Candidate

Hillary Clinton

Democratic

Elections

Won

Electoral votes, all elections

227

Years

2016

Record

Hillary Clinton: result of each presidential election
Year	Electoral votes	Popular vote	Result
2016	227 of 538	65,853,581 48.1%	Lost

Popular vote is the sum of the sourced state counts, shown only where every state that held a popular vote has one; sums from county returns (1868–1972) can run a few tenths of a point below national totals published elsewhere.

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 2016 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

SourceMIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. President 1976–2024 (CC0 1.0, retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

Election by election

2016Democratic · Lost

States carried · 21 of 51

Closest states won

New Hampshireby 2,736 · 0.4 pts
Minnesotaby 44,756 · 1.5 pts
Nevadaby 27,202 · 2.4 pts

Closest states lost

MichiganTrump by 10,704 · 0.2 pts
PennsylvaniaTrump by 44,292 · 0.7 pts
WisconsinTrump by 22,748 · 0.8 pts

Margins computed for 51 of 51 states: those with a sourced popular vote that names Clinton.

SourcesMIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. President 1976–2024 (CC0 1.0, retrieved 2026-10-03); Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 2016 (Public domain (work of the U.S. government, 17 U.S.C. § 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

From the National Archives

Maine distributes its electoral votes proportionally by Congressional district, with two at-large electors representing the statewide winning presidential and vice presidential candidates and one elector each representing the winners from its two Congressional districts. For the first time since adopting this system, Maine's four electoral votes were split between the two major party tickets.