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Donald Trump won the general election of Tuesday, November 8, 2016. He lost the popular vote but won the electoral college . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most polls correctly predicted a popular vote victory for Hillary Clinton , but overestimated the size of her lead, with the result that Trump's electoral college victory was a surprise to analysts.
This is a list of nationwide public opinion polls that were conducted relating to the Republican primaries for the 2016 United States presidential election.The persons named in the polls were either declared candidates, former candidates, or received media speculation about their possible candidacy.
The following people were the focus of presidential speculation in multiple media reports during the 2016 election cycle but did not enter the race. Kelly Ayotte U.S. Senator from New Hampshire 2011–2017 [ 46 ] [ 47 ]
Seventeen major candidates were listed in major independent nationwide polls and filed as candidates with the Federal Election Commission. [citation needed] A total of 2,472 delegates attended the 2016 Republican National Convention, and the winning candidate needed a simple majority of 1,237 votes to become the Republican nominee.
2016 United States presidential election ← 2012 November 8, 2016 2020 → 538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Opinion polls Turnout 60.1% (1.5 pp) Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Party Republican Democratic Home state New York New York Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine Electoral vote 304 [a] 227 [a] States carried 30 + ME-02 20 + DC Popular vote ...
While Trump and his supporters often cite the 2016 presidential election results to show that polls cannot be trusted, an analysis by FiveThirtyEight found that general election polls from that ...
That summer, 17 major candidates were recognized by national and state polls, making it the largest presidential candidate field for any single political party in American history. [2] The large field made possible the fact that the 2016 primaries were the first since 1968 (and the first in which every state held a contest) in which more than ...
According to Pew Research, confidence in the public opinion polling has suffered given the errors in the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020. In both of these general elections, many polls ...