Red Blue State Map 2016

That s changed in recent years as polarization has increased resulting in red and blue strongholds with bigger victory margins.

Red blue state map 2016. A map showing red states blue states and swing states as of the 2016 election. To win donald trump broke through some of the blue wall of 242 electoral votes that had voted democratic in each presidential election since at least 1992. Scribner s statistical atlas of the united states published in 1883 detailed presidential voting patterns by county for prior elections. On monday we featured a map from 2012 and asked you what you could learn from it.

Alaskan voters traditionally veer republican and have voted that way in all but one election since they first began participating in presidential elections in 1960. Click on any of the maps for a larger picture. Here is a typical map of the results of the 2016 election. The 2016 historical interactive map shows the official electoral vote which trump won 304 227 with seven total faithless electors.

For instance despite the narrow popular vote margin in 2016 more than two dozen states were decided by margins of 15 percentage points or more. There is significantly more red on this map than there is blue but that is in some ways misleading. Barack obama managed to win in many republican red wall states in the 2008 election which was another year that made an exception to the rule. 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.

Electoral maps weren t always red and blue states. Pennsylvania michigan wisconsin and one district in maine voted republican in 2016. The terms red state and blue state have been in familiar lexicon since the 2000 us presidential election. The opposing term to the blue wall is the red wall which refers to the states where the republican party continues to win the majority of the votes in elections.

The states are colored red or blue to indicate whether a majority of their voters voted for the republican candidate donald trump or the democratic candidate hillary clinton respectively. The demographic and political applications of the terms have led to a temptation to presume this arbitrary classification is a clear cut. Now we feature a map. In 1988 when the popular vote margin was seven percentage points there were just 17 states which were won by such big margins.

Here is a list of the strongest red states in the country. If a state is not a red state or a blue state it might be a swing state. 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 map above shows the county level and vote share results of the 2016 us presidential election.

Red and blue map 2016. During the 2016 presidential election donald trump the republican candidate managed to secure a win in three blue wall states. Purple states are also often referred to as battleground states. Each map highlighted democratic dominance of the south in red while republican wins in the northeast and upper midwest were highlighted in blue.

2016 united states presidential election results by county on a color spectrum from democratic blue to republican red. However two texas electors did not cast their actual ballots for him so history will record trump as winning 304 electoral votes. The colorful distinction between major parties is a relatively recent phenomenon. The election was much closer than you might think from the balance of colors and in fact clinton.

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