Red Blue State Map 2016 Election
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Red blue state map 2016 election. The 2016 united states presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election held on tuesday november 8 2016 the republican ticket of businessman donald trump and indiana governor mike pence defeated the democratic ticket of former secretary of state hillary clinton and u s. All but 10 states had voted consistently democratic or republican for at least the prior four consecutive presidential elections. Purple states are also often referred to as battleground states. The demographic and political applications of the terms have led to a temptation to presume this arbitrary classification is a clear cut.
Electoral maps weren t always red and blue states. The darker the blue the more a county went for hilary clinton and the darker the red the more the county went for donald trump. The colorful distinction between major parties is a relatively recent phenomenon. Blue or red states since 2000.
Trump took office as the 45th president and pence as the 48th vice president on january 20 2017. As the 2016 election cycle approached the electoral map had become pretty predictable. The democratic states comprising 242 electoral votes had all actually gone blue since 1992 six straight elections. This map helps explain why.
On monday we featured a map from 2012 and asked you what you could learn from it. 2016 united states presidential election results by county on a color spectrum from democratic blue to republican red. A purple state refers to a swing state where both democratic and republican candidates receive strong support without an overwhelming majority of support for either party. The terms red state and blue state have been in familiar lexicon since the 2000 us presidential election.
If a state is not a red state or a blue state it might be a swing state. Now we feature a map. Here are newman s maps showing the results of the 2016 election. Further highlighting this polarization.
Map created by magog the ogre via wikimedia the map above shows the county level and vote share results of the 2016 us presidential election. The new york times. Senator from virginia tim kaine despite losing the popular vote. For the gop this represented 179 electoral votes.
Trump emerged as his party s front. A map showing red states blue states and swing states as of the 2016 election. Red and blue map 2016. Here s the basic electoral college map with states that clinton won in blue and states that trump won in red assuming.
Here is a typical map of the results of the 2016 election.