North Dakota · 2016 presidential election
North Dakota presidential election results 2016
Donald J. Trump carried North Dakota by 35.73 points (123,036 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.
- Electoral votes
- 3
- Votes counted
- 344,360
- ND result
- R+35.7
- Compared with the nation
- 37.7 pts more Republican
- Swing since 2012
- 16.1 pts to R
Statewide result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Bar | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donald J. Trump | Republican | 216,794 | 63.00% | 3 | |
| Hillary Clinton | Democratic | 93,758 | 27.20% | — | |
| Gary Johnson | Libertarian | 21,434 | 6.20% | — | |
| Total votes | 344,360 | ||||
County resultsMIT Election Lab
Download CSV| County | Hillary Clinton | Donald J. Trump | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams | 216 | 909 | 93 | 1,218 | 56.9 |
| Barnes | 1,597 | 3,160 | 587 | 5,344 | 29.2 |
| Benson | 842 | 929 | 240 | 2,011 | 4.3 |
| Billings | 59 | 495 | 51 | 605 | 72.1 |
| Bottineau | 736 | 2,494 | 264 | 3,494 | 50.3 |
| Bowman | 227 | 1,446 | 114 | 1,787 | 68.2 |
| Burke | 119 | 895 | 38 | 1,052 | 73.8 |
| Burleigh | 10,881 | 32,532 | 4,566 | 47,979 | 45.1 |
| Cass | 31,361 | 39,816 | 9,644 | 80,821 | 10.5 |
| Cavalier | 476 | 1,357 | 173 | 2,006 | 43.9 |
| Dickey | 554 | 1,667 | 186 | 2,407 | 46.2 |
| Divide | 245 | 867 | 107 | 1,219 | 51.0 |
| Dunn | 358 | 1,771 | 114 | 2,243 | 63.0 |
| Eddy | 355 | 791 | 85 | 1,231 | 35.4 |
| Emmons | 215 | 1,677 | 89 | 1,981 | 73.8 |
| Foster | 347 | 1,241 | 131 | 1,719 | 52.0 |
| Golden Valley | 99 | 796 | 62 | 957 | 72.8 |
| Grand Forks | 10,851 | 16,340 | 3,174 | 30,365 | 18.1 |
| Grant | 185 | 1,108 | 88 | 1,381 | 66.8 |
| Griggs | 298 | 847 | 120 | 1,265 | 43.4 |
| Hettinger | 168 | 1,050 | 78 | 1,296 | 68.1 |
| Kidder | 179 | 1,111 | 86 | 1,376 | 67.7 |
| LaMoure | 502 | 1,481 | 168 | 2,151 | 45.5 |
| Logan | 114 | 888 | 65 | 1,067 | 72.5 |
| McHenry | 490 | 2,050 | 280 | 2,820 | 55.3 |
| McIntosh | 235 | 1,100 | 111 | 1,446 | 59.8 |
| McKenzie | 698 | 3,670 | 304 | 4,672 | 63.6 |
| McLean | 1,081 | 3,860 | 374 | 5,315 | 52.3 |
| Mercer | 621 | 3,759 | 302 | 4,682 | 67.0 |
| Morton | 3,080 | 11,336 | 1,416 | 15,832 | 52.1 |
| Mountrail | 1,220 | 2,582 | 304 | 4,106 | 33.2 |
| Nelson | 536 | 1,025 | 156 | 1,717 | 28.5 |
| Oliver | 119 | 830 | 68 | 1,017 | 69.9 |
| Pembina | 681 | 2,208 | 264 | 3,153 | 48.4 |
| Pierce | 431 | 1,437 | 203 | 2,071 | 48.6 |
| Ramsey | 1,505 | 3,217 | 583 | 5,305 | 32.3 |
| Ransom | 838 | 1,210 | 311 | 2,359 | 15.8 |
| Renville | 201 | 993 | 99 | 1,293 | 61.3 |
| Richland | 2,064 | 4,767 | 761 | 7,592 | 35.6 |
| Rolette | 2,099 | 1,217 | 439 | 3,755 | 23.5 |
| Sargent | 694 | 1,088 | 215 | 1,997 | 19.7 |
| Sheridan | 95 | 650 | 42 | 787 | 70.5 |
| Sioux | 758 | 260 | 214 | 1,232 | 40.4 |
| Slope | 43 | 362 | 25 | 430 | 74.2 |
| Stark | 1,753 | 9,755 | 814 | 12,322 | 64.9 |
| Steele | 361 | 538 | 100 | 999 | 17.7 |
| Stutsman | 2,498 | 6,718 | 939 | 10,155 | 41.6 |
| Towner | 305 | 733 | 119 | 1,157 | 37.0 |
| Traill | 1,241 | 2,265 | 427 | 3,933 | 26.0 |
| Walsh | 1,167 | 2,995 | 474 | 4,636 | 39.4 |
| Ward | 5,806 | 18,636 | 2,970 | 27,412 | 46.8 |
| Wells | 419 | 1,796 | 168 | 2,383 | 57.8 |
| Williams | 1,735 | 10,069 | 1,003 | 12,807 | 65.1 |
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
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 6 tickets as printed in the document
Notes on how this document was read
- The page's navigation sidebar shares baselines with the table and is cut away (x < 200 pt). The write-in line prints its label under its numbers; the lines are joined.
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 Dakota in 2016?
Donald J. Trump won North Dakota by 35.73 percentage points (123,036 votes).
How many electoral votes did North Dakota have in 2016?
North Dakota cast 3 electoral votes in 2016.
How many people voted for president in North Dakota in 2016?
344,360 votes were counted for president.
How many counties did each candidate win in North Dakota in 2016?
Donald J. Trump 51, Hillary Clinton 2 (out of 53 counties with results).
How did North Dakota change from 2012 to 2016?
The margin moved 16.1 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 19.6 points to Republican by 35.7 points.
Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data