2016 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

The 2016 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Voters chose the four electors to represent them in the Electoral College by a popular vote.

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2016 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
November 8, 2016
Turnout75.03%
 
Nominee Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Tim Kaine Mike Pence
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 348,526 345,790
Percentage 47.62% 47.25%
County Results
President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

 Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

Treemap of the popular vote by county.
Elections in New Hampshire

New Hampshire was won with a plurality by Hillary Clinton with a 0.4% margin, the second closest percentage behind Michigan.

On February 9, 2016, in the presidential primaries, voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated chose any one primary in which to vote.

Primary elections

As per tradition and by New Hampshire electoral laws,[1] New Hampshire holds the primaries before any other state. As a result, candidates for nomination usually spend a long period campaigning in New Hampshire.

Democratic primary
2016 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary
February 9, 2016 (2016-02-09)
 
Candidate Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton
Home state Vermont New York
Delegate count 15 9
Popular vote 152,193 95,355
Percentage 60.14% 37.68%
New Hampshire results by county
  Bernie Sanders
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in Manchester
Senator Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in Hooksett

In the New Hampshire Democratic primary taking place on February 9, 2016, there were 24 pledged delegates and 8 super delegates that went to the Democratic National Convention. The pledged electors were allocated in this way. 16 delegates were allocated proportionally by congressional district (8 delegates per district). The other 8 delegates were allocated based on the statewide popular vote.[2]

Results
New Hampshire Democratic primary, February 9, 2016
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Of total Pledged Unpledged Total
Bernie Sanders 152,193 60.14% 15 1 16
Hillary Clinton 95,355 37.68% 9 6 15
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 667 0.26%
Vermin Supreme 268 0.11%
David John Thistle 226 0.09%
Graham Schwass 143 0.06%
Steve Burke 108 0.04%
Rocky De La Fuente 96 0.04%
John Wolfe Jr. 54 0.02%
Jon Adams 53 0.02%
Lloyd Thomas Kelso 46 0.02%
Keith Russell Judd 44 0.02%
Eric Elbot 36 0.01%
Star Locke 33 0.01%
William D. French 29 0.01%
Mark Stewart Greenstein 29 0.01%
Edward T. O'Donnell 26 0.01%
James Valentine 24 0.01%
Robert Lovitt 22 0.01%
Michael Steinberg 21 0.01%
William H. McGaughey Jr. 19 0.01%
Henry Hewes 18 0.01%
Edward Sonnino 17 0.01%
Steven Roy Lipscomb 15 0.01%
Sam Sloan 15 0.01%
Brock C. Hutton 14 0.01%
Raymond Michael Moroz 8 0.00%
Richard Lyons Weil 8 0.00%
Write-ins[lower-alpha 1] 3,475 1.37%
Uncommitted N/A 0 1 1
Total 253,062 100% 24 8 32
Sources: The Green Papers,[4] New Hampshire Secretary of State[5]

Republican primary
2016 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary
February 9, 2016 (2016-02-09)
 
Candidate Donald Trump John Kasich Ted Cruz
Home state New York Ohio Texas
Delegate count 11 4 3
Popular vote 100,735 44,932 33,244
Percentage 35.23% 15.72% 11.63%
 
Candidate Jeb Bush Marco Rubio Chris Christie
Home state Florida Florida New Jersey
Delegate count 3 2 0
Popular vote 31,341 30,071 21,089
Percentage 10.96% 10.52% 7.38%
New Hampshire results by county
  Donald Trump
President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Derry
Senator Marco Rubio at a campaign event in Manchester
Senator Ted Cruz at a campaign event in Manchester
Governor John Kasich at a campaign event in Nashua

The New Hampshire Republican primary took place on February 9, 2016, where there were 23 bound delegates which were allocated proportionally and a candidate has to get at least 10% of the vote to get any delegates to the Republican National Convention.[6]

Results
New Hampshire Republican primary, February 9, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Donald Trump 100,735 35.23% 11 0 11
John Kasich 44,932 15.72% 4 0 4
Ted Cruz 33,244 11.63% 3 0 3
Jeb Bush 31,341 10.96% 3 0 3
Marco Rubio 30,071 10.52% 2 0 2
Chris Christie 21,089 7.38% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina 11,774 4.12% 0 0 0
Ben Carson 6,527 2.28% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 1,930 0.68% 0 0 0
Write-ins 2,912 1.02% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 216 0.08% 0 0 0
Andy Martin 202 0.07% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 160 0.06% 0 0 0
Jim Gilmore 134 0.05% 0 0 0
Richard Witz 104 0.04% 0 0 0
George Pataki (withdrawn) 79 0.03% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 73 0.03% 0 0 0
Brooks Andrews Cullison 56 0.02% 0 0 0
Timothy Cook 55 0.02% 0 0 0
Bobby Jindal (withdrawn) 53 0.02% 0 0 0
Frank Lynch 47 0.02% 0 0 0
Joe Robinson 44 0.02% 0 0 0
Stephen Bradley Comley 32 0.01% 0 0 0
Chomi Prag 16 0.01% 0 0 0
Jacob Daniel Dyas 15 0.01% 0 0 0
Stephen John McCarthy 12 0% 0 0 0
Walter Iwachiw 9 0% 0 0 0
Kevin Glenn Huey 8 0% 0 0 0
Matt Drozd 6 0% 0 0 0
Robert Lawrence Mann 5 0% 0 0 0
Peter Messina 5 0% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 285,916 100.00% 23 0 23
Source: The Green Papers

General election

Polling

Results
General election results, November 8, 2016 [7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Hillary Clinton 348,526 47.62%
Republican Donald Trump 345,790 47.25%
Libertarian Gary Johnson 30,694 4.13%
Green Jill Stein 6,465 0.87%
Independent Evan McMullin (write-in) 1,064 0.15%
Reform Rocky De La Fuente 677 0.1%
n/a Total Other Write-in 10,965 1.47%
Total votes 743,117 100.00%

By county
County Clinton% Clinton# Trump% Trump# Others% Others# Total
Belknap39.11%13,51755.89%19,3154.99%2,12234,558
Carroll44.63%12,98750.29%14,6355.09%1,90129,102
Cheshire53.66%22,06441.04%16,8765.30%2,81841,121
Coos42.94%6,56352.03%7,9525.03%104615,284
Grafton56.89%28,51037.93%19,0105.18%3,45450,115
Hillsborough47.26%99,58947.46%100,0135.29%13,835210,746
Merrimack48.98%40,19845.91%37,6745.11%5,51582,064
Rockingham44.65%79,99450.48%90,4474.87%10,373179,168
Strafford51.33%34,89442.77%29,0725.90%4,87367,980
Sullivan46.14%10,21048.79%10,7965.07%1,63222,129

Analysis

Hillary Clinton's margin of victory was the smallest for a Democrat in the state since Woodrow Wilson narrowly won it in 1916. New Hampshire last voted for a Republican, George W. Bush, in 2000, and although Trump did not win New Hampshire, the top-line county results were exactly the same in 2000 and 2016. Despite Trump's narrow loss, this would be the first presidential election since 2000 where New Hampshire would vote more Republican than the national average, along with the first time since 1976 when the winner of Coos County did not also carry the state as well.

Allegations of voting irregularities

On September 7, 2017, state House speaker Shawn Jasper announced that data showed that 6,540 people voted using out-of-state licenses. Of those, only 15% had received state licenses by August 2017. Of the remaining 5,526, only 3.3% had registered a motor vehicle in New Hampshire. In addition to the close vote for president, Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan defeated incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte by 1,017 votes. In February 2017, President Trump had told a gathering of senators at the White House that fraudulent out-of-state voting had cost him and Ayotte the election in New Hampshire. Mainstream media disputed Trump's and Japser's assertion.[8] New Hampshire law permits New Hampshire residents to vote using out-of-state identification if they are domiciled in the state, out-of-state college students attending schools in New Hampshire being one example of such legitimate use of out-of-state identification.[9]

Several investigations by New Hampshire's Ballot Law Commission found no evidence of widespread fraud, and only 4 instances of fraud total in the state for the 2016 elections.[10] Specifically addressing the claim of people being bussed in from out of state to vote, Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards noted that they found no evidence for such claims. When they investigated these claims, they found that the buses were chartered out of state, but the voters on the buses lived in New Hampshire and could legally vote there.[11]

See also

Notes
  1. The write-ins include 3,248 votes for these 11 Republican presidential candidates: Trump (1795), Kasich (438), Jeb Bush (263), Christie (216), Marco Rubio (203), Ted Cruz (162), Fiorina (99), Carson (52), Paul (12), Gilmore (6), Huckabee (2).[3]

References
  1. Gregg, Hugh (1997). "First-In-The-Nation Presidential Primary". New Hampshire Almanac. State of New Hampshire. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  2. "New Hampshire Democratic Delegation 2016". www.thegreenpapers.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  3. "2016 Presidential Primary - Democratic President: Summary Democratic Write-ins". New Hampshire Secretary of State. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  4. "2016 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions: New Hampshire Democrat Presidential Nominating Process". The Green Papers. December 5, 2019. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  5. "2016 Presidential Primary - Democratic President: Summary Democratic 16PP". New Hampshire Secretary of State. February 2016. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  6. "New Hampshire Republican Delegation 2016". www.thegreenpapers.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  7. "2016 Presidential General Election Results In New Hampshire".
  8. Weigel, David, "Election Integrity Commission members accuse New Hampshire voters of fraud", The Washington Post, 8 September 2017' Scarborough, Rowan, "More than 5,000 out-of-state voters may have tipped New Hampshire against Trump", Washington Times, September 7, 2017
  9. UNH Votes, ""
  10. "After Exhaustive Investigations, NH Officials Find No Widespread Fraud in Recent Elections". New Hampshire Public Radio. May 29, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  11. "After Exhaustive Investigations, NH Officials Find No Widespread Fraud in Recent Elections". New Hampshire Public Radio. May 29, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
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