The 2016 U.S. presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Texas was won by Republican Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence by a 9% margin over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. Trump is the tenth consecutive Republican presidential nominee to win Texas, beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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The 2016 U.S. presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Texas was won by Republican Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence by a 9% margin over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. The Lone Star State assigned its 38 Electoral College votes to the state’s popular vote winner, but two faithless electors chose other candidates. Trump is the tenth consecutive Republican presidential nominee to win Texas, beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1980. The Texas Democratic Party held their state’s primary in concurrence with the other Super Tuesday contests on March 1, 2016. Eight candidates appeared on the ballot, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, dropped-out candidate Martin O’Malley and five minor candidates. The state had 251 delegates to the Democratic National Convention: 222 pledged delegates and 29 super delegates. The other 77 pledged delegates were allocated proportionally based on the statewide popular vote.
If a candidate got more than 50% of the vote, they would get all of the delegates at the Republican National Convention. If no one had a majority of the district’s vote, the winning candidate would get 2 delegates and the candidate in second place would get 1. If there were at least 2 candidates that got over 20% of. the vote and there were no more than two candidates receiving more than 20% each, the top 3-getters each get 1 delegate. There were another 47-large at-large delegates, which were allocated by congressional district; 108 delegates are allocated by district; 3 per district; if a winning candidate had a. majority and one candidate at least 20%. of the. vote in a district; they would win all the delegates in the district;. if a. winning candidate got a plurality of the votes in a congressional district and there was no one that got more. than 50%.
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