2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election

2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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Turnout	57.9% [1]
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 Bill Weld Electoral vote 3 0 0 Popular vote 174,419 55,973 13,287 Percentage 68.17% 21.88% 5.19%
County results Trump   40–50%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Clinton   50–60%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color

Treemap of the popular vote by county

The 2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Wyoming 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.

On March 1 and April 9, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Wyoming voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Constitution 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. Prior to the election, Wyoming was considered to be a state Trump would win or a safe red state.

Donald Trump won the election in Wyoming with 67.4% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 21.6% of the vote. Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party received 5.1%. ^[2] Wyoming, a solidly Republican state, has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since it went for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Trump carried every county with the exception of Teton County, the most highly-educated county in the state. ^[3]

Trump's 46.3-point margin over Clinton not only made Wyoming the most Republican state in the 2016 election, ^[4] but also the largest margin of victory by any presidential candidate in the state's history, besting Ronald Reagan's 42.3-point margin in 1984. Clinton's 21.88% vote share was the lowest of any major party presidential nominee since 1924.

Primary elections

Republican caucuses

Main article: 2016 Wyoming Republican presidential caucuses

Republican primary results by county.

  Donald Trump

  Ted Cruz

  Marco Rubio

  Uncommitted

Wyoming Republican county conventions, March 12, 2016

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Ted Cruz	1,128	70.94%	9	0	9
Marco Rubio	231	14.53%	1	0	1
Donald Trump	112	7.04%	1	0	1
John Kasich	42	2.64%	0	0	0
Others	2	0.13%	0	0	0
Undeclared	75	4.72%	1	0	1
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:	1,590	100%	12	0	12
Source: The Green Papers and Wyoming Republican Party

Wyoming Republican state convention, April 14-16, 2016

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Ted Cruz			14	1	15
(available)			0	2	2
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:			14	3	17
Source: The Green Papers and Wyoming Republican Party

Democratic caucuses

Main article: 2016 Wyoming Democratic presidential caucuses

Wyoming Democratic caucuses, April 9, 2016
Candidate	County delegates		Estimated national delegates
	Count	Percentage	Pledged	Unpledged	Total
Bernie Sanders	156	55.7%	7	0	7
Hillary Clinton	124	44.3%	7	4	11
Uncommitted	—		–	–	–
Total		100%	14	4	18
Source: [5]

General election

Voting history

See also: Political party strength in Wyoming

Wyoming is the least populous of all 50 U.S. states. With almost 60% of the population identifying with or leaning towards the Republican Party, compared to less than 30% identifying with or leaning towards the Democrats, it is also the most solid Republican state, ahead of Idaho and Utah. ^[6] In the 2012 presidential election, incumbent President Barack Obama received less than 28% of the votes, trailing Mitt Romney by more than 40 points.

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Los Angeles Times [7]	Safe R	November 6, 2016
CNN [8]	Safe R	November 4, 2016
Cook Political Report [9]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
Electoral-vote.com [10]	Safe R	November 8, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report [11]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball [12]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
RealClearPolitics [13]	Safe R	November 8, 2016
Fox News [14]	Safe R	November 7, 2016

Results

Chart of popular vote

1. Trump (68.2%)
2. Clinton (21.9%)
3. Johnson (5.19%)
4. Write-ins (2.70%)
5. Stein (0.98%)
6. Others (1.08%)

2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Donald Trump	Mike Pence	174,419	68.17%	3
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	Tim Kaine	55,973	21.88%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	William Weld	13,287	5.19%	0
	Write-in	Various candidates	Various candidates	6,904	2.70%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Ajamu Baraka	2,515	0.98%	0
	Constitution	Darrell Castle	Scott Bradley	2,042	0.80%	0
	Reform/ADP	Rocky De La Fuente	Micheal Steinberg	709	0.28%	0
Totals				255,849	100.00%	3

By county

County	Donald Trump Republican		Hillary Clinton Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Albany	7,602	44.56%	6,890	40.39%	2,568	15.05%	712	4.17%	17,060
Big Horn	4,067	76.49%	604	11.36%	646	12.15%	3,463	65.13%	5,317
Campbell	15,778	86.70%	1,324	7.28%	1,097	6.03%	14,454	79.42%	18,199
Carbon	4,409	69.17%	1,279	20.07%	686	10.76%	3,130	49.10%	6,374
Converse	5,520	82.96%	668	10.04%	466	7.00%	4,852	72.92%	6,654
Crook	3,348	87.51%	273	7.14%	205	5.36%	3,075	80.37%	3,826
Fremont	11,167	65.60%	4,200	24.67%	1,656	9.73%	6,967	40.93%	17,023
Goshen	4,418	76.22%	924	15.94%	454	7.83%	3,494	60.28%	5,796
Hot Springs	1,939	74.98%	400	15.47%	247	9.55%	1,539	59.51%	2,586
Johnson	3,477	78.72%	638	14.44%	302	6.84%	2,839	64.28%	4,417
Laramie	24,847	60.65%	11,573	28.25%	4,549	11.10%	13,274	32.40%	40,969
Lincoln	6,779	76.38%	1,105	12.45%	991	11.17%	5,674	63.93%	8,875
Natrona	23,552	70.62%	6,577	19.72%	3,219	9.65%	16,975	50.90%	33,348
Niobrara	1,116	84.93%	115	8.75%	83	6.32%	1,001	76.18%	1,314
Park	11,115	73.63%	2,535	16.79%	1,445	9.57%	8,580	56.84%	15,095
Platte	3,437	75.89%	719	15.88%	373	8.24%	2,718	60.01%	4,529
Sheridan	10,266	70.75%	2,927	20.17%	1,317	9.08%	7,339	50.58%	14,510
Sublette	3,409	77.65%	644	14.67%	337	7.68%	2,765	62.98%	4,390
Sweetwater	12,154	70.95%	3,231	18.86%	1,745	10.19%	8,923	52.09%	17,130
Teton	3,921	31.05%	7,314	57.92%	1,392	11.02%	-3,393	-26.87%	12,627
Uinta	6,154	72.66%	1,202	14.19%	1,114	13.15%	4,952	58.47%	8,470
Washakie	2,911	76.32%	532	13.95%	371	9.73%	2,379	62.37%	3,814
Weston	3,033	86.02%	299	8.48%	194	5.50%	2,734	77.54%	3,526
Total	174,419	68.17%	55,973	21.88%	25,457	9.95%	118,446	46.29%	255,849

By congressional district

Wyoming had only one congressional district, the at-large congressional district, which covered the entire state. The results in this district were equivalent to the statewide election results.

District	Trump	Clinton	Representative
At-large	68.17%	21.88%	Liz Cheney

See also

• United States presidential elections in Wyoming
• First presidency of Donald Trump

References

1. "Wyoming voter registration and voter turnout statistics" (PDF). Wyoming Election Division. December 11, 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
2. "Wyoming Official Election Results 2016 General Election – Wyoming Secretary of State" (PDF). State of Wyoming. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 18, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
3. Silver, Nate (November 22, 2016). "Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump". FiveThirtyEight.
4. "2016 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
5. The Green Papers
6. Jeffrey M. Jones (February 3, 2016). "Red States Outnumber Blue for First Time in Gallup Tracking". Gallup . Retrieved April 9, 2016.
7. "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours". Los Angeles Times . November 6, 2016. Archived from the original on November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
8. Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN . Archived from the original on November 5, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
9. "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report . November 7, 2016. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
10. "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com . November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
11. "Presidential Ratings". The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
12. Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
13. "2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
14. "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.

External links

• RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions