Iowa presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Iowa by 9.41 points (147,314 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,566,031
IA result: R+9.4
Compared with the nation: 11.4 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 15.2 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	800,983	51.10%	6
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	653,669	41.70%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	59,186	3.80%	—
Total votes		1,566,031

Sources: ia.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

Iowa Secretary of State, Official Election Results - Tabular, 2016 General Election (as of 12/05/2016); page 1 President and Vice President statewide with party
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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 10 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Republican Party Pence	—	800,983	51.73%
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine Democratic Party	—	653,669	42.22%
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld Libertarian Party	—	59,186	3.82%
Evan McMullin and Nathan Nominated by Petition Johnson	—	12,366	0.80%
Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka Iowa Green Party	—	11,479	0.74%
Darrell L. Castle and Scott N. Constitution Party Bradley	—	5,335	0.34%
Lynn Kahn and Jay Stolba New Independent Party Iowa	—	2,247	0.15%
Dan R. Vacek and Mark G. Elworth Legal Marijuana Now	—	2,246	0.15%
Rocky Roque De La Fuente and Nominated by Petition Michael Steinberg	—	451	0.03%
Gloria La Riva and Dennis J. Banks Party for Socialism and Liberation	—	323	0.02%
Write-in / scattering		17,746

Notes on how this document was read

Running-mate names that wrap onto the next line are appended to the label in reading order (e.g. 'Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Republican Party Pence'). 'Write-in No Party' is write_in.

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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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Hillary Clinton	Donald J. Trump	Others	Total	Margin
Adair	1,133	2,461	217	3,811	34.8
Adams	565	1,395	146	2,106	39.4
Allamakee	2,421	4,093	409	6,923	24.2
Appanoose	1,814	4,033	289	6,136	36.2
Audubon	1,080	2,136	196	3,412	30.9
Benton	4,678	8,232	934	13,844	25.7
Black Hawk	32,233	27,476	4,696	64,405	7.4
Boone	5,541	7,484	1,171	14,196	13.7
Bremer	5,356	7,208	974	13,538	13.7
Buchanan	3,970	5,510	772	10,252	15.0
Buena Vista	2,856	4,903	519	8,278	24.7
Butler	2,157	4,921	435	7,513	36.8
Calhoun	1,398	3,468	293	5,159	40.1
Carroll	3,309	6,638	597	10,544	31.6
Cass	1,951	4,761	413	7,125	39.4
Cedar	3,599	5,295	647	9,541	17.8
Cerro Gordo	9,862	11,621	1,482	22,965	7.7
Cherokee	1,679	4,192	387	6,258	40.2
Chickasaw	2,266	3,742	427	6,435	22.9
Clarke	1,465	2,713	276	4,454	28.0
Clay	2,249	5,877	491	8,617	42.1
Clayton	3,237	5,317	575	9,129	22.8
Clinton	10,095	11,276	1,696	23,067	5.1
Crawford	1,991	4,617	327	6,935	37.9
Dallas	15,701	19,339	3,212	38,252	9.5
Davis	977	2,723	182	3,882	45.0
Decatur	1,201	2,296	237	3,734	29.3
Delaware	2,957	5,694	590	9,241	29.6
Des Moines	8,212	9,529	1,362	19,103	6.9
Dickinson	3,056	6,753	545	10,354	35.7
Dubuque	22,850	23,460	3,411	49,721	1.2
Emmet	1,357	3,124	272	4,753	37.2
Fayette	3,689	5,620	666	9,975	19.4
Floyd	3,179	4,375	506	8,060	14.8
Franklin	1,493	3,163	312	4,968	33.6
Fremont	963	2,407	225	3,595	40.2
Greene	1,691	2,820	310	4,821	23.4
Grundy	1,856	4,527	489	6,872	38.9
Guthrie	1,732	3,628	390	5,750	33.0
Hamilton	2,726	4,463	505	7,694	22.6
Hancock	1,587	3,977	307	5,871	40.7
Hardin	2,787	5,254	492	8,533	28.9
Harrison	2,131	4,902	432	7,465	37.1
Henry	2,904	5,779	721	9,404	30.6
Howard	1,677	2,611	271	4,559	20.5
Humboldt	1,252	3,568	267	5,087	45.5
Ida	792	2,655	165	3,612	51.6
Iowa	3,084	5,205	615	8,904	23.8
Jackson	3,837	5,824	649	10,310	19.3
Jasper	7,109	10,560	1,365	19,034	18.1
Jefferson	3,710	3,748	698	8,156	0.5
Johnson	50,200	21,044	5,696	76,940	37.9
Jones	3,787	5,720	626	10,133	19.1
Keokuk	1,342	3,390	253	4,985	41.1
Kossuth	2,543	5,653	411	8,607	36.1
Lee	6,215	8,803	1,133	16,151	16.0
Linn	58,935	48,390	9,773	117,098	9.0
Louisa	1,648	3,069	291	5,008	28.4
Lucas	1,239	2,877	238	4,354	37.6
Lyon	920	5,192	265	6,377	67.0
Madison	2,678	5,360	598	8,636	31.1
Mahaska	2,619	7,432	581	10,632	45.3
Marion	5,482	10,962	1,372	17,816	30.8
Marshall	7,652	9,146	1,182	17,980	8.3
Mills	2,090	5,067	541	7,698	38.7
Mitchell	1,888	3,190	339	5,417	24.0
Monona	1,247	3,120	205	4,572	41.0
Monroe	1,056	2,638	171	3,865	40.9
Montgomery	1,314	3,436	294	5,044	42.1
Muscatine	8,368	9,584	1,482	19,434	6.3
O'Brien	1,315	5,752	339	7,406	59.9
Osceola	552	2,531	130	3,213	61.6
Page	1,807	4,893	344	7,044	43.8
Palo Alto	1,398	3,081	224	4,703	35.8
Plymouth	2,885	9,680	625	13,190	51.5
Pocahontas	963	2,702	200	3,865	45.0
Polk	119,804	93,492	18,259	231,555	11.4
Pottawattamie	15,355	24,447	2,878	42,680	21.3
Poweshiek	4,304	4,946	583	9,833	6.5
Ringgold	753	1,824	130	2,707	39.6
Sac	1,270	3,703	239	5,212	46.7
Scott	40,440	39,149	6,631	86,220	1.5
Shelby	1,662	4,362	346	6,370	42.4
Sioux	2,300	14,785	1,109	18,194	68.6
Story	25,709	19,458	5,500	50,667	12.3
Tama	3,196	4,971	585	8,752	20.3
Taylor	758	2,111	160	3,029	44.7
Union	1,922	3,525	385	5,832	27.5
Van Buren	845	2,527	189	3,561	47.2
Wapello	5,594	8,715	840	15,149	20.6
Warren	10,411	14,814	2,075	27,300	16.1
Washington	3,943	6,173	813	10,929	20.4
Wayne	719	2,069	152	2,940	45.9
Webster	6,305	10,056	1,069	17,430	21.5
Winnebago	1,931	3,447	409	5,787	26.2
Winneshiek	5,254	5,344	764	11,362	0.8
Woodbury	16,210	24,727	2,781	43,718	19.5
Worth	1,530	2,453	274	4,257	21.7
Wright	1,896	3,800	330	6,026	31.6

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 Iowa in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Iowa by 9.41 percentage points (147,314 votes).

How many electoral votes did Iowa have in 2016?

Iowa cast 6 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Iowa in 2016?

1,566,031 votes were counted for president.

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

Donald J. Trump 93, Hillary Clinton 6 (out of 99 counties with results).

How did Iowa change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 15.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 5.8 points to Republican by 9.4 points.

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