The 2016 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 8, 2016. Ohio voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party’s nominee, Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Presidential primary elections for three parties were also held in Ohio, concurrently with primaries in Florida, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina. Ohio was an unprecedented 10. 2% more Republican than the national average in 2016, the farthest it had voted from the rest of the nation since 1932.
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 8, 2016. Ohio voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party’s nominee, real estate mogul Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Presidential primary elections for three parties were also held in Ohio, concurrently with primaries in Florida, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina. In the Democratic primary, 143 delegates were awarded proportionally in a modified primary which was won by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. John Kasich won all of the state’s 66 delegates in the Republican primary. Ohio was an unprecedented 10. 2% more Republican than the national average in 2016, the farthest it had voted from the rest of the nation since 1932. It was also the most recent election that Ohio had backed the winner of the presidential election. As of 2020, this is the most recently presidential election in which the Democratic nominee won Lorain and Mahoning Counties.
The state had also been one of eleven to vote for Bill Clinton twice in 1992 and 1996 which Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. It is also the largest victory margin since George H. W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in 1988. Ohio is one of at least seventeen states that has laws allowing voters who are 17 years of age, but will be 18 by the time of the general election, to vote in the presidential primaries. The decision was met with criticism by the public after it was brought to attention by Representative Kathleen Clyde, after she condemned the rule in a statement released on March 5. Nine teenagers filed a lawsuit with the Ohio Courts of Common Pleas in Franklin County over the decision, stating that the decision contradicted a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that allowed 17 year olds to vote by the general vote by turning 18.
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