majorities in the suburban county of Shelby, in addition to winning several other rural counties in Northern and Southeastern Alabama. Rutherford, however, ran up record margins and turnout in the Black Belt, breaking 90% in counties such as Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Macon, and Bullock; received over 70% of the vote in Montgomery County, home to Montgomery, Alabama's capital and second-largest city; and over 60% in Jefferson County, home to the state's largest city, Brimingham. He also won the populous Tuscaloosa, Mobile, Chambers, Madison, and Coffee Counties, and flipped several other counties along the Black Belt. Rutherford's margins in Montgomery and Jefferson, and his performance in the Black Belt, proved decisive.

Rutherford won five of Alabama's congressional districts; Trump carried two.

Alaska
Alaska was won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President William J. Rutherford of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, businessman Donald J. Trump of New York. Rutherford won Alaska with 55.46% of the popular vote to Trump's 38.49%, a margin of 16.97%.

With this win, Rutherford became only the second Democrat in history, following Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, to carry Alaska. Nevertheless, Alaska still weighed in as 8.12% more Republican than the nation at large.

Rutherford won every borough in the state except for Matanuska Susitna, which Trump carried with an absolute majority. He was the first Democrat since Johnson to win the boroughs of Anchorage, Fairbanks North Star, Ketchikan Gateway, Kodiak Island, Aleutians East, and Aleutians West, all of which were critical to his victory in the state. Rutherford obtained more than 70% of the vote in the northern boroughs of North Slope, Northwest Arctic, Nome, Kusilvak, and Yukon-Koyukuk, and even broke 80% in Juneau and Skagway Boroughs. Third-party candidates received 6.06% of the vote in Alaska, continuing the state's tradition for supporting third parties at a relatively high rate relative to the nation at large.

Arizona
Arizona was won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President William J. Rutherford of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, businessman Donald J. Trump of New York. Rutherford won Arizona with 59.31% of the vote to Trump's 38.26%, a margin of 21.05%. Arizona weighed in as 4.27% more Republican than the nation, but this was the first time since 1948 that a Democrat won the state by a double-digit margin.

Rutherford won every county in the state except for the heavily Republican Mohave County, though Trump won with less than 60% there. He was the first Democrat since Truman to win Yavapai County, the first to win Graham and Yuma Counties since Johnson, and the first to win Greenlee County since Bill Clinton in 1996. La Paz and Graham were carried by the President with pluralities; by contrast, he broke 60% in Cococino, Yuma, and Pima Counties, 70% in Navajo County, and 80% in Santa Cruz County.

Arkansas
Arkansas was won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President William J. Rutherford of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, businessman Donald J. Trump of New York. Arkansas was one of 48 states carried by the President in his national landslide. However, it was the second-closest state in the election. Rutherford carried the state by a margin of 30,026 votes, or 2.70%, making Arkansas's vote 14.18% more Republican than the nation at large. Rutherford's strongest performances were in Chichot and Philips Counties where he took more than 76% of the vote in both. Trump's strongest performance was in Polk County, which he carried with 73% of the vote. Although Rutherford carried 43 of Arkansas's 75 counties, Trump broke 60% in almost every county in the northern and far western regions of the state, including in the populous Lonoke, Pope, Crawford, and Boone Counties, and held Rutherford to plurality wins in the populous counties of Saline, Benton, Faulkner, and Garland, thus keeping the overall vote close and denying Rutherford an absolute majority. Of Arkansas's most populous counties, Rutherford won an absolute majority only in Pulaski (carried with more than 70%) and Washington (over 50%).

Rutherford became the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1996 to carry the state.

California
California was won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President William J. Rutherford of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, businessman Donald J. Trump of New York. One of the most Democratic states in the nation, California had not voted for a Republican since 1988, when George H.W. Bush won the state over Michael Dukakis.

As Rutherford won nationally in a massive landslide, taking 63.58% of the vote nationwide, California weighed in as 9.7% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. The President obtained a record 73.28% of the vote there, to Trump's 24.21%, beating him by a margin of 49.07 percentage points. He won every county in the state except for Lassen and Modoc in the northeast, which had for some decades been California's most Republican counties. Rutherford became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 to win Sutter County, the first since Johnson in 1964 to carry the counties of Calaveras, Colusa, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, and Tulare, the first since Hubert Humphrey in 1968 to win Kings County, and the first since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win Amador, El Dorado, Madera, Placer, Shasta, Sierra, and Yuba Counties. He won Glenn, Shasta, and Tehama with pluralities.

Rutherford did exceptionally well throughout the state, setting new records for a presidential candidate from either party. He absolutely dominated in the Bay Area, breaking 90% in San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara, 80% in Los Angeles, Imperial, Monterey, Contra Costa, Solano, Yolo, Napa, and Sonoma, and 70% in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Benito, Alpine, Mendocino, and Humboldt Counties. He broke 60% in several other counties, including Orange, Riverside, San Bernandino, Fresno, Ventura, San Luis Obsipo, Stanislaus, Merced, Nevada, San Joaquin, Lake, Trinity, Del Norte, and Siskiyou.

Colorado
Colorado was won by the Democratic nominee, incumbent President William J. Rutherford of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, businessman Donald J. Trump of New York. Colorado, which had been a swing state since the 1980s, weighed in as 0.74% more Republican than the nation. This was the first time since 1964, however, that a Democrat won the state by more than 20 percentage points, for Rutherford earned 62.84% of the vote, to Trump's 31.74%.

Rutherford won all but five counties: the Western Colorado counties of Moffat and Rio Blanco, and the Eastern Colorado counties of Washington, Lincoln, and Cheyenne. Washington County has not voted Democratic since Franklin Roosevelt carried it in 1936, and the others have not done so since Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964. Trump received more than 60% in Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Lincoln, and broke 70% in Washington and Cheyenne. Moreover, Rutherford carried the traditionally Republican counties of Jackson, Elbert, Yuma, Kit Carson, and Kiowa with pluralities; he was the first Democrat since Roosevelt in 1936 to carry Elbert County, and the first since Johnson in 1964 to win the others.

The President broke 60% in the suburban Denver counties of Jefferson, Adams, and Arapahoe, and in several western counties such as Alamosa, Gunnison, Huerfano, La Plata, San Juan, Ouray, Chaffee, Lake, Eagle, Gilpin, Garfield, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Routt, and Larimer. He broke 70% in Pueblo, Las Animas, Summit, Pitkin, and San Miguel Counties, 80% in Boulder and Costilla Counties, and 90% in Denver County. Several other typically Republican counties in addition to the ones mentioned, including Weld, Douglas, El Paso, Teller, Park, Mesa, and Delta, also voted for Rutherford, the first Democrat to win them since Johnson.

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