Oregon Democratic primary, 2016

Oregon Democratic primary, 2016

May 17, 2016 (2016-05-17)

Candidate Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton Home state Vermont New York Delegate count 36 25 Popular vote 360,829[1] 269,846 Percentage 56.24% 42.06%

Election results by county.   Hillary Clinton   Bernie Sanders

The 2016 Oregon Democratic primary was held on May 17 in the U.S. state of Oregon as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

On the same day, the Democratic Party held their Kentucky primary, while the Republican Party held their own Oregon primary on that day.

Opinion polling

Results

Bernie Sanders rally in Portland, Oregon, March 25, 2016. Sanders held massive rallies across the whiter and more liberal state of Oregon ahead of the primary.

Analysis

As Barack Obama had done against Hillary Clinton in the state eight years earlier, Sanders won a convincing double-digit victory in Oregon, as he tried to breathe new life into his moribund campaign. Relying on turnout from a whiter and more liberal electorate, Sanders swept all counties in the state but one. He won a large victory in populous Portland in Multnomah County, where the bulk of the vote came from. He also was buoyed by support from the capital city of Salem in Marion County. Sanders swept all of the other major cities as well, including Eugene, Bend, and Medford, and likewise performed strongly in most of the rural and remote counties of the state which are majority white and deeply conservative, including those of Central Oregon and in the Oregon high desert bordering Idaho from the west.

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