United States presidential election in Montana, 2016

United States presidential election in Montana, 2016

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Turnout	74.44%
Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Gary Johnson Party Republican Democratic Libertarian Home state New York New York New Mexico Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine William Weld Electoral vote 3 0 0 Popular vote 279,240 177,709 28,037 Percentage 55.6% 35.4% 5.6%
County results Trump   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90%   >90% Clinton   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%
Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

Montana Republican primary, June 7, 2016
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Donald Trump	115,594	73.68%	27	0	27
Ted Cruz (withdrawn)	14,682	9.36%	0	0	0
John Kasich (withdrawn)	10,777	6.87%	0	0	0
No preference	7,369	4.70%	0	0	0
Marco Rubio (withdrawn)	5,192	3.31%	0	0	0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn)	3,274	2.09%	0	0	0
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:	156,888	100.00%	27	0	27
Source: The Green Papers

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The 2016 United States presidential election in Montana was won by Republican Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence, on November 8, 2016, with 56.6% of the vote, as part of the 2016 general election. Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine received 33.2% of the vote.Montana assigns all of its three Electoral votes to the winner of the state's popular vote.

The Montana primary was on June 7, 2016, selecting nominees for the two major parties, as well as the Libertarian Party. Registered members of each party may only vote in their party's primary, while voters who are unaffiliated may choose any one primary in which to vote.

Trump's margin was 23.4 percentage points, exceeding Mitt Romney 13.7 point lead in 2012, and John McCain 2.4 points in 2008. Republicans have won Montana in every presidential election since 1996. Libertarian nominee and third-party candidate Gary Johnson received 5.6% of the vote.

Four candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:

Twelve candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot: