hillary clinton won the popular vote in the presidential election of 2016.
hillary clinton won the popular vote in the presidential election of 2016.
who won the popular vote in the presidential election of 2016?
hillary clinton
the united states presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial presidential election. the electoral vote distribution was determined by the 2010 census from which presidential electors electing the president and vice president were chosen; a simple majority (270) of the 538 electoral votes were required to win. former president barack obama, a member of the democratic party, was ineligible to be elected to a third term due to term limits established by the twenty-second amendment to the united states constitution. businessman and reality television personality donald trump of new york won the republican party's presidential nomination on july 19, 2016, after defeating texas senator ted cruz, ohio governor john kasich, florida senator marco rubio, and several other candidates in the republican primary elections. former secretary of state, first lady and new york senator hillary clinton won the democratic party's presidential nomination on july 26, 2016, after defeating vermont senator bernie sanders and others in the democratic primary elections. this was the first election with a female presidential nominee from a major political party, as well as the first election since 1944 that had major party presidential nominees from the same home state. clinton won the popular vote, taking 48% of the vote compared to trump's 46% of the vote, but trump won the electoral vote and thus the presidency. libertarian gary johnson won 3.3% of the popular vote, the strongest performance by a third party presidential nominee since the 1996 election. trump won the states of michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, ohio, and iowa, all of which were won by obama in 2008 and 2012. the election is one of five presidential elections in american history in which the winner of the popular vote did not win the presidency.
2016 united states elections
since 1824, aside from the occasional "faithless elector", the popular vote determines the winner of a presidential election by determining the electoral vote, as each state or district's popular vote determines its electoral college vote. although the nationwide popular vote does not directly determine the winner of a presidential election, it does strongly correlate with who is the victor. in 53 of the 58 total elections held so far (about 91 percent), the winner of the national popular vote has also carried the electoral college vote. the winners of the nationwide popular vote and the electoral college vote differ only in close elections. in highly competitive elections, candidates focus on turning out their vote in the contested swing states critical to winning an electoral college majority, so they do not try to maximize their popular vote by real or fraudulent vote increases in one-party areas.
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