2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 3, 2016: Indiana primary
Five primaries were contested in May: Indiana, Nebraska, West Virginia, Oregon and Washington, with Indiana awarding the most, with 57 delegates. By late April, Cruz and Kasich had both been eliminated from getting 1,237 delegates, but they still had a chance to accumulate enough delegates to force a contested convention in Cleveland. Realizing this, Cruz and Kasich attempted to focus their efforts in different states, with Cruz challenging Trump head-to-head in Indiana and Kasich challenging Trump in Oregon and New Mexico.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 3, 2016: Indiana primary
The Indiana primary, whose delegates were awarded winner-take all statewide and by congressional district, was seen as essential to denying Trump the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination. Following the Acela primaries, Cruz attempted to bolster his chances by announcing that, if nominated, he would name Fiorina as his running mate (Fiorina had served as a Cruz campaign surrogate since endorsing him in March after suspending her own presidential campaign in February and Cruz hoped that Fiorina could help his campaign in Indiana and her home state of California).


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 3, 2016: Indiana primary
On April 29, 2016, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana announced that he would vote for Cruz in the primary election. Nevertheless, although Trump was outspent by a margin of more than 4–1, he handily won Indiana with 53.3% of the vote, winning a plurality in every Congressional District and taking all 57 delegates. Cruz subsequently dropped out of the race, eliminating any hope of a contested convention in July. As a result, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus tweeted that Trump was the presumptive nominee in the GOP.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 3, 2016: Indiana primary
The next day, Kasich also suspended his campaign, leaving Trump as the only candidate in the race. Many Republican leaders and even former presidential candidates endorsed Trump after the withdrawal of Kasich and Cruz, but other party leaders such as Ryan, Romney and the entire Bush family withheld their support, although Ryan endorsed Trump on June 2, 2016.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 2016: Trump as presumptive nominee
142 delegates were awarded between the Indiana primary and the final primaries in June; however, with Trump the only candidate remaining, Washington, Oregon, West Virginia and Nebraska became essentially uncontested, although Cruz and Kasich remained on the ballot. Trump won handily in West Virginia, Nebraska and Oregon, although Kasich received one delegate from West Virginia and five in Oregon, while Cruz took five in Oregon as well. The next week, Trump won decisively in Washington State, taking 76% of the vote and 41 of 44 delegates, with the other three uncommitted.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 2016: Trump as presumptive nominee
After becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, Trump said regarding the Republican primaries: "You've been hearing me say it's a rigged system, but now I don't say it anymore because I won. It's true. Now I don't care."


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, May 2016: Trump as presumptive nominee
On May 26, 2016, the Associated Press announced that Trump had passed the threshold of 1,237 delegates required to guarantee his nomination, thanks to unbound delegates from North Dakota who declared their support for Trump.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, June 2016: final primaries
The final five primary contests were held on June 7, 2016, in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota, with California awarding the most with 172 delegates and New Jersey with 51. Though initially pegged by pundits as being an important primary, the suspension of the Cruz and Kasich campaigns following the Indiana primary made the California primary merely a formality at that point, as Trump shattered the all-time record for votes in the Republican primaries set by George W. Bush in 2000 of 12,034,676 votes. After the final primaries, his vote total was 14,015,993 (44.9%), almost 2 million votes higher than the previous record.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Timeline of the race, July 2016: National Convention
The 2016 Republican National Convention was held from July 18–21 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. The delegates selected the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees and wrote the party platform. A simple majority of 1,237 delegates was needed to win the presidential nomination. Following Trump's decisive win in Indiana and the subsequent suspension of the Cruz and Kasich campaigns, as well as Trump reaching the threshold following his decisive win in Washington state, it became clear that there would not be a contested convention in Cleveland. On the first ballot, Trump won the nomination with 1,725 delegates, 488 more than required.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Campaign finance
This is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it was reported to Federal Election Committee and released on July 21, 2016. Outside groups are independent expenditure-only committees, also called PACs and SuperPACs. Several such groups normally support each candidate but the numbers in the table are a total of all of them, meaning that a group of committees can be shown as technically insolvent even though it is not the case for all of them. The source of all the numbers is the Center for Responsive Politics.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Process
The Republican National Committee (RNC) imposed strict new rules for states wishing to hold early contests in 2016. Under these rules, no state was permitted to hold a primary or caucus in January; only Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada were entitled to February contests. States with primaries or caucuses in early March were to award their delegates proportionally.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Process
Any state that might have violated these rules was to have their delegation to the 2016 convention severely cut: states with more than 30 delegates would have been deprived of all but nine, plus RNC members from that state; states with fewer than 30 would have been reduced to six, plus RNC members. In contrast to the 2012 cycle no states violated these rules.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Process
The Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses are indirect elections in which voters allocated or elect delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention. These delegates can be bound or unbound to vote for a particular candidate. The election of the state delegation can happen directly or indirectly as the primary election table below shows.


2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Process
According to Rule 40(b) of the RNC Rules of the Republican Party, enacted prior to the 2012 convention and amended most recently in 2014, nominations at the National Convention may be made only of candidates who demonstrate the support of a majority of delegates of at least eight state delegations. Previously, this had been a lower threshold of a plurality in five states. However, per Rule 42, Rules 26–42 are "Standing Rules for this convention (2012) and the temporary rules for the next convention (2016)". While the current candidates operate under these temporary rules, it is unclear whether they will remain in place for the 2016 convention. As of March 16, 2016, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has not taken a position on the potential rule change, while others in the party advocate for it.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection
This article lists potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election. Businessman Donald Trump of New York, the 2016 Republican nominee for President of the United States, considered several prominent Republicans and other individuals before selecting Governor Mike Pence of Indiana as his running mate on July 15, 2016. Pence formally won the vice presidential nomination on July 19, 2016, at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The Trump–Pence ticket won the 2016 election, defeating the Democratic (Clinton–Kaine) ticket.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Vetting process and selection
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump turned his attention towards selecting a running mate after he became the presumptive nominee on May 4, 2016. Trump's rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Governor John Kasich of Ohio, had begun their vice-presidential vetting processes by April 2016, but both dropped out from the race after the Indiana primary. The vetting process begins with a thorough examination of public records, such as speeches and campaign finance reports.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Vetting process and selection
This is followed by a "full vet," in which potential vice presidential nominees are asked to submit detailed tax returns and medical records, and answer extensive questionnaires. Attorney Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr. led the vetting process for the Trump campaign. Then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort presented Trump with a list of sixteen names in mid-May, and, starting in June, the Trump campaign began vetting six individuals.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Final selection
On May 10, 2016, Trump told the Associated Press that he had narrowed his list of potential running mates to "five or six people" with a background in politics, as opposed to the military or business. However, on July 6, Trump stated that "about" ten people remained in the running as potential running mate selections. In mid-June, Eli Stokols and Burgess Everett of Politico reported that Trump's shortlist included Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, former Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, and Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Final selection
A June 30 report in The Washington Post also included Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and Joni Ernst of Iowa, as well as Governor Mike Pence of Indiana, as individuals still being considered for the ticket. The Trump campaign also strongly considered Governor John Kasich of Ohio, considering him the "perfect choice," but Kasich refused to be considered for the ticket (or endorse the Trump campaign). In early July, Corker and Ernst both declined to be considered as Trump's running mate.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Final selection
Meanwhile, Trump stated that he was considering two military generals for the position, including retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. On July 12, NBC News reported that Trump was planning to formally introduce his eventual pick on July 15, though "it's not clear whether or not the identity of the pick could be released or could leak earlier in the week." The same article reported that he had narrowed his list down to Christie, Gingrich, and Pence.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Announcement
On July 14, it was reported that Mike Pence had been selected as Donald Trump's running mate, following his acceptance of Trump's offer. Trump had planned to officially announce his choice on July 15 at 11 am. ET, in Manhattan, but, following a terrorist attack in Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, announced the day prior that he would postpone the announcement. On the morning of July 15, Trump announced via Twitter his choice of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate. Trump made the formal announcement at a news conference at 11 a.m. on July 16.


2016 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Announcement
Pence had been running for re-election as Governor of Indiana, but Indiana law prevented him from appearing on the election ballot twice, so Pence suspended his gubernatorial campaign. Within the Trump campaign, Pence emerged as a potential running mate in May due to the backing of senior advisers Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort. CNN reported that multiple sources told them that Trump had second thoughts on the Pence pick and attempted to pick Christie instead, though the Trump campaign denied those reports. Following the selection, The New York Times noted that Pence is a "sturdy and predictable politician" who has a strong appeal to the Christian right. On July 19, the second night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, Pence won the vice presidential nomination by acclamation.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum
A referendum on the National Day of Republika Srpska (RS), called the "Day of Republika Srpska" (Serbo-Croatian: Dan Republike Srpske, Дан Републике Српске, or Dan RS) was held on 25 September 2016. The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina had on 26 November 2015 ruled against the constitutionality of the holiday, deeming it discriminatory against non-Serbs in the entity. The Day of RS falls on 9 January, which is both an Orthodox feast day and the date when the Bosnian Serb republic was declared in 1992. The result was 99.8% in favour of keeping the date.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Background
Since the declaration of Republika Srpska (formerly the Republic of the Serb people of Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 9 January 1992, the national day in the entity has been celebrated on that date. On 26 November 2015 the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled against the constitutionality of the RS National Day, held on 9 January, deeming it discriminatory against non-Serbs.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Background
The date marks the Orthodox day of St. Stephen (which is also the slava of RS, St. Stephen being the patron saint), as well as the 1992 establishment of Republika Srpska as a breakaway entity of the then Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (itself seceding from SFR Yugoslavia). The Court gave six months to the RS to establish a different entity holiday.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Background
RS authorities reacted by contesting the decision of the BiH Constitutional Court and calling for constitutional amendments within 120 days to get rid of international judges sitting in the Court, simultaneously calling for a popular referendum on whether RS citizens support the decision of the Constitutional Court. RS opposition leaders also joined RS President Milorad Dodik in contesting the decision of the BiH Constitutional Court.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Background
On 9 January 2016 Republika Srpska authorities celebrated the "unconstitutional" holiday, in spite of the Court ruling. Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić also attended the event. Croat RS MPs also supported the RS Day and the referendum.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Background
The RS National Assembly passed a resolution on the referendum on 15 July 2016, with the backing of all Serb parties and the boycott of Bosniak RS MPs. The Council for Protection of Vital National Interests of the Republika Srpska Constitutional Court in Banja Luka stated the decision would not endanger the "vital national interests" of the Bosniak people, thus not allowing them to veto it. Dodik confirmed that the referendum would be held on 25 September, one week before the planned local elections.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Results
Do you agree that January 9 should be marked and celebrated as the Day of Republika Srpska?


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Reactions, International
The High Representative Valentin Inzko decried that, by going ahead with the referendum, RS authorities are breaching the Dayton Agreement. Russia supported the referendum. Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov has urged the international community not to increase tensions in the Balkans, and that the referendum bears no threat to the territorial integrity of BiH.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Reactions, Domestic
ARBiH general Sefer Halilović threatened with conflict if the referendum was to be held. He spoke as if the referendum was in fact a secession referendum (see proposed secession of Republika Srpska). His comments were criticized by the head of Serbian diplomacy, Ivica Dačić, who said that the threats are of highest threat to peace and stability in the region. Upon the referendum, Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency Bakir Izetbegović stated that the international community would react, that the referendum is an example of breaching the Dayton Agreement, and then predicted Dodik's fall, likening with Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadaffi and Slobodan Milošević.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Reactions, Domestic
Izetbegović said that "the one who gives blows to the state will receive response by the state". Goran Salihović, the Chief Prosecutor, has been suspended, reportedly due to the referendum. Dodik stated that the referendum only utilized the democratic right to express the opinion on the national holiday of RS, and that the latest decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH, to lawfully abolish the Day, was directed by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and its people within the Constitutional Court.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Reactions, Domestic
President of the commission for the implementation of the referendum, Siniša Karan, has said that he will accept hearing in the inquiry of the Prosecution of BiH regarding contempt of the decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH. Dodik has stated that he will accept hearing only if it is held in RS, and not in Sarajevo, as he fears for his life in the FBiH. Security minister Dragan Mektić stated that the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) could arrest Dodik if he does not accept hearing.


2016 Republika Srpska National Day referendum, Reactions, Domestic
There has been criticism of the Constitutional Court regarding at least 76 decisions ignored by different institutions, organisations and individuals, despite that decisions are "formally binding".


2016 Reutlingen knife attack
On 24 July 2016, a Syrian asylum seeker armed with a döner knife attacked his girlfriend and bystanders in Reutlingen, Germany, killing his girlfriend, a Polish woman, and wounding two other people in the forearm and head, before being struck accidentally by a car and arrested by police.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Attack
The attack took place around 16:30 CEST (14:30 UTC) by a kebab shop where the perpetrator, a 21-year old Syrian asylum-seeker, and his 45-year old victim both worked, and from where he retrieved the weapon.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Attack
The attacker and the victim had an argument before the attack. The attacker then killed her with the weapon he retrieved from the shop and also injured another woman and a man. He was subdued by the police after he was accidentally hit by a car whose driver was distracted by the surrounding commotion.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Attack
The Polish embassy confirmed that the victim, was Polish and claimed she was pregnant. Police are investigating under the assumption that it was a personal quarrel between the assailant and the dead woman.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Perpetrator
The assailant was identified as a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Syria who had migrated to Germany about one-and-a-half years before the attack. He worked at the same Turkish kebab shop where the pregnant victim worked. He was known to police and was previously arrested for causing bodily harm. He had lived in a home in the town for seven months. One of his former roommates identified his first name as Mohamed and described him as an alcoholic who was feared by his other roommates. He also said that the attacker was in a relationship with the victim and both had previously lived together in a refugee camp.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Trial and sentencing
The perpetrator was tried and sentenced to life in prison.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Impact
This attack, one of four violent crimes, including the Ansbach bombing, committed by people of Middle Eastern background during the week of 18 July 2016 – three of them committed by asylum seekers – created significant political pressure for changes in the German government policy of welcoming refugees. According to The Washington Times, the attacks increased public fears that Islamist terrorist attacks of the kind that took place in France in 2015 and 2016 could happen in Germany. Florian Otto, a risk consultant from Maplecroft, said the attacks are likely to inflame anti-immigration sentiment in the country, creating a challenge for the Merkel government's policies.


2016 Reutlingen knife attack, Impact
Kenan Malik describes the attack pointing up "the difficulty... in drawing a distinction between jihadi violence and the fury of disturbed minds."


2016 Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis Classic
The 2016 Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money. It took place in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida, United States, on 2–8 May 2016.


2016 Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2016 Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis Classic – Doubles
Maria Sanchez and Taylor Townsend were the defending champions, but both players chose to participate with different partners. Townsend partnered Asia Muhammad, but lost in the first round. Sanchez partnered Jessica Pegula and reached the final, losing to Julia Glushko and Alexandra Panova in the final, 7–5, 6–4.


2016 Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis Classic – Singles
Katerina Stewart was the defending champion, but lost to Alexandra Panova in the second round.


2016 Revolution Technologies Pro Tennis Classic – Singles
Jennifer Brady won the title, defeating Taylor Townsend in the final, 6–3, 7–5.


2016 Reykjavik Tournament
This tournament is an annual pre-season football tournament for teams from the Icelandic men's premier division (Úrvalsdeild karla).


2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election
The 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election was held on 13 March 2016 to elect the members of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was held on the same day as the Baden-Württemberg state election and Saxony-Anhalt state election. The incumbent coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and The Greens led by Minister-President Malu Dreyer was defeated. The SPD remained the largest party, and formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens. Dreyer was subsequently re-elected as Minister-President.


2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.


2016 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary
The 2016 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary were held on April 26 in the U.S. state of Rhode Island as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.


2016 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary
The Democratic Party's primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania were held the same day, as were Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own Rhode Island primary.


2016 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
With its socially liberal coalition of mostly white Irish Catholic/Portuguese Catholic/Italian Catholic voters, Rhode Island was seen as Bernie Sanders's best chance at victory in the so-called "Acela Primaries" on April 26. He pulled out a commanding, 11-point win in the Ocean State on election day. He carried all municipalities but four, winning in the major cities of Providence and Warwick.


2016 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
Sanders' Rhode Island win limited Clinton's success in New England to slimmer victories in Massachusetts and Connecticut.


2016 Rhode Island Rams football team
The 2016 Rhode Island Rams football team represented the University of Rhode Island in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third year head coach Jim Fleming and played their home games at Meade Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 2–9, 1–7 in CAA play to finish in a tie for 11th place.


2016 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
The 2016 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships was the 32nd edition of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, which took place on 17–19 June 2016 in Holon, Israel.


2016 Rice Owls football team
The 2016 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls played their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by tenth year head coach David Bailiff. They finished the season 3–9, 2–6 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the East Division.


2016 Rice Owls football team, Schedule
Rice announced its 2016 football schedule on February 4, 2016. The 2016 schedule consisted of 6 home and 6 away games in the regular season. The Owls hosted C–USA foes Florida Atlantic, North Texas, UTEP, and UTSA, and traveled to Charlotte, Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, and Western Kentucky (WKU).


2016 Rice Owls football team, Schedule
The team played four non–conference games, two home games against Baylor from the Big 12 Conference and Prairie View A&M from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, and two road games against Army, which was independent from a conference, and Stanford from the Pac-12 Conference.


2016 Richmond Football Club season
The 2016 season marked the 109th season in which the Richmond Football Club participated in the AFL/VFL.


2016 Richmond Football Club season, 2015 off-season list changes, Trades
Note: All traded picks are indicative and do not reflect final selection position


2016 Richmond Football Club season, Reserves
The 2016 season marked the third consecutive year the Richmond Football club ran a stand-alone reserves team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Richmond senior and rookie-listed players who were not selected to play in the AFL side were eligible to play for the team alongside a small squad of VFL-only listed players. The team finished ninth out of 15 participating clubs, with a record of nine win and nine losses. Each of the club's nine home matches were played at the Punt Road Oval.


2016 Richmond Kickers season
The 2016 Richmond Kickers season was the club's twenty-fourth season of existence. It is also the Kickers' ninth-consecutive year in the third-tier of American soccer, playing in the United Soccer League for their fifth season.


2016 Richmond Kickers season
The Kickers finished the season ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference, and earned a berth into the 2016 USL Playoffs. Richmond lost in their first round match-up to Louisville City.


2016 Richmond Kickers season, Competitive, U.S. Open Cup
The Kickers entered the U.S. Open Cup with the rest of the USL, in the second round.


2016 Richmond Park by-election
The Richmond Park by-election was a UK parliamentary by-election in the constituency of Richmond Park which was held on 1 December 2016. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative Member of Parliament Zac Goldsmith on 25 October 2016 over the Government's proposal for a third runway at the nearby Heathrow Airport. It was won by Sarah Olney of the Liberal Democrats, after a campaign focused on opposition to Brexit.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Background
When first elected in the 2010 general election and on several subsequent occasions, Goldsmith had promised that he would resign if the government supported a third runway at Heathrow. Following his re-election in the 2015 general election, he stood as the Conservative candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, and lost to Sadiq Khan.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Background
When the May ministry announced on 25 October 2016 that the government would support a third runway at Heathrow, Goldsmith resigned his seat.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
Goldsmith stood as an independent candidate. He was described as an "Independent Conservative", although that ballot paper description has not been permitted since the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 came into force.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
The Conservative Party decided not to stand an official candidate against him, because the local party were reported to be supportive of Goldsmith's stance, and putting up a candidate could have split the vote and led to the Liberal Democrats winning the seat. While not officially backed by the Conservative Party, his campaign was supported by some Conservative Parliamentarians, including Jacob Rees-Mogg, a supporter of Heathrow expansion and Brexit, as well as Tania Mathias, Theresa Villiers, and Lord True, leader of Richmond Council. A leader for the Evening Standard described the Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May, as having "endorsed" Goldsmith. The local party's website carried contact details for those wanting to support his campaign.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
The Liberal Democrats confirmed Sarah Olney, who was selected to fight the constituency in the event of a snap election, as their candidate for the by-election on 30 October. Olney joined the Liberal Democrats in May 2015, following the general election. She lives locally in North Kingston and works as an accountant at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. Her husband, Ben, was previously employed with the delivery of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5, ten years previously.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
The day after Goldsmith's resignation, three senior Labour Party MPs suggested that Labour could choose not to stand to maximise the chance of defeating Goldsmith in protest at his support for Brexit and his negative campaign against Sadiq Khan in the mayoral contest. However, other Labour MPs rejected the suggestion, and the party continued with the process of choosing a candidate. On 5 November they selected Christian Wolmar, a transport expert who had stood to be Labour's candidate for London Mayor, finishing fifth out of six candidates. He had opposed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of Labour.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
Wolmar defeated four candidates for the nomination: Ellie Cumbo, a researcher at the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales; Barnaby Marder, a local activist backed by Momentum; Sachin Patel, a supermarket manager and Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers representative who contested the seat for Labour at the 2015 election; and Jessica Toale, who had been an advisor to Ivan Lewis MP.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
The Green Party leaders hinted that the party might not stand a candidate for fear of splitting the vote. However, they stressed that it was for the local party to decide. The party shares an anti-Brexit and anti-Heathrow expansion stance with the Liberal Democrats. On 2 November, the Richmond Green Party voted against standing a candidate and to back the Liberal Democrat candidate. On 3 November, the Kingston Green Party did the same, and confirmed that there would not be a Green Party candidate in the by-election.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
The UK Independence Party, the only other party to stand in 2015, did not put forward a candidate and endorsed Goldsmith.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
The Women's Equality Party did not stand a candidate and backed Olney, in opposition to what they described as Goldsmith's record of "racist" campaigning.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
Fiona Syms stood as an independent, but said she would join the Conservatives if elected. The 47-year-old activist was critical of Goldsmith, describing his actions as a "tantrum" and saying he was "abandoning" Conservative voters. Syms described herself as a longstanding Conservative supporter, although she had left the party some time before the by-election was called. Syms was married to Conservative MP Robert Syms for 18 years and claims 25 years of experience in politics as a speechwriter, organiser and constituency worker. She launched her campaign on 5 November.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Candidates
Regular by-election candidate Ankit Love stood for the One Love Party under his claimed title of Maharaja Jammu and Kashmir.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
This was the first UK by-election in which the Conservatives declined to field a candidate in a seat they held since the Bristol South East by-election in 1963, which was triggered to allow Tony Benn to regain the seat he was disqualified from holding upon his inheritance of the Stansgate viscounty. Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke criticised the decision by the party not to stand.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
The Liberal Democrats also oppose a third runway at Heathrow. They held the seat from 1997 until 2010, when Goldsmith won. They campaigned on an anti-Brexit position, noting Goldsmith's own support for Brexit whereas the area strongly voted for Remain in the 2016 EU membership referendum. The constituency is estimated to have had a 72% support for Remain. Goldsmith's Mayoral campaign is also expected to become a focal point of campaigning. The Liberal Democrat campaign started quickly, with leader Tim Farron first visiting the constituency on 26 October.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
According to the Daily Mirror, bookmakers had Goldsmith as clear favourite, although the Liberal Democrats were favourite for a period. Channel 4 reported senior Liberal Democrats think odds predicting the Liberal Democrats would do well have been over-stated.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
Goldsmith said on 28 October that he would be partly funding his campaign himself. He also did not rule out the possibility of re-joining the Conservative Party after the next general election.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
A poll released by BMG Research on 28 October showed Goldsmith on 56% of the vote to Olney's 29%. An as-yet unnamed Labour candidate attracted 11% of the vote, with the Green Party and UKIP tied on 2% each. Asked about the main issues in the election, respondents identified Brexit (25%), Goldsmith's records and views (22%), and Heathrow expansion (21%) as the main issues. Goldsmith supporters were more focused on his record and Heathrow, while Olney supporters focused on Brexit and the Conservative government's record. Labour supporters also identified Brexit as their main consideration. Overall, the poll found 60% opposition to the third runway at Heathrow, 25% support with 14% undecided.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
Nick Clegg, the former Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister, launched Olney's campaign on 31 October/1 November, stressing the party's opposition to Heathrow. He also argued that the Brexit decision, that Goldsmith supported, led to the decision to support Heathrow expansion.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
Labour candidate Christian Wolmar attracted attention for a proposal to ban toilet paper, moving instead to the "hands-free spray toilet" popular in Asia.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
An analysis by the King's Fund revealed that the south-west London National Health Service sustainability and transformation plan (STP) is considering cutting acute services at one of five hospitals, including Kingston Hospital, local to the constituency. The Liberal Democrats used this in campaigning to criticise the Conservative government.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
Olney was also endorsed by the More United campaign group.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
In the final weekend of the campaign, the Liberal Democrats released internal polling putting Goldsmith on 46.7%, the Liberal Democrats on 43.3% and Labour on 9.5%. These figures were disputed: one Conservative MP, Kit Malthouse, a former deputy mayor of London, agreed the election was very close, but the Conservative leader of Richmond Council and Goldsmith ally, Lord True, predicted Goldsmith would do much better.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
In the final week of the campaign, Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas campaigned for Olney, while some other local Green Party members were backing Wolmar instead. Musician and poverty campaigner Bob Geldof also came to the constituency to campaign for Olney. On 30 November, both Olney's and Goldsmith's campaign described the election as close, with the Liberal Democrats' internal polling putting them on 47.2% to Goldsmith's 45.8%.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Campaign
During the 2017 general election campaign, it emerged that the Greens had been offered £250,000 to not stand in the by-election, although the party did not take up the offer and denied it had influenced their decision.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Opinion polling, Before close of nominations
This poll was conducted before nominations for the by-election closed and therefore includes two parties that opted not to stand: the Greens, who supported Sarah Olney, the Liberal Democrat candidate, and UKIP, who supported Zac Goldsmith.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Opinion polling, Following close of nominations
After the close of nominations, the only opinion polls released publicly were internal polls commissioned by the Liberal Democrats and shared with The Guardian.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Result
This was the first time the Liberal Democrats had gained a seat in a House of Commons by-election since the 2006 Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, and their first gain from the Conservatives since the 2000 Romsey by-election. It was also the largest increase in vote share they had obtained in a by-election since the 1993 Christchurch by-election.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Result
Six months later, Zac Goldsmith regained the seat in the 2017 general election.


2016 Richmond Park by-election, Previous polls, 2016 EU referendum result
The results in the EU referendum on 23 June 2016 were reported by local authority, and, as the constituency consists of parts of two local authorities, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, the exact referendum vote in Richmond Park is not known. However, Chris Hanretty, a Reader in Politics at the University of East Anglia, estimated through a demographic model that Richmond Park had one of the dozen lowest 'Leave' votes in the entire country. His latest estimates suggest that 27.7% of Richmond Park voters voted 'Leave', and thus that 72.3% voted 'Remain'.


2016 Richmond Spiders football team
The 2016 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Danny Rocco and played their home games at E. Claiborne Robins Stadium. The Spiders were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 10–4, 5–3 in CAA play to finish in a tie for fourth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated North Carolina A&T and North Dakota in the first and second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Eastern Washington.


2016 Richmond, Virginia City Council elections
The 2016 Richmond City Council elections took place in Richmond, Virginia on November 8, 2016. The election determined the Richmond City Council members from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2020.


2016 Richmond, Virginia mayoral election
The Richmond, Virginia mayoral election of 2016 took place on November 8, 2016. Voters elected the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, members of the Richmond City Council, as well as several other local officials. In an officially nonpartisan, three-way race, Levar Stoney, the former state Secretary of the Commonwealth defeated Jack Berry, former Hanover County Administrator, and Joe Morrissey, former delegate of the Virginia House of Delegates. Former councilperson, Michelle Mosby, finished in a distant third. On January 1, 2017, Stoney took office as the 80th mayor of Richmond, Virginia.


2016 Richmond, Virginia mayoral election
In the Richmond mayoral election, in addition to winning the popular vote, mayoral candidates must win the popular vote in five of the nine city districts. Stoney was able to achieve a majority of the popular vote, receiving 35,525 votes, in addition to winning five city districts, compared to three won by Berry and one won by Morrissey. The night of November 8, the Morrissey campaign conceded to Berry and Stoney, and Berry's campaign conceded to Stoney the following day, when provisional and absentee ballots still had Stoney in the lead.


2016 Richmond, Virginia mayoral election
At the age of 35, Stoney became the youngest politician to ever be elected as the Mayor of Richmond. On November 12, 2016 the Stoney campaign began the transition team between his administration, and Jones' departing administration.


2016 Richmond, Virginia mayoral election, Background
Incumbent Democrat Dwight C. Jones was ineligible to seek re-election due to mayoral term limits. The election was the fourth citywide election for mayor through popular vote. The election is nonpartisan meaning no candidate can be affiliated with any party on the ticket.


2016 Richmond, Virginia mayoral election, Polling
Early polling has suggested that Joe Morrissey is the front-runner in the mayoral election, followed by Jack Berry.


2016 Ricoh Open
The 2016 Ricoh Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 27th edition of the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, and part of the 250 Series of the 2016 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA International tournaments of the 2016 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Autotron park in Rosmalen, 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, from 6 June through 12 June 2016. Nicolas Mahut and Coco Vandeweghe won the singles titles.


2016 Ricoh Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Ricoh Open – Men's Doubles
Ivo Karlović and Łukasz Kubot were the defending champions, but Karlović chose not to participate this year and Kubot chose to compete in Stuttgart instead. Mate Pavić and Michael Venus won the title, defeating Dominic Inglot and Raven Klaasen in the final, 3–6, 6–3, [11–9].


2016 Ricoh Open – Men's Singles
Nicolas Mahut was the defending champion and successfully defended his title, defeating Gilles Müller in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2016 Ricoh Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2016 Ricoh Open – Women's Doubles
Asia Muhammad and Laura Siegemund were the defending champions, but Siegemund chose not to participate this year. Muhammad played alongside María José Martínez Sánchez, but lost in the quarterfinals to Alexandra Panova and Amra Sadiković. Oksana Kalashnikova and Yaroslava Shvedova won the title, defeating Xenia Knoll and Aleksandra Krunić in the final, 6–1, 6–1.


2016 Ricoh Open – Women's Singles
Camila Giorgi was the defending champion of the 2016 Ricoh Open, but withdrew before the tournament began.


2016 Ricoh Open – Women's Singles
Sixth-seeded Coco Vandeweghe won the title, defeating Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 7–5, 7–5.


2016 RideLondon–Surrey Classic
The 2016 RideLondon–Surrey Classic was the 5th edition of the London–Surrey Classic road bicycle race. The race took place on 31 July 2016. It was won by Belgian rider Tom Boonen.


2016 Riga Masters
The 2016 Kaspersky Riga Masters was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 22–24 June 2016 at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia. It was the first ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.


2016 Riga Masters
This was the first time for which the event was a ranking tournament, having previously been a minor-ranking event of the Players Tour Championship.


2016 Riga Masters
Barry Hawkins was the defending champion, but he decided not to defend his title.


2016 Riga Masters
Neil Robertson won the 12th ranking title of his career, defeating Michael Holt 5–2 in the final, from trailing 1–2.


2016 Riga Masters, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2016 Riga Masters, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £25,000.


2016 Riga Masters, Qualifying
These matches were held between 3 and 4 June 2016 at the Preston Guild Hall in Preston, England. All matches were best of 7 frames.


2016 Rio Carnival Leagues
LIESB and ACAS are the alloys of carnival that organize the parades conducted outside the Marquês de Sapucaí. The LIESB took over the organization of the lower level divisions'. In 2015, disagreements on the board of AESCRJ led the organization to suffer intervention by RioTur on the eve of the carnival. because of this, after the carnival that year came the LIESB  and Samba é Nosso. where twelve of fourteen guilds of the Série B decide founded the LIESB and part of the samba schools Série B and all schools of Series C, D, E in Samba é Nosso.


2016 Rio Carnival Leagues
However, the aim of LIESB aim has not been officially disclosed, and they have already set up their first parade order, which was held in May 2015 and the elected the then vice-president of the Portela, Marcos Falcon its new representative. However, with schools migrating from alloys, caused a commotion where who took command of the Intendente Magalhães.


2016 Rio Carnival Leagues
Although the organization came to get authorization from Riotur to administer all groups in Intendente, The LIESB also managed to authorization, generating even more the impasse that was only defined after meeting at RioTur which determined Série B with LIESB and Samba é Nosso with the other groups. but with the death of Marcos Falcon, who was also president of the Portela, shot dead, the Samba é Nosso decided the lower level leagues be organized by a singular organization thus the LIESB besides Series B is responsible for the Series C, D, and E schools.


2016 Rio Carnival Leagues
While the losing schools of the E Series are stripped of parading status for Carnival and the lower placing schools in each of the other series is placed one level below in the next year, the winner of the lowel level divisions advances to higher levels, the Series B winner advances to the A Series, joins as a full member of LIERJ and therefore granted its Sambodrome privilege with the non-subsidy.


2016 Rio Carnival Leagues
In time for the 2018 Carnival season LIESB jointly decided to transfer the control of the E Series to ACAS, which reorganized it to suit not just veteran schools but also some new schools being formed within the Greater Rio area and at carnival 2020, LIVRES appears, formed by directors of samba schools unhappy with the direction of LIESB.


2016 Rio Open
The 2016 Rio Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament, and part of the 2016 ATP World Tour and the 2016 WTA Tour. It took in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 15 February and 21 February 2016.


2016 Rio Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money* per team


2016 Rio Open – Men's Doubles
Martin Kližan and Philipp Oswald were the defending champions, but Kližan chose not to participate this year. Oswald played alongside Guillermo Durán, but lost in the first round to Rogério Dutra Silva and João Souza. Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah won the title, defeating Pablo Carreño Busta and David Marrero in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–1.


2016 Rio Open – Men's Singles
David Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Dominic Thiem.


2016 Rio Open – Men's Singles
Pablo Cuevas won the title, defeating Guido Pella in the final, 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–4.


2016 Rio Open – Women's Doubles
Ysaline Bonaventure and Rebecca Peterson were the defending champions, but Bonaventure chose not to participate this year. Peterson played alongside Julia Glushko, but lost in the first round to Paula Cristina Gonçalves and Sanaz Marand. Verónica Cepede Royg and María Irigoyen won the title, defeating Tara Moore and Conny Perrin in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–5).


2016 Rio Open – Women's Singles
Sara Errani was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Dubai instead.


2016 Rio Open – Women's Singles
Francesca Schiavone won the title, defeating Shelby Rogers in the final, 2–6, 6–2, 6–2.


2016 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election
The municipal election of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro took place on 2 October and 30 October 2016 to elect a Mayor, a Vice Mayor and 51 City Councillors for the administration of the city. The incumbent Mayor, Eduardo Paes of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), was term-limited and couldn't run for re-election. The election took place against a backdrop of mass protests and the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party (PT) earlier that year.


2016 Rising Phoenix World Championships
The  2016 Rising Phoenix World Championships was an IFBB Wings of Strength female professional bodybuilding competition and held in conjunction with the IFBB Arizona Pro. It was held on September 10, 2016 at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.


2016 Rising Phoenix World Championships, 2016 Rising Phoenix World Championships Qualified, Points standings
1 In the event of a tie, the competitor with the best top five contest placings will be awarded the qualification. If both competitors have the same contest placings, than both will qualify for the Rising Phoenix World Championships.


2016 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team
The 2016 Ritsumeikan Panthers football team represents Ritsumeikan University in the Kansai Collegiate American Football League during the 2016 season. Ritsumeikan plays their home games at Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium in Kyoto, Japan.


2016 River City Raiders season
The 2016 River City Raiders season was the fourth season for the American indoor football franchise, and their first in American Indoor Football (AIF).


2016 River City Raiders season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated May 5, 201628 Active, 0 Inactive


2016 Rivers State budget
The 2016 Rivers State budget was the financial statement of the Rivers State government presenting its proposed revenues and spending for the 2016 fiscal year. It was presented before theHouse of Assembly on 18 December 2015 by Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike. This was Governor Wike's first budget submitted as governor.


2016 Rivers State budget, Expenses
The budget estimate proposed was ₦307 billion while ₦120 billion was proposed for recurrent expenditure. Out of this, ₦55 billion was for salaries, ₦18,114,178,637 for payment of pensions and gratuities with overhead costs at ₦14,524,179,815.


2016 Rivers State budget, Expenses
In addition, projected capital expenditure was ₦187 billion, which gave a capital to recurrent expenditure ratio of 60:40. In terms of allocation, the figure showed that 15.5% was allocated to administration, 29.1% to the economic sector, 0.41% to law and justice, and 28.4% to the social sector.


2016 Rivers State budget, Funding sources
All major revenue sources of the ₦307 billion budget for fiscal year 2016 were broken down as follows:


2016 Rivers State budget, Criticism
There was criticism from across the political spectrum about the budget, mainly from members of the opposition party. Most of this criticism was directed towards the quick passage of the budget with the All Progressives Congress calling it the "height of banditry". The party believed that the budget shouldn't have been passed since some of the House members were then contesting the nullification of their elections at the appeal courts. It also claimed that such action was an indication that the legislative and executive branches of government in Rivers State were conniving with a hidden agenda to benefit themselves.


2016 Rizal local elections
Local elections will be held in the Province of Rizal on May 9, 2016 as part of the 2016 general election. Voters will select candidates for all local positions: a municipal/city mayor, vice mayor and town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the governor, vice-governor and representatives for the two districts of Rizal.


2016 Rizal local elections, Vice gubernatorial elections
Frisco San Juan Jr. is not running for reelection, Board Member Reynaldo H. San Juan, Jr. is the party's nominee.


2016 Rizal local elections, Congressional elections, 1st District
Joel Duavit is not running for reelection, His brother Jack is the party's nominee.


2016 Rizal local elections, Congressional elections, Antipolo City, 1st District
Roberto Puno is term-limited as he has reached the maximum three-term limit for any elective official. His wife, media personality Chiqui Roa-Puno, will run in his stead and will be challenged by incumbent first district councilor Juanito "Dudok" Lawis.


2016 Rizal local elections, Congressional elections, Antipolo City, 2nd District
Romeo M. Acop is running for reelection for his third and final term unopposed.


2016 Rizal local elections, Provincial Board elections
All 2 Districts of Rizal will elect Sangguniang Panlalawigan or provincial board members.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections
All municipalities and City of Antipolo in Rizal will elect mayor and vice-mayor this election. The candidates for mayor and vice mayor with the highest number of votes wins the seat; they are voted separately, therefore, they may be of different parties when elected. Below is the list of mayoralty and vice-mayoralty candidates of each city and municipalities per district.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 1st District, Binangonan
Cecilio Ynares is term limited and running for Vice Mayor. His brother, former mayor Cesar Ynares is running for Mayor.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 1st District, Binangonan
Rey Dela Cuesta is term limited, Cecilio Ynares is running for Vice Mayor


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 1st District, Taytay
Incumbent mayor Janet De Leon-Mercado was defeated by former mayor George Ricardo Gacula.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Jala-Jala
Narciso Villaran is not running, instead is running for Vice Mayor, His party nominated former mayor Elionor Pillas is running unopposed.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Jala-Jala
Elmer Pillas is not running for reelection, Narciso Villaran is running for Vice Mayor.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Morong
Armando San Juan is the incumbent His opponent, is Vice Mayor Joseph Buenaventura.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Pililla
Leandro Masikip, Sr. is term limited and is running for Vice Mayor, Her Daughter Anna Masikip is her party's nominee.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Pililla
Richard Sia is running for Councilor. Now, Anna Masikip is running for Mayor and Incumbent Mayor Leandro Masikip, Sr. is running for vice Mayor.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Rodriguez (Montalban)
Jonas Cruz is term limited and he is running for Councilor.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, San Mateo
Jose Rafael Diaz is not running, His wife, Cristina is the party's nominee. Diaz Won for mayor.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, San Mateo
Cristina Diaz is running for mayor, Her husband is running for Vice Mayor. Rafael Diaz is the winner


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, 2nd District, Tanay
Rafael Tanjuatco is term limited, His Son Rex Manuel Tanjuatco is his party's nominee.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, Antipolo City
Casimiro "Jun" Ynares III is running for reelection, his opponent is Vice Mayor Ronaldo "Puto" Leyva.


2016 Rizal local elections, City and Municipality Elections, Antipolo City
Former Mayor Danilo Leyble is running for Vice Mayor, his opponent is the wife of former Mayor Angelito Gatlabayan, incumbent Councilor Josefina "Pining" Gatlabayan. Incumbent vice mayor Ronaldo Leyva is running for mayoralty.


2016 RoPS season
The 2016 season is RoPS's 4th Veikkausliiga season since their promotion back to the top flight in 2012.


2016 RoPS season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 RoPS season, Squad, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 RoPS season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 RoPS season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 RoPS season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 RoPS season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Road to Le Mans
The 1st Road to Le Mans is an automobile endurance event that will take place on 18 June 2019. It was the second round of the 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup. The race was run at the 13.629 km Circuit de la Sarthe supporting the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. In contrast to the usual 2-hour races in the series, this race was run over 1-hour. The race was open to LMP3 class cars for which it was a non-championship event.


2016 Road to Le Mans, Race, Race result
The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of the overall winning car's race distance) was 7 laps. Class winners are in bold.


2016 Road to the Kentucky Derby
The field for the Kentucky Derby is limited each year to 20 horses, with two 'also eligibles' in case of a late withdrawal from the field. To determine eligibility, Churchill Downs developed the Road to the Kentucky Derby, which gives points to the top four finishers in specified races. The 2016 season consists of 34 races, 19 races for the Kentucky Derby Prep Season and 15 races for the Kentucky Derby Championship Season. Earnings in non-restricted stakes act as a tie breaker. Gun Runner finished first in the standings thanks to wins in the Risen Star Stakes and Louisiana Derby, then finished third in the Kentucky Derby. Nyquist, who finished second in the qualification standings, won the Derby.


2016 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Prep season
Note: 1st=10 points; 2nd=4 points; 3rd=2 points; 4th=1 point (except the Breeders' Cup Juvenile: 1st=20 points; 2nd=8 points; 3rd=4 points; 4th=2 point)


2016 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Championship series, First leg of series
Note: 1st=50 points; 2nd=20 points; 3rd=10 points; 4th=5 points The Sunland Derby was not eligible in 2016 because of quarantine restrictions associated with an outbreak of equine herpesvirus.


2016 Road to the Kentucky Derby, Championship series, Second leg of series
These races are the major preps for the Kentucky Derby, and are thus weighted more heavily. Note: 1st=100 points; 2nd=40 points; 3rd=20 points; 4th=10 points


2016 Road to the Kentucky Oaks
The 2016 Road to the Kentucky Oaks was a points system by which three-year-old fillies qualified for the 2016 Kentucky Oaks. The point system replaced a previous qualifying system which was based on graded stakes earnings.


2016 Road to the Kentucky Oaks
For the 2016 series, the points awarded to the top 4 finishers of the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies were doubled to a 20-8-4-2 basis. Otherwise the series was supposed to remain the same as 2015, with 31 total races. However, due to an outbreak of equine herpesvirus at Sunland Parks, the Sunland Park Oaks was not run, reducing the number of races to 30.


2016 Road to the Kentucky Oaks
Songbird was the highest ranked filly with 190 points, earned by winning the Chandelier (10 points), Juvenile Fillies (20 points), Las Virgenes (10 points), Santa Ysabel (50 points) and Santa Anita Oaks (100 points). She would have been the heavy favorite for the Oaks but developed a fever and did not race.


2016 Road to the Kentucky Oaks
Cathryn Sophia, the winner of the 2016 Oaks, qualified for the race with 80 points, earned by winning the Forward Gal Stakes (10 points) and Davona Dale Stakes (50 points) plus finishing 3rd in the Ashland (20 points).


2016 Robert Morris Colonials football team
The 2016 Robert Morris Colonials football team represented Robert Morris University during the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach John Banaszak and played their home games at Joe Walton Stadium. They were a member of the Northeast Conference. They finished with a record of 2–9, 1–5 in NEC play, to finish in a three-way tie for fifth place.


2016 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2016 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2016 Rochester Knighthawks season
The Rochester Knighthawks were a lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York, that played in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2016 season was the 22nd in franchise history.


2016 Rochester Knighthawks season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2016 Rochester Knighthawks season, Transactions, Entry Draft
The 2015 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 28, 2015. The Knighthawks made the following selections:


2016 Rochester Rhinos season
The 2016 Rochester Rhinos season was the club's 21st year of existence, and their sixth season in the third tier of the United States Soccer Pyramid, playing in the United Soccer League Eastern Conference. They entered the season as defending USL champions and made it back to the playoffs, but were eliminated in the conference semi-finals by the New York Red Bulls II.


2016 Rochford District Council election
The 2016 Rochford District Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Rochford District Council in England. Due to boundary changes, all seats on the council are up for election at the same time, with each ward electing three Councillors. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2016 Rock Cup
The first match of the 2016 Rock Cup was played 10 January 2016. The competition will be a single-leg knockout tournament. The first round will be contested between second division teams, with premier division teams joining in the second round.


2016 Rock Cup
The winner of this competition qualifies for the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League and would be able to enter the tournament in the first qualifying round. If the 2016 Rock Cup winner also wins the 2015–16 Gibraltar Premier Division, the place reserved for the cup winner will go to the second place team from the league.


2016 Rock Cup, First round
The First Round draw was held 1 December 2015 and the matches were played 10–14 January 2016. All teams in this round are Gibraltar Second Division teams.


2016 Rock Cup, Second round
The Second Round draw was held 18 January 2016 and the matches were played 10–15 February 2016.


2016 Rock Cup, Quarter–finals
The quarter-finals draw was held 18 February 2016 and the matches were played 16–19 March 2016.


2016 Rock Cup, Semi–finals
The semi-finals draw was held 21 March 2016 and the matches were played 23 April 2016.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season
Roger Federer's 2016 tennis season officially commenced on 3 January 2016, with the start of the Brisbane International, and ended on 8 July 2016, with a loss in the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season
This season saw Federer suffer from a knee injury which sidelined him for the majority of the year. After surgery, Federer returned but was hindered by a back injury which kept him out of the French Open, therefore ending his record of 65 consecutive appearances at Grand Slam tournaments.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season
On July 26 Federer officially ended his season early, not wanting to risk damaging his knee further. Federer would thus end the year at No. 16 in the ATP Rankings, marking the first time that he dropped out of the top 10 since 2002. Additionally, this was the first season since 2000 in which Federer did not win a singles title.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Brisbane International
Federer opened his season at the Brisbane International for the third consecutive year, after winning the title in 2015. As the top seed, he received a bye in the first round. Although suffering with the flu virus, he beat Tobias Kamke in the second round in straight sets. He then defeated Grigor Dimitrov in three sets to advance to the semifinals. In the semifinals, he defeated Dominic Thiem in straight sets to advance to his third consecutive final at the tournament. He faced Milos Raonic in a repeat of last year's final, losing in straight sets. According with himself, Federer's performance was hindered throughout the tournament due to the flu virus.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Australian Open
Federer entered the Australian Open as the third seed. He defeated Nikoloz Basilashvili and Alexandr Dolgopolov, both in three straight sets to advance to the third round. There, he beat Grigor Dimitrov in four sets, in a win that marked Federer's 300th match win at a Grand Slam. He became the first man in the open era to reach this milestone and the second overall player behind Martina Navratilova, who won 306 matches. He reached the quarterfinals with an easy three set win over David Goffin in the fourth round.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Australian Open
He then defeated Tomáš Berdych in straight sets to advance to his 12th Australian Open semifinal, where he faced Novak Djokovic in their first match of the year and their 45th meeting overall. Federer lost the match in four sets and this loss put Djokovic ahead in their rivalry for the first time.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Injury hiatus
In the day after his loss to Djokovic, Federer sustained a knee injury. In early February, he underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus, thus missing both the scheduled Rotterdam Open and Dubai Tennis Championships. Later in the month, Federer announced he would also miss the Indian Wells Masters. In March, it was confirmed that he would make his return at the Miami Open.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season, Miami Open
As the third seed, and after a first round bye, Federer was scheduled to face Juan Martín del Potro in the second round in his comeback match. However, he would pull out of the tournament due to contracting a stomach virus, thus prolonging his time on the sidelines.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Monte-Carlo Masters
After a ten-week hiatus, Federer made his return at the first clay court Masters 1000 tournament, the Monte-Carlo Masters. As the third seed, he received a first round bye and in the second round won his first match since January by defeating Guillermo García López in straight sets to advance to the third round. He proceeded to defeat Roberto Bautista Agut to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in three sets despite being two points away from the win.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Madrid Open
Federer was expected to play the Madrid Open, but he was forced to withdrew from the tournament due to a back injury.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Italian Open
Upon pulling out of Madrid, Federer entered the Italian Open. Despite that, and after a first round bye, he stated that he almost withdrew prior to his opening round due to lingering fitness issues. However, after a morning practice, he decided to play rising teenage star Alexander Zverev, defeating him in straight sets. Again at the last minute, Federer decided to play his third round match against Dominic Thiem, but this time he was beaten in straight sets as the back injury continued to hamper his speed and movement. This tournament cast further doubt on Federer's participation in the upcoming French Open.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Spring clay court season, Italian Open
Federer ended up withdrawing from the second major of the year not wanting to further aggravate his injury before the start of the grass court season. That marked the end of his all-time record run of 65 consecutive appearances at majors, which began in the 2000 Australian Open.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Stuttgart Open
Federer took advantage of the recently expanded grass court season, first instituted in 2015, by playing in a newly minted grass court tournament, the Stuttgart Open. After a bye in the first round he started the tournament by defeating Taylor Fritz in three sets, in a rainy match played over two days. In the quarterfinals, he defeated qualifier Florian Mayer in straight sets, advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, he lost to No. 3 seed Dominic Thiem after holding two match points in the second set tiebreak. He lost a grass court match after having a match point for only the second time in his career.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Halle Open
Federer then entered the Halle Open as an eight-time champion and three-time defending champion. He defeated Jan-Lennard Struff, Malek Jaziri and David Goffin in the first three rounds, reaching the semifinals without losing a set in the process. In the semifinals, however, he lost to 19-year-old Alexander Zverev in three sets. Remarkably, this was the first time in which Federer lost before the final in this tournament since the 2002 edition.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season, Wimbledon
After a short break, Federer travelled to London to play Wimbledon, his second major of the year. He began the tournament with victories over Guido Pella, qualifier Marcus Willis, Daniel Evans and Steve Johnson, all in straight sets, reaching the quarterfinals in the process. In the quarterfinals he played and defeated Marin Čilić in an extremely tight match, in which he lost the first two sets before coming back to win the next three, saving three match points in the fourth set. However, he ended up losing to world No. 7 Milos Raonic in the semifinals after another tight five-setter.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Out for the rest of the season
On July 26 Federer announced that he would not play anymore in 2016, due to a knee injury, therefore not being able to defend his titles at the Cincinnati Masters and the Swiss Indoors as well as the runner-up position at the US Open. As a result, Federer dropped out of the top 5 in the ATP Rankings for the first time since the week of 3 March 2014. His ranking also fell out of the top 10 for the first time since 2002, ending a remarkably 14-year streak. This was also the first season since 2000 in which Federer did not win a singles title in a calendar year.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, All matches
This table chronicles all the matches of Roger Federer in 2016, including walkovers (W/O) which the ATP does not count as wins or losses.


2016 Roger Federer tennis season, Yearly records, Head-to-head matchups
Roger Federer has a 21–7 (75.0%) ATP match win-loss record in the 2016 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP Rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings is 1–4 (20.0%). Bold indicates player was ranked top 10 at time of at least one meeting. The following list is ordered by number of wins:


2016 Rogers Cup
The 2016 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 127th edition (for the men) and the 114th (for the women) of the Canadian Open. The tournament was part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the 2016 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA Premier 5 tournaments of the 2016 WTA Tour, and was also a 2016 US Open Series event.


2016 Rogers Cup
The men's event was held at the Aviva Centre in Toronto, from 25 to July 31 and the women's event was held at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, from July 25 to July 31. The event was scheduled two weeks earlier than the usual early-August date to avoid conflicting with the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2016 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2016 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the main singles draw:


2016 Rogers Cup, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2016 Rogers Cup, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Rogers Cup, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2016 Rogers Cup, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2016 Rogers Cup, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2016 Rogers Cup – Men's Doubles
Bob and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Florin Mergea and Horia Tecău.


2016 Rogers Cup – Men's Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo won the title, defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in the final, 6–4, 6–4.


2016 Rogers Cup – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Kei Nishikori in the final, 6–3, 7–5, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2016 Rogers Cup. It was his record 30th ATP Masters 1000 title and his record 43rd Masters 1000 final.


2016 Rogers Cup – Men's Singles
Andy Murray was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year, citing fatigue.


2016 Rogers Cup – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2016 Rogers Cup – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but decided not to compete together. Mattek-Sands played alongside Heather Watson, but lost in the quarterfinals to Andreja Klepač and Katarina Srebotnik. Šafářová teamed up with Tímea Babos, but lost in the first round to Kateryna Bondarenko and Olga Savchuk.


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Doubles
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the title, defeating Simona Halep and Monica Niculescu in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–5).


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles
Belinda Bencic was the defending champion, but withdrew with a left wrist injury before the tournament began.


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles
Simona Halep won the title, defeating Madison Keys in the final, 7–6(7–2), 6–3.


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.


2016 Rogers Cup – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2016 Romanian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Romania on 11 December 2016. They were the first held under a new electoral system adopted in 2015, which saw a return to the proportional electoral system last used in the 2004 elections. The new electoral legislation provides a norm of representation for deputies of 73,000 inhabitants and 168,000 inhabitants for senators, which decreased the number of MPs.


2016 Romanian legislative election
A total of 466 parliamentary seats (308 deputies, 18 minority deputies, and 134 senators) were contested, compared with the 588 parliamentarians elected in 2012. The diaspora was represented by four deputies and two senators, elected by postal vote. The elections saw a turnout of 39.5%, lower than in 2012 but slightly higher than in the 2008 elections.


2016 Romanian legislative election, New electoral system
The legislative election of 2016 unfolded differently compared to 2012 and 2008. On 24 February 2015, the Electoral Code Commission decided in principle for the future electoral law to return to party-list proportional representation, thereby relinquishing the first-past-the-post (uninominal) voting system as introduced in 2008. The option of turning the Parliament of Romania into a perfectly bicameral parliament, with some 300 deputies being elected on a closed list and 100 senators being elected by a single-round uninominal majority vote, had been discussed for years and even agreed upon between the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the opposition. The new electoral law promulgated by President Klaus Iohannis on 20 July 2015 however did not retain uninominal constituencies for the Senate. Closely sticking to the commission's recommendations, the new electoral law completely returned to party-list proportional representation.


2016 Romanian legislative election, New electoral system
With a representation norm of one deputy per 73,000 inhabitants and one senator per 168,000 inhabitants, a total of 308 deputies were elected, to which are added the 18 deputies of minorities, 134 senators and 6 MPs of diaspora (two senators and four deputies). All in all this totals to a number of 466 MPs, five fewer than in 2008 and 122 fewer than in 2012. While for single-party lists the electoral threshold is kept at 5%, a higher threshold of 8–10% is introduced for electoral alliances. For the first time the Romanian electors residing abroad were able to cast their vote via mail, in a reaction to the flawed procedures at the 2014 presidential election.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties
Although the image of Victor Ponta and his Social Democratic Party (PSD) was badly affected by corruption scandals and a recent wave of protests, the party remains one of the two major parties in Romania. Besides the PSD, the Romanian party system however went through a number of substantial regroupings.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Major regroupings
Leading centre-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Centre Right Alliance (ACD) of the Conservative Party (PC) and National Liberal Party (PNL) contested the 2012 legislative election under the joint ticket of the Social Liberal Union (USL). They won an absolute majority to form a government headed by prime minister Victor Ponta.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Major regroupings
During the legislature, PC and PNL however increasingly distanced themselves from each other with the PC – despite its name – embracing social liberalism and being affected by corruption scandals involving its leader, Dan Voiculescu, who was subsequently sentenced to prison for money laundering. In turn, the PNL dropped out of the coalition government in February 2014. Formerly affiliated with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the party applied for membership in the European People's Party (EPP) to be later admitted a full member. Increasingly orienting to the right, the PNL suffered a split, as a faction centered around Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu left to become the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) which eventually merged with the PC to form the Romanian Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), eponymous with the European party.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Major regroupings
Subsequently, the PNL joined forces with the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), which itself had suffered a split, when Traian Băsescu left to form the new party People's Movement (PMP). Ahead of a complete merger, PDL and PNL formed the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL), which successfully fielded Klaus Iohannis in the November 2014 presidential election. The two parties fully merged on 17 November 2014 under the name of National Liberal Party (PNL).


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Major regroupings
In June 2015, left-wing National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) which before had polled in the Centre Left Alliance with the Social Democrats, absorbed the remainders of dissolved populist PP-DD, after that party's founder Dan Diaconescu was convicted for extortion. UNPR president Gabriel Oprea advanced the variant of launching an independent list in the legislative election as one of two options. While aiming for 10% at the upcoming national vote, the party also reaffirmed its commitment to the Centre Left Alliance with the PSD. However, in July 2016, UNPR joined the right-leaning People's Movement Party led by former president Traian Băsescu, despite protests from some UNPR members. Oprea, himself under investigation for abuse of power, resigned from the party and declared his intention to leave politics.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Further developments
Conservative MEP Maria Grapini accused PC of betrayal after fusion with PLR.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Further developments
A new nationalist party, United Romania Party (PRU), was founded by MP Bogdan Diaconu on 17 August 2014 and became official by court decision on 17 February 2015.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Further developments
Another new and unpredictable element in this election is the rise of the Union for the Salvation of Romania [USR], a party recently created from its base in Bucharest as the Union for the Salvation of Bucharest. Led by Nicușor Dan, a mathematics professor, this is a reformist group of newcomers to politics committed to rooting out corruption. Recent polling data shows the USR poised to exceed its goal of 10 per cent of the popular vote.


2016 Romanian legislative election, Parties, Further developments
The largest political formation of an ethnic minority, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), has a chance to be represented in the parliament.


2016 Romanian local elections
Local elections were held in Romania on 5 June 2016.


2016 Romanian local elections
Using a first past the post system, the following were contested:


2016 Romanian local elections, Results
Political map depicting counties according to the county president's party affiliation


2016 Romanian local elections, Results
Political map based on the mayor's party affiliation (denoting only major Romanian cities and towns)


2016 Rome municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Rome in June 2016, following the resignation of the former Mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino. The first round of voting on 5 June producing no outright winner, resulting in a run-off election on 16 June between Virginia Raggi of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Roberto Giachetti of the Democratic Party. Raggi won with two-thirds of the vote, and her party won a majority on the City Council of Rome with 29 of the 48 seats. The results were widely reported as a major breakthrough for the Five Star Movement, which had previously been seen as a protest party rather than a significant political force. At the same round of elections, M5S also won in the Turin elections.


2016 Rome municipal election, Voting system
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct election for the mayor or an indirect election voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.


2016 Rome municipal election, Voting system
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.


2016 Rome municipal election, Parties and candidates
This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.


2016 Rome municipal election, Maps
The 10th municipi did not hold a municipal election, though it voted for the mayoral race.


2016 Rome municipal election, Maps
Result by municipi of the first round of the mayoral election


2016 Rome municipal election, Maps
Result by municipi of the second round of the mayoral election


2016 Ronde van Drenthe (women's race)
The 2016 Ronde van Drenthe was the 10th running of the women's Ronde van Drenthe, a women's bicycle race in the Netherlands. It was the second World Tour race of the 2016 UCI Women's World Tour and was held on 12 March 2016 over a distance of 138.3 kilometres (85.9 miles), starting and finishing in Hoogeveen.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship
The 2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship is the 116th edition of the Roscommon GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Roscommon, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Roscommon in the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a seeded group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship
Clann na nGael were the defending champions after they defeated Pádraig Pearse's in the previous years final; however, they failed to make it past the group stages in the defense of their title.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship
This was Michael Glavey's made their return to the senior grade after an exodus of over 30 years; however, they were relegated back to the Intermediate grade for 2017 after losing the Relegation Final to St. Croan's.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship
On 23 October 2016, St. Brigid's claimed their 16th S.F.C. title when defeating neighbours Pádraig Pearse's by 2-14 to 2-7 in the final in Kiltoom.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2015 championship season.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The competition split into two groups, based on their performance in the 2015 Group stages. Group 1 consists of teams who reached the Quarter-Finals last year or better. Group 2 consists of two bottom placed finishers in Group 1 last year as well as 3rd and 4th placed in Group 2 last year, the 2015 Relegation Playoff winners and the 2015 Intermediate champions.


2016 Roscommon Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The top 2 teams in Group 1 go into the Semi-Finals, where they await the winners of the Quarter-Finals, which are composed of the 3rd and 4th placed teams in Group 1 along with the top 2 finishers in Group 2. The bottom 2 teams in Group 2 will enter a Relegation Playoff.


2016 Rose Bowl
The 2016 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on January 1, 2016 at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. This 102nd Rose Bowl Game matched the Big Ten Conference West Division champion Iowa Hawkeyes against the Pac-12 Conference champion Stanford Cardinal. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Northwestern Mutual financial services organization, the game is officially known as the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual. Stanford defeated Iowa 45–16 to win the championship and the Lathrop K. Leishman trophy.


2016 Rose Bowl
The contest was televised on ESPN with a radio broadcast on ESPN Radio and XM Satellite Radio, which began at 1:30 PM (PST) with kickoff at 2:10 PM (PST). The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association was the organizer of the game.


2016 Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl Game was a contractual sell-out, with 64,500 tickets allocated to the participating teams and conferences. The remaining tickets are distributed to the Tournament of Roses members, sponsors, City of Pasadena residents, and the general public. Ticket prices were $150 and $185.


2016 Rose Bowl, Pre-game activities
The game was presided over by the 2016 Rose Queen, the Royal Court, Tournament of Roses President Mike Matthiessen, and Ken Burns, the Grand Marshal. The theme of the parade and game was "Find Your Adventure".


2016 Rose Bowl, Pre-game activities
After the teams' arrival in Southern California, the teams participated in the traditional Lawry's Beef Bowl in Beverly Hills and the Disney Media Day at the Disneyland Resort in nearby Anaheim. The Rose Bowl Hall of Fame ceremony luncheon was held prior to the game at the Pasadena Convention Center, where outstanding former players and participants were inducted into the hall. They were Mark Brunell, Washington; Jim Muldoon, Pac-10 Conference; Fritz Pollard, Brown; and Tyrone Wheatley, Michigan.


2016 Rose Bowl, Pre-game activities
The bands and cheerleaders from both schools participated in the pre-game Rose Parade on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California along with the floats.


2016 Rose Bowl, Teams
The teams playing in the Rose Bowl game were the highest ranking teams from the Pac-12 Conference and Big Ten Conference that were not selected to play in a College Football Playoff semifinal game. The teams were officially selected by the football committee of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association on Selection Sunday on December 6, 2015, based on the final rankings by the CFP committee. The Stanford Cardinal and the Iowa Hawkeyes met for the first time in this game.


2016 Rose Bowl, Teams, Iowa
The Iowa Hawkeyes, as the Big Ten West Division Champions, were back in the Rose Bowl after 25 years, last appearing in the 1991 Rose Bowl. Their last win in Pasadena was against the California Bears, 38–12 in the 1959 Rose Bowl. Prior to the 2016 Rose Bowl, they were 2–3 in Rose Bowl games. In the 2015 season, the team was nearly undefeated before the Rose Bowl, losing only the Big Ten Championship Game to Michigan State 13–16. Iowa wore its black jerseys and used the west bench on game day.


2016 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford
The Stanford Cardinal, 11-2 (8-1 in conference), were playing their fifteenth Rose Bowl game (and their third Rose Bowl Game in four years) by winning the Pac-12 Championship Game over USC 41–22. Prior to the 2016 Rose Bowl, they were 6–7–1 in Rose Bowl games, last winning over Wisconsin 20–14 in 2013. They lost the 2014 Rose Bowl to Michigan State 20–24. Stanford wore its white jerseys and used the east bench on game day.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
Sports analysts had anticipated the contest to be exciting, due mainly to the matchup between Iowa's strong run defense and Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey, the Heisman Trophy runner-up. McCaffrey led the FBS in the 2015 season with 3,864 all-purpose yards, which came from punt/kick returns, runs from scrimmage, and passes out of the backfield. In contrast, Iowa's run defense finished the season ranked 14th, allowing only 121 yards per game and having defeated historically rushing teams like Wisconsin, Indiana, and Nebraska.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
McCaffrey caught a short pass and turned it into a 75-yard touchdown on the first play from scrimmage. The Hawkeyes were unable to stop him, as he averaged 9.6 YPC (172 yards on 18 carries), returned a punt for a touchdown, and converted many third downs. Though he did not rush for any touchdowns from scrimmage, he proved to be the primary playmaker for Stanford, catching a third of Kevin Hogan's twelve passes. McCaffrey was such an offensive threat that Hogan was able to make large gains with the read option, including a wide-open first-quarter option TD run.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
Iowa was unable to get their run game going, rushing as a team for 1.3 YPC (48 yards on 38 carries). The longest Iowa runs came from LeShun Daniels, Jr. and Akrum Wadley (14 and 12 yards, respectively), as well as a 14-yard scramble by Quarterback C.J. Beathard. Iowa's inability to establish a run game closed up Iowa's potential for play-action passing, which had been Beathard's bread and butter all season.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
Jordan Canzeri, Iowa's power halfback, was unable to churn significant yardage, and 3rd-team halfback Akrum Wadley (who had a 200-yard game at Northwestern, when Daniels and Canzeri were both injured) split ballcarrying duties with Daniels in the second half. Iowa's halfbacks, their biggest threat all season, were overall unable to garner any significant yardage on the ground; Derek Mitchell, Jr., Iowa's 4th-team halfback, saw significant action lining up in the backfield and caught 4 passes for 41 yards, and Wadley also contributed to the pass game by catching 3 for 60.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
Stanford shut Iowa out in the first half 35–0, with Stanford's 35 points the most scored in the first half of a Rose Bowl in its entire 102-year history. Stanford's 21-0 first-quarter lead was also the most first-quarter points scored by one team in Rose Bowl history. McCaffrey gained a total of 368 all-purpose yards, setting another Rose Bowl record.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
By the second half, Stanford's explosive offense slowed down, scoring just 10 second-half points versus their 35 first-half points. Iowa did not score until the 3rd quarter when placekicker Marshall Koehn kicked a field goal after converting on 4th down earlier in the drive; Beathard threw 2 touchdowns in the 4th quarter, with Koehn missing one of the two PATs.


2016 Rose Bowl, Game summary
Iowa had a slight advantage in time of possession, possessing the ball for almost 33 minutes, though they were simply unable to make meaning out of their possessions. Iowa also outgained Stanford through the air by a slim margin, with 239 yards to Stanford's 223.


2016 Rose of Tralee
The 2016 Rose of Tralee was the 58th edition of the annual Irish international festival held on 22–23 August 2016. The competition was televised live on RTÉ television. 65 women from all over the world took part during the Rose of Tralee festival with 32 going on to the live shows. This was the first year that all 65 roses were invited to Tralee before being reduced to 32 for the live shows.


2016 Rose of Tralee
On 22 August on the first night of the live shows, Matt O'Connor a Fathers4Justice campaigner stormed onto the stage as Lisa Reilly, the Cavan Rose, was being interviewed. Cameras panned away from the scene towards Reilly's mother and father before advertising a competition. While the competition was being shown security tackled the man to the ground and escorted him off the stage to the exit where gardai awaited for him. He was not arrested as he had a ticket for the event. The show resumed shortly afterwards and Lisa Reilly admits she broke down after the entire ordeal off stage.


2016 Rose of Tralee
On 23 August, Chicago Rose Maggie McEldowney was crowned as the 2016 Rose of Tralee. The 27-year-old works as the director of development at a Catholic high school in the south side of Chicago, and her family hails from Derry and Wicklow. It was the third time Chicago has won the contest after winning in 1960 and 1987. After receiving her crown she was serenaded by country singer Nathan Carter who sang The Rose of Tralee. John Slowey won the escort of the year.


2016 Rose of Tralee
An average of 618,000 viewers watched the second night of the competition on RTÉ according to the official TAM/Nielsen ratings.


2016 Rosenborg BK season
The 2016 season is Rosenborg's 26th consecutive year in Tippeligaen, their 49th season in the top flight of Norwegian football and second season with Kåre Ingebrigtsen as permanent manager. They will participate in Tippeligaen, the Cup and the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, entering at the Second qualifying round stage.


2016 Rosenborg BK season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2016 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Winter
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2016 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Winter
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2016 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Summer
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2016 Rosenborg BK season, Transfers, Summer
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2016 Rossendale Borough Council election
The 2016 Rossendale Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members to one third of Rossendale Borough Council in England. Councillors elected in 2012 were defending their seats this year, and they will be contested again in 2020. The Labour Party retained control of the Council.