United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, 2016
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| Turnout | 65.3% 
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Ward Results
Clinton
80-90%
>90%
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| District of Columbia Republican presidential convention, March 12, 2016 | |||||
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| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
 Marco Rubio
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1,059 | 37.3% | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| John Kasich | 1,009 | 35.54% | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| Donald Trump | 391 | 13.77% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ted Cruz | 351 | 12.36% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeb Bush (withdrawn) | 14 | 0.49% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rand Paul (withdrawn) | 12 | 0.42% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ben Carson (withdrawn) | 3 | 0.11% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total: | 2,839 | 100% | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| Source: The Green Papers | |||||
The 2016 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all fifty states and the District of Columbia participated. D.C. voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.
On March 12 and June 14, 2016, voters chose delegates to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions respectively.
Clinton won the election with 282,830 votes or 90.5%, the third strongest win for a Democrat after Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012. Donald Trump received 12,723 votes or 4.1% of the vote, which is the lowest share of the popular vote received by any Republican candidate since voters in the District of Columbia were granted the right to vote in presidential elections. As a result of this, Hillary Clinton received the widest margin of victory, 86.4%, of any winning presidential candidate, breaking the record of 86% set by Barack Obama in 2008. The District of Columbia has voted for the Democratic ticket in every election since 1964, which was the first election in which D.C. voters were allowed to participate.
The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat and former U.S. Senator from Illinois, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with former Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote, Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes. Although Barack Obama's approval rating in the RealClearPolitics poll tracking average remained between 40 and 50 percent for most of his second term, it has experienced a surge in early 2016 and reached its highest point since 2012 during June of that year. Analyst Nate Cohn has noted that a strong approval rating for President Obama would equate to a strong performance for the Democratic candidate, and vice versa.
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