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Idaho presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Idaho by 31.77 points (219,290 votes), winning 4 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
4
Votes counted
690,255
ID result
R+31.8
Compared with the nation
33.8 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012
0.1 pts to D

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Donald J. TrumpRepublican409,05559.30%4
Hillary ClintonDemocratic189,76527.50%—
Gary JohnsonLibertarian28,3314.10%—
Total votes690,255

Sources: id.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

Idaho Secretary of State, Nov 08, 2016 General Election Results, Statewide Totals (web print 12/5/2016): United States President; party, candidate, total, plurality, percentage
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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)CodeVotesShare
Donald J. Trump (REP)REP409,05559.26%
Hillary Rodham Clinton (DEM)DEM189,76527.49%
Evan McMullin (IND)IND46,4766.73%
Gary Johnson (LIB)LIB28,3314.10%
Jill Stein (IND)IND8,4961.23%
Darrell L. Castle (IND)IND4,4030.64%
Scott Copeland (CON)CON2,3560.34%
Rocky De La Fuente (IND)IND1,3730.20%
Notes on how this document was read
  • Names wrap around the number line (party code at the left); the block's words are joined. The Plurality column is filled for the winner only.

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

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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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Boise County: Donald J. Trump +49.7Boundary County: Donald J. Trump +55.3Gem County: Donald J. Trump +59.7Jefferson County: Donald J. Trump +55.5Latah County: Hillary Clinton +4.6Minidoka County: Donald J. Trump +54.1Teton County: Donald J. Trump +0.2Ada County: Donald J. Trump +9.2Adams County: Donald J. Trump +52.3Benewah County: Donald J. Trump +55.7Bonner County: Donald J. Trump +35.9Bonneville County: Donald J. Trump +40.2Oneida County: Donald J. Trump +57.0Power County: Donald J. Trump +35.1Shoshone County: Donald J. Trump +37.4Twin Falls County: Donald J. Trump +45.5Butte County: Donald J. Trump +61.3Camas County: Donald J. Trump +50.8Caribou County: Donald J. Trump +58.8Clark County: Donald J. Trump +56.2Franklin County: Donald J. Trump +48.9Fremont County: Donald J. Trump +54.5Gooding County: Donald J. Trump +54.2Jerome County: Donald J. Trump +49.1Kootenai County: Donald J. Trump +42.5Lewis County: Donald J. Trump +58.6Madison County: Donald J. Trump +21.6Nez Perce County: Donald J. Trump +34.1Bannock County: Donald J. Trump +20.5Canyon County: Donald J. Trump +41.7Elmore County: Donald J. Trump +47.0Lincoln County: Donald J. Trump +47.1Payette County: Donald J. Trump +57.2Owyhee County: Donald J. Trump +62.7Valley County: Donald J. Trump +18.6Washington County: Donald J. Trump +56.3Cassia County: Donald J. Trump +58.2Clearwater County: Donald J. Trump +56.5Custer County: Donald J. Trump +55.9Idaho County: Donald J. Trump +63.7Lemhi County: Donald J. Trump +55.6Bear Lake County: Donald J. Trump +59.2Bingham County: Donald J. Trump +48.0Blaine County: Hillary Clinton +28.7
Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.
County Hillary ClintonDonald J. TrumpOthers TotalMargin
Ada 75,67793,75226,240 195,669 9.2
Adams 4151,556212 2,183 52.3
Bannock 10,34217,1805,894 33,416 20.5
Bear Lake 2552,203470 2,928 59.2
Benewah 7703,103312 4,185 55.7
Bingham 2,92410,9072,794 16,625 48.0
Blaine 6,4163,340968 10,724 28.7
Boise 7772,673364 3,814 49.7
Bonner 5,81913,3431,781 20,943 35.9
Bonneville 8,93026,6998,592 44,221 40.2
Boundary 9333,789441 5,163 55.3
Butte 160914156 1,230 61.3
Camas 11041070 590 50.8
Canyon 16,88347,2228,680 72,785 41.7
Caribou 2712,275489 3,035 58.8
Cassia 1,0365,9491,193 8,178 58.2
Clark 4420336 283 56.2
Clearwater 7042,852245 3,801 56.5
Custer 4271,777210 2,414 55.9
Elmore 1,8145,816892 8,522 47.0
Franklin 3853,9011,213 5,499 48.9
Fremont 6514,090974 5,715 54.5
Gem 1,2295,980745 7,954 59.7
Gooding 9303,743518 5,191 54.2
Idaho 1,1966,441596 8,233 63.7
Jefferson 9768,4362,063 11,475 55.5
Jerome 1,3294,644778 6,751 49.1
Kootenai 16,26444,4495,597 66,310 42.5
Latah 8,0937,2652,815 18,173 4.6
Lemhi 7333,011352 4,096 55.6
Lewis 2701,202118 1,590 58.6
Lincoln 3601,184204 1,748 47.1
Madison 1,2018,9415,546 15,688 21.6
Minidoka 1,1674,887817 6,871 54.1
Nez Perce 4,82810,6991,674 17,201 34.1
Oneida 1841,531353 2,068 57.0
Owyhee 5913,052282 3,925 62.7
Payette 1,5076,489708 8,704 57.2
Power 6991,666393 2,758 35.1
Shoshone 1,3843,297439 5,120 37.4
Teton 2,1592,167650 4,976 0.2
Twin Falls 6,23319,8283,813 29,874 45.5
Valley 1,9132,906530 5,349 18.6
Washington 7763,283396 4,455 56.3

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).

Questions and answers

Who won Idaho in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Idaho by 31.77 percentage points (219,290 votes).

How many electoral votes did Idaho have in 2016?

Idaho cast 4 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Idaho in 2016?

690,255 votes were counted for president.

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

Donald J. Trump 42, Hillary Clinton 2 (out of 44 counties with results).

How did Idaho change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 0.1 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 31.9 points to Republican by 31.8 points.

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