2016 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

The 2016 United States presidential election in Oklahoma was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. Oklahoma voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election

2016 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

November 8, 2016
Turnout	49%[1]
Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Gary Johnson Party Republican Democratic Libertarian Home state New York New York New Mexico Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine Bill Weld Electoral vote 7 0 0 Popular vote 949,136 420,375 83,481 Percentage 65.32% 28.93% 5.75%
County Results Trump   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%
President before election Barack Obama Democratic Elected President Donald Trump Republican

Results by county showing number of votes by size and candidates by color

Treemap of the popular vote by county

On March 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Oklahoma voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party could only vote in their party's primary, while independent voters could only vote in the Democratic primary.[2]

Oklahoma has been a Republican-leaning state since 1952, and a Republican stronghold since 1980, with no signs of weakness since 2000. Donald Trump won the election in Oklahoma with 65.3% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 28.9% of the vote.[3] Considered a safe Republican state, Oklahoma has voted Republican in fifteen of the last sixteen elections.[4] It was also one of two states where Trump won every county, the other being West Virginia. This also marked the fourth consecutive election in which the Republican candidate carried every county in the state.[4]

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, became the first third-party candidate to achieve ballot access in Oklahoma since 2000. He received 5.75% of the vote, the highest percentage for a third party in the state since Ross Perot in 1996. He was the only third-party candidate to successfully file for ballot access in Oklahoma.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Results

2016 Oklahoma Democratic primary

March 1, 2016 (2016-03-01)

Candidate Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton Home state Vermont New York Delegate count 21 17 Popular vote 174,228 139,443 Percentage 51.88% 41.52%

Oklahoma results by county   Bernie Sanders   Hillary Clinton

Oklahoma Democratic primary, March 1, 2016
Candidate	Popular vote		Estimated delegates
	Count	Percentage	Pledged	Unpledged	Total
Bernie Sanders	174,228	51.88%	21	1	22
Hillary Clinton	139,443	41.52%	17	1	18
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn)	7,672	2.28%
Keith Judd	4,386	1.31%
Michael Steinberg	4,171	1.24%
Star Locke (withdrawn)	3,458	1.03%
Rocky De La Fuente	2,485	0.74%
Uncommitted	N/A		0	2	2
Total	335,843	100%	38	4	42
Source: The Green Papers, Oklahoma State Election Board

Republican primary

2016 Oklahoma Republican primary

March 1, 2016 (2016-03-01)

Candidate Ted Cruz Donald Trump Home state Texas New York Delegate count 15 14 Popular vote 158,078 130,267 Percentage 34.37% 28.32%   Candidate Marco Rubio Ben Carson Home state Florida Maryland Delegate count 12 0 Popular vote 119,633 28,601 Percentage 26.01% 6.22%

Oklahoma results by county   Ted Cruz   Donald Trump   Marco Rubio

Twelve candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[5]

Oklahoma Republican primary, March 1, 2016
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Actual delegate count
			Bound	Unbound	Total
Ted Cruz	158,078	34.37%	15	0	15
Donald Trump	130,267	28.32%	14	0	14
Marco Rubio	119,633	26.01%	12	0	12
Ben Carson	28,601	6.22%	0	0	0
John Kasich	16,524	3.59%	0	0	0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn)	2,091	0.45%	0	0	0
Rand Paul (withdrawn)	1,666	0.36%	0	0	0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)	1,308	0.28%	0	0	0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn)	610	0.13%	0	0	0
Chris Christie (withdrawn)	545	0.12%	0	0	0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn)	375	0.08%	0	0	0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn)	224	0.05%	0	0	0
Unprojected delegates:			2	0	2
Total:	459,922	100.00%	43	0	43
Source: The Green Papers

Polling

See also: Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election § Oklahoma

General election

Predictions

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Oklahoma as of Election Day.

1. Los Angeles Times: Strongly Trump[6]
2. CNN: Solid Trump[7]
3. Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Trump[8]
4. NBC: Likely Trump[9]
5. RealClearPolitics: Solid Trump[10]
6. Fox News: Solid Republican[11]
7. ABC: Solid Trump[12]

Slates of Electors

Republican: David Oldham, Teresa Lyn Turner, Mark Thomas, Bobby Cleveland, Lauree Elizabeth Marshall, Charles W. Potts, George W. Wiland, Jr

Libertarian: Erin Adams, Mikel Dillon, Joel Britt Dixon, Rex L. Lawhorn, Ephriam Zachary Knight, Craig A. Dawkins, Mark C. DeShazo

Democrat: Marq Lewis, Bill John Baker, Mark Hammons, Betty McElderry, W. A. Drew Edmondson, Jeannie McDaniel, Rhonda Walters[13]

Statewide results

Chart of popular vote

  Trump (65.32%)

  Clinton (28.93%)

  Johnson (5.75%)

2016 United States presidential election in Oklahoma[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Donald Trump	949,136	65.32%	7
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton	420,375	28.93%	0
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson	83,481	5.75%	0
Totals			1,452,992	100.00%	7

Analysis

The Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, carried Oklahoma with a victory margin of 36.39%. While Trump improved over Mitt Romney's 2012 vote total and victory margin, his vote percentage of 65.3% was down from Romney's 66.8%, making 2016 the first time since 1992 the Republican's vote percentage decreased from the previous election. Hillary Clinton's vote percentage of 28.9% is the worst for a Democratic candidate in Oklahoma since George McGovern's 24% in the 1972 election. Clinton however, did make gains in heavily populated Oklahoma County, its surrounding suburban counties, and Tulsa County. In Oklahoma County, Clinton turned a 16.66% advantage for Romney into a 10.5% advantage for Trump, while Trump was held below the 60% mark in Tulsa. Gary Johnson's total was more than twice what was needed to preserve recognized status for the Libertarian Party in the state, meaning that in 2018 the LP will be the first alternative party on the ballot for a gubernatorial election since the Reform Party in 1998. [15]

With 65.32% of the popular vote, Oklahoma would prove to be Trump's third strongest state in the 2016 election after Wyoming and West Virginia.[16] His win in the 2nd Congressional District was the second best of the five congressional districts in Oklahoma that he won, and he also carried the critical Native American vote in the state (this included all the counties of the proposed Native American state of Sequoyah). The state would also prove to be Gary Johnson's fourth strongest state with 5.75% of the popular vote after New Mexico, North Dakota and Alaska.

Results by county

County[17]	Trump	Trump %	Clinton	Clinton %	Johnson	Johnson %	Total
Adair	4,787	73.50%	1,382	21.22%	344	5.28%	6,513
Alfalfa	1,933	85.61%	216	9.57%	109	4.83%	2,253
Atoka	4,084	81.39%	795	15.84%	139	2.77%	5,018
Beaver	1,993	88.85%	176	7.85%	74	3.30%	2,243
Beckham	6,308	83.53%	960	12.71%	284	3.76%	7,552
Blaine	2,884	76.03%	711	18.75%	198	5.22%	3,793
Bryan	10,478	75.83%	2,804	20.29%	536	3.88%	13,818
Caddo	6,482	69.34%	2,420	25.89%	446	4.77%	9,348
Canadian	39,986	72.34%	11,674	21.12%	3,618	6.55%	55,278
Carter	13,752	74.20%	4,002	21.59%	780	4.21%	18,534
Cherokee	9,994	60.61%	5,456	33.09%	1,040	6.31%	16,490
Choctaw	4,206	77.52%	1,067	19.66%	153	2.82%	5,426
Cimarron	963	89.25%	71	6.58%	45	4.17%	1,079
Cleveland	62,538	57.14%	38,829	35.48%	8,083	7.39%	109,450
Coal	1,898	79.12%	411	17.13%	90	3.75%	2,399
Comanche	19,183	58.91%	11,463	35.20%	1,918	5.89%	32,564
Cotton	2,054	78.94%	424	16.30%	124	4.77%	2,602
Craig	4,283	74.04%	1,252	21.64%	250	4.32%	5,785
Creek	21,575	74.84%	5,841	20.26%	1,414	4.90%	28,830
Custer	7,826	74.24%	2,104	19.96%	611	5.80%	10,541
Delaware	11,826	75.25%	3,311	21.07%	579	3.68%	15,716
Dewey	1,965	87.41%	222	9.88%	61	2.71%	2,248
Ellis	1,611	88.18%	155	8.48%	61	3.34%	1,827
Garfield	16,009	73.74%	4,397	20.25%	1,304	6.01%	21,710
Garvin	8,253	78.26%	1,855	17.59%	438	4.15%	10,546
Grady	17,316	77.70%	3,882	17.42%	1,088	4.88%	22,286
Grant	1,827	83.01%	288	13.08%	86	3.91%	2,201
Greer	1,482	78.16%	323	17.04%	91	4.80%	1,896
Harmon	715	73.18%	225	23.03%	37	3.79%	977
Harper	1,318	87.93%	134	8.94%	47	3.14%	1,499
Haskell	3,701	78.11%	882	18.62%	155	3.27%	4,738
Hughes	3,388	74.86%	961	21.23%	177	3.91%	4,526
Jackson	5,969	76.47%	1,473	18.87%	364	4.66%	7,806
Jefferson	1,910	81.28%	365	15.53%	75	3.19%	2,350
Johnston	3,093	76.98%	786	19.56%	139	3.46%	4,018
Kay	12,172	72.44%	3,738	22.25%	893	5.31%	16,803
Kingfisher	5,156	84.10%	786	12.82%	189	3.08%	6,131
Kiowa	2,596	74.32%	767	21.96%	130	3.72%	3,493
Latimer	3,100	76.43%	797	19.65%	159	3.92%	4,056
Le Flore	13,362	77.59%	3,250	18.87%	609	3.54%	17,221
Lincoln	10,854	77.39%	2,430	17.33%	741	5.28%	14,025
Logan	13,633	71.83%	4,428	22.38%	1,098	5.79%	18,979
Love	2,922	77.12%	735	19.40%	132	3.48%	3,789
Major	2,948	86.53%	310	9.10%	149	4.37%	3,407
Marshall	4,206	76.58%	1,096	19.96%	190	3.46%	5,492
Mayes	11,555	73.52%	3,423	21.78%	739	4.70%	15,717
McClain	13,169	78.12%	2,894	17.17%	795	4.72%	16,858
McCurtain	8,656	80.70%	1,802	16.80%	268	2.50%	10,726
McIntosh	5,505	69.13%	2,123	26.66%	335	4.21%	7,963
Murray	4,175	75.52%	1,087	19.66%	266	4.81%	5,528
Muskogee	15,043	62.12%	7,977	32.94%	1,196	4.94%	24,216
Noble	3,715	76.16%	901	18.47%	262	5.37%	4,878
Nowata	3,321	78.38%	742	17.51%	174	4.11%	4,237
Okfuskee	2,800	71.01%	943	23.92%	200	5.07%	3,943
Oklahoma	141,569	51.68%	112,813	41.18%	19,560	7.14%	273,943
Okmulgee	8,944	64.12%	4,385	31.44%	620	4.44%	13,949
Osage	12,577	66.31%	5,597	29.31%	792	4.18%	18,966
Ottawa	7,631	71.38%	2,584	24.17%	475	4.44%	10,690
Pawnee	4,729	74.31%	1,344	21.12%	291	4.57%	6,364
Payne	16,651	59.98%	8,788	31.66%	2,321	8.36%	27,760
Pittsburg	12,753	73.84%	3,711	21.49%	807	4.67%	17,271
Pontotoc	10,431	70.33%	3,637	24.52%	763	5.14%	14,831
Pottawatomie	17,848	70.12%	6,015	23.63%	1,589	6.24%	25,452
Pushmataha	3,581	79.88%	748	16.69%	154	3.44%	4,483
Roger Mills	1,547	87.95%	151	8.58%	61	3.47%	1,759
Rogers	30,913	75.65%	7,902	19.34%	2,047	5.01%	40,862
Seminole	5,613	69.84%	2,071	25.77%	353	4.39%	8,037
Sequoyah	10,888	75.42%	3,061	21.20%	488	3.38%	14,437
Stephens	14,182	79.21%	3,086	17.24%	636	3.55%	17,904
Texas	4,621	79.95%	858	14.84%	301	5.21%	5,780
Tillman	1,944	71.84%	657	24.28%	105	3.88%	2,706
Tulsa	144,258	58.39%	87,847	35.56%	14,949	6.05%	247,054
Wagoner	23,005	73.50%	6,723	21.48%	1,572	5.02%	31,300
Washington	15,825	71.21%	5,048	22.71%	1,351	6.08%	22,224
Washita	3,854	83.22%	588	12.70%	189	4.08%	4,631
Woods	2,947	80.34%	522	14.23%	199	5.43%	3,668
Woodward	6,347	83.57%	873	11.49%	375	4.94%	7,595
All Counties	949,136	65.32%	420,375	28.93%	83,481	5.75%	1,452,992

By congressional district

Trump won all five congressional districts.[18]

District	Trump	Clinton	Representative
1st	61%	33%	Jim Bridenstine
2nd	73%	23%	Markwayne Mullin
3rd	74%	21%	Frank Lucas
4th	66%	28%	Tom Cole
5th	53%	40%	Steve Russell

See also

• 2016 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums
• 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums
• 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries

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