Maryland · 2016 presidential election
Maryland presidential election results 2016
Hillary Clinton carried Maryland by 26.42 points (734,759 votes), winning 10 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 10
- Votes counted
- 2,781,446
- MD result
- D+26.4
- Compared with the nation
- 24.4 pts more Democratic
- Swing since 2012
- 0.4 pts to D
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 1,677,928 | 60.30% | 10 | |
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 943,169 | 33.90% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 79,605 | 2.90% | — | |
| Total votes | 2,781,446 | ||||
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 56 tickets as printed in the document
| Ticket (as printed) | Code | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton/ Kaine Democratic | — | 1,677,928 | 61.06% |
| Trump/ Pence Republican | — | 943,169 | 34.32% |
| Johnson/ Weld Libertarian | — | 79,605 | 2.90% |
| Stein/ Baraka Green | — | 35,945 | 1.31% |
| McMullin/ Johnson (Write In) Other | — | 9,630 | 0.35% |
| Castle/ Bradley (Write In) Other | — | 566 | 0.02% |
| Maturen/ Munoz (Write In) Other | — | 504 | 0.02% |
| Stephen McCarthy (Write In) Republican | — | 97 | 0.00% |
| Kotlikoff/ Leamer (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 73 | 0.00% |
| Paij Boring (Write In) Republican | — | 53 | 0.00% |
| Janet L. Reid (Write In) Republican | — | 53 | 0.00% |
| Martin Carlisle (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 51 | 0.00% |
| La Riva / Sloan (Write In) Other | — | 48 | 0.00% |
| Paul Adams (Write In) Democratic | — | 44 | 0.00% |
| Hoefling/ Schulin (Write In) Other | — | 42 | 0.00% |
| Jacqueline Gates (Write In) Republican | — | 36 | 0.00% |
| Robert Buchanan (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 25 | 0.00% |
| Ben Hartnell (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 24 | 0.00% |
| Joann Breivogel (Write In) Republican | — | 20 | 0.00% |
| Kahn/ Monahan (Write In) Other | — | 18 | 0.00% |
| Richard Duncan (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 18 | 0.00% |
| Cathy Johnson Pendleton (Write In) (Democratic) | Democratic | 17 | 0.00% |
| Mary E. Thomas (Write In) Democratic | — | 16 | 0.00% |
| Dana E. Brown (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 15 | 0.00% |
| De La Fuente/ Steinberg (Write In) (Other) | Other | 14 | 0.00% |
| Michael L. "Mike" Smith (Write In) (Other) | Other | 13 | 0.00% |
| Sistah Soldjah (Write In) Other | — | 13 | 0.00% |
| Joseph A. Maldanado (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 12 | 0.00% |
| Coop Smith (Write In) Other | — | 11 | 0.00% |
| Jerry White (Write In) Other | — | 11 | 0.00% |
| Valdivia/ Barriere (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 11 | 0.00% |
| Star Locke (Write In) Other | — | 10 | 0.00% |
| Maurice Symonette (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 10 | 0.00% |
| Joe Schriner (Write In) Other | — | 9 | 0.00% |
| Cherunda Fox (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 9 | 0.00% |
| William E. Bowhall, Jr. (Write In) (Other) | Other | 7 | 0.00% |
| Shelia Bolar (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 7 | 0.00% |
| Michael B. Puskar (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 7 | 0.00% |
| Emidio Soltysik (Write In) Other | — | 6 | 0.00% |
| Ameer Flippin (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 6 | 0.00% |
| Hedges/ Bayes (Write In) Other | — | 5 | 0.00% |
| Michael David Boyles (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 5 | 0.00% |
| Theodis Brown, Sr (Write In) Other | — | 4 | 0.00% |
| Gerald Jennings, II (Write In) Unaffiliated | — | 4 | 0.00% |
| Schoenke/ Mitchell (Write In) Other | — | 3 | 0.00% |
| Mohammed Keita (Write In) Other | — | 2 | 0.00% |
| Vogel-Walcutt/ Walcutt (Write In) (Other) | Other | 2 | 0.00% |
| Doug Terry (Write In) Democratic | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| Richard Baxter Edgell (Write In) (Other) | Other | 1 | 0.00% |
| Mitchell Williams (Write In) Other | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| Wysinger/ Jefferson (Write In) Other | — | 1 | 0.00% |
| Kora Roberta Katz Vakil (Write In) (Unaffiliated) | Unaffiliated | 1 | 0.00% |
| Ken Lash (Write In) Other | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| David Librace (Write In) Other | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| Kevin M. Moreau (Write In) Other | — | 0 | 0.00% |
| Michael S Olkowski (Write In) (Other) | Other | 0 | 0.00% |
| Write-in / scattering | 33,263 | ||
Notes on how this document was read
- Write-in candidates whose names wrap onto a second line ('(Write In)') are joined with the party in parentheses.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegany | 7,875 | 21,270 | 1,509 | 30,654 | 43.7 |
| Anne Arundel | 128,419 | 122,403 | 19,259 | 270,081 | 2.2 |
| Baltimore | 218,412 | 149,477 | 22,793 | 390,682 | 17.6 |
| Baltimore City | 202,673 | 25,205 | 11,524 | 239,402 | 74.1 |
| Calvert | 18,225 | 26,176 | 3,007 | 47,408 | 16.8 |
| Caroline | 4,009 | 9,368 | 736 | 14,113 | 38.0 |
| Carroll | 26,567 | 58,215 | 7,066 | 91,848 | 34.5 |
| Cecil | 13,650 | 28,868 | 2,751 | 45,269 | 33.6 |
| Charles | 49,341 | 25,614 | 3,348 | 78,303 | 30.3 |
| Dorchester | 6,245 | 8,413 | 567 | 15,225 | 14.2 |
| Frederick | 56,522 | 59,522 | 9,633 | 125,677 | 2.4 |
| Garrett | 2,567 | 10,776 | 668 | 14,011 | 58.6 |
| Harford | 47,077 | 77,860 | 8,735 | 133,672 | 23.0 |
| Howard | 102,597 | 47,484 | 12,112 | 162,193 | 34.0 |
| Kent | 4,575 | 4,876 | 570 | 10,021 | 3.0 |
| Montgomery | 357,837 | 92,704 | 28,332 | 478,873 | 55.4 |
| Prince George's | 344,049 | 32,811 | 13,525 | 390,385 | 79.7 |
| Queen Anne's | 7,973 | 16,993 | 1,557 | 26,523 | 34.0 |
| Somerset | 4,196 | 5,341 | 363 | 9,900 | 11.6 |
| St. Mary's | 17,534 | 28,663 | 3,645 | 49,842 | 22.3 |
| Talbot | 8,653 | 10,724 | 1,176 | 20,553 | 10.1 |
| Washington | 21,129 | 40,998 | 3,864 | 65,991 | 30.1 |
| Wicomico | 18,050 | 22,198 | 2,299 | 42,547 | 9.7 |
| Worcester | 9,753 | 17,210 | 1,310 | 28,273 | 26.4 |
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 Maryland in 2016?
Hillary Clinton won Maryland by 26.42 percentage points (734,759 votes).
How many electoral votes did Maryland have in 2016?
Maryland cast 10 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in Maryland in 2016?
2,781,446 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in Maryland in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 17, Hillary Clinton 7 (out of 24 counties with results).
How did Maryland change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 0.4 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Democratic by 26.1 points to Democratic by 26.4 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data