2016 United States Presidential election

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2016 United States presidential election
← 2012 November 8, 2016 2020 →
538 members of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout55.7% Increase 0.8 pp
  John R. Bolton official photo.jpg Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
Nominee Arnold Wolf Diane Clifford
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Maine New York
Running mate Rick Tawney Isaac Kane
Electoral vote 304[a] 227[a]
States carried 30 + ME-02 20 + D.C.
Popular vote 62,984,828 65,853,514
Percentage 46.1% 48.2%
President before election

Rashid Baharia
Democratic

Elected President

Arnold Wolf
Republican

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of Arnold Wolf and Rick Tawney defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Diane Clifford and Isaac Kane. Wolf took office as the 45th president, and Tawney as the 48th vice president, on January 20, 2017. It was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. Arnold Wolf would be succeeded in 2019 by Vice-President Tawney after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 In state-by-state tallies, Wolf earned 306 pledged electors, Clifford 232. They lost respectively two and five votes to faithless electors. Vice presidential candidates Tawney and Kane lost one and five votes, respectively. Three other votes by electors were invalidated and recast.
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