United States presidential election in Arizona, 2016

United States presidential election in Arizona, 2016
Arizona
November 8, 2016
 
Nominee Donald Trump Hillary Clinton
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New York
Running mate Mike Pence Tim Kaine
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 1,252,401[1] 1,161,167[1]
Percentage 49.03% 45.46%

County Results

  Trump—40-50%
  Trump—50-60%
  Trump—60-70%
  Trump—70-80%
  Clinton—50-60%
  Clinton—60-70%
  Clinton—70-80%

President before election

Barack Obama
Democratic

 Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

The 2016 United States presidential election in Arizona was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Arizona 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.

On March 22, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Arizona voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, and Green parties' respective nominees for President. (The Libertarian Party uses a privately funded caucus to select its presidential delegates and does not allow independents to vote in its primary.[2]) 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, except in presidential elections.

Donald Trump narrowly won Arizona with a margin of 3.5%, a greatly reduced margin from Mitt Romney's 9.03% margin in 2012.[3] Arizona was among the eleven states in which Hillary Clinton outperformed Barack Obama's margin in 2012.[4]


Primary Elections

Democratic primary

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix on March 21, 2016.
Senator Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix on March 15, 2016.
Former President Bill Clinton at a campaign rally for his wife at Central High School in Phoenix on March 20, 2016.

Six candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:[5]

Opinion polling

Results

 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in Arizona, 2016
– Summary of results –
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 262,459 56.29% 42 6 48
Bernie Sanders 192,962 41.39% 33 1 34
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 3,877 0.83%
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente 2,797 0.60%
Michael Steinberg 2,295 0.49%
Henry Hewes 1,845 0.40%
Uncommitted N/A 3 3
Total 466,235 100% 75 10 85
Source: The Green Papers, Arizona Secretary of State
Detailed results per congressional district
 Detailed results for the Arizona Democratic primary, April 5, 2016[6][7]
District Total Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders
Votes Delegates Votes % Delegates Votes % Delegates
1st district 63,863 6 35,445 55.50% 3 26,267 41.13% 3
2nd district 78,237 8 42,797 54.70% 4 33,891 43.32% 4
3rd district 51,520 5 30,298 58.81% 3 20,091 39.00% 2
4th district 37,273 4 15,289 55.43% 2 20,662 41.02% 2
5th district 40,847 5 22,973 56.24% 3 16,982 41.57% 2
6th district 50,465 6 29,266 57.99% 4 20,259 40.14% 2
7th district 42,199 5 24,245 57.45% 3 17,173 40.70% 2
8th district 46,491 5 27,672 59.52% 3 17,651 37.97% 2
9th district 55,340 6 29,101 52.59% 3 25,359 45.82% 3
At-large delegates 466,235 16 262,459 56.29% 9 192,962 41.39% 7
Pledged PLEOs 466,235 9 262,459 56.29% 5 192,962 41.39% 4
Total 466,235 75 262,464 56.29% 42 192,965 41.39% 33

Republican primary

Businessman Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Fountain Park in Fountain Hills on March 19, 2016.
Senator Ted Cruz at a campaign rally at Arizona Christian University in Phoenix on March 18, 2016.

Fourteen candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[8]

Arizona Republican primary, March 22, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Donald Trump 286,743 45.95% 58 0 58
Ted Cruz 172,294 27.61% 0 0 0
Marco Rubio (withdrawn) 72,304 11.59% 0 0 0
John Kasich 65,965 10.57% 0 0 0
Ben Carson (withdrawn) 14,940 2.39% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 4,393 0.70% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 2,269 0.36% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 1,300 0.21% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) 1,270 0.20% 0 0 0
Chris Christie (withdrawn) 988 0.16% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 523 0.08% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 498 0.08% 0 0 0
George Pataki (withdrawn) 309 0.05% 0 0 0
Timothy Cook (withdrawn) 243 0.04% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 624,039 100.00% 58 0 58
Source: The Green Papers

Green primary

Green Party candidate Jill Stein at a campaign rally at the Mesa Public Library in Mesa on March 12, 2016.

The Arizona Green Party held its primary on March 22. Jill Stein won with 82% of the vote, and the overall number of voters that took place in the primary saw an increase from 561 in 2012 to 770 in 2016.[9] Only two candidates qualified for the primary:[10]

Arizona Green Party presidential primary, March 22, 2016[11]
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates
Jill Stein 666 82% 5
Kent Mesplay 151 18% 1
Write-in/Blank 18 2% -
Total 817 100.00% 6

Alleged voter suppression

There is considerable controversy surrounding the Arizona primary elections of 2016, specifically having to do with the dramatic decrease in polling places in Maricopa County from 200 in 2012, to only 60 in 2016, despite the number of registered voters having increased from 300,000 in 2012 to 800,000 in 2016. This decrease in polling places was most pronounced in minority neighborhoods, most notably Latino neighborhoods, with areas like Central Phoenix having only 1 polling place for 108,000 voters. There were also reports of many voters who had been previously registered, coming up as unregistered, or registered as an independent, making them ineligible to vote. Voters who did manage to vote had to stand in long lines to cast their ballots, some for as long as five hours. Additionally, voters reported being required to vote with a provisional ballot. In 2005, Arizona threw out 27,878 provisional ballots, counting only about 72.5% of the total provisional ballots reported.[12] Taking into account Arizona's increasingly lax voting laws, and the amplifying effects of the Supreme Court's "gutting of the Voting Rights Act",[13] it's unknown what percentage of the provisional ballots were counted. This was the first presidential primary election in the state of Arizona since the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which would have previously required Southern states with a history of voter discrimination, including Arizona, to receive Federal approval before implementing any changes to voting laws and practices. These irregularities have led many to suspect a deliberate act of voter suppression and electoral fraud.

Within a day after the election took place on March 22, a petition went viral on the White House petitions site asking the Department of Justice to investigate voter suppression and election fraud in Arizona that reached its goal of 100,000 signatures in record time compared to other popular petitions.[14] In addition, Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the allegations of voter suppression.

The Department of Justice has since launched a federal investigation into the primary.[15]

Polling

General election

Statewide Results

U.S. presidential election in Arizona, 2016[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Donald Trump 1,252,401 49.03
Democratic Hillary Clinton 1,161,167 45.46
Libertarian Gary Johnson 106,327 4.16
Green Jill Stein 34,345 1.34
Total votes 2,554,240 99.87

Results by County

County Trump# Trump% Clinton# Clinton% Johnson# Johnson% Stein# Stein% Total Votes
Apache 8,240 30.50% 17,083 63.24% 1,221 4.52% 469 1.74% 27,013
Cochise 28,092 57.41% 17,450 35.66% 2,394 4.89% 993 2.03% 48,929
Coconino 21,108 36.45% 32,404 56.44% 2,978 5.14% 1,414 2.44% 57,904
Gila 14,182 63.88% 7,003 31.55% 803 3.62% 212 0.95% 22,200
Graham 8,025 67.22% 3,301 27.65% 497 4.16% 116 0.97% 11,939
Greenlee 1,892 58.34% 1,092 33.67% 200 6.17% 59 1.82% 3,243
La Paz 4,003 68.29% 1,575 26.87% 211 3.60% 73 1.25% 5,862
Maricopa 747,361 48.63% 702,907 45.74% 67,043 4.36% 19,432 1.26% 1,536,743
Mohave 58,282 73.67% 17,455 22.06% 2,639 3.34% 740 0.94% 79,116
Navajo 20,577 52.56% 16,459 42.04% 1,410 3.60% 703 1.80% 39,149
Pima 167,428 40.45% 224,661 54.28% 15,620 3.77% 6,200 1.50% 413,909
Pinal 72,819 57.25% 47,892 37.65% 5,010 3.94% 1,467 1.15% 127,197
Santa Cruz 11,690 71.98% 3,897 24.00% 432 2.66% 221 1.36% 16,240
Yavapai 71,330 63.40% 35,590 31.63% 3,996 3.55% 1,588 1.41% 112,504
Yuma 25,165 48.12% 24,605 47.05% 1,873 3.58% 649 1.24% 52,292

Turnout

Voter Turnout was 74.17% with 2,661,497 ballots cast out of 3,588,466 voters.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Arizona Secretary of State Election Night Reporting". Results.arizona.vote. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  2. ↑ "How to vote in Arizona's presidential-preference election". Azcentral.com. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  3. ↑ "Arizona Election Results 2016 – The New York Times". Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=2016&def=swg&datatype=national&f=0&off=0&elect=0
  5. ↑ "Democratic Party Candidates - Presidential Preference Election 2016". azsos.gov. Secretary of State of Arizona. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ The Green Papers
  7. ↑ "2016 Arizona District-Level Delegate Math" (PDF). Arizona Democratic Party. April 5, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Republican Party Candidates - Presidential Preference Election 2016 | Arizona Secretary of State". Azsos.gov. 2015-03-07. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  9. ↑ "Arizona Green Party Presidential Primary Results". Ballot Access News. 2016-03-23. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  10. ↑ "Two Candidates Qualify for Arizona Green Party Presidential Primary; Six Qualify for Democratic Primary". Ballot Access News. 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  11. ↑ "Unofficial 2016 Presidential Preference Election Results". azsos.gov. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  12. ↑ Beal, Tom (29 January 2005). "Counties inconsistent in provisional-vote rules. Was your vote counted?". votersunite.org. Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court".
  14. ↑ "Petition to White House about Arizona 'voter suppression' hit goal in about 40 hours".
  15. ↑ Lachman, Samantha; Reilly, Ryan J. (April 4, 2016). "The DOJ Is Investigating Arizona's Election Mess". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 4, 2016.

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