2016 United States presidential election in Alabama


The 2016 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Alabama 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 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Alabama voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian 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. Alabama has voted for the Republican candidate in every election since it was won by Ronald Reagan in 1980. Trump was heavily favored to win the state.
Donald Trump won the election in Alabama with 62.08% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 34.36% of the vote. The state gave 60.55% of its votes to Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, meaning that it shifted 1.53% more Republican from the previous election. The margin of victory for Donald Trump in Alabama was 27.72%, a 5.53% increase from Mitt Romney's 22.19% margin of victory.

General election

Predictions

The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Alabama as of Election Day.
  1. Los Angeles Times: Strongly Trump
  2. CNN: Solid Trump
  3. Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Trump
  4. NBC: Likely Trump
  5. RealClearPolitics: Solid Trump
  6. Fox News: Solid Republican
  7. ABC: Solid Trump

    Statewide results

Results by county

Counties that swung from Democratic to Republican

Trump won 6 of 7 congressional districts
DistrictTrumpClintonRepresentative
63%34%Bradley Byrne
65%33%Martha Roby
65%32% Mike Rogers
80%17%Robert Aderholt
64%31%Mo Brooks
70%26%Gary Palmer
28%70%Terri Sewell

Turnout

According to the Alabama Secretary of State website, voter turnout was 66.82% with 2,137,482 ballots cast out of 3,198,703 registered voters.

Electors

Alabama had 9 electors in 2016 all of them voted for Donald Trump for president and Mike Pence for vice president.
The electors were:

Democratic primary

Opinion polling

Results

Republican primary

Opinion polls