(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

He was also the first nominee to win the presidency without winning a single state in the northeast (second time).

How did you forget that George W Bush won West Virginia?

[MAINEiac4434]

Maine has had the ability to split electoral votes since 1972, but 2016 was the first time one of the districts voted differently from the rest of the state (ME-02 going to Trump with the rest of the state going for Hillary).

[mianfei]

Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate since Zachary Taylor in 1848 to win both

• Carroll County, Illinois and
• Floyd County, Kentucky

Hilary Clinton is thus the first major-party nominee since Lewis Cass to lose both those counties.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

A total of 7 different Townships in Fairfield County CT voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016, including 1 that had never before voted for a Democrat.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

A total of 7 different Townships in Fairfield County CT voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016, including 1 that had never before voted for a Democrat.

Are you sure it didn't vote for LBJ in 1964? he did win Connecticut with almost 70% of the vote.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

A total of 7 different Townships in Fairfield County CT voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016, including 1 that had never before voted for a Democrat.

Are you sure it didn't vote for LBJ in 1964? he did win Connecticut with almost 70% of the vote.

It voted for Goldwater.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

A total of 7 different Townships in Fairfield County CT voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016, including 1 that had never before voted for a Democrat.

Are you sure it didn't vote for LBJ in 1964? he did win Connecticut with almost 70% of the vote.

It voted for Goldwater.

That's interesting.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

A total of 7 different Townships in Fairfield County CT voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016, including 1 that had never before voted for a Democrat.

Are you sure it didn't vote for LBJ in 1964? he did win Connecticut with almost 70% of the vote.

It voted for Goldwater.

That's interesting.

Of note is that Fairfield County was Goldwater's strongest County in the state, where he barely failed to reach the 40% mark, and then it was Clinton's 2nd strongest County in the state.  Clinton received a lower % than Johnson, but Trump also received a lower % than Goldwater.  For what it is worth, the township went from voting for Romney by 31% to voting for Clinton by 12%.  Clinton was unable to pull downballot Democrats above the line there, however, as it was only 1 of 2 townships in the state that Blumenthal lost by double digits.  Dan Malloy lost it by 37% in 2014.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

A total of 7 different Townships in Fairfield County CT voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016, including 1 that had never before voted for a Democrat.

Are you sure it didn't vote for LBJ in 1964? he did win Connecticut with almost 70% of the vote.

It voted for Goldwater.

That's interesting.

Of note is that Fairfield County was Goldwater's strongest County in the state, where he barely failed to reach the 40% mark, and then it was Clinton's 2nd strongest County in the state.  Clinton received a lower % than Johnson, but Trump also received a lower % than Goldwater.  For what it is worth, the township went from voting for Romney by 31% to voting for Clinton by 12%.  Clinton was unable to pull downballot Democrats above the line there, however, as it was only 1 of 2 townships in the state that Blumenthal lost by double digits.  Dan Malloy lost it by 37% in 2014.

What was the other one?

[SingingAnalyst]

1992 was the last time either KY or MO (or both) voted left of the national average. 1992 is also the last time the GOP candidate got a higher percentage in NJ than in either KS or WY (or both!)

[TDAS04]

Donald Trump's margin of victory in West Virginia was greater than any other presidential candidate's margin of victory, ever. 

Wyoming is the same case as West Virginia.

Trump's margin of victory in Kentucky was the largest of any presidential candidate since Horatio Seymour received almost 75% of the state's vote in 1868.

The other state where Trump won by a larger margin than any presidential candidate going back through the 1960s?  South Dakota (ugh) (though Ike won by more in 1952). 

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

1992 was the last time either KY or MO (or both) voted left of the national average. 1992 is also the last time the GOP candidate got a higher percentage in NJ than in either KS or WY (or both!)

Kentucky didn't vote to the left of the national average in 1992.

[SingingAnalyst]

1992 was the last time either KY or MO (or both) voted left of the national average. 1992 is also the last time the GOP candidate got a higher percentage in NJ than in either KS or WY (or both!)

Kentucky didn't vote to the left of the national average in 1992.

I am looking at Clinton's percentage, which was 44.6% in KY in 1992 and 42.95% nationwide. Ditto for MO.

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

1992 was the last time either KY or MO (or both) voted left of the national average. 1992 is also the last time the GOP candidate got a higher percentage in NJ than in either KS or WY (or both!)

Kentucky didn't vote to the left of the national average in 1992.

I am looking at Clinton's percentage, which was 44.6% in KY in 1992 and 42.95% nationwide. Ditto for MO.

I see, I wonder why Clinton won Missouri so handily in '92 - was it just the Perot affect?

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Trump won every WV upper house district and every WV lower house district except District 37.

[MT Treasurer]

Gallatin County, MT was the only county in the state that swung AND trended Democratic in 2016. Bill Clinton lost it in 1992 and 1996 by 6 and 12 points, respectively, even though he did better in the state than Hillary Clinton and won it in 1992 (mostly because of the Perot factor). Nonetheless, 2016 was only the second time since 1944 (!) that the county voted D (it also voted for Obama in 2008, but only by 3 points, so it wasn't THAT much more Democratic than the state as a whole).

[Metalhead123]

Only 4 of the 15 counties that voted for Eisenhower in 1952 voted for Trump in 2016

[Boss_Rahm]

In 2016, 157 electoral votes were won by pluralities rather than majorities.

In 2012, 0 electoral votes were won by pluralities.

[Dr. MB]

In 2016, three candidates who competed in the GOP primary could claim victory on Election Night.

The same is true for the 2008 Democratic primaries.

[Metalhead123]

In 2016, 157 electoral votes were won by pluralities rather than majorities.

In 2012, 0 electoral votes were won by pluralities.

What about Florida? Obama won with only 49.90% of the vote there.

[Boss_Rahm]

In 2016, 157 electoral votes were won by pluralities rather than majorities.

In 2012, 0 electoral votes were won by pluralities.

What about Florida? Obama won with only 49.90% of the vote there.

Right you are. That's what I get for pulling results from Wikipedia.

[SingingAnalyst]

Going into the 2016 Presidential election, only 3 women had received a vote in the Electoral College: Tonie Nathan (1972, 1); Geraldine Ferraro (1984, 13); and Sarah Palin (2008, 173).

In 2016, however, seven women received at least one vote in the EC: for President, Hillary Clinton (227) and Faith Spotted Eagle (1); for VP, Elizabeth Warren (2); Carly Fiorina, Maria Cantwell, Susan Collins, and Winona LaDuke (1 each). Of the 6 faithless electors for VP, all voted for women. 2016 is the first time any woman received an EC vote for President.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Donald Trump received the lowest % of votes ever for a Republican nominee in the counties of DuPage, Kane, and Lake.

That is a majority of the Collar counties.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Moving Lake County, Illinois from Illinois to Wisconsin would have flipped Wisconsin from Gore to Bush in 2000, and from Trump to Clinton in 2016.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

249/250 of the Nations Whitest Counties voted for Donald Trump.

Lake County, Minnesota voted for Hillary Clinton.