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Election 2016 Results

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2016 presidential election in West Virginia

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Hillary Clinton (Democrat) in West Virginia in 2016, 68.5% to 26.4%, a margin of 42.1 points and 300,577 votes.

West Virginia voted 44.2 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Republican hold continued from 2012, when Mitt Romney won.

Republicans led in 55 of the 55 counties. The largest, Kanawha, cast 75,690 votes and went to the Republican by 20.6 points. The closest was Gilmer, where 1,351 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Donald Trump won Republican 489,371 68.5%
Hillary Clinton Democratic 188,794 26.4%
All other candidates 36,258 5.1%
Total714,423

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 28,263 37.3% 43,850 57.9% 3,577 75,690 R+20.6
Berkeley 12,321 28.8% 28,244 65.9% 2,285 42,850 R+37.2
Monongalia 14,699 40.8% 18,432 51.1% 2,917 36,048 R+10.4
Wood 8,400 23.6% 25,434 71.4% 1,781 35,615 R+47.8
Cabell 11,447 34.6% 19,850 60.0% 1,788 33,085 R+25.4
Raleigh 6,443 21.8% 22,048 74.4% 1,127 29,618 R+52.7
Harrison 7,694 27.5% 18,750 67.1% 1,516 27,960 R+39.5
Putnam 5,884 23.6% 17,788 71.5% 1,221 24,893 R+47.8
Jefferson 9,518 39.4% 13,204 54.7% 1,425 24,147 R+15.3
Marion 6,964 30.2% 14,668 63.7% 1,397 23,029 R+33.5
Mercer 4,704 20.5% 17,404 75.7% 874 22,982 R+55.3
Ohio 5,493 30.6% 11,139 62.1% 1,306 17,938 R+31.5
Fayette 4,290 28.0% 10,357 67.5% 690 15,337 R+39.6
Wayne 3,357 22.1% 11,152 73.5% 673 15,182 R+51.3
Greenbrier 3,765 26.8% 9,556 67.9% 745 14,066 R+41.2
Marshall 2,918 22.1% 9,666 73.1% 632 13,216 R+51.1
Hancock 3,262 25.7% 8,909 70.1% 531 12,702 R+44.5
Preston 2,470 19.5% 9,538 75.3% 651 12,659 R+55.8
Logan 2,092 16.9% 9,897 80.1% 370 12,359 R+63.2
Jackson 2,663 21.9% 9,020 74.0% 504 12,187 R+52.2
Mineral 2,050 17.7% 9,070 78.4% 444 11,564 R+60.7
Randolph 2,735 25.1% 7,629 70.1% 512 10,876 R+45.0
Mason 2,081 20.4% 7,654 75.1% 451 10,186 R+54.7
Brooke 2,568 26.7% 6,625 68.9% 420 9,613 R+42.2
Mingo 1,370 14.4% 7,911 83.2% 229 9,510 R+68.8
Nicholas 1,840 19.4% 7,251 76.4% 400 9,491 R+57.0
Upshur 1,766 19.2% 7,005 76.0% 447 9,218 R+56.8
Boone 1,790 20.6% 6,504 74.9% 389 8,683 R+54.3
Hampshire 1,580 18.4% 6,692 77.7% 336 8,608 R+59.4
Wyoming 1,062 13.6% 6,547 83.6% 222 7,831 R+70.0
Morgan 1,573 20.6% 5,732 74.9% 349 7,654 R+54.3
Lincoln 1,459 20.6% 5,307 75.1% 300 7,066 R+54.5
Lewis 1,347 19.4% 5,274 76.1% 307 6,928 R+56.7
Taylor 1,491 22.8% 4,733 72.4% 314 6,538 R+49.6
Wetzel 1,359 21.7% 4,519 72.1% 387 6,265 R+50.4
McDowell 1,438 23.2% 4,629 74.6% 136 6,203 R+51.4
Barbour 1,222 20.2% 4,527 74.8% 305 6,054 R+54.6
Monroe 1,111 19.1% 4,443 76.5% 251 5,805 R+57.4
Hardy 1,155 20.5% 4,274 75.7% 214 5,643 R+55.3
Roane 1,222 23.3% 3,781 72.1% 244 5,247 R+48.8
Braxton 1,321 26.0% 3,537 69.5% 232 5,090 R+43.5
Grant 512 10.3% 4,346 87.7% 98 4,956 R+77.4
Summers 1,190 24.5% 3,455 71.1% 217 4,862 R+46.6
Ritchie 496 12.2% 3,405 83.6% 174 4,075 R+71.4
Tyler 507 13.9% 2,996 82.0% 151 3,654 R+68.1
Pocahontas 928 25.5% 2,496 68.5% 222 3,646 R+43.0
Tucker 751 21.6% 2,565 73.8% 159 3,475 R+52.2
Pendleton 729 22.6% 2,398 74.4% 98 3,225 R+51.8
Pleasants 621 19.7% 2,358 74.9% 171 3,150 R+55.1
Webster 556 18.7% 2,302 77.3% 120 2,978 R+58.6
Clay 568 19.1% 2,300 77.4% 104 2,972 R+58.3
Doddridge 362 12.7% 2,358 83.0% 120 2,840 R+70.3
Calhoun 456 17.4% 2,035 77.8% 126 2,617 R+60.3
Gilmer 545 21.4% 1,896 74.6% 102 2,543 R+53.1
Wirt 386 15.9% 1,911 78.9% 125 2,422 R+63.0

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6