United States presidential election in Michigan, 2016

United States presidential election in Michigan, 2016
Michigan
November 8, 2016
 
Nominee TBA Donald Trump
(presumptive)
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York
Running mate TBA TBA

Incumbent President

Barack Obama
Democratic

The 2016 United States presidential election in Michigan will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participate. Michigan voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.

On March 8, 2016, in the presidential primaries, voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, and Republican parties' respective nominees for President. Michigan does not require you to register with a party to vote in the primaries, allowing voters to select a candidate in either party, however voters only selected one candidate overall.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Democratic primary results by county.
  Bernie Sanders
  Hillary Clinton

Results

Four candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:[1]

Michigan Democratic primary, March 8, 2016
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Bernie Sanders 598,943 49.68% 67 0 67
Hillary Clinton 581,775 48.26% 63 10 73
Uncommitted 21,601 1.79% 0 7 7
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 2,363 0.20%
Rocky De La Fuente 870 0.07%
Total 1,205,552 100% 130 17 147
Source: The Green Papers
Michigan Democratic primary, March 8, 2016
District Delegates Votes Clinton Votes Sanders Votes Qualified Clinton delegates Sanders delegates
1 6 28,860 44,359 73,219 2 4
2 5 26,090 39,834 65,924 2 3
3 5 28,441 45,282 73,723 2 3
4 5 24,928 35,597 60,525 2 3
5 7 48,622 42,755 91,377 4 3
6 5 28,265 39,157 67,422 2 3
7 5 29,186 36,019 65,205 2 3
8 5 35,205 46,969 82,174 2 3
9 6 48,570 50,903 99,473 3 3
10 5 28,314 33,710 62,024 2 3
11 6 39,732 45,054 84,786 3 3
12 7 50,157 58,892 109,049 3 4
13 9 71,235 37,028 108,263 6 3
14 9 88,494 42,608 131,102 6 3
Total 85 581,775 598,943 1,180,718 41 44
PLEO 17 581,775 598,943 1,180,718 8 9
At Large 28 581,775 598,943 1,180,718 14 14
Gr. Total 130 581,775 598,943 1,180,718 63 67
Total vote 1,205,552 48.26% 49.68%
Source: Michigan Department of State Election results (District 13 and 14 (Wayne County) partial

Republican primary

Four candidates participated for the Republican primary. [2]

Debates and forums

Detroit, March 3

Candidate Airtime[3] Polls[4]
Trump 26:40 35.6%
Cruz 19:23 19.8%
Rubio 13:32 17.4%
Kasich 15:20 8.8%

The eleventh debate was held on March 3, 2016, at the Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit, Michigan.[5] It was the third debate to air on Fox News Channel.[6] Special Report anchor Bret Baier, The Kelly File anchor Megyn Kelly and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace served as moderators.[7] It will lead into the Maine, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho, and Hawaii contests. Fox announced that in order for candidates to qualify, they must have at least 3 percent support in the five most recent national polls by March 1 at 5 pm.[8] Ben Carson said on March 2 he would not be attending the debate.[9][10][11] During the debate, Ted Cruz had a small speck of white material on his lip.[12] The speck became viral with thousands of web searches per minute during the debate on "Ted Cruz nose".[13][14][15][16][17][18] The debate also drew controversy for an allusion Trump made to his penis in response to Rubio's comment about the size of his hands.[19]

Results

Thirteen candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[1]

Michigan Republican primary, March 8, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Donald Trump 483,753 36.55% 25 0 25
Ted Cruz 326,617 24.68% 17 0 17
John Kasich 321,115 24.26% 17 0 17
Marco Rubio 123,587 9.34% 0 0 0
Ben Carson (withdrawn) 21,349 1.61% 0 0 0
Uncommitted (withdrawn) 22,824 1.72% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 10,685 0.81% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 3,774 0.29% 0 0 0
Chris Christie (withdrawn) 3,116 0.24% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 2,603 0.20% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 1,722 0.13% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) 1,415 0.11% 0 0 0
George Pataki (withdrawn) 591 0.04% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 438 0.03% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 1,323,589 100.00% 59 0 59
Source: The Green Papers

See also

Elections in Michigan

References

  1. 1 2 Michigan Secretary of State: March 2016 Primary Information
  2. ↑ http://www.npr.org/2016/03/03/469116021/mitt-romney-donald-trump-share-harsh-words-in-competing-speeches
  3. ↑ Sprunt, Barbara. "On The Clock: Trump Still Gets The Most Talking Time". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  4. ↑ "RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination".
  5. ↑ Gold, Hadas (February 4, 2016). "Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace return for March 3 debate". Politico. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ "2016 presidential debate schedule: Dates, times, moderators and topics". Politico. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  7. ↑ "GOP debate headed to Detroit in March". Detroit News. February 4, 2016.
  8. ↑ Feldman, Josh. "Fox News Announces Criteria for Next Week’s Big GOP Debate". mediaite.com. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  9. ↑ Pappas, Alex (March 2, 2016). "Ben Carson: 'I Do Not See A Political Path Forward'". Daily Caller. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate in Detroit". New York Times. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Republican debate: candidates pledge to support Trump if needed – as it happened". Guardian. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "'Little Marco vs. Big Donald' and other jaw-dropping debate moments". MSNBC. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  13. ↑ Logan, Ross. "Did Ted Cruz eat a bogey live on TV?". mirror. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  14. ↑ Bump, Philip (2016-03-03). "People actually Googled to figure out what was on Ted Cruz’s lip". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  15. ↑ "What was that thing on Ted Cruz’s lip during the Republican debate?". Trail Blazers Blog. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  16. ↑ "Ted Cruz appears with mystery white object on his lip at debate". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  17. ↑ "So, what did Ted Cruz eat off his lip during the GOP debate?". KENS 5. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  18. ↑ "Object on Cruz’s lip during debate lights up Twitter - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  19. ↑ Gregory Kreig (March 4, 2016). "Donald Trump defends size of his penis". CNN. Retrieved March 4, 2016.

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