2016 USA Elections
United States presidential election, 2016
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Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Trump/Pence, blue denotes those won by Clinton/Kaine. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state. Faithless electoral votes went to Powell (three), Kasich, Paul, Sanders and Spotted Eagle. |
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Barack Obama
Democratic
Donald Trump
Republican
The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine. Trump is scheduled to take office as the 45th President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017.
Voters selected members of the Electoral College in each state, in most cases by "winner-takes-all" plurality; those state electors in turn voted for a new president and vice president on December 19, 2016. Trump obtained the required majority to become President-elect of the United States, winning 30 states with 306 pledged electors out of 538. His victory had been considered unlikely by most media forecasts. Clinton received about 2.9 million more votes nationwide, 2.1% of the total cast.
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