2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming

2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming
	November 8, 2016
Turnout	57.9% [1]
Trump 40–50% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%	Clinton 50–60%
President before election; Barack Obama; Democratic	Elected President ; Donald Trump; Republican

The 2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Wyoming voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.

Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color

Treemap of the popular vote by county

On March 1 and April 9, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Wyoming voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Constitution parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated chose any one primary in which to vote. Prior to the election, Wyoming was considered to be a state Trump would win or a safe red state.

Donald Trump won the election in Wyoming with 67.4% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 21.6% of the vote. Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party received 5.1%.[2] Wyoming, a solidly Republican state, has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since it went for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Trump carried every county with the exception of Teton County. His 45.8-point margin over Clinton in the state not only made it the most Republican in the 2016 presidential election,[3] but it is also the largest margin of victory by any presidential candidate in the state's history, besting Ronald Reagan's 42.3-point margin in 1984.

Background

National situation

The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat and former U.S. Senator of Illinois, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with former Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote,[4][5] Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes.[6] Since the end of 2009, polling companies such as Gallup have found Obama's approval ratings to be between 40 and 50 percent.[7][8]

Following his second term, Barack Obama was not eligible for another reelection. In October 2015, Obama's running-mate and two-term Vice President Joe Biden decided not to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination either.[9] With their term expiring on January 20, 2017, the electorate was asked to elect a new president, the 45th president and 48th vice president of the United States, respectively.

Political landscape in Wyoming

Wyoming is the least populous of all 50 U.S. states. With almost 60% of the population identifying with or leaning towards the Republican Party, compared to less than 30% identifying with or leaning towards the Democrats, it is also the most solid Republican state, ahead of Idaho and Utah.[10] In the 2012 presidential election, incumbent President Barack Obama received less than 28% of the votes, trailing Mitt Romney by more than 40 points.

Primary elections

Republican caucuses

Republican primary results by county.

Donald Trump

Ted Cruz

Marco Rubio

Uncommitted

Wyoming Republican county conventions, March 12, 2016
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Bound	Unbound	Total
Ted Cruz	1,128	70.94%	9	0	9
Marco Rubio	231	14.53%	1	0	1
Donald Trump	112	7.04%	1	0	1
John Kasich	42	2.64%	0	0	0
Others	2	0.13%	0	0	0
Undeclared	75	4.72%	1	0	1
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:	1,590	100%	12	0	12
Source: The Green Papers and Wyoming Republican Party

Wyoming Republican state convention, April 14-16, 2016
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Bound	Unbound	Total
Ted Cruz			14	1	15
(available)			0	2	2
Unprojected delegates:			0	0	0
Total:			14	3	17
Source: The Green Papers and Wyoming Republican Party

Democratic caucuses

Wyoming Democratic caucuses, April 9, 2016
Candidate	County delegates		Estimated national delegates
Candidate	Count	Percentage	Pledged	Unpledged	Total
Bernie Sanders	156	55.7%	7	0	7
Hillary Clinton	124	44.3%	7	4	11
Uncommitted	N/A		–	–	–
Total		100%	14	4	18
Source: The Green Papers

General election

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Los Angeles Times[11]	Safe R	November 6, 2016
CNN[12]	Safe R	November 4, 2016
Cook Political Report[13]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
Electoral-vote.com[14]	Safe R	November 8, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report[15]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball[16]	Safe R	November 7, 2016
RealClearPolitics[17]	Safe R	November 8, 2016
Fox News[18]	Safe R	November 7, 2016

Statewide results

Chart of popular vote

Trump (68.17%)

Clinton (21.88%)

Johnson (5.19%)

Write-ins (2.70%)

Stein (0.98%)

Others (1.08%)

2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Donald Trump	Mike Pence	174,419	68.17%	3
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	Tim Kaine	55,973	21.88%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	William Weld	13,287	5.19%	0
	Write-in	Various candidates	Various candidates	6,904	2.70%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Ajamu Baraka	2,515	0.98%	0
	Constitution	Darrell Castle	Scott Bradley	2,042	0.80%	0
	Reform/ADP	Rocky De La Fuente	Micheal Steinberg	709	0.28%	0
Totals				255,849	100.00%	3

County results

	Donald Trump Republican		Hillary Clinton Democratic		Gary Johnson Libertarian		Write Ins		Jill Stein Green		Darrell Castle Constitution		Rocky De La Fuente Reform/ADP		Margin		Total
County	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
Albany	7,602	44.56	6,890	40.39	1,391	8.15	637	3.73	344	2.02	133	0.78	63	0.37	712	4.17	17,060
Big Horn	4,067	76.49	604	11.36	242	4.55	236	4.44	35	0.66	112	2.11	21	0.39	3,463	65.13	5,317
Campbell	15,778	86.70	1,324	7.28	653	3.59	264	1.45	66	0.36	86	0.47	28	0.15	14,454	79.42	18,199
Carbon	4,409	69.17	1,279	20.07	381	5.98	174	2.73	49	0.77	61	0.96	21	0.33	3,130	49.11	6,374
Converse	5,520	82.96	668	10.04	251	3.77	102	1.53	42	0.63	51	0.77	20	0.30	4,852	72.92	6,654
Crook	3,348	87.51	273	7.14	118	3.08	52	1.36	11	0.29	18	0.47	6	0.16	3,075	80.37	3,826
Fremont	11,167	65.60	4,200	24.67	773	4.54	480	2.82	233	1.37	110	0.65	60	0.35	6,967	40.93	17,023
Goshen	4,418	76.22	924	15.94	234	4.04	88	1.52	45	0.78	68	1.17	19	0.33	3,494	60.28	5,796
Hot Springs	1,939	74.98	400	15.47	136	5.26	51	1.97	35	1.35	21	0.81	4	0.15	1,539	59.51	2,586
Johnson	3,477	78.72	638	14.44	174	3.94	68	1.54	33	0.75	19	0.43	8	0.18	2,839	64.27	4,417
Laramie	24,847	60.21	11,573	28.04	2,657	6.44	1,019	2.47	434	1.05	324	0.79	115	0.28	13,274	32.16	41,269
Lincoln	6,779	76.38	1,105	12.45	331	3.73	477	5.37	48	0.54	112	1.26	23	0.26	5,674	63.93	8,875
Natrona	23,552	70.62	6,577	19.72	1,791	5.37	818	2.45	310	0.93	226	0.68	74	0.22	16,975	50.90	33,348
Niobrara	1,116	84.93	115	8.75	49	3.73	17	1.29	7	0.53	7	0.53	3	0.23	1,001	76.18	1,314
Park	11,115	73.63	2,535	16.79	625	4.14	461	3.05	151	1.00	153	1.01	55	0.36	8,580	56.84	15,095
Platte	3,437	75.89	719	15.88	180	3.97	69	1.52	36	0.79	82	1.81	6	0.13	2,718	60.01	4,529
Sheridan	10,266	70.75	2,927	20.17	729	5.02	322	2.22	158	1.09	76	0.52	32	0.22	7,339	50.58	14,510
Sublette	3,409	77.65	644	14.67	169	3.85	93	2.12	28	0.64	34	0.77	13	0.30	2,765	62.98	4,390
Sweetwater	12,154	70.95	3,231	18.86	928	5.42	470	2.74	152	0.89	130	0.76	65	0.38	8,923	52.09	17,130
Teton	3,921	31.05	7,314	57.92	701	5.55	449	3.56	172	1.36	43	0.34	27	0.21	−3,393	−26.87	12,627
Uinta	6,154	72.66	1,202	14.19	472	5.57	417	4.92	79	0.93	116	1.37	30	0.35	4,952	58.47	8,470
Washakie	2,911	76.32	532	13.94	194	5.09	99	2.60	37	0.97	31	0.81	10	0.26	2,379	62.38	3,814
Weston	3,033	86.02	299	8.48	108	3.06	41	1.16	10	0.28	29	0.82	6	0.17	2,734	77.54	3,526
State Total	174,419	68.17	55,973	21.88	13,287	5.19	6,904	2.70	2,515	0.98	2,042	0.80	709	0.28	118,446	46.30	255,849

References

http://soswy.state.wy.us/Elections/Docs/VoterProfile.pdf
"Wyoming Official Election Results 2016 General Election – Wyoming Secretary of State" (PDF). Retrieved November 17, 2016.
"2016 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
"United States House of Representatives floor summary for Jan 8, 2009". Clerk.house.gov. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
"Federal elections 2008" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
"President Map". The New York Times. November 29, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
"Presidential Approval Ratings: Barack Obama". Gallup. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
"Election Other – President Obama Job Approval". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
"Joe Biden Decides Not to Enter Presidential Race". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
Jeffrey M. Jones (February 3, 2016). "Red States Outnumber Blue for First Time in Gallup Tracking". Gallup. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
"Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours". Los Angeles Times. 2016-11-06. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
"2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report. November 7, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
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"2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
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External links

RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine
Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions

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[1] ttp://soswy.state.wy.us/Elections/Docs/VoterProfile.pdf

[2] "Wyoming Official Election Results 2016 General Election – Wyoming Secretary of State" (PDF). Retrieved November 17, 2016.

[3] "2016 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

[house_floor_summary-4] "United States House of Representatives floor summary for Jan 8, 2009". Clerk.house.gov. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2009.

[2012_election_results-5] "Federal elections 2008" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved May 11, 2015.

[President_Map-6] "President Map". The New York Times. November 29, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2015.

[Galluppolls-7] "Presidential Approval Ratings: Barack Obama". Gallup. Retrieved January 19, 2016.

[8] "Election Other – President Obama Job Approval". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

[9] "Joe Biden Decides Not to Enter Presidential Race". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 21, 2015.

[10] Jeffrey M. Jones (February 3, 2016). "Red States Outnumber Blue for First Time in Gallup Tracking". Gallup. Retrieved April 9, 2016.

[11] "Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours". Los Angeles Times. 2016-11-06. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

[12] Chalian, David (November 4, 2016). "Road to 270: CNN's new election map". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2019.

[13] "2016 Electoral Scorecard". The Cook Political Report. November 7, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.

[14] "2016 Electoral Map Prediction". Electoral-vote.com. November 8, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2019.

[15] "Presidential Ratings". The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved August 16, 2021.

[16] Sabato, Larry J. (November 7, 2016). "2016 President". University of Virginia Center for Politics. Retrieved March 3, 2019.

[17] "2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

[18] "Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge". Fox News. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

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