2016 United States presidential election in Maryland explained

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The 2016 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Maryland 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. Maryland has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College.^[2]

Clinton won Maryland with 60.3% of the vote, while Trump received 33.9%.^[3] Maryland was among the eleven states (and the District of Columbia) in which Clinton improved on Barack Obama's 2012 raw vote total, although by just 84 votes.^[4] Maryland was one of four states in which Clinton received over 60% of the vote, the others being Massachusetts, Hawaii, and California. However, Maryland was the only one of those eleven states to have voted more Democratic in both 2012 and 2016. In this election, Maryland voted 24.32% to the left of the nation at-large.^[5]

Clinton continued the tradition of Democratic dominance in the state of Maryland, capturing large majorities of the vote in the densely populated and heavily nonwhite Democratic Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, while Trump easily outperformed her in more white, sparsely populated regions elsewhere in the state that tend to vote Republican. While Republicans typically win more counties, they are usually swamped by the heavily Democratic counties between Baltimore and Washington. Though Trump won 17 of Maryland's 24 county-level jurisdictions, the state's four largest county-level jurisdictions—Montgomery, Prince George's and Baltimore counties and the City of Baltimore—all broke for Clinton by double digits, enough to deliver the state to her.

Clinton became the first Democrat to win Anne Arundel County, home to the state capital of Annapolis, since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Therefore, Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Anne Arundel County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924. As of the 2024 election, this is the most recent election where Frederick County voted Republican.

Primary elections

Maryland's presidential primaries were held on April 26, 2016.

Democratic primary

See main article: article and 2016 Maryland Democratic presidential primary.

Republican primary

See main article: article and 2016 Maryland Republican presidential primary.

Minor parties

Green primary

See main article: 2016 Green Party presidential primaries.

Libertarian convention

Libertarian National Convention, Maryland Delegate Vote (round one)^[6]

Candidate	Delegate Votes	Percentage
Gary Johnson	10	56%
Marc Allan Feldman	4	22%
Darryl W. Perry	2	11%
Austin Petersen	2	11%
Others	-	-
Total	18	100%

Libertarian National Convention, Maryland Delegate Vote (round two)

!Candidate!Delegate Votes!Percentage

Gary Johnson	10	67%
Marc Allan Feldman	2	13%
Darryl W. Perry	2	13%
John McAfee	1	7%
Others	-	-
Total	15	100%

General election

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Los Angeles Times[7]		November 6, 2016
CNN[8]		November 4, 2016
Cook Political Report[9]		November 7, 2016
Electoral-vote.com[10]		November 8, 2016
align=left	Rothenberg Political Report[11]		November 7, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball[12]		November 7, 2016
RealClearPolitics[13]		November 8, 2016
Fox News[14]		November 7, 2016

Results

2016 United States presidential election in Maryland

Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	%	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	Tim Kaine	1,677,928	60.33%	10
	Republican	Donald Trump	Mike Pence	943,169	33.91%	0
	Libertarian		William Weld	79,605	2.86%	0
	Green	Jill Stein	Ajamu Baraka	35,945	1.29%	0
	Others	Write ins		44,799	1.61%	0
Total				2,781,446	100.00%	10

By county

County	Hillary Clinton Democratic		Donald Trump Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%
	Allegany		7,875		25.69%		21,270		69.39%		1,509		4.92%		−13,395		−43.70%		30,654
	Anne Arundel		128,419		47.55%		122,403		45.32%		19,259		7.13%		6,016		2.23%		270,081
	Baltimore		218,412		55.91%		149,477		38.26%		22,793		5.83%		68,935		17.65%		390,682
	Baltimore City		202,673		84.66%		25,205		10.53%		11,524		4.81%		177,468		74.13%		239,402
	Calvert		18,225		38.44%		26,176		55.21%		3,007		6.35%		−7,951		−16.77%		47,408
	Caroline		4,009		28.41%		9,368		66.38%		736		5.21%		−5,359		−37.97%		14,113
	Carroll		26,567		28.92%		58,215		63.38%		7,066		7.70%		−31,648		−34.46%		91,848
	Cecil		13,650		30.15%		28,868		63.77%		2,751		6.08%		−15,218		−33.62%		45,269
	Charles		49,341		63.01%		25,614		32.71%		3,348		4.28%		23,727		30.30%		78,303
	Dorchester		6,245		41.02%		8,413		55.26%		567		3.72%		−2,168		−14.24%		15,225
	Frederick		56,522		44.97%		59,522		47.36%		9,633		7.67%		−3,000		−2.39%		125,677
	Garrett		2,567		18.32%		10,776		76.91%		668		4.77%		−8,209		−58.59%		14,011
	Harford		47,077		35.22%		77,860		58.25%		8,735		6.53%		−30,783		−23.03%		133,672
	Howard		102,597		63.26%		47,484		29.28%		12,112		7.46%		55,113		33.98%		162,193
	Kent		4,575		45.65%		4,876		48.66%		570		5.69%		−301		−3.01%		10,021
	Montgomery		357,837		74.72%		92,704		19.36%		28,332		5.92%		265,133		55.36%		478,873
	Prince George's		344,049		88.13%		32,811		8.40%		13,525		3.47%		311,238		79.73%		390,385
	Queen Anne's		7,973		30.06%		16,993		64.07%		1,557		5.87%		−9,020		−34.01%		26,523
	St. Mary's		17,534		35.18%		28,663		57.51%		3,645		7.31%		−11,129		−22.33%		49,842
	Somerset		4,196		42.38%		5,341		53.95%		363		3.67%		−1,145		−11.57%		9,900
	Talbot		8,653		42.10%		10,724		52.18%		1,176		5.72%		−2,071		−10.08%		20,553
	Washington		21,129		32.02%		40,998		62.13%		3,864		5.85%		−19,869		−30.11%		65,991
	Wicomico		18,050		42.42%		22,198		52.17%		2,299		5.41%		−4,148		−9.75%		42,547
	Worcester		9,753		34.50%		17,210		60.87%		1,310		4.63%		−7,457		−26.37%		28,273
Totals	1,677,928	60.33%	943,169	33.91%	160,349	5.76%	734,759	26.42%	2,781,446

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Somerset (largest town: Princess Anne)

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Anne Arundel (largest community: Glen Burnie)

By congressional district

Clinton won 7 of the state's 8 congressional districts.^[15]

District	Clinton	Trump	Representative
		35%	60%		Andy Harris
		58%	37%		Dutch Ruppersberger
		63%	32%		John Sarbanes
	77%	20%		Donna Edwards
			Anthony Brown
		65%	31%		Steny Hoyer
		55%	40%		John Delaney
		74%	22%		Elijah Cummings
	64%	31%		Chris Van Hollen
			Jamie Raskin

See also

• United States presidential elections in Maryland
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums
• 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries

External links

• RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process
• Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions

Notes and References

1. Web site: Official Turnout (By Party and County).
2. Web site: Distribution of Electoral Votes. National Archives and Records Administration. September 19, 2019. November 26, 2020.
3. News: Maryland Election Results 2016 . . 2016-11-08 . 2016-11-13.
4. Web site: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - County Data.
5. Web site: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections . 2023-03-31 . uselectionatlas.org.
6. May 29, 2016 . Libertarian Party National Convention. en . May 29, 2016 . Live Video. . C-SPAN.
7. News: Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours. . . 2016-11-06 . 2016-11-13.
8. News: Chalian . David . David Chalian. Road to 270: CNN's new election map . March 3, 2019 . . November 4, 2016.
9. Web site: 2016 Electoral Scorecard . November 7, 2016 . . en . March 3, 2019 . March 1, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190301010353/https://cookpolitical.com/presidential/charts/scorecard . dead .
10. Web site: 2016 Electoral Map Prediction . November 8, 2016 . . March 3, 2019.
11. Web site: Presidential Ratings . The Rothenberg Political Report . August 16, 2021.
12. Web site: 2016 President . Sabato . Larry J. . Larry Sabato . November 7, 2016 . . March 3, 2019.
13. Web site: 2016 Election Maps - Battle for White House. RealClearPolitics. 2016-11-13.
14. Web site: Electoral Scorecard: Map shifts again in Trump's favor, as Clinton holds edge . . 2016-11-07 . 2016-11-13.
15. Web site: Introducing the 2017 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index.