List of 2016 United States presidential electors

About List of 2016 United States presidential electors in brief

There are 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. On Monday December 19, 2016, they formally elected Donald Trump of New York and Mike Pence of Indiana to the presidency and vice presidency respectively. Ultimately, Donald Trump received 304 electoral votes and Hillary Clinton 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five defection from Clinton. In all states except Nebraska and Maine, the electors are winner-take-all. In Maine and Nebraska within each congressional district one elector is allocated by popular vote; the states’ remaining two electors, representing the two U.S. Senate seats, are winner/take-both. Except where otherwise noted, such designations refer to the elector’s residence in that district rather than election by the voters of the district.

The only all-female slate of electors, all of whom are the first Democratic women to hold their elected offices, are: Hillary Clinton for President and Tim Kaine for Vice President. Hillary Clinton received three votes and Bernie Sanders received one for President. Tim Kaine received three Votes and Elizabeth Warren received one For President. Elizabeth Warren was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party. She was also the first female to serve in the Senate as a senator from New York. She is the only Democratic woman to have been elected to both the House and the Senate.

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