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2016 United States presidential election in Delaware Turnout 65.35%
County results Precinct results State House 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 53.1% of the vote to Trump's 41.7%, a victory margin of 11.38%[ 2] 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 .
Five candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:
Election results by county. Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders
Republican primary results by county: Six candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[ 3]
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Ben Carson (withdrawn)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Marco Rubio (withdrawn)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Jeb Bush (withdrawn)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
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
County
Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
Various candidates
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 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.
According to Delaware's Elections website, voter turnout was 65.57% with 445,228 ballots cast out of 679,027 registered voters.[ 14]
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^ "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
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