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Nevada presidential election results 2016

Hillary Clinton carried Nevada by 2.42 points (27,202 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
6
Votes counted
1,125,385
NV result
D+2.4
Compared with the nation
0.4 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2012
4.3 pts to R

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Hillary ClintonDemocratic539,26047.90%6
Donald J. TrumpRepublican512,05845.50%—
Gary JohnsonLibertarian37,3843.30%—
Total votes1,125,385

Sources: nv.pdf · 2016

County resultsCertified

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Nevada Secretary of State, Silver State Election Night Results 2016 (official, 11/22/2016): U.S. Presidential, statewide totals and results by county (page 3)
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All 6 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)DEM539,26047.92%
TRUMP, DONALD J. (REP)REP512,05845.50%
JOHNSON, GARY (LPN)LPN37,3843.32%
NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES (NP)NP28,8632.56%
CASTLE, DARRELL (IAP)IAP5,2680.47%
DE LA FUENTE, ROQUE "ROCKY" (NPP)NPP2,5520.23%
County Hillary ClintonDonald J. TrumpGary JohnsonNONE OF THESE CANDIDATESCASTLE, DARRELLDE LA FUENTE, ROQUE "ROCKY" TotalMargin
Carson City 9,61013,1251,15990915360 25,016 14.1
Churchill 2,2107,8304503319225 10,938 51.4
Clark 402,227320,05722,45317,4863,2131,720 767,156 10.7
Douglas 8,45417,4151,00485410850 27,885 32.1
Elko 3,40113,55182852818764 18,559 54.7
Esmeralda 65329151130 423 62.4
Eureka 74723192981 854 76.0
Humboldt 1,3864,5212691687415 6,433 48.7
Lander 4031,82879771610 2,413 59.1
Lincoln 2851,6716284255 2,132 65.0
Lyon 6,14616,00581357515964 23,762 41.5
Mineral 6371,17988591915 1,997 27.1
Nye 5,09413,32455241416447 19,595 42.0
Pershing 4301,4035856296 1,982 49.1
Storey 7521,6161007596 2,558 33.8
Washoe 97,37994,7589,2847,069969450 209,909 1.2
White Pine 7072,7231511384014 3,773 53.4

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
  • 'None of these candidates' is a ballot option in Nevada and is kept as a column (candidate kind). The Percent line is skipped as the header.

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)

Questions and answers

Who won Nevada in 2016?

Hillary Clinton won Nevada by 2.42 percentage points (27,202 votes).

How many electoral votes did Nevada have in 2016?

Nevada cast 6 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Nevada in 2016?

1,125,385 votes were counted for president.

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

Donald J. Trump 15, Hillary Clinton 2 (out of 17 counties with results).

How did Nevada change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 4.3 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 6.7 points to Democratic by 2.4 points.

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