United States presidential election in Michigan, 2016

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Main article: United States presidential election, 2016
United States presidential election in Michigan, 2016
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Nominee TBA Donald Trump
(presumptive)
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York
Running mate TBA TBA
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Incumbent President

Barack Obama
Democratic


The 2016 United States presidential election in Michigan will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participate. Michigan voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.

On March 8, 2016, in the presidential primaries, voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, and Republican parties' respective nominees for President. Michigan does not require you to register with a party to vote in the primaries, allowing voters to select a candidate in either party, however voters only selected one candidate overall.

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Democratic primary results by county.
  Bernie Sanders
  Hillary Clinton

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Results

Four candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:[1]

Michigan Democratic primary, March 8, 2016
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Bernie Sanders 598,943 49.68% 67 0 67
Hillary Clinton 581,775 48.26% 63 10 73
Uncommitted 21,601 1.79% 0 7 7
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 2,363 0.20%
Rocky De La Fuente 870 0.07%
Total 1,205,552 100% 130 17 147
Source: The Green Papers

Republican primary

Four candidates participated for the Republican primary. [2]

Debates and forums

Detroit, March 3

Candidate Airtime[3] Polls[4]
Trump 26:40 35.6%
Cruz 19:23 19.8%
Rubio 13:32 17.4%
Kasich 15:20 8.8%

The eleventh debate was held on March 3, 2016, at the Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit, Michigan.[5] It was the third debate to air on Fox News Channel.[6] Special Report anchor Bret Baier, The Kelly File anchor Megyn Kelly and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace served as moderators.[7] It will lead into the Maine, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho, and Hawaii contests. Fox announced that in order for candidates to qualify, they must have at least 3 percent support in the five most recent national polls by March 1 at 5 pm.[8] Ben Carson said on March 2 he would not be attending the debate.[9][10][11] During the debate, Ted Cruz had a small speck of white material on his lip.[12] The speck became viral with thousands of web searches per minute during the debate on "Ted Cruz nose".[13][14][15][16][17][18] The debate also drew controversy for an allusion Trump made to his penis in response to Rubio's comment about the size of his hands.[19]

Results

Thirteen candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot:[1]

Michigan Republican primary, March 8, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
America Symbol.svg Donald Trump 483,753 36.55% 25 0 25
Ted Cruz 326,617 24.68% 17 0 17
John Kasich 321,115 24.26% 17 0 17
Marco Rubio 123,587 9.34% 0 0 0
Ben Carson (withdrawn) 21,349 1.61% 0 0 0
Uncommitted (withdrawn) 22,824 1.72% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 10,685 0.81% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 3,774 0.29% 0 0 0
Chris Christie (withdrawn) 3,116 0.24% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 2,603 0.20% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 1,722 0.13% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) 1,415 0.11% 0 0 0
George Pataki (withdrawn) 591 0.04% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 438 0.03% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 1,323,589 100.00% 59 0 59
Source: The Green Papers

See also

Elections in Michigan
Seal of Michigan.svg
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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michigan Secretary of State: March 2016 Primary Information
  2. ↑ http://www.npr.org/2016/03/03/469116021/mitt-romney-donald-trump-share-harsh-words-in-competing-speeches
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