Arkansas presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Arkansas by 26.92 points (304,378 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,130,635
AR result: R+26.9
Compared with the nation: 28.9 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 3.2 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	684,872	60.60%	6
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	380,494	33.70%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	29,829	2.60%	—
Total votes		1,130,635

Sources: ar.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

Arkansas Secretary of State, 2016 General Election and Nonpartisan Runoff Election, Official County Results (Clarity summary print 11/23/2016): U.S. President & Vice President statewide; page image with an OCR layer
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 8 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence (REP)	REP	684,872	60.57%
Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine (DEM)	DEM	380,494	33.65%
Gary Johnson/Bill Weld (LIB)	LIB	29,829	2.64%
Evan McMullin/Nathan Johnson (BFA)	BFA	13,255	1.17%
Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka (GRN)	GRN	9,473	0.84%
Jim Hedges/Bill Bayes (IND)	IND	4,709	0.42%
Darrell L. Castle/Scott N. Bradley (CST)	CST	4,613	0.41%
Lynn S. Kahn/Kathleen Monahan (IND)	IND	3,390	0.30%
Total as printed		1,130,635

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Arkansas	1,939	3,826	447	6,212	30.4
Ashley	2,408	5,338	337	8,083	36.2
Baxter	4,169	14,682	915	19,766	53.2
Benton	28,005	60,871	7,948	96,824	33.9
Boone	2,926	12,235	950	16,111	57.8
Bradley	1,317	2,164	172	3,653	23.2
Calhoun	639	1,556	74	2,269	40.4
Carroll	3,342	6,786	630	10,758	32.0
Chicot	2,350	1,716	110	4,176	15.2
Clark	3,620	4,404	502	8,526	9.2
Clay	1,199	3,781	220	5,200	49.7
Cleburne	2,101	9,458	526	12,085	60.9
Cleveland	723	2,462	169	3,354	51.8
Columbia	3,140	5,456	291	8,887	26.1
Conway	2,656	4,849	422	7,927	27.7
Craighead	10,538	22,892	2,143	35,573	34.7
Crawford	4,488	16,686	1,276	22,450	54.3
Crittenden	8,410	6,964	578	15,952	9.1
Cross	1,999	4,584	291	6,874	37.6
Dallas	1,165	1,509	97	2,771	12.4
Desha	2,228	1,919	110	4,257	7.3
Drew	2,365	3,968	262	6,595	24.3
Faulkner	14,629	29,346	3,552	47,527	31.0
Franklin	1,376	5,039	355	6,770	54.1
Fulton	1,067	3,471	234	4,772	50.4
Garland	12,311	26,087	2,407	40,805	33.8
Grant	1,373	5,725	347	7,445	58.5
Greene	3,071	10,720	809	14,600	52.4
Hempstead	2,377	4,401	271	7,049	28.7
Hot Spring	3,149	8,172	623	11,944	42.1
Howard	1,351	3,157	166	4,674	38.6
Independence	2,881	9,936	797	13,614	51.8
Izard	1,113	4,042	293	5,448	53.8
Jackson	1,583	3,267	306	5,156	32.7
Jefferson	15,772	9,250	872	25,894	25.2
Johnson	2,427	6,091	594	9,112	40.2
Lafayette	1,032	1,758	70	2,860	25.4
Lawrence	1,263	4,064	358	5,685	49.3
Lee	1,735	1,229	62	3,026	16.7
Lincoln	1,252	2,455	119	3,826	31.4
Little River	1,397	3,605	225	5,227	42.2
Logan	1,715	5,746	460	7,921	50.9
Lonoke	5,664	19,958	1,478	27,100	52.7
Madison	1,588	4,928	325	6,841	48.8
Marion	1,434	5,336	337	7,107	54.9
Miller	4,273	11,294	524	16,091	43.6
Mississippi	5,670	7,061	473	13,204	10.5
Monroe	1,312	1,489	83	2,884	6.1
Montgomery	748	2,643	168	3,559	53.2
Nevada	1,157	2,000	89	3,246	26.0
Newton	699	2,875	179	3,753	58.0
Ouachita	4,321	5,351	263	9,935	10.4
Perry	1,049	3,008	249	4,306	45.5
Phillips	4,310	2,446	197	6,953	26.8
Pike	685	3,150	146	3,981	61.9
Poinsett	1,880	5,502	340	7,722	46.9
Polk	1,212	6,618	401	8,231	65.7
Pope	5,000	16,256	1,313	22,569	49.9
Prairie	814	2,505	125	3,444	49.1
Pulaski	89,574	61,257	8,945	159,776	17.7
Randolph	1,425	4,509	445	6,379	48.3
Saline	13,256	35,863	2,981	52,100	43.4
Scott	602	2,731	177	3,510	60.7
Searcy	601	2,955	172	3,728	63.1
Sebastian	12,300	29,127	3,210	44,637	37.7
Sevier	1,075	3,282	205	4,562	48.4
Sharp	1,472	5,407	370	7,249	54.3
St. Francis	4,031	3,195	204	7,430	11.3
Stone	1,203	4,113	302	5,618	51.8
Union	5,855	10,456	583	16,894	27.2
Van Buren	1,549	5,382	408	7,339	52.2
Washington	33,366	41,476	7,019	81,861	9.9
White	5,170	21,077	972	27,219	58.4
Woodruff	1,118	1,347	106	2,571	8.9
Yell	1,480	4,608	351	6,439	48.6

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Arkansas in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Arkansas by 26.92 percentage points (304,378 votes).

How many electoral votes did Arkansas have in 2016?

Arkansas cast 6 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Arkansas in 2016?

1,130,635 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Arkansas in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 67, Hillary Clinton 8 (out of 75 counties with results).

How did Arkansas change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 3.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 23.7 points to Republican by 26.9 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data