District of Columbia · 2016 presidential election
District of Columbia presidential election results 2016
Hillary Clinton carried District of Columbia by 86.78 points (270,107 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 311,268
- DC result
- D+86.8
- Compared with the nation
- 84.8 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2012
- 3.1 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 282,830 | 90.90% | 3 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 12,723 | 4.10% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 4,906 | 1.60% | — | |
| Total votes | 311,268 | ||||
Statewide resultsCertified
Download CSVAll 4 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton - Tim Kaine | — | 282,830 | 92.82% |
| Donald J. Trump - Michael R. Pence | — | 12,723 | 4.18% |
| Gary Johnson - Bill Weld | — | 4,906 | 1.61% |
| Jill Stein - Ajamu Baraka | — | 4,258 | 1.40% |
| Write-in / scattering | 6,551 | ||
| Over-votes | 243 | ||
| Under-votes | 1,064 | ||
| Total as printed | 312,575 | ||
| Statewide | Gary Johnson | Jill Stein - Ajamu Baraka | Donald J. Trump | Hillary Clinton | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 1 | 645 | 675 | 1,066 | 37,490 | 40,633 | 91.3 |
| Ward 2 | 853 | 351 | 2,304 | 28,714 | 33,297 | 82.0 |
| Ward 3 | 994 | 522 | 3,323 | 36,475 | 42,795 | 80.2 |
| Ward 4 | 376 | 732 | 1,358 | 37,962 | 41,170 | 90.5 |
| Ward 5 | 504 | 628 | 1,141 | 37,021 | 40,102 | 91.3 |
| Ward 6 | 1,187 | 605 | 2,506 | 45,540 | 51,909 | 86.3 |
| Ward 7 | 186 | 420 | 547 | 31,784 | 33,442 | 94.8 |
| Ward 8 | 161 | 325 | 478 | 27,844 | 29,227 | 95.0 |
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
- Candidates are rows and the eight wards columns; the file also gives one row per ward (unit rows) built from those columns. The unlabeled line under UNDER VOTES is the ward total. WRITE-IN, OVER VOTES and UNDER VOTES are separate fields.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 282,830 | 12,723 | 15,715 | 311,268 | 85.8 |
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 District of Columbia in 2016?
Hillary Clinton won District of Columbia by 86.78 percentage points (270,107 votes).
How many electoral votes did District of Columbia have in 2016?
District of Columbia cast 3 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in District of Columbia in 2016?
311,268 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in District of Columbia in 2016?
Hillary Clinton 1 (out of 1 counties with results).
How did District of Columbia change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 3.1 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 83.6 points to Democratic by 86.8 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data