North Carolina · 2016 presidential election
North Carolina presidential election results 2016
Donald J. Trump carried North Carolina by 3.66 points (173,315 votes), winning 15 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 15
- Votes counted
- 4,741,558
- NC result
- R+3.7
- Compared with the nation
- 5.7 pts more Republican
- Swing since 2012
- 1.6 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 2,362,628 | 49.80% | 15 | |
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 2,189,313 | 46.20% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 130,127 | 2.70% | — | |
| Total votes | 4,741,558 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Hillary Clinton | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamance | 29,833 | 38,815 | 2,509 | 71,157 | 12.6 |
| Alexander | 3,767 | 13,893 | 611 | 18,271 | 55.4 |
| Alleghany | 1,306 | 3,814 | 195 | 5,315 | 47.2 |
| Anson | 5,859 | 4,506 | 180 | 10,545 | 12.8 |
| Ashe | 3,500 | 9,412 | 512 | 13,424 | 44.0 |
| Avery | 1,689 | 6,298 | 262 | 8,249 | 55.9 |
| Beaufort | 8,764 | 14,543 | 631 | 23,938 | 24.1 |
| Bertie | 5,778 | 3,456 | 113 | 9,347 | 24.8 |
| Bladen | 7,058 | 8,550 | 289 | 15,897 | 9.4 |
| Brunswick | 23,282 | 42,720 | 2,349 | 68,351 | 28.4 |
| Buncombe | 75,452 | 55,716 | 7,779 | 138,947 | 14.2 |
| Burke | 11,251 | 26,238 | 1,431 | 38,920 | 38.5 |
| Cabarrus | 35,521 | 53,819 | 3,949 | 93,289 | 19.6 |
| Caldwell | 8,425 | 26,621 | 1,274 | 36,320 | 50.1 |
| Camden | 1,274 | 3,546 | 186 | 5,006 | 45.4 |
| Carteret | 9,939 | 26,569 | 1,273 | 37,781 | 44.0 |
| Caswell | 4,792 | 6,026 | 252 | 11,070 | 11.1 |
| Catawba | 21,216 | 48,324 | 2,811 | 72,351 | 37.5 |
| Chatham | 21,065 | 17,105 | 1,679 | 39,849 | 9.9 |
| Cherokee | 2,860 | 10,844 | 477 | 14,181 | 56.3 |
| Chowan | 2,992 | 4,014 | 222 | 7,228 | 14.1 |
| Clay | 1,367 | 4,437 | 206 | 6,010 | 51.1 |
| Cleveland | 14,964 | 28,479 | 1,230 | 44,673 | 30.3 |
| Columbus | 9,063 | 14,272 | 397 | 23,732 | 21.9 |
| Craven | 17,630 | 27,731 | 1,640 | 47,001 | 21.5 |
| Cumberland | 71,605 | 51,265 | 4,636 | 127,506 | 16.0 |
| Currituck | 2,913 | 9,163 | 593 | 12,669 | 49.3 |
| Dare | 7,222 | 11,460 | 927 | 19,609 | 21.6 |
| Davidson | 18,109 | 54,317 | 2,430 | 74,856 | 48.4 |
| Davie | 5,270 | 15,602 | 884 | 21,756 | 47.5 |
| Duplin | 8,283 | 12,217 | 356 | 20,856 | 18.9 |
| Durham | 121,250 | 28,350 | 6,534 | 156,134 | 59.5 |
| Edgecombe | 16,224 | 8,261 | 401 | 24,886 | 32.0 |
| Forsyth | 94,464 | 75,975 | 7,873 | 178,312 | 10.4 |
| Franklin | 12,874 | 16,368 | 1,126 | 30,368 | 11.5 |
| Gaston | 31,177 | 61,798 | 3,456 | 96,431 | 31.8 |
| Gates | 2,385 | 2,874 | 133 | 5,392 | 9.1 |
| Graham | 768 | 3,283 | 117 | 4,168 | 60.3 |
| Granville | 12,909 | 13,591 | 853 | 27,353 | 2.5 |
| Greene | 3,605 | 4,374 | 116 | 8,095 | 9.5 |
| Guilford | 149,248 | 98,062 | 10,095 | 257,405 | 19.9 |
| Halifax | 15,748 | 9,031 | 388 | 25,167 | 26.7 |
| Harnett | 16,737 | 27,614 | 1,714 | 46,065 | 23.6 |
| Haywood | 10,473 | 18,929 | 1,325 | 30,727 | 27.5 |
| Henderson | 19,827 | 35,809 | 2,540 | 58,176 | 27.5 |
| Hertford | 6,910 | 3,099 | 177 | 10,186 | 37.4 |
| Hoke | 9,726 | 7,760 | 744 | 18,230 | 10.8 |
| Hyde | 965 | 1,288 | 51 | 2,304 | 14.0 |
| Iredell | 24,734 | 54,754 | 3,079 | 82,567 | 36.4 |
| Jackson | 7,713 | 9,870 | 1,130 | 18,713 | 11.5 |
| Johnston | 28,362 | 54,372 | 3,175 | 85,909 | 30.3 |
| Jones | 2,065 | 2,974 | 96 | 5,135 | 17.7 |
| Lee | 10,469 | 13,712 | 903 | 25,084 | 12.9 |
| Lenoir | 12,634 | 13,613 | 560 | 26,807 | 3.7 |
| Lincoln | 9,897 | 28,806 | 1,320 | 40,023 | 47.2 |
| Macon | 4,876 | 12,127 | 731 | 17,734 | 40.9 |
| Madison | 3,926 | 6,783 | 560 | 11,269 | 25.4 |
| Martin | 5,846 | 5,897 | 221 | 11,964 | 0.4 |
| McDowell | 4,667 | 14,568 | 640 | 19,875 | 49.8 |
| Mecklenburg | 294,562 | 155,518 | 22,777 | 472,857 | 29.4 |
| Mitchell | 1,596 | 6,282 | 218 | 8,096 | 57.9 |
| Montgomery | 4,150 | 7,130 | 260 | 11,540 | 25.8 |
| Moore | 16,329 | 30,490 | 1,873 | 48,692 | 29.1 |
| Nash | 23,235 | 23,319 | 1,111 | 47,665 | 0.2 |
| New Hanover | 50,979 | 55,344 | 5,582 | 111,905 | 3.9 |
| Northampton | 6,144 | 3,582 | 122 | 9,848 | 26.0 |
| Onslow | 17,514 | 37,122 | 2,499 | 57,135 | 34.3 |
| Orange | 59,923 | 18,557 | 3,860 | 82,340 | 50.2 |
| Pamlico | 2,448 | 4,258 | 164 | 6,870 | 26.3 |
| Pasquotank | 8,615 | 8,180 | 596 | 17,391 | 2.5 |
| Pender | 9,354 | 17,639 | 892 | 27,885 | 29.7 |
| Perquimans | 2,319 | 4,177 | 212 | 6,708 | 27.7 |
| Person | 7,833 | 11,185 | 597 | 19,615 | 17.1 |
| Pitt | 41,824 | 35,691 | 3,012 | 80,527 | 7.6 |
| Polk | 3,735 | 6,768 | 431 | 10,934 | 27.7 |
| Randolph | 13,194 | 49,430 | 1,951 | 64,575 | 56.1 |
| Richmond | 8,501 | 10,383 | 444 | 19,328 | 9.7 |
| Robeson | 19,016 | 20,762 | 1,080 | 40,858 | 4.3 |
| Rockingham | 14,228 | 26,830 | 1,220 | 42,278 | 29.8 |
| Rowan | 19,400 | 42,810 | 2,159 | 64,369 | 36.4 |
| Rutherford | 7,512 | 21,871 | 924 | 30,307 | 47.4 |
| Sampson | 10,547 | 14,838 | 543 | 25,928 | 16.5 |
| Scotland | 7,319 | 6,256 | 353 | 13,928 | 7.6 |
| Stanly | 7,094 | 21,964 | 859 | 29,917 | 49.7 |
| Stokes | 4,665 | 17,116 | 769 | 22,550 | 55.2 |
| Surry | 7,488 | 23,671 | 1,037 | 32,196 | 50.3 |
| Swain | 2,196 | 3,565 | 363 | 6,124 | 22.4 |
| Transylvania | 6,558 | 10,520 | 791 | 17,869 | 22.2 |
| Tyrrell | 720 | 975 | 44 | 1,739 | 14.7 |
| Union | 34,337 | 66,707 | 4,666 | 105,710 | 30.6 |
| Vance | 12,229 | 7,332 | 416 | 19,977 | 24.5 |
| Wake | 302,736 | 196,082 | 28,806 | 527,624 | 20.2 |
| Warren | 6,413 | 3,214 | 215 | 9,842 | 32.5 |
| Washington | 3,510 | 2,564 | 91 | 6,165 | 15.3 |
| Watauga | 14,138 | 13,697 | 2,150 | 29,985 | 1.5 |
| Wayne | 21,770 | 27,540 | 1,379 | 50,689 | 11.4 |
| Wilkes | 6,638 | 23,752 | 906 | 31,296 | 54.7 |
| Wilson | 19,663 | 17,531 | 941 | 38,135 | 5.6 |
| Yadkin | 3,160 | 13,880 | 584 | 17,624 | 60.8 |
| Yancey | 3,196 | 6,385 | 379 | 9,960 | 32.0 |
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).
Certified state documentCertified
Not shown: the figures read from this document do not match the summary table (Hillary Clinton: document 2,189,316 vs 2,189,313; Donald Trump: document 2,362,631 vs 2,362,628; Gary Johnson: document 130,126 vs 130,127), so the statewide figures above are used instead. Check the original document for statewide detail.
Notes on how this document was read
- 'Write-In (Miscellaneous)' is write_in; 'Jill Stein (Write-In)' is a named candidate.
- The UCSB row differs from this page by a few votes (Clinton 2,189,313 vs 2,189,316 on the page; Trump 2,362,628 vs 2,362,631; Johnson 130,127 vs 130,126): the page is the 12/21/2016 print of the state's results; the figures are kept as printed and the check reports the difference.
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)
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Questions and answers
Who won North Carolina in 2016?
Donald J. Trump won North Carolina by 3.66 percentage points (173,315 votes).
How many electoral votes did North Carolina have in 2016?
North Carolina cast 15 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in North Carolina in 2016?
4,741,558 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in North Carolina in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 76, Hillary Clinton 24 (out of 100 counties with results).
How did North Carolina change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 1.6 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 2.0 points to Republican by 3.7 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data