A report on Democratic Party (United States) and 2016 United States presidential election

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

The incumbent in 2016, Barack Obama. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2017.

Campaign signs of third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, October 2016 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

A general election ballot, listing the presidential and vice presidential candidates

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Trump campaigns in Phoenix, Arizona, October 29, 2016

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Clinton campaigns in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 22, 2016

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

President Barack Obama casting his vote early in Chicago on October 7, 2016

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Vote margin swing by state 2012 to 2016. Only twelve states (as well as the District of Columbia and Nebraka's 2nd congressional district) shifted more Democratic. The large swing in Utah is mostly due to the votes for third candidate Evan McMullin and the 2012 candidacy of Utah's Mitt Romney.

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Final polling averages for the 2016 election by state. Polls from lightly shaded states are older than September 1, 2016.

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Results by state, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Results by vote distribution among states. The size of each state's pie chart is proportional to its number of electoral votes.

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Results by county. Red denotes counties that went to Trump; blue denotes counties that went to Clinton.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

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President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

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Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

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Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Results of election by congressional district, shaded by winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Results by county, shaded according to percentage of the vote for Johnson

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Results by county, shaded according to percentage of the vote for Jill Stein

Results by state, shaded according to margin of victory

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the greatest upsets in American history.

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After the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the Democratic Party transitioned into the role of an opposition party and held neither the presidency nor the Senate but won back a majority in the House in the 2018 midterm elections.

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Republican Party (United States)

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One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

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Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

The election of Republican Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 marked a populist shift in the Republican Party.

Donald Trump

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American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020

Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018

Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019

Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020

Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.

Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020

Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019

Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump

Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but lost the popular vote, becoming the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service.

2020 United States presidential election

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The 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

States and territories with at least one local, state, or federal primary election date or method of voting altered as of August 5, 2020.

A poll worker sanitizes an election booth in Davis, California

Chart of July 2020 opinion survey on likelihood of voting by mail in November election, compared to 2016

President Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her family, just prior to Barrett being announced as the nominee, September 26, 2020

George Floyd protests in Minneapolis on May 26

Hexagonal cartogram of the number of electoral college votes. States with opposite outcomes from 2016 are hatched.

People celebrate in the streets near the White House after the major networks projected Biden the winner of the election on November 7.

Senator Chuck Schumer addresses a crowd celebrating in Times Square, New York City shortly after the election was called for Biden.

Voters cast ballots at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa

Screenshot of a tweet from Trump's Twitter account where he repeatedly and falsely claimed he had won.

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale reported that through June 9, 2021, Trump had issued 132 written statements since leaving office, of which "a third have included lies about the election"—more than any other subject.

Pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6

A discontinuous cartogram of the 2020 United States presidential election

A continuous county-level cartogram of the 2020 United States presidential election

Election results by Congressional District

Shaded election results by county (red-purple-blue scale)

The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and incumbent vice president Mike Pence.

In July 2020, Trump declined to answer whether he would accept the results, just as he did in the 2016 presidential election, telling Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that "I have to see. No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no."

Hillary Clinton

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American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

Mementos of Hillary Rodham's early life, shown at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center

Rodham in Maine South High School's 1965 yearbook

Rodham (center) campaigning for Wellesley College Government President in 1968, an election which she later won

Hillary and Bill lived in this house in Little Rock's Hillcrest neighborhood while he was Arkansas Attorney General (1977–1979).

Bill and Hillary Clinton with President Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Clinton presenting her health care plan, September 1993

Hillary Clinton speaks about the 1993 health care plan at GWU Hospital.

Read Across America Day in Maryland, 1998

Inauguration Day walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to start Bill's second term as president, January 20, 1997

Results of the 2000 United States Senate election in New York. Clinton won the counties in blue.

Reenactment of Hillary Rodham Clinton's swearing-in as a U.S. senator by Vice President Al Gore in the Old Senate Chamber, as Bill and Chelsea look on

Clinton listens as the chief of naval operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, responds to a question during his 2007 confirmation hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee

Clinton at the 2007 CDA National Convention

Clinton campaigning at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two days before Super Tuesday, 2008

State-by-state popular votes in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, shaded by percentage won: Obama in purple, Clinton in green. (Popular vote winners and delegate winners differed in New Hampshire, Nevada, Missouri, Texas and Guam.)

Clinton speaks on behalf of her former rival, Barack Obama, during the second night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention

Official secretary of state portrait, 2009

Associate Judge Kathryn Oberly of the D.C. Court of Appeals administers the oath of office of secretary of state to Hillary Rodham Clinton as her husband Bill Clinton holds the Bible

Clinton and Obama at the 21st NATO summit, April 2009

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Clinton hold a "reset button", March 2009

Greeting service members at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, October 2010

The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011

Clinton with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi during her December 2011 visit to Myanmar

Clinton, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune Spear in the White House Situation Room on May 1, 2011. Everyone in the room is watching a live feed from drones operating over the Osama bin Laden complex.

Obama and Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012

Clinton addressing email controversy with the media at the UN Headquarters on March 10, 2015

Clinton campaigning for president in Manchester, New Hampshire, in October 2016, with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren (seated)

Clinton, accepting Senator Bernie Sanders' endorsement in New Hampshire, July 2016

Clinton delivering her concession speech

The Clintons at Donald Trump's inauguration

Clinton and her husband attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery after the inauguration of Joe Biden

Copies of What Happened at an event on Clinton's book tour promoting the memoir

Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm for fifteen years. Her professional career and political involvement set the stage for public reaction to her as the first lady.

Secretary Clinton meets with Algeria's President Bouteflika, 2012

A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump.

Electoral votes, out of 538, allocated to each state and the District of Columbia for presidential elections to be held in 2024 and 2028, based on representation, which depends on population data from the 2020 census. Every jurisdiction is entitled to at least 3.

United States Electoral College

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Group of presidential electors required by the Constitution to form every four years for the sole purpose of appointing the president and vice president.

In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 and Donald Trump 232 of the total 538 electoral votes.
In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.

Cases of certificates of the electoral college votes confirming the results of the 2020 US election, after they had been removed from the House Chambers by congressional staff during the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack.

After the popular election in November, a state's Certificate of Ascertainment officially announces the state's electors for the Electoral College. The appointed Electoral College members later meet in the state capital in December to cast their votes.

Population per electoral vote for each state and Washington, D.C. (2010 census). By 2020 estimates, a single elector could represent more than 700,000 people or under 200,000.

When the state's electors meet in December, they cast their ballots and record their vote on a Certificate of Vote, which is then sent to the U.S. Congress. (From the election of 1876)

This cartogram shows the number of electors from each state for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Following the 2010 Census, New York and Ohio lost two electoral votes, 8 states lost one, 6 states gained one, Florida gained two, and Texas gained four.

This graphic demonstrates how the winner of the popular vote can still lose in an electoral college system similar to the U.S. Electoral College.

Bar graph of popular votes in presidential elections (through 2020). Black stars mark the five cases where the winner did not have the plurality of the popular vote. Black squares mark the two cases where the electoral vote resulted in a tie, or the winner did not have the majority of electoral votes. An H marks each of two cases where the election was decided by the House; an S marks the one case where the election was finalized by the Supreme Court.

These maps show the amount of attention given to each state by the Bush and Kerry campaigns (combined) during the final five weeks of the 2004 election: each waving hand (purple map) represents a visit from a presidential or vice presidential candidate; each dollar sign (green map) represents one million dollars spent on TV advertising.

Half the U.S. population lives in 143 urban / suburban counties out of 3,143 counties or county equivalents (2019 American Community Survey)

Thus, a president may be elected who did not win the national popular vote, as occurred in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016.

In 1848, Massachusetts statute awarded the state's electoral votes to the winner of the at-large popular vote, but only if that candidate won an absolute majority. When the vote produced no winner between the Democratic, Free Soil, and Whig parties, the state legislature selected the electors, giving all 12 electoral votes to the Whigs (which had won the plurality of votes in the state).

Joe Biden

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American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware

Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977

Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984

Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994

Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997

Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.

Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007

Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois

Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009

President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden

Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016

Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016

Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019

Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021

Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021

Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021

Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021

Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office

Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022

President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012

President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017

Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020

Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.

A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

Throughout the 2016 election, Biden strongly criticized Clinton's opponent, Donald Trump, in often colorful terms.

Barack Obama

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American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, (L to R) mid-1970s in Honolulu

Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).

Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, 2009

Obama playing in a pickup game on the White House basketball court, 2009

The Obamas worship at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., January 2013

State Senator Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998

Results of the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois; Obama won the counties in blue.

Official portrait of Obama as a member of the United States Senate

Obama and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian facility for dismantling mobile missiles (August 2005)

Obama on stage with wife and daughters just before announcing presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007

2008 electoral vote results. Obama won 365–173.

2012 electoral vote results. Obama won 332–206.

Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2009

Obama delivers a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009.

Obama visits an Aurora shooting victim at University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.

The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on the evening of the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, June 26, 2015.

US employment statistics (unemployment rate and monthly changes in net employment) during Obama's tenure as U.S. president

Obama at a 2010 briefing on the BP oil spill at the Coast Guard Station Venice in Venice, Louisiana

Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010.

Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income and federal poverty level, under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014 (Source: CRS)

Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: JAMA)

June 4, 2009 − after his speech A New Beginning at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama participates in a roundtable interview in 2009 with among others Jamal Khashoggi, Bambang Harymurti and Nahum Barnea.

Obama with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, January 2015.

Obama meets with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, October 2016.

Meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron during the 2010 G20 Toronto summit

Obama after a trilateral meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right), White House Cabinet Room, May 2009

Obama meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office, May 2009

President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015.

Obama and members of the national security team receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. See also: Situation Room

Obama talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2013.

President Obama meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Panama, April 2015

Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2015.

G8 leaders watching the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

Obama with his then-new successor Donald Trump and his later successor Joe Biden, at the former's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Obama playing golf with the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, October 2017

Obama and his wife Michelle at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Job growth during the presidency of Obama compared to other presidents, as measured as a cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of his term

First official portrait of Barack Obama as President of the United States, 2009

Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.

Obama and Donald Trump, January 20, 2017

A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.

After Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, military intervention in Syria in 2015, and the interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Obama's Russia policy was widely seen as a failure.

2000 United States presidential election

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The 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000.

The incumbent in 2000, Bill Clinton. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2001.

2000 Palm Beach County voting stand and ballot box

Florida Supreme Court during the recount

Gore-Lieberman supporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court

Vote share by county for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. Darker shades indicate a stronger Green performance.

President Bill Clinton, a Democrat and former Governor of Arkansas, was ineligible to seek reelection to a third term due to the Twenty-second Amendment; in accordance with Section1 of the Twentieth Amendment, his term expired at noon Eastern Standard Time on January 20, 2001.

In 2016, Republican Donald Trump lost Mecklenburg by 30%, Marion by 23%, Fairfax by 36%, and Travis by 38%.

2012 United States presidential election

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The 57th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

President Obama talks with Ron Klain during presidential debate preparations. Senator John Kerry, at podium, played the role of Mitt Romney during the preparatory sessions.

President Obama casts his ballot at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago.

Swing from 2008 to 2012 in each state. Only six states swung more Democratic in 2012: Alaska, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, and New York. The arrows to the right represent how many places up or down on the list the state moved since 2008. States are listed by (increasing) percentage of Democratic votes.

Obama takes a phone call from Romney conceding the election early Wednesday morning in Chicago.

Results by county. Blue denotes counties that went to Obama; red denotes counties that went to Romney. Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont had all counties go to Obama. Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia had all counties go to Romney.

Popular vote by county shaded on a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic.

Results by state and the District of Columbia, scaled by number of Electors per state.

Cartogram of popular vote by county shaded on a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic where each county has been rescaled in proportion to its population.

Cartogram of the electoral vote results, with each square representing one electoral vote.

Change in popular vote margins at the county level from the 2008 election to the 2012 election. Blue denotes counties that voted more Democratic. Red denotes counties that voted more Republican. Romney's strongest improvements over McCain were in Utah and Appalachia, while Obama's strongest gains were in Alaska, the New York area, and the Gulf states.

Treemap of the popular vote by county, state, and locally predominant recipient

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The Obamas and the Bidens embrace following the television announcement of their victory.

The Obamas and the Bidens walk on stage at the election night victory celebration at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Former Governor Mitt Romney meets with President Barack Obama at the White House after the 2012 presidential election.

Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, were re-elected to a second term.

Obama served his second term as president and was succeeded by Republican Donald Trump, who was elected president in 2016.

Michigan

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State in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States.

Père Marquette and the Indians (1869) by Wilhelm Lamprecht

Map of British America showing the original boundaries of the Province of Quebec and its Quebec Act of 1774 post-annexation boundaries

Treaty of Paris, by Benjamin West (1783), an unfinished painting of the American diplomatic negotiators of the Treaty of Paris which brought official conclusion to the Revolutionary War and gave possession of Michigan and other territory to the new United States

Detroit in the mid-twentieth century. At the time, the city was the fourth-largest U.S. metropolis by population, and held about one-third of the state's population.

The Michigan State Capitol in Lansing houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan.

The floor of the Michigan House of Representatives

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) speaking at a National Guard ceremony in 2019

Michigan Supreme Court at the Hall of Justice

Map of the Saint Lawrence River/Great Lakes Watershed in North America. Its drainage area includes the Great Lakes, the world's largest system of freshwater lakes. The basin covers nearly all of Michigan.

The Huron National Wildlife Refuge, one of the fifteen federal wildernesses in Michigan

Mackinac Island, an island and resort area at the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinac. More than 80% of the island is preserved as Mackinac Island State Park.

Sleeping Bear Dunes, along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan

The Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula

The Pointe Mouillee State Game Area, one of the 221 state game and wildlife areas in Michigan. It encompasses 7,483 acres of hunting, recreational, and protected wildlife and wetland areas at the mouth of the Huron River at Lake Erie, as well as smaller outlying areas within the Detroit River.

Köppen climate types of Michigan, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

The Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit is the second-oldest continuously operating Roman Catholic parish in the country.

The Ambassador Bridge, a suspension bridge that connects Detroit with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume.

Michigan is the center of the American automotive industry. The Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit is the world headquarter of General Motors.

Ford Dearborn Proving Ground (DPG) completed major reconstruction and renovations in 2006.

Distribution of Michigan's jobs as percentages of entire workforce

Michigan is the leading U.S. producer of tart cherries, blueberries, pickling cucumbers, navy beans and petunias.

The world headquarters of the Kellogg's Company in Battle Creek

Mackinac Island is well-known for cultural events and a wide variety of architectural styles, including the Victorian Grand Hotel

Holland, Michigan, is the home of the Tulip Time Festival, the largest tulip festival in the U.S.

Marquette, Michigan, is home to a vast snowmobile trail system.

Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe

The Bluewater Bridge, a twin-span bridge across the St. Clair River that links Port Huron and Sarnia, Ontario

US Highway 2 (US 2) runs along Lake Michigan from Naubinway to its eastern terminus at St. Ignace.

The Mackinac Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan

Aerial view of Detroit Metro Airport (DTW)

The Finlandia University in Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan

Cranbrook Schools, one of the leading college preparatory boarding schools in the country

Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor is the largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere, and the third-largest stadium in the world.

Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan

Having been a Democratic-leaning state at the presidential level since the 1990s, Michigan has evolved into a swing state after Donald Trump won the state in 2016.