2016 United States presidential election in Maryland

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2016 United States presidential election in Maryland
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  2012 November 8, 2016 2020  
Turnout71.98% Decrease2.svg 2.02 [1]
  Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Portrait of President-elect Donald Trump (cropped).jpg
Nominee Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Tim Kaine Mike Pence
Electoral vote100
Popular vote1,677,928943,169
Percentage60.33%33.91%

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President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

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Treemap of the popular vote by county.

The 2016 United States presidential election in Maryland 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. Maryland 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. Maryland has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [2]

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Clinton won Maryland with 60.3% of the vote, while Trump received 33.9%. [3] Maryland was among the eleven states (and the District of Columbia) in which Clinton improved on Barack Obama's 2012 raw vote total, although by just 84 votes. [4] Maryland was one of four states in which Clinton received over 60% of the vote, the others being Massachusetts, Hawaii, and California. However, Maryland was the only one of those eleven states to have voted more Democratic in both 2012 and 2016. In this election, Maryland voted 24.32% to the left of the nation at-large. [5]

Clinton continued the tradition of Democratic dominance in the state of Maryland, capturing large majorities of the vote in the densely populated and heavily nonwhite Democratic Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, while Trump easily outperformed her in more white, sparsely populated regions elsewhere in the state that tend to vote Republican. While Republicans typically win more counties, they are usually swamped by the heavily Democratic counties between Baltimore and Washington. Though Trump won 17 of Maryland's 24 county-level jurisdictions, the state's four largest county-level jurisdictions—Montgomery, Prince George's and Baltimore counties and the City of Baltimore—all broke for Clinton by double digits, enough to deliver the state to her.

Clinton became the first Democrat to win Anne Arundel County, home to the state capital of Annapolis, since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Therefore, Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Anne Arundel County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

Primary elections

Maryland's presidential primaries were held on April 26, 2016.

Democratic primary

Election results by county.
Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders Maryland Democratic Presidential Primary Election Results by County, 2016.svg
Election results by county.
  Hillary Clinton
  Bernie Sanders
Maryland Democratic primary, April 26, 2016
CandidatePopular voteEstimated delegates
CountPercentagePledgedUnpledgedTotal
Hillary Clinton 573,24262.53%601777
Bernie Sanders 309,99033.81%35136
Rocky De La Fuente 3,5820.39%
Uncommitted29,9493.27%066
Total916,763100%9524119
Source: [6] [7] [8] [9]

Republican primary

Election results by county.
Donald Trump Maryland Republican Presidential Primary Election Results by County, 2016.svg
Election results by county.
  Donald Trump
Maryland Republican primary, April 26, 2016
CandidateVotesPercentageActual delegate count
BoundUnboundTotal
Donald Trump248,34354.10%38038
John Kasich106,61423.22%000
Ted Cruz87,09318.97%000
Ben Carson (withdrawn)5,9461.30%000
Marco Rubio (withdrawn)3,2010.70%000
Jeb Bush (withdrawn)2,7700.60%000
Rand Paul (withdrawn)1,5330.33%000
Chris Christie (withdrawn)1,2390.27%000
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn)1,0120.22%000
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)8370.18%000
Rick Santorum (withdrawn)4780.10%000
Unprojected delegates:000
Total:459,066100.00%38038
Source: The Green Papers

Minor parties

Green primary

WinningProjected delegates
June 12 Maryland Jill Stein5196%60000006

Libertarian convention

Libertarian National Convention, Maryland Delegate Vote (round one) [10]
CandidateDelegate VotesPercentage
Gary Johnson1056%
Marc Allan Feldman422%
Darryl W. Perry211%
Austin Petersen211%
Others--
Total18100%
Libertarian National Convention, Maryland Delegate Vote (round two) [10]
CandidateDelegate VotesPercentage
Gary Johnson1067%
Marc Allan Feldman213%
Darryl W. Perry213%
John McAfee17%
Others--
Total15100%

General election

Polling

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Los Angeles Times [11] Safe DNovember 6, 2016
CNN [12] Safe DNovember 4, 2016
Cook Political Report [13] Safe DNovember 7, 2016
Electoral-vote.com [14] Safe DNovember 8, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report [15] Safe DNovember 7, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball [16] Safe DNovember 7, 2016
RealClearPolitics [17] Safe DNovember 8, 2016
Fox News [18] Safe DNovember 7, 2016

Results

2016 United States presidential election in Maryland
PartyCandidateRunning mateVotes%Electoral votes
Democratic Hillary Clinton Tim Kaine 1,677,92860.33%10
Republican Donald Trump Mike Pence 943,16933.91%0
Libertarian Gary Johnson William Weld 79,6052.86%0
Green Jill Stein Ajamu Baraka 35,9451.29%0
OthersWrite ins44,7991.61%0
Total2,781,446100.00%10

By county

CountyHillary Clinton
Democratic
Donald Trump
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Allegany 7,87525.69%21,27069.39%1,5094.92%−13,395−43.70%30,654
Anne Arundel 128,41947.55%122,40345.32%19,2597.13%6,0162.23%270,081
Baltimore 218,41255.91%149,47738.26%22,7935.83%68,93517.65%390,682
Baltimore City 202,67384.66%25,20510.53%11,5244.81%177,46874.13%239,402
Calvert 18,22538.44%26,17655.21%3,0076.35%−7,951−16.77%47,408
Caroline 4,00928.41%9,36866.38%7365.21%−5,359−37.97%14,113
Carroll 26,56728.92%58,21563.38%7,0667.70%−31,648−34.46%91,848
Cecil 13,65030.15%28,86863.77%2,7516.08%−15,218−33.62%45,269
Charles 49,34163.01%25,61432.71%3,3484.28%23,72730.30%78,303
Dorchester 6,24541.02%8,41355.26%5673.72%−2,168−14.24%15,225
Frederick 56,52244.97%59,52247.36%9,6337.67%−3,000−2.39%125,677
Garrett 2,56718.32%10,77676.91%6684.77%−8,209−58.59%14,011
Harford 47,07735.22%77,86058.25%8,7356.53%−30,783−23.03%133,672
Howard 102,59763.26%47,48429.28%12,1127.46%55,11333.98%162,193
Kent 4,57545.65%4,87648.66%5705.69%−301−3.01%10,021
Montgomery 357,83774.72%92,70419.36%28,3325.92%265,13355.36%478,873
Prince George's 344,04988.13%32,8118.40%13,5253.47%311,23879.73%390,385
Queen Anne's 7,97330.06%16,99364.07%1,5575.87%−9,020−34.01%26,523
St. Mary's 17,53435.18%28,66357.51%3,6457.31%−11,129−22.33%49,842
Somerset 4,19642.38%5,34153.95%3633.67%−1,145−11.57%9,900
Talbot 8,65342.10%10,72452.18%1,1765.72%−2,071−10.08%20,553
Washington 21,12932.02%40,99862.13%3,8645.85%−19,869−30.11%65,991
Wicomico 18,05042.42%22,19852.17%2,2995.41%−4,148−9.75%42,547
Worcester 9,75334.50%17,21060.87%1,3104.63%−7,457−26.37%28,273
Totals1,677,92860.33%943,16933.91%160,3495.76%734,75926.42%2,781,446
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County that flipped from Democratic to Republican

County that flipped from Republican to Democratic

By congressional district

Clinton won seven of the state's eight congressional districts. [19]

DistrictClintonTrumpRepresentative
1st 33%61% Andy Harris
2nd 59%35% Dutch Ruppersberger
3rd 62%32% John Sarbanes
4th 77%19% Donna Edwards
Anthony Brown
5th 63%32% Steny Hoyer
6th 55%39% John Delaney
7th 74%20% Elijah Cummings
8th 63%30% Chris Van Hollen
Jamie Raskin

See also

References

  1. "Official Turnout (By Party and County)" (PDF).
  2. "Distribution of Electoral Votes". National Archives and Records Administration . September 19, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  3. "Maryland Election Results 2016". The New York Times . November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  4. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - County Data". uselectionatlas.org.
  5. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  6. The Green Papers
  7. Maryland State Board of Elections - Official Primary Results
  8. MDP Announces DNC Delegates, Alternates and State DNC Members
  9. MDP Announces District-Level Delegate Winners
  10. 1 2 Libertarian Party National Convention (Live Video). Orlando, Florida: C-SPAN. May 29, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  11. "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.
  12. Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  13. "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report . November 7, 2016. Archived from the original on March 1, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  14. "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com . November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  15. "Presidential Ratings". The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  16. Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  17. "2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  18. "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  19. "DRA 2020 - MD 2020 Congressional". Daves Redistricting.