The 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 2016. Wisconsin voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting Republican Party nominee Donald Trump against Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 0. 77%, with 47. 22% of the total votes over the 46. 45% of Clinton.
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 2016. Wisconsin voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting Republican Party nominee Donald Trump against Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. In the general election, Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 0. 77%, with 47. 22% of the total votes over the 46. 45% of Clinton. Wisconsin was the tipping-point state of the 2016 election; that is, the closest state that both candidates needed to win in order emerge with a victory in the election. The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with then Senator Joe Biden of Delaware.
In October 2015, Obama’s running-mate and two-term Vice President Biden decided not to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination either. With Obama and Biden’s terms expiring on January 20, 2017, the electorate was asked to elect a new president, the 45th president and 48th vice president of the U.S. respectively. The Wisconsin Green Party held its presidential preference vote at its annual state convention in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 16. The state voted for the same Democratic nominee in seven elections from 1988 to 2012, although sometimes by small margins, as it was in 1992, 2000 and 2004. The last poll published prior to the election was by Monkey and Hillary Clinton with a two-point lead over Donald Trump.
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