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Elections in West Virginia |
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The 2016 United States presidential election in West Virginia was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. West Virginia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.
On May 10, 2016, in the presidential primaries, West Virginia voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated chose any one primary in which to vote.
Donald Trump won West Virginia with 68.5% of the vote, his second largest share of the vote in any state. Hillary Clinton received just over a quarter of the vote, with 26.4%. Trump's performance in the state made it his strongest state in the 2016 election by total vote share. [2]
West Virginia was also one of two states where Donald Trump won every county, the other being Oklahoma. This was the second consecutive presidential election where every county within the state voted Republican. Trump's 42.1% margin of victory is the largest of any presidential candidate from either party in the state's history, besting Abraham Lincoln's 36.4% margin of victory in 1864. Hillary Clinton's performance was the worst by a major party nominee since 1912, when three candidates split the vote and received over 20% of the vote each, and, as of the 2020 election, remains the worst performance ever by a Democrat in West Virginia. Clinton won less votes in the general election than were cast in her party's primary overall, as well as less than the votes she received in the 2008 state primary.
Six candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot [3] (alphabetically):
West Virginia Democratic primary, May 10, 2016 | |||||
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Candidate | Popular vote | Delegates | |||
Count | Percentage | Pledged | Unpledged | Total | |
Bernie Sanders | 124,700 | 51.41% | 18 | 18 | |
Hillary Clinton | 86,914 | 35.84% | 11 | 8 | 19 |
Paul T. Farrell Jr. | 21,694 | 8.94% | |||
Keith Judd | 4,460 | 1.84% | |||
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) | 3,796 | 1.57% | |||
Rocky De La Fuente | 975 | 0.40% | |||
Uncommitted | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 242,539 | 100% | 29 | 8 | 37 |
Source: The Green Papers , West Virginia Secretary of State |
Eleven candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot: [3]
Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
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Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
Donald Trump | 157,238 | 77.05% | 30 | 0 | 30 |
Ted Cruz (withdrawn) | 18,301 | 8.97% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
John Kasich (withdrawn) | 13,721 | 6.72% | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ben Carson (withdrawn) | 4,421 | 2.17% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Marco Rubio (withdrawn) | 2,908 | 1.43% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) | 2,305 | 1.13% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rand Paul (withdrawn) | 1,798 | 0.88% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) | 1,780 | 0.87% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris Christie (withdrawn) | 727 | 0.36% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) | 659 | 0.32% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
David Eames Hall | 203 | 0.10% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uncommitted | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
Unprojected delegates: | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total: | 204,061 | 100.00% | 34 | 0 | 34 |
Source: The Green Papers |
Trump 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% |
Source | Ranking | As of |
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Los Angeles Times [4] | Safe R | November 6, 2016 |
CNN [5] | Safe R | November 4, 2016 |
Cook Political Report [6] | Safe R | November 7, 2016 |
Electoral-vote.com [7] | Safe R | November 8, 2016 |
Rothenberg Political Report [8] | Safe R | November 7, 2016 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [9] | Safe R | November 7, 2016 |
RealClearPolitics [10] | Safe R | November 8, 2016 |
Fox News [11] | Safe R | November 7, 2016 |
Chart of popular vote
2016 United States presidential election in West Virginia [12] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Swing | ||||
Count | % | Count | % | ||||||
Republican | Donald Trump of New York | Mike Pence of Indiana | 489,371 | 68.50% | 5 | 100.00% | ![]() | ||
Democratic | Hillary Clinton of New York | Tim Kaine of Virginia | 188,794 | 26.43% | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() | ||
Libertarian | Gary Johnson of New Mexico | Bill Weld of Massachusetts | 23,004 | 3.22% | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() | ||
Mountain | Jill Stein of Massachusetts | Ajamu Baraka of Illinois | 8,075 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() | ||
Constitution | Darrell L. Castle of Tennessee | Scott N. Bradley of Utah | 3,807 | 0.53% | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() | ||
Total | 714,423 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% |
County | Donald Trump Republican | Hillary Clinton Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Barbour | 4,527 | 74.02% | 1,222 | 19.98% | 367 | 6.00% | 3,305 | 54.04% | 6,116 |
Berkeley | 28,244 | 65.13% | 12,321 | 28.41% | 2,799 | 6.46% | 15,923 | 36.72% | 43,364 |
Boone | 6,504 | 74.09% | 1,790 | 20.39% | 485 | 5.52% | 4,714 | 53.70% | 8,779 |
Braxton | 3,537 | 69.35% | 1,321 | 25.90% | 242 | 4.75% | 2,216 | 43.45% | 5,100 |
Brooke | 6,625 | 68.33% | 2,568 | 26.49% | 503 | 5.18% | 4,057 | 41.84% | 9,696 |
Cabell | 19,850 | 59.09% | 11,447 | 34.08% | 2,294 | 6.83% | 8,403 | 25.01% | 33,591 |
Calhoun | 2,035 | 77.14% | 456 | 17.29% | 147 | 5.57% | 1,579 | 59.85% | 2,638 |
Clay | 2,300 | 76.79% | 568 | 18.96% | 127 | 4.25% | 1,732 | 57.83% | 2,995 |
Doddridge | 2,358 | 82.36% | 362 | 12.64% | 143 | 5.00% | 1,996 | 69.72% | 2,863 |
Fayette | 10,357 | 66.91% | 4,290 | 27.72% | 831 | 5.37% | 6,067 | 39.19% | 15,478 |
Gilmer | 1,896 | 73.52% | 545 | 21.13% | 138 | 5.35% | 1,351 | 52.39% | 2,579 |
Grant | 4,346 | 87.53% | 512 | 10.31% | 107 | 2.16% | 3,834 | 77.22% | 4,965 |
Greenbrier | 9,556 | 67.18% | 3,765 | 26.47% | 903 | 6.35% | 5,791 | 40.71% | 14,224 |
Hampshire | 6,692 | 77.11% | 1,580 | 18.20% | 407 | 4.69% | 5,112 | 58.91% | 8,679 |
Hancock | 8,909 | 69.59% | 3,262 | 25.48% | 631 | 4.93% | 6,647 | 44.11% | 12,802 |
Hardy | 4,274 | 75.33% | 1,155 | 20.36% | 245 | 4.31% | 3,119 | 54.97% | 5,674 |
Harrison | 18,750 | 66.14% | 7,694 | 27.14% | 1,907 | 6.72% | 11,056 | 39.00% | 28,351 |
Jackson | 9,020 | 73.31% | 2,663 | 21.64% | 621 | 5.05% | 6,357 | 51.67% | 12,304 |
Jefferson | 13,204 | 53.88% | 9,518 | 38.84% | 1,786 | 7.28% | 3,686 | 15.04% | 24,508 |
Kanawha | 43,850 | 57.03% | 28,263 | 36.76% | 4,775 | 6.21% | 15,587 | 20.27% | 76,888 |
Lewis | 5,274 | 76.04% | 1,347 | 19.42% | 315 | 4.54% | 3,927 | 56.62% | 6,936 |
Lincoln | 5,307 | 74.36% | 1,459 | 20.44% | 371 | 5.20% | 3,848 | 53.92% | 7,137 |
Logan | 9,897 | 79.56% | 2,092 | 16.82% | 451 | 3.62% | 7,805 | 62.74% | 12,440 |
Marion | 14,668 | 62.77% | 6,964 | 29.80% | 1,735 | 7.43% | 7,704 | 32.97% | 23,367 |
Marshall | 9,666 | 72.39% | 2,918 | 21.85% | 769 | 5.76% | 6,748 | 50.54% | 13,353 |
Mason | 7,654 | 74.54% | 2,081 | 20.26% | 534 | 5.20% | 5,573 | 54.28% | 10,269 |
McDowell | 4,629 | 74.11% | 1,438 | 23.02% | 179 | 2.87% | 3,191 | 51.09% | 6,246 |
Mercer | 17,404 | 75.03% | 4,704 | 20.28% | 1,089 | 4.69% | 12,700 | 54.75% | 23,197 |
Mineral | 9,070 | 77.71% | 2,050 | 17.56% | 551 | 4.73% | 7,020 | 60.15% | 11,671 |
Mingo | 7,911 | 83.17% | 1,370 | 14.40% | 231 | 2.43% | 6,541 | 68.77% | 9,512 |
Monongalia | 18,432 | 50.13% | 14,699 | 39.97% | 3,641 | 9.90% | 3,733 | 10.16% | 36,772 |
Monroe | 4,443 | 75.92% | 1,111 | 18.98% | 298 | 5.10% | 3,332 | 56.94% | 5,852 |
Morgan | 5,732 | 74.09% | 1,573 | 20.33% | 432 | 5.58% | 4,159 | 53.76% | 7,737 |
Nicholas | 7,251 | 75.70% | 1,840 | 19.21% | 488 | 5.09% | 5,411 | 56.49% | 9,579 |
Ohio | 11,139 | 61.16% | 5,493 | 30.16% | 1,582 | 8.68% | 5,646 | 31.00% | 18,214 |
Pendleton | 2,398 | 73.69% | 729 | 22.40% | 127 | 3.91% | 1,669 | 51.29% | 3,254 |
Pleasants | 2,358 | 74.17% | 621 | 19.53% | 200 | 6.30% | 1,737 | 54.64% | 3,179 |
Pocahontas | 2,496 | 67.92% | 928 | 25.25% | 251 | 6.83% | 1,568 | 42.67% | 3,675 |
Preston | 9,538 | 74.73% | 2,470 | 19.35% | 756 | 5.92% | 7,068 | 55.38% | 12,764 |
Putnam | 17,788 | 70.56% | 5,884 | 23.34% | 1,539 | 6.10% | 11,904 | 47.22% | 25,211 |
Raleigh | 22,048 | 73.76% | 6,443 | 21.55% | 1,401 | 4.69% | 15,605 | 52.21% | 29,892 |
Randolph | 7,629 | 69.55% | 2,735 | 24.93% | 605 | 5.52% | 4,894 | 44.62% | 10,969 |
Ritchie | 3,405 | 82.95% | 496 | 12.08% | 204 | 4.97% | 2,909 | 70.87% | 4,105 |
Roane | 3,781 | 71.12% | 1,222 | 22.99% | 313 | 5.89% | 2,559 | 48.13% | 5,316 |
Summers | 3,455 | 70.61% | 1,190 | 24.32% | 248 | 5.07% | 2,265 | 46.29% | 4,893 |
Taylor | 4,733 | 71.79% | 1,491 | 22.61% | 369 | 5.60% | 3,242 | 49.18% | 6,593 |
Tucker | 2,565 | 73.26% | 751 | 21.45% | 185 | 5.29% | 1,814 | 51.81% | 3,501 |
Tyler | 2,996 | 81.15% | 507 | 13.73% | 189 | 5.12% | 2,489 | 67.42% | 3,692 |
Upshur | 7,005 | 75.34% | 1,766 | 18.99% | 527 | 5.67% | 5,239 | 56.35% | 9,298 |
Wayne | 11,152 | 72.67% | 3,357 | 21.87% | 838 | 5.46% | 7,795 | 50.80% | 15,347 |
Webster | 2,302 | 76.45% | 556 | 18.47% | 153 | 5.08% | 1,746 | 57.98% | 3,011 |
Wetzel | 4,519 | 71.59% | 1,359 | 21.53% | 434 | 6.88% | 3,160 | 50.06% | 6,312 |
Wirt | 1,911 | 78.90% | 386 | 15.94% | 125 | 5.16% | 1,525 | 62.96% | 2,422 |
Wood | 25,434 | 70.51% | 8,400 | 23.29% | 2,237 | 6.20% | 17,034 | 47.22% | 36,071 |
Wyoming | 6,547 | 83.08% | 1,062 | 13.48% | 271 | 3.44% | 5,485 | 69.60% | 7,880 |
Totals | 489,371 | 67.85% | 188,794 | 26.18% | 43,096 | 5.97% | 300,577 | 41.67% | 721,261 |
Trump won all three congressional districts. [13]
District | Trump | Clinton | Representative |
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1st | 68% | 26% | David McKinley |
2nd | 66% | 29% | Alex Mooney |
3rd | 73% | 23% | Evan Jenkins |
As expected, Republican nominee Donald Trump won West Virginia in a 42-point rout (the largest of any presidential candidate in the state's history) over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, [14] thanks to ardent support from coal industry workers in Appalachia. He thus captured all five electoral votes from West Virginia. Trump had promised to bring back mining jobs in economically depressed areas of coal country, whereas his opponent had proposed investing millions into converting the region to a producer of green energy. [15] [16] Democrats' championing of environmentalism is viewed as a threat in coal country, and Clinton faced a towering rejection from Mountain State voters. Clinton was also seen as being "haunted" by a comment she made within the state itself, in which, while describing the transition to sustainable energy, she stated "We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." [17]
West Virginia was once a solidly Democratic state; it voted Democratic in every election from 1932 to 1996, except for the Republican landslides of 1956, 1972, and 1984. However, in recent years it has drifted to becoming solidly Republican, and has stayed that way since it was won by George W. Bush in 2000. Barack Obama, for example, failed to win even a single county in 2012. West Virginia is one of the two states where Hillary Clinton did not win any counties, the other being Oklahoma, which last voted for a Democrat in 1964. [18]
The change to increasing Republican control had also been reflected at the state level. While West Virginia was one of several states with a Democratic governor (Earl Ray Tomblin) in 2016 where Trump won, Republicans had won both chambers of the state legislature in the 2014 elections. In the ensuing years, more statewide executive offices also were won by Republican candidates.
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