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Vermont presidential election results 2016

Hillary Clinton carried Vermont by 26.41 points (83,204 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
3
Votes counted
315,067
VT result
D+26.4
Compared with the nation
24.4 pts more Democratic
Swing since 2012
9.2 pts to R

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Hillary ClintonDemocratic178,57356.70%3
Donald J. TrumpRepublican95,36930.30%—
Gary JohnsonLibertarian10,0783.20%—
Total votes315,067

Sources: vt.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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Caledonia County: Hillary Clinton +6.5Orleans County: Hillary Clinton +0.2Bennington County: Hillary Clinton +20.8Chittenden County: Hillary Clinton +43.4Franklin County: Hillary Clinton +2.8Lamoille County: Hillary Clinton +28.8Rutland County: Hillary Clinton +3.9Windham County: Hillary Clinton +39.3Grand Isle County: Hillary Clinton +14.8Addison County: Hillary Clinton +31.1Essex County: Donald J. Trump +16.6Orange County: Hillary Clinton +17.3Washington County: Hillary Clinton +34.1Windsor County: Hillary Clinton +29.9
Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.
County Hillary ClintonDonald J. TrumpOthers TotalMargin
Addison 11,2195,2972,515 19,031 31.1
Bennington 9,5395,9251,917 17,381 20.8
Caledonia 6,4455,5342,096 14,075 6.5
Chittenden 54,81418,60110,003 83,418 43.4
Essex 1,0191,506400 2,925 16.6
Franklin 9,3518,7523,308 21,411 2.8
Grand Isle 2,0941,487529 4,110 14.8
Lamoille 7,2413,5701,951 12,762 28.8
Orange 7,5415,0072,101 14,649 17.3
Orleans 5,1855,1591,703 12,047 0.2
Rutland 13,63512,4793,505 29,619 3.9
Washington 18,5947,9934,499 31,086 34.1
Windham 14,3405,4542,841 22,635 39.3
Windsor 17,5568,6053,767 29,928 29.9

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

Vermont Secretary of State, Election Night Results, 11/08/2016 General Election, US President and Vice President, official (last updated 11-19-2016); page 2 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 6 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
HILLARY CLINTON and TIM KAINE DEMOCRATIC—178,57361.12%
DONALD J. TRUMP and MICHAEL R. PENCE REPUBLICAN—95,36932.64%
GARY JOHNSON and WILLIAM F. WELD LIBERTARIAN—10,0783.45%
JILL STEIN and AJUMA BARAKA GREEN—6,7582.31%
ROCKY DE LA FUENTE and MICHAEL A. STEINBERG INDEPENDENT—1,0630.36%
GLORIA LARIVA and EUGENE PURYEAR LIBERTY UNION—3270.11%
Write-in / scattering22,899
Blank ballots5,400
Total as printed320,467
Notes on how this document was read
  • 'Total Write-ins' is write_in (not a total), 'Spoiled Votes' blank_votes (spoiled), 'Blank Votes' blank_votes: both are summed under blank_votes with the lines kept in extra. The 'Total votes cast' line carries the legend words 'Incumbent Winner' in the text layer; they are dropped.

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 Vermont in 2016?

Hillary Clinton won Vermont by 26.41 percentage points (83,204 votes).

How many electoral votes did Vermont have in 2016?

Vermont cast 3 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Vermont in 2016?

315,067 votes were counted for president.

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

Hillary Clinton 13, Donald J. Trump 1 (out of 14 counties with results).

How did Vermont change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 9.2 points toward the Republican ticket, from Democratic by 35.6 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