Presidential candidates, 2016

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See also: Splits between the Electoral College and popular vote
U.S. presidential election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes Electoral votes
     Democratic Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine 48.3% 65,844,969 227
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Trump/Mike Pence 46.2% 62,979,984 304
     Libertarian Gary Johnson/Bill Weld 3.3% 4,492,919 0
     Green Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka 1.1% 1,449,370 0
     - Other 1.2% 1,684,908 7
Total Votes 136,452,150 538
Election results via: Ballotpedia


Note: Trump and Clinton were projected to receive 306 and 232 electoral votes, respectively. Seven electors, however, cast votes for other candidates. Read about what happened here. The results listed above are based on reports from state secretary of state offices and election boards.


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2016 Presidential Election
Date: November 8, 2016

Candidates
Winner: Donald Trump (R)
Hillary Clinton (D) • Jill Stein (G) • Gary Johnson (L) • Vice presidential candidates

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Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States.

The following candidates ran for the office of President of the United States. They were (1) nominated by their party for the presidency and (2) featured in at least three major national polls. For a full list of candidates by state, please see Candidates by state primary ballot.

Hillary Clinton (D)

Hillary Clinton (D)
Donald Trump (R)

Donald Trump (R)
Jill Stein (G)

Jill Stein (G)
Gary Johnson (L)

Gary Johnson (L)

As of November 1, 2016, a total of 1,780 candidates had filed a Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Election Commission.[1] A full list of these candidates and their parties and filing dates can be found here.

In order to get on the ballot, a candidate for president of the United States must meet a variety of complex, state-specific filing requirements and deadlines. These regulations, known as ballot access laws, determine whether a candidate or party will appear on an election ballot. These laws are set at the state level. A presidential candidate must prepare to meet ballot access requirements well in advance of primaries, caucuses, and the general election. For more information, see Ballot access for presidential candidates.

Presidential candidates who made more than 15 percent of general election ballots:

Vice presidential candidates

See also: Vice presidential candidates, 2016 and Possible vice presidential picks, 2016
Tim Kaine (D)

Tim Kaine (D)
Mike Pence (R)

Mike Pence (R)
Ajamu Baraka (G)

Ajamu Baraka (G)
William Weld (L)

William Weld (L)

Policy positions

2016 presidential candidates on domestic affairs

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2016 presidential candidates on economic affairs and government regulations

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2016 presidential candidates on foreign affairs and national security

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Polls

See also: General election polls and Primary election and hypothetical polls
The latest hypothetical head-to-head polling and archives of polls dating back to 2013 can be seen on the full presidential polling page.


Clinton-Trump 2016 head-to-head presidential polls (September-October 2016)
Poll Democratic Party Hillary Clinton Republican Party Donald TrumpUnsure or OtherMargin of ErrorSample Size
Quinnipiac
October 17-18, 2016
50%44%6%+/-3.11,007
Economist/YouGov
October 15-18, 2016
47%43%10%+/-3.9925
Fox News
October 15-17, 2016
49%42%9%+/-3912
Bloomberg
October 14-17, 2016
50%41%9%+/-3.11,006
Monmouth
October 14-16, 2016
53%41%6%+/-3.6726
CBS News
October 12-16, 2016
51%40%9%+/-31,189
NBC News/SurveyMonkey
October 10-16, 2016
51%43%6%+/-124,804
ABC News/Washington Post
October 10-13, 2016
50%46%4%+/-4740
NBC News/Wall St. Journal
October 10-13, 2016
51%41%8%+/-3.3905
Fox News
October 10-12, 2016
49%41%10%+/-3917
NBC News/Wall Street Journal
October 8-10, 2016
50%40%10%+/-3.5806
Reuters/Ipsos
October 6-10, 2016
44%37%19%+/-2.22,363
PRRI/The Atlantic
October 5-9, 2016
49%38%13%+/-3.9886
NBC News/SurveyMonkey
October 3-9, 2016
51%44%5%+/-123,329
Economist/YouGov
October 7-8, 2016
48%43%9%+/-4.2971
Quinnipiac
October 5-6, 2016
50%44%6%+/-31,064
Fox News
October 3-6, 2016
48%44%8%+/-3896
Economist/YouGov
October 1-October 3, 2016
48%43%9%+/-3.9911
Reuters/Ipsos
September 29-October 3, 2016
44%37%19%+/-3.21,239
CBS News
September 28-October 2, 2016
49%43%8%+/-41,217
CNN/ORC
September 28-October 2, 2016
51%45%4%+/-31,213
NBC News/SurveyMonkey
September 26-October 2, 2016
50%44%6%+/-126,925
Fox News
September 27-29, 2016
49%44%7%+/-3911
Public Policy Polling
September 27-28, 2016
49%45%6%+/-3.2933
Reuters/Ipsos
September 22-26, 2016
44%38%18%+/-3.51,041
Note: A "0%" finding means the candidate was not a part of the poll. The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org.

Ballotpedia's Battleground Poll

See also: Ballotpedia's battleground poll, 2016

Ballotpedia partnered with Evolving Strategies and surveyed voters across seven states (June 10 – 22) regarding their vote preferences. We tested six election scenarios. In one set, we matched Hillary Clinton (D) in a series of two-way contests with Donald Trump (R), Ohio Governor John Kasich (R), and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R). In the second set, we matched these same candidates in a series of three-way contests that also included former governor Gary Johnson.

In all seven states, Clinton polled higher than Trump. The tightest battleground race between the two frontrunners was in Iowa, where Clinton led Trump by a weighted 4 percentage points. Clinton saw the largest lead in Michigan, where she led Trump by a weighted 17 percentage points. Comparatively, John Kasich polled ahead of Clinton in five of the seven states, and Paul Ryan polled ahead of Clinton in three states.


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Evolving Strategies and Ballotpedia surveyed 4,242 registered voters, with a margin of error of +/-4.0%.

2016 Battleground states

See also: Presidential battleground states, 2016
See also Trump wins White House as “Blue Wall” crumbles

In 2016, 12 states and two congressional districts were key to deciding the outcome of the presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.[2] In electoral votes, that came to 159, more than half of the 270 votes needed to win an electoral college majority and become president. Throughout 2016, polling was often tight in these states and districts, and their voting histories made their outcomes difficult to predict. For these reasons, we referred to them as "battlegrounds."

Why did these states have so much sway in the election?

The reason these states and two districts had so much sway in the 2016 presidential election was largely because most of the electoral college map was already set in place before any votes for president were cast, but the battleground states were still up for grabs. Clinton, for example, began the general election with an almost guaranteed 200 electoral votes from 16 states and Washington, D.C. That's 74 percent of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Trump began with an almost guaranteed 179 electoral votes—66 percent of 270—from 22 states. We knew this because of these states' past election results, demographic trends, and polling data. What this means is that 38 states and Washington, D.C.—a total of 379 electoral votes—were not competitive in 2016. But the battleground states were, and there were more than enough electoral votes between them to get either candidate to the White House.

Paths to victory

Clinton needed slightly fewer of these battleground states' electoral votes than Trump. To win, she needed only 70 of the 159 electoral votes in the battlegrounds, while Trump needed 91. Those 21 electoral votes that separated Clinton and Trump might not sound all that significant, but they were. Ballotpedia broke down all the different combinations of battleground states that could get Clinton and Trump to 270 electoral votes or higher. We found that Clinton had almost twice as many paths to victory as Trump, at 10,581 different combinations to 5,572, respectively. The 2016 battleground states are highlighted on the map below in grey. Maine and Nebraska are yellow because their second congressional districts were battlegrounds.[2] States in blue and red are ones that were generally considered safe for Clinton and Trump, respectively.


Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing

From July 2015 to September 2016, Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing provided a curated account of the day's most important news in the 2016 presidential election. It featured candidates' commentary on current events and policy positions, recent polls, debates, Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee politics, advertising campaigns, super PAC activity, campaign staff transitions and more.

To view the archive of daily briefings, click here.

Full list of declared candidates

Former presidential candidates

The following candidates and politicians suspended their presidential campaign or declined to run.

Dropped out

Lincoln Chafee (D)
Lawrence Lessig (D)
Martin O'Malley (D)
Bernie Sanders (I)
Jim Webb (D)


Jeb Bush (R)
Ben Carson (R)
Chris Christie (R)
Ted Cruz (R)
Carly Fiorina (R)
Jim Gilmore (R)
Lindsey Graham (R)
Mike Huckabee (R)
Bobby Jindal (R)
John Kasich (R)
George Pataki (R)
Rand Paul (R)
Rick Perry (R)
Rick Santorum (R)
Marco Rubio (R)
Scott Walker (R)




Declined to run

Joe Biden (D)
Andrew Cuomo (D)
Al Gore (D)
Dennis Kucinich (D)
Brian Schweitzer (D)
Elizabeth Warren (D)


Kelly Ayotte (R)
Nikki Haley (R)
Peter King (R)
Susana Martinez (R)
Mike Pence (R)
Mitt Romney (R)


Paul Ryan (R)
Brian Sandoval (R)




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Footnotes

  1. Federal Election Commission, "2016 Presidential Form 2 Filers," accessed November 1, 2016
  2. 2.0 2.1 Maine and Nebraska allocate their electoral votes proportionally. They are the only two states that do this.