Delaware · 2016 presidential election
Delaware presidential election results 2016
Hillary Clinton carried Delaware by 11.43 points (50,476 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 441,590
- DE result
- D+11.4
- Compared with the nation
- 9.4 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2012
- 7.2 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 235,603 | 53.40% | 3 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 185,127 | 41.90% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 14,757 | 3.30% | — | |
| Total votes | 441,590 | ||||
Certified state documentCertified
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 4 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILLARY CLINTON (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) | DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 235,603 | 53.35% |
| DONALD J TRUMP (REPUBLICAN PARTY) | REPUBLICAN PARTY | 185,127 | 41.92% |
| GARY JOHNSON (LIBERTARIAN PARTY) | LIBERTARIAN PARTY | 14,757 | 3.34% |
| JILL STEIN (GREEN PARTY) | GREEN PARTY | 6,103 | 1.38% |
Notes on how this document was read
- The party is printed on the line above each candidate and is kept as '(DEMOCRATIC PARTY)'. The percentage is printed as '53 . 35 %' (four tokens) and is kept as trailing text, not as a number.
Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Hillary Clinton | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | 33,351 | 36,991 | 4,256 | 74,598 | 4.9 |
| New Castle | 162,919 | 85,525 | 13,947 | 262,391 | 29.5 |
| Sussex | 39,333 | 62,611 | 4,064 | 106,008 | 22.0 |
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 Delaware in 2016?
Hillary Clinton won Delaware by 11.43 percentage points (50,476 votes).
How many electoral votes did Delaware have in 2016?
Delaware cast 3 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in Delaware in 2016?
441,590 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Delaware in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 2, Hillary Clinton 1 (out of 3 counties with results).
How did Delaware change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 7.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 18.6 points to Democratic by 11.4 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data