Pennsylvania · 2016 presidential election

Pennsylvania presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Pennsylvania by 0.72 points (44,292 votes), winning 20 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 20
Votes counted: 6,115,402
PA result: R+0.7
Compared with the nation: 2.7 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012: 6.1 pts to R

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
Donald J. Trump	Republican	2,970,733	48.60%	20
Hillary Clinton	Democratic	2,926,441	47.90%	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	146,715	2.40%	—
Total votes		6,115,402

Sources: pa.pdf · 2016

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
Adams	14,219	31,423	1,847	47,489	36.2
Allegheny	367,617	259,480	23,017	650,114	16.6
Armstrong	7,178	23,484	956	31,618	51.6
Beaver	32,531	48,167	2,873	83,571	18.7
Bedford	3,645	19,552	440	23,637	67.3
Berks	78,437	96,626	8,002	183,065	9.9
Blair	13,958	39,135	1,816	54,909	45.9
Bradford	6,369	18,141	1,198	25,708	45.8
Bucks	167,060	164,361	12,876	344,297	0.8
Butler	28,584	64,428	4,059	97,071	36.9
Cambria	18,867	42,258	1,947	63,072	37.1
Cameron	531	1,589	66	2,186	48.4
Carbon	8,936	18,743	1,097	28,776	34.1
Centre	37,088	35,274	3,786	76,148	2.4
Chester	141,682	116,114	11,004	268,800	9.5
Clarion	4,273	12,576	686	17,535	47.4
Clearfield	8,200	24,932	1,139	34,271	48.8
Clinton	4,744	10,022	628	15,394	34.3
Columbia	8,934	18,004	1,290	28,228	32.1
Crawford	10,971	24,987	1,534	37,492	37.4
Cumberland	47,085	69,076	5,456	121,617	18.1
Dauphin	64,706	60,863	5,303	130,872	2.9
Delaware	177,402	110,667	9,565	297,634	22.4
Elk	3,853	10,025	548	14,426	42.8
Erie	58,112	60,069	5,498	123,679	1.6
Fayette	17,946	34,590	1,231	53,767	31.0
Forest	626	1,683	92	2,401	44.0
Franklin	17,465	49,768	2,498	69,731	46.3
Fulton	912	5,694	165	6,771	70.6
Greene	4,482	10,849	433	15,764	40.4
Huntingdon	4,539	14,494	673	19,706	50.5
Indiana	11,528	24,888	1,354	37,770	35.4
Jefferson	3,650	15,192	636	19,478	59.3
Juniata	1,821	8,273	360	10,454	61.7
Lackawanna	51,983	48,384	3,089	103,456	3.5
Lancaster	91,093	137,914	12,105	241,112	19.4
Lawrence	14,009	25,428	1,316	40,753	28.0
Lebanon	18,953	40,525	2,367	61,845	34.9
Lehigh	81,324	73,690	5,979	160,993	4.7
Luzerne	52,451	78,688	3,844	134,983	19.4
Lycoming	13,020	35,627	1,918	50,565	44.7
McKean	4,025	11,635	636	16,296	46.7
Mercer	18,733	31,544	2,032	52,309	24.5
Mifflin	3,877	14,094	630	18,601	54.9
Monroe	33,918	33,386	2,448	69,752	0.8
Montgomery	256,082	162,731	15,874	434,687	21.5
Montour	2,857	5,288	411	8,556	28.4
Northampton	66,272	71,736	5,511	143,519	3.8
Northumberland	9,788	25,427	1,407	36,622	42.7
Perry	4,632	15,616	910	21,158	51.9
Philadelphia	584,025	108,748	14,858	707,631	67.2
Pike	9,256	16,056	789	26,101	26.1
Potter	1,302	6,251	231	7,784	63.6
Schuylkill	16,770	44,001	2,098	62,869	43.3
Snyder	4,002	11,725	636	16,363	47.2
Somerset	7,376	27,379	1,018	35,773	55.9
Sullivan	750	2,291	95	3,136	49.1
Susquehanna	5,123	12,891	849	18,863	41.2
Tioga	3,901	13,614	810	18,325	53.0
Union	6,180	10,622	666	17,468	25.4
Venango	6,309	16,021	1,018	23,348	41.6
Warren	5,145	12,477	812	18,434	39.8
Washington	36,322	61,386	3,742	101,450	24.7
Wayne	7,008	16,244	766	24,018	38.5
Westmoreland	59,669	116,522	5,860	182,051	31.2
Wyoming	3,811	8,837	496	13,144	38.2
York	68,524	128,528	8,934	205,986	29.1

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

Pennsylvania Department of State press release, 12/12/2016, 'Department of State certifies presidential election results': the five certified vote totals (statewide)
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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 5 tickets as printed in the document

Ticket (as printed)	Code	Votes	Share
Electors for Republican Party candidates Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence	—	2,970,733	48.58%
Electors for Democratic Party candidates Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine	—	2,926,441	47.85%
Electors for Libertarian Party candidates Gary E. Johnson and William Weld	—	146,715	2.40%
Electors for Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka	—	49,941	0.82%
Electors for Constitution Party candidates Darrell L. Castle and Scott N. Bradley	—	21,572	0.35%

Notes on how this document was read

A press release, not a tabulation: five tickets, no county rows.

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 Pennsylvania in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Pennsylvania by 0.72 percentage points (44,292 votes).

How many electoral votes did Pennsylvania have in 2016?

Pennsylvania cast 20 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Pennsylvania in 2016?

6,115,402 votes were counted for president.

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

Donald J. Trump 56, Hillary Clinton 11 (out of 67 counties with results).

How did Pennsylvania change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 6.1 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 5.4 points to Republican by 0.7 points.

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