United States presidential election in Alabama, 2016

United States presidential election in Alabama, 2016
Alabama
November 8, 2016
 
Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New York
Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 1,318,255 729,547
Percentage 62.18% 34.40%

County Results

  Trump—50-60%
  Trump—60-70%
  Trump—70-80%
  Trump—80-90%
  Clinton—50-60%
  Clinton—60-70%
  Clinton—70-80%
  Clinton—80-90%

President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

 Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

The 2016 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Alabama 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, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Alabama voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, 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. Alabama has voted for the Republican candidate in every election since it was won by Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Donald Trump won the election in Alabama with 62.9% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 34.6% of the vote.[1]

Background

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,[2][3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6] 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.[7]

Following his second term, President Obama is not eligible for another reelection. In October 2015, Obama's running-mate and two-term Vice President Biden decided not to enter the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination either.[8] With their term expiring on January 20, 2017, the electorate is asked to elect a new president, the 45th President and 48th Vice President of the United States, respectively.

General election

Statewide results

U.S. presidential election in Alabama, 2016[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Donald Trump 1,314,431 62.18
Democratic Hillary Clinton 725,704 34.33
Libertarian Gary Johnson 44,211 2.09
Independent Write-ins 20,276 0.96
Green Jill Stein 9,341 0.44
Total votes 2,113,963 100.0

Results by county

County Trump# Trump% Clinton# Clinton% Johnson# Johnson% Stein# Stein% Write-ins# Write-ins% Total Votes Turnout
Autauga 18,110 72.82% 5,908 23.75% 538 2.16% 105 0.42% 210 0.84% 24,871 65.51%
Baldwin 72,780 76.58% 18,409 19.37% 2,448 2.58% 453 0.48% 954 1.00% 95,044 65.15%
Barbour 5,431 52.11% 4,848 46.51% 93 0.89% 18 0.17% 33 0.32% 10,423 61.41%
Bibb 6,733 76.39% 1,874 21.26% 124 1.41% 17 0.19% 66 0.75% 8,814 65.47%
Blount 22,808 89.34% 2,150 8.42% 337 1.32% 89 0.35% 146 0.57% 25,530 68.20%
Bullock 1,139 24.19% 3,530 74.96% 22 0.47% 10 0.21% 8 0.17% 4,709 63.90%
Butler 4,891 56.14% 3,716 42.65% 65 0.75% 13 0.15% 27 0.31% 8,712 63.48%
Calhoun 32,803 68.69% 13,197 27.64% 1,114 2.33% 262 0.55% 378 0.79% 47,754 64.46%
Chambers 7,803 56.38% 5,763 41.64% 168 1.21% 44 0.32% 61 0.44% 13,839 57.91%
Cherokee 8,937 83.41% 1,545 14.42% 147 1.37% 26 0.24% 60 0.56% 10,715 63.84%
Chilton 15,068 82.11% 2,909 15.85% 226 1.23% 52 0.28% 96 0.52% 18,351 64.59%
Choctaw 4,102 56.29% 3,109 42.67% 51 0.70% 6 0.08% 19 0.26% 7,287 66.74%
Clarke 7,109 54.84% 5,712 44.07% 98 0.76% 17 0.13% 26 0.20% 12,962 67.22%
Clay 5,230 79.18% 1,234 18.68% 92 1.39% 16 0.24% 33 0.50% 6,605 65.10%
Cleburne 5,738 87.38% 684 10.42% 90 1.37% 20 0.30% 35 0.53% 6,567 61.19%
Coffee 15,825 76.51% 4,194 20.28% 392 1.90% 102 0.49% 171 0.83% 20,684 62.63%
Colbert 16,718 67.24% 7,296 29.34% 506 2.04% 106 0.43% 238 0.96% 24,864 65.28%
Conecuh 3,413 51.97% 3,069 46.73% 51 0.78% 10 0.15% 24 0.37% 6,567 63.14%
Coosa 3,376 64.37% 1,780 33.94% 53 1.01% 14 0.27% 22 0.42% 5,245 65.07%
Covington 13,222 83.24% 2,379 14.98% 181 1.14% 36 0.23% 66 0.42% 15,884 63.09%
Crenshaw 4,511 72.03% 1,663 26.55% 64 1.02% 14 0.22% 11 0.18% 6,263 63.32%
Cullman 32,734 87.20% 3,730 9.94% 682 1.82% 132 0.35% 260 0.69% 37,538 67.52%
Dale 13,789 73.66% 4,408 23.53% 349 1.86% 62 0.33% 115 0.62% 18,732 59.92%
Dallas 5,784 30.80% 12,826 68.31% 96 0.51% 24 0.13% 47 0.25% 18,777 58.15%
DeKalb 21,779 82.88% 3,682 14.01% 469 1.78% 156 0.59% 192 0.73% 26,278 64.69%
Elmore 27,619 74.17% 8,436 22.65% 738 1.98% 112 0.30% 332 0.89% 37,237 69.29%
Escambia 10,282% 67.22% 4,698 30.71% 195 1.27% 38 0.25% 84 0.55% 15,297 61.34%
Etowah 32,132 73.29% 10,350 23.61% 829 1.89% 163 0.37% 366 0.83% 43,840 63.64%
Fayette 6,705 81.40% 1,358 16.49% 109 1.32% 24 0.29% 41 0.50% 8,237 68.20%
Franklin 9,466 78.62% 2,197 18.25% 238 1.98% 54 0.45% 85 0.71% 12,040 64.30%
Geneva 9,967 85.01% 1,522 12.98% 147 1.25% 23 0.20% 66 0.56% 11,725 65.73%
Greene 838 17.20% 4,006 82.21% 13 0.27% 5 0.10% 11 0.23% 4,873 66.90%
Hale 3,172 39.47% 4,772 59.38% 54 0.67% 12 0.15% 26 0.32% 8,036 64.18%
Henry 5,623 69.79% 2,286 28.37% 91 1.13% 17 0.21% 40 0.50% 8,057 63.82%
Houston 30,567 72.17% 10,547 24.90% 722 1.82% 144 0.34% 322 0.76% 42,352 61.23%
Jackson 16,643 79.48% 3,663 17.49% 389 1.86% 90 0.43% 154 0.74% 20,939 57.19%
Jefferson 134,398 44.34% 156,384 51.55% 6,613 2.18% 1,540 0.51% 4,326 1.43% 303,361 66.77%
Lamar 5,819 83.59% 1,035 14.87% 62 0.89% 15 0.22% 30 0.43% 6,961 64.35%
Lauderdale 27,735 70.62% 9,877 25.15% 981 2.50% 220 0.56% 462 1.18% 39,275 65.46%
Lawrence 10,732% 72.95% 3,611 24.55% 249 1.69% 31 0.21% 88 0.60% 14,711 63.15%
Lee 34,321 58.56% 20,987 35.81% 1,998 3.41% 362 0.62% 939 1.60% 58,607 57.03%
Limestone 28,824 72.24% 9,340 23.41% 1,036 2.60% 200 0.50% 499 1.25% 39,899 69.05%
Lowndes 1,751 26.20% 4,882 73.05% 32 0.48% 11 0.16% 7 0.10% 6,683 64.46%
Macon 1,394 15.89% 7,237 82.49% 69 0.79% 48 0.55% 25 0.28% 8,773 47.64%
Madison 89,199 54.85% 62,435 38.39% 6,591 4.05% 1,248 0.77% 3,161 1.94% 162,634 62.27%
Marengo 5,224 47.59% 5,607 51.08% 104 0.95% 13 0.12% 29 0.26% 10,977 66.94%
Marion 11,273 86.83% 1,432 11.03% 181 1.39% 26 0.20% 71 0.55% 12,983 64.43%
Marshall 29,217 82.78% 4,913 13.92% 677 1.92% 158 0.45% 329 0.93% 35,294 63.69%
Mobile 94,002 55.62% 71,001 42.01% 3,232 1.91% 777 0.46% 0 0.00% 169,012 60.20%
Monroe 5,771 56.46% 4,310 42.16% 88 0.86% 16 0.16% 37 0.36% 10,222 62.75%
Montgomery 33,928 35.51% 58,669 61.40% 1,486 1.56% 489 0.51% 981 1.03% 95,553 62.14%
Morgan 37,392 74.03% 11,216 22.21% 1,165 2.31% 218 0.43% 518 1.03% 50,509 67.08%
Perry 1,403 26.61% 3,823 72.50% 23 0.44% 6 0.11% 18 0.34% 5,273 62.05%
Pickens 5,454 57.17% 3,972 41.64% 49 0.51% 19 0.20% 46 0.48% 9,540 68.47%
Pike 7,681 58.46% 5,039 38.35% 257 1.96% 48 0.37% 114 0.87% 13,139 58.74%
Randolph 7,697 75.62% 2,290 22.50% 124 1.22% 19 0.19% 48 0.47% 10,178 61.04%
Russell 9,210 47.84 % 9,577 49.75% 281 1.46% 68 0.35% 116 0.60% 19,252 53.55%
Shelby 72,846 72.11% 22,927 22.70% 2,956 2.93% 479 0.47% 1,810 1.79% 101,018 71.09%
St. Claire 31,579 82.49% 5,550 14.50% 678 1.77% 130 0.34% 344 0.90% 38,281 65.96%
Sumter 1,581 24.69% 4,739 74.00% 57 0.89% 14 0.22% 13 0.20% 6,404 62.87%
Talladega 20,596 61.72% 12,108 36.28% 409 1.23% 105 0.31% 154 0.46% 33,372 61.67%
Tallapoosa 13,546 69.78% 5,495 28.31% 232 1.20% 52 0.27% 88 0.45% 19,413 64.69%
Tuscaloosa 47,701 57.71% 31,746 38.41% 1,871 2.26% 390 0.47% 952 1.15% 82,660 62.65%
Walker 24,208 82.33% 4,486 15.26% 454 1.54% 95 0.32% 159 0.54% 29,402 63.46%
Washington 6,031 70.84% 2,366 27.79% 73 0.86% 22 0.26% 22 0.26% 8,514 62.87%
Wilcox 1,737 28.44% 4,329 70.87% 22 0.36% 7 0.11% 13 0.21% 6,108 64.78%
Winston 9,225 89.50% 871 8.45% 130 1.26% 29 0.28% 52 0.50% 10,307 62.21%

Pie chart

Chart of popular vote

  Trump (62.18%)
  Clinton (34.33%)
  Johnson (2.09%)
  Write-ins (0.96%)
  Stein (0.44%)

Turnout

According the Alabama Secretary of State website, voter turnout was 63.83% with 2,127,564 ballots cast out of 3,333,058 registered voters.[9]

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Results of the Democratic primary by county.
  Hillary Clinton

Opinion polling

Results

 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Alabama, 2016
– Summary of results –
Candidate Popular Vote
(March 1 Primary)		 Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 309,928 77.84% 44 6 50
Bernie Sanders 76,399 19.19% 9 0 9
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 1,485 0.37%
Rocky De La Fuente 811 0.20%
Uncommitted 9,534 2.39% 0 1 1
Total 398,157 100% 53 7 60
Sources: The Green Papers , Alabama Democratic Party certified Election Results as received by Secretary of State of Alabama

Republican primary

Results of the Republican primary by county.
  Donald Trump
Alabama Republican primary, March 1, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Donald Trump 373,721 43.42% 36 0 36
Ted Cruz 181,479 21.09% 13 0 13
Marco Rubio 160,606 18.66% 1 0 1
Ben Carson 88,094 10.24% 0 0 0
John Kasich 38,119 4.43% 0 0 0
Uncommitted 7,953 0.92% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 3,974 0.46% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 2,539 0.30% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 1,895 0.22% 0 0 0
Chris Christie (withdrawn) 858 0.10% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 617 0.07% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) 544 0.06% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 253 0.03% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 860,652 100.00% 50 0 50
Source: The Green Papers

Opinion polls

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Alabama Election Results 2016 – The New York Times". Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ "United States House of Representatives floor summary for Jan 8, 2009". Clerk.house.gov. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Federal elections 2008" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ "President Map". The New York Times. November 29, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Election Other – President Obama Job Approval". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ Byrnes, Jesse (2016-06-15). "Poll: Obama approval rating highest since 2012". TheHill. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  7. ↑ Cohn, Nate (2015-01-19). "What a Rise in Obama's Approval Rating Means for 2016". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  8. ↑ "Joe Biden Decides Not to Enter Presidential Race". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Merrill, John H. (November 10, 2016). "Unofficial Election Night Results". AlabamaVotes.gov. Alabama Secretary of State. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
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