Illinois · 2016 presidential election
Illinois presidential election results 2016
Hillary Clinton carried Illinois by 17.06 points (944,714 votes), winning 20 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 20
- Votes counted
- 5,536,424
- IL result
- D+17.1
- Compared with the nation
- 15.1 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2012
- 0.2 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 3,090,729 | 55.80% | 20 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 2,146,015 | 38.80% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 209,596 | 3.80% | — | |
| Total votes | 5,536,424 | ||||
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 31 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (DEMOCRATIC) | DEMOCRATIC | 3,090,729 | 55.83% |
| DONALD J. TRUMP REPUBLICAN | — | 2,146,015 | 38.76% |
| GARY JOHNSON LIBERTARIAN | — | 209,596 | 3.79% |
| JILL STEIN GREEN | — | 76,802 | 1.39% |
| EVAN MCMULLIN | — | 11,655 | 0.21% |
| DARRELL CASTLE | — | 1,138 | 0.02% |
| TOM HOEFLING | — | 175 | 0.00% |
| LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF | — | 82 | 0.00% |
| JAMES ANDERSON | — | 61 | 0.00% |
| PHILLIP SEEBERG | — | 27 | 0.00% |
| MARSHALL ROY SCHOENKE | — | 25 | 0.00% |
| KEVIN MCKEE | — | 24 | 0.00% |
| JOSEPH A. MALDONADO | — | 20 | 0.00% |
| JOANN BREIVOGEL | — | 12 | 0.00% |
| LAIO MORRIS | — | 10 | 0.00% |
| DAVID G. STACK | — | 10 | 0.00% |
| MATTHEW ROBERTS | — | 8 | 0.00% |
| JONATHAN LEE | LEE | 7 | 0.00% |
| BEN HARTNELL | — | 6 | 0.00% |
| AUTHOR C. BRUMFIELD | — | 5 | 0.00% |
| DUFF COOPER SMITH | — | 4 | 0.00% |
| ROY WAYNE TYREE | — | 3 | 0.00% |
| CHERUNDA FOX | FOX | 3 | 0.00% |
| TIMOTHY B. MELUCH | — | 3 | 0.00% |
| NATHAN JOHNSON | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| JAMES T. STRUCK | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| MARK J. HARPER | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| DEM J. WYSINGER | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| DAVID FORMHALS | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| JIM BROWN | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| SHELIA MARIE BOLAR | — | 0 | 0.00% |
Notes on how this document was read
- Clinton's name wraps around the number line ('HILLARY' / 'DEMOCRATIC 3090729' / 'RODHAM CLINTON'); the lines are joined with the party in parentheses. The 'Vote Totals' line is read as total_votes before the stop.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 7,676 | 22,790 | 1,485 | 31,951 | 47.3 |
| Alexander | 1,262 | 1,496 | 88 | 2,846 | 8.2 |
| Bond | 2,068 | 4,888 | 574 | 7,530 | 37.5 |
| Boone | 8,986 | 12,282 | 1,733 | 23,001 | 14.3 |
| Brown | 476 | 1,796 | 107 | 2,379 | 55.5 |
| Bureau | 6,029 | 9,281 | 1,261 | 16,571 | 19.6 |
| Calhoun | 739 | 1,721 | 111 | 2,571 | 38.2 |
| Carroll | 2,447 | 4,434 | 564 | 7,445 | 26.7 |
| Cass | 1,621 | 3,216 | 287 | 5,124 | 31.1 |
| Champaign | 50,137 | 33,368 | 8,123 | 91,628 | 18.3 |
| Christian | 3,992 | 10,543 | 924 | 15,459 | 42.4 |
| Clark | 1,877 | 5,622 | 429 | 7,928 | 47.2 |
| Clay | 1,020 | 5,021 | 309 | 6,350 | 63.0 |
| Clinton | 3,945 | 12,412 | 1,062 | 17,419 | 48.6 |
| Coles | 7,309 | 13,003 | 1,551 | 21,863 | 26.0 |
| Cook | 1,611,946 | 453,287 | 93,382 | 2,158,615 | 53.7 |
| Crawford | 1,992 | 6,277 | 459 | 8,728 | 49.1 |
| Cumberland | 1,031 | 4,206 | 330 | 5,567 | 57.0 |
| De Witt | 1,910 | 5,077 | 556 | 7,543 | 42.0 |
| DeKalb | 20,466 | 19,091 | 4,043 | 43,600 | 3.2 |
| Douglas | 1,949 | 5,698 | 522 | 8,169 | 45.9 |
| DuPage | 228,622 | 166,415 | 33,732 | 428,769 | 14.5 |
| Edgar | 1,793 | 5,645 | 435 | 7,873 | 48.9 |
| Edwards | 434 | 2,778 | 135 | 3,347 | 70.0 |
| Effingham | 3,083 | 13,635 | 891 | 17,609 | 59.9 |
| Fayette | 1,819 | 7,372 | 394 | 9,585 | 57.9 |
| Ford | 1,414 | 4,480 | 502 | 6,396 | 47.9 |
| Franklin | 4,727 | 13,116 | 868 | 18,711 | 44.8 |
| Fulton | 6,133 | 8,492 | 1,172 | 15,797 | 14.9 |
| Gallatin | 657 | 1,942 | 108 | 2,707 | 47.5 |
| Greene | 1,205 | 4,145 | 235 | 5,585 | 52.6 |
| Grundy | 8,065 | 13,454 | 1,718 | 23,237 | 23.2 |
| Hamilton | 802 | 3,206 | 158 | 4,166 | 57.7 |
| Hancock | 2,139 | 6,430 | 552 | 9,121 | 47.0 |
| Hardin | 420 | 1,653 | 75 | 2,148 | 57.4 |
| Henderson | 1,155 | 2,155 | 208 | 3,518 | 28.4 |
| Henry | 8,871 | 13,985 | 1,787 | 24,643 | 20.8 |
| Iroquois | 2,504 | 9,750 | 810 | 13,064 | 55.5 |
| Jackson | 11,634 | 10,843 | 2,140 | 24,617 | 3.2 |
| Jasper | 924 | 3,975 | 237 | 5,136 | 59.4 |
| Jefferson | 4,425 | 11,695 | 879 | 16,999 | 42.8 |
| Jersey | 2,679 | 7,748 | 564 | 10,991 | 46.1 |
| Jo Daviess | 4,462 | 6,121 | 751 | 11,334 | 14.6 |
| Johnson | 1,142 | 4,649 | 298 | 6,089 | 57.6 |
| Kane | 103,665 | 82,734 | 12,915 | 199,314 | 10.5 |
| Kankakee | 18,971 | 25,129 | 3,205 | 47,305 | 13.0 |
| Kendall | 24,884 | 24,961 | 3,602 | 53,447 | 0.1 |
| Knox | 10,083 | 10,737 | 1,423 | 22,243 | 2.9 |
| LaSalle | 19,543 | 26,689 | 3,511 | 49,743 | 14.4 |
| Lake | 171,095 | 109,767 | 22,658 | 303,520 | 20.2 |
| Lawrence | 1,290 | 4,521 | 283 | 6,094 | 53.0 |
| Lee | 5,528 | 8,612 | 1,349 | 15,489 | 19.9 |
| Livingston | 4,023 | 10,208 | 1,038 | 15,269 | 40.5 |
| Logan | 3,313 | 8,181 | 907 | 12,401 | 39.3 |
| Macon | 18,343 | 26,866 | 2,851 | 48,060 | 17.7 |
| Macoupin | 6,689 | 14,322 | 1,349 | 22,360 | 34.1 |
| Madison | 50,587 | 70,490 | 9,102 | 130,179 | 15.3 |
| Marion | 4,369 | 11,859 | 846 | 17,074 | 43.9 |
| Marshall | 1,789 | 3,785 | 410 | 5,984 | 33.4 |
| Mason | 2,014 | 4,058 | 414 | 6,486 | 31.5 |
| Massac | 1,558 | 4,846 | 279 | 6,683 | 49.2 |
| McDonough | 5,288 | 6,795 | 1,009 | 13,092 | 11.5 |
| McHenry | 60,803 | 71,612 | 9,335 | 141,750 | 7.6 |
| McLean | 36,196 | 37,237 | 6,402 | 79,835 | 1.3 |
| Menard | 1,817 | 4,231 | 467 | 6,515 | 37.1 |
| Mercer | 3,071 | 4,807 | 647 | 8,525 | 20.4 |
| Monroe | 5,535 | 12,629 | 1,190 | 19,354 | 36.7 |
| Montgomery | 3,504 | 8,630 | 844 | 12,978 | 39.5 |
| Morgan | 4,696 | 9,076 | 1,028 | 14,800 | 29.6 |
| Moultrie | 1,481 | 4,455 | 347 | 6,283 | 47.3 |
| Ogle | 8,050 | 14,352 | 1,791 | 24,193 | 26.0 |
| Peoria | 38,060 | 35,633 | 4,810 | 78,503 | 3.1 |
| Perry | 2,462 | 6,855 | 536 | 9,853 | 44.6 |
| Piatt | 2,645 | 5,634 | 729 | 9,008 | 33.2 |
| Pike | 1,413 | 5,754 | 363 | 7,530 | 57.6 |
| Pope | 375 | 1,678 | 89 | 2,142 | 60.8 |
| Pulaski | 962 | 1,675 | 98 | 2,735 | 26.1 |
| Putnam | 1,147 | 1,767 | 197 | 3,111 | 19.9 |
| Randolph | 3,439 | 10,023 | 732 | 14,194 | 46.4 |
| Richland | 1,584 | 5,739 | 361 | 7,684 | 54.1 |
| Rock Island | 32,298 | 26,998 | 4,698 | 63,994 | 8.3 |
| Saline | 2,572 | 8,276 | 536 | 11,384 | 50.1 |
| Sangamon | 40,907 | 49,944 | 7,522 | 98,373 | 9.2 |
| Schuyler | 1,075 | 2,524 | 229 | 3,828 | 37.9 |
| Scott | 535 | 1,966 | 107 | 2,608 | 54.9 |
| Shelby | 2,288 | 8,229 | 493 | 11,010 | 54.0 |
| St. Clair | 60,756 | 53,857 | 5,967 | 120,580 | 5.7 |
| Stark | 751 | 1,778 | 214 | 2,743 | 37.4 |
| Stephenson | 7,768 | 11,083 | 1,492 | 20,343 | 16.3 |
| Tazewell | 20,685 | 38,707 | 5,008 | 64,400 | 28.0 |
| Union | 2,402 | 5,790 | 345 | 8,537 | 39.7 |
| Vermilion | 10,039 | 19,087 | 1,444 | 30,570 | 29.6 |
| Wabash | 1,151 | 4,047 | 266 | 5,464 | 53.0 |
| Warren | 2,987 | 4,275 | 545 | 7,807 | 16.5 |
| Washington | 1,448 | 5,571 | 408 | 7,427 | 55.5 |
| Wayne | 1,048 | 6,967 | 246 | 8,261 | 71.6 |
| White | 1,412 | 5,640 | 283 | 7,335 | 57.6 |
| Whiteside | 11,035 | 12,615 | 1,932 | 25,582 | 6.2 |
| Will | 151,927 | 132,720 | 16,257 | 300,904 | 6.4 |
| Williamson | 8,581 | 21,570 | 1,701 | 31,852 | 40.8 |
| Winnebago | 55,713 | 55,624 | 7,039 | 118,376 | 0.1 |
| Woodford | 5,092 | 13,207 | 1,565 | 19,864 | 40.9 |
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 Illinois in 2016?
Hillary Clinton won Illinois by 17.06 percentage points (944,714 votes).
How many electoral votes did Illinois have in 2016?
Illinois cast 20 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in Illinois in 2016?
5,536,424 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Illinois in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 90, Hillary Clinton 12 (out of 102 counties with results).
How did Illinois change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 0.2 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 16.9 points to Democratic by 17.1 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data