(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

[ON Progressive]

Howard County, Arkansas Branch County, Michigan was the median County in the 2016 election based on 2-party vote share.

That makes no sense. Branch County, MI was a 67% Trump county.

[Canis]

the last time a candidate not from the Republican or Democrat party won the white house was Abraham Lincoln in 1864 who ran under the National Union Party

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Howard County, Arkansas Branch County, Michigan was the median County in the 2016 election based on 2-party vote share.

That makes no sense. Branch County, MI was a 67% Trump county.

Actually, it is true; out of 3141 Counties (excluding a small County in the state of Hawaii that is basically only County in title only), 1570 Counties voted to the left of Branch County, Michigan, and 1570 Counties voted to the right of Branch County, Michigan based on the 2016 2-party vote.

[SingingAnalyst]

In 1964, Goldwater received more votes in MS than the total number of votes cast in 1960.
In 1968, Wallace received more votes in MS than the total number of votes cast in 1964.
In 1984, Mondale received more votes in DC than the total number of votes cast in 1980.

Other than states/districts that had just joined the Union or been granted the right to vote, I believe these were the only three times that a losing candidate received more votes in a state/district than the the total number of votes cast in that state/district 4 years earlier.

[darklordoftech]

2016 was the first time Nevada voted for the loosing candidate since 1976.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

The 1960 Election is the only election in which multiple candidates won a County in every state.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

The only elections where the losing candidate won more states than the winner were 1824, 1960, and 1976.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Summing all of Tennessee West of the Tennessee River, Trump won by a total of only 2162 votes out of more than 500000 votes cast.

[Politician]

31 of Iowa's counties voted for Obama twice but Trump in 2016, the highest number of any state. 50% of Maine's counties were Obama-Obama-Trump counties, the highest percent for any state.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Hillary Clinton needed MI, PA, and WI to win in 2016.

If Tim Drapers plan for Cal3 was reality in 2016, Hillary Clinton would only have needed MI and PA.

[darklordoftech]

Were there any elections in which the winner didn't win any "southern" states? If so, what was the last election in which this happened?

[ConservativeCommunist]

Were there any elections in which the winner didn't win any "southern" states? If so, what was the last election in which this happened?

1924, unless you count Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia as "Southern" (I don't, plus Davis won the more culturally Southern parts of those states anyway).

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Were there any elections in which the winner didn't win any "southern" states? If so, what was the last election in which this happened?

Never.

[Alabama_Indy10]

I'm a little curious and I figured some people on here have more time than I do.. Were there any Gore/Bush/Obama/Romney/Trump counties? If so, what states were they concentrated in?

[SingingAnalyst]

Were there any elections in which the winner didn't win any "southern" states? If so, what was the last election in which this happened?

Never.

Obama in 2012 came close; he still would have won without FL and VA.

[SingingAnalyst]

I'm a little curious and I figured some people on here have more time than I do.. Were there any Gore/Bush/Obama/Romney/Trump counties? If so, what states were they concentrated in?

Not sure.

Monroe County, MI (70000+ votes) came close, with Obama beating Romney by less than 1% in 2012. Macomb, MI (400000+ votes) also came close, with Obama beating Romney by 4% in 2012.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Starting in 1920, Los Angeles County, California voted for the national winner every time until 1988.

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

Trump won every county named Kent in 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kent_County,_Virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_Rhode_Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_Michigan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_Maryland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County,_Delaware

[morgankingsley]

If Trump lost Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsalvania, he would have been the third person to lose with more states

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

The only state in 1992 where Bill Clinton came third was Utah.
The only state where Bush came third that year was Maine.

In 2016, however, Hillary Clinton came second in Utah even though that was the only three-way race that year.
And Trump overperformed in Maine, even winning a congressional district, which Bush didn't manage to do despite the three-way race.

[Kodak]

Despite a 33-point swing against the Democrat in 1964 and an additional 8-point swing in 1968, There were 4 Nixon-Johnson counties (Long, Towns, Union, and Whitfield) and one Goldwater-Humphrey county (Chatham) in Georgia.

[TML]

The only times Hawaii wasn't clean-swept by a single party in terms of counties were 1960 and 1980.

[SingingAnalyst]

Keweenaw and Marquette are adjacent counties in MI (albeit the county line runs through Lake Superior, not land). Even so, in 1976-1984 Keweenaw was a Carter-Reagan-Mondale county while Marquette was a Ford-Carter-Reagan county. (In all 6 cases the margins were very close).

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

All twelve counties outside Maine that voted for Perot in 1992 (including Morris County, Kansas) voted for Dole four years later.
All three Perot counties in Maine, however, voted for Clinton in 1996.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

1960 was the only stolen election that was "won" by a Democrat.