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Election day
November 8, 2016
Incumbent president
Barack Obama (Democratic)
Next Congress
115th
Presidential election
Partisan control
Republican gain
Popular vote margin
Democratic +2.1%
Electoral vote
Donald Trump (R)
304
Hillary Clinton (D)
227
Others
7
Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Trump/Pence, blue denotes states won by Clinton/Kaine. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state. Seven faithless electors cast votes for various individuals.
Senate elections
Overall control
Republican hold
Seats contested
34 of 100 seats
Net seat change
Democratic +2
2016 Senate results Democratic hold Republican hold Democratic gain
House elections
Overall control
Republican hold
Seats contested
All 435 voting-members and 6 non-voting delegates
Popular vote margin
Republican +1.1%
Net seat change
Democratic +6
Map of the 2016 House races (delegate races not shown)
Democratic hold Republican hold Democratic gain Republican gain
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested
14 (12 states, two territories)
Net seat change
Republican +2
Map of the 2016 gubernatorial elections Democratic hold Republican hold Democratic gain Republican gain New Progressive gain Nonpartisan
Then-incumbent President Barack Obama casts his vote early in Chicago on October 7, 2016
The 2016 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, while Republicans retained control of Congress. This marked the first and most recent time Republicans won or held unified control of the presidency and Congress since 2004.
Trump won his party's nomination after defeating Ted Cruz and several other candidates in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. With Democratic president Barack Obama term-limited, Clinton secured the nomination over Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. Trump won the general election with 304 of the 538 electoral votes, although Clinton won the popular vote by a margin of 2.1%.
Democrats won a net gain of two seats in the Senate and six seats in the House of Representatives, but Republicans retained control of both chambers. In the gubernatorial elections, Republicans won a net gain of two seats. Various other state, territorial, and local races and referendums were held throughout the year. This was the first presidential election since 2000, where the winning candidate failed to have coattails in either house of Congress. This is the most recent election where one party simultaneously gained seats in both houses of Congress.
Wall Street banks and other big financial institutions spent a record $2 billion trying to influence the 2016 United States elections.[1][2]
^"Wall Street spends record $2bn on US election lobbying". Financial Times. March 8, 2017.
^"Wall Street Spent $2 Billion Trying to Influence the 2016 Election". Fortune. March 8, 2017.
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