Election in Delaware
2016 United States presidential election in Delaware Turnout 65.35% County results Precinct results Clinton
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90–100%
Trump
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
No Votes
Treemap of the popular vote by county The 2016 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Delaware voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party 's nominee, businessman Donald Trump , and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine . Delaware has three electoral votes in the Electoral College.[1]
Clinton carried the state with 53.4% of the vote to Trump's 41.9%, a victory margin of 11.37%.[2] Although Democrats continued their streak of winning Delaware, a state that has not gone to the Republicans in a presidential election since 1988 , it swung 7.19% to the right relative to 2012 , and Trump managed to flip Kent County . This was the first time since 1968 that Delaware did not vote for the same candidate as neighboring Pennsylvania .
Primary elections [ edit ] Democratic primary [ edit ] Five candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:
Opinion polling [ edit ] Results [ edit ] Election results by county. Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders
Republican primary [ edit ] Republican primary results by county: Six candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[3]
Opinion polling [ edit ] Results [ edit ] Delaware Republican primary, April 26, 2016 Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count Bound Unbound Total Donald Trump 42,472 60.77% 16 0 16 John Kasich 14,225 20.35% 0 0 0 Ted Cruz 11,110 15.90% 0 0 0 Ben Carson (withdrawn) 885 1.27% 0 0 0 Marco Rubio (withdrawn) 622 0.89% 0 0 0 Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 578 0.83% 0 0 0 Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0 Total: 69,892 100.00% 16 0 16 Source: The Green Papers
Green convention [ edit ] On April 2, 2016, the Green Party of Delaware announced that all four of its delegates would support Jill Stein at the national convention.[4]
Delaware Green Party Convention, April 2, 2016 Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates Jill Stein 14 100% 4 William Kreml - - - Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza Curry - - - Kent Mesplay - - - Darryl Cherney - - - Total 14 100% 4
General election [ edit ] Predictions [ edit ] Polling [ edit ] Statewide results [ edit ] Results by county [ edit ] County Hillary Clinton Democratic Donald Trump Republican Various candidates Other parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Kent 33,351 44.63% 36,991 49.50% 4,387 5.87% -3,640 -4.87% 74,729 New Castle 162,919 61.95% 85,525 32.52% 14,535 5.53% 77,394 29.43% 262,979 Sussex 39,333 37.07% 62,611 59.01% 4,162 3.92% -23,278 -21.94% 106,106 Totals 235,603 53.09% 185,127 41.71% 23,084 5.20% 50,476 11.38% 443,814
Swing by county Democratic — +2.5-5%
Republican — +0-2.5%
Republican — +2.5-5%
Republican — +7.5-10%
Trend relative to the state by county Democratic — +2.5-5%
Republican — +0-2.5%
Republican — +2.5-5%
Republican — +7.5-10%
County flips Democratic
Hold
Republican
Hold
Gain from Democratic
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican [ edit ] By congressional district [ edit ] Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district is called the At-Large district, because it covers the entire state, and thus is equivalent to the statewide election results.
Turnout [ edit ] According to Delaware's Elections website, voter turnout was 65.57% with 445,228 ballots cast out of 679,027 registered voters.[14]
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "Distribution of Electoral Votes" . National Archives and Records Administration . Retrieved November 23, 2020 . ^ "Connecticut Election Results 2016 – The New York Times" . Retrieved November 10, 2016 . ^ "State of Delaware - Department of Elections · Office of the State Election Commissioner" . elections.delaware.gov . Retrieved June 20, 2016 . ^ "GPDE Annual Meeting Notes 2016-04-02" . Retrieved May 4, 2016 . ^ "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours" . Los Angeles Times . November 6, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016 . ^ Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map" . CNN . Retrieved March 3, 2019 . ^ "2016 Electoral Scorecard" . The Cook Political Report . November 7, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . ^ "2016 Electoral Map Prediction" . Electoral-vote.com . November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . ^ Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President" . University of Virginia Center for Politics . Retrieved March 3, 2019 . ^ "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge" . Fox News . November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016 . ^ "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/html/stwoff_kns.shtml/ Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine " ^ "http://elections.delaware.gov/results/pdf/2016%20General%20Election%20-%20Write-In%20Candidates%20Votes.pdf Archived 2017-01-30 at the Wayback Machine " ^ Bump, Philip. "The counties that flipped parties to swing the 2016 election" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved September 1, 2020 . ^ https://elections.delaware.gov/reports/pdfs/agprpt_2016.pdf Page 1 Last edited 2016-21-16 Retrieved 2020-07-08 External links [ edit ]
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