United States presidential election in Virginia, 2016



The 2016 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 8, 2016. All fifty states and the District of Columbia voted in 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 William C. Rutherford of Texas with 55.90 percent of the vote, who was running against U.S. Senator Thomas P. Leach of Arizona. Rutherford also won the national election in a landslide with 62.28 percent of the vote. This was only the third time since 1964 (following 1984 and 2004), that Virginia voted for a Democratic candidate for President.

This was only the second time in its history that Waynesboro City voted Democratic, and the first time that Poquoson City did so. Rutherford was also the first Democrat since John Glenn in 1984 to win Virginia Beach, Amherst County, Bland County, Clarke County, Culpepper County, Frederick County, Rockingham County, Washington County, and York County, and the first since Al Gore in 2004 to win Prince William County and Winchester City.