2016 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 2016 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Trump won Georgia by 5 %, a smaller margin than Mitt Romney's 7 % in 2012 and even John McCain's 5 % in 2008. Clinton received 45 % of the vote, making this one of the few states where she outperformed Barack Obama in 2012. Trump's reduced margin of victory made Georgia one of eleven states (plus the District of Columbia) to vote more Democratic in 2016 than in 2012. This trend would continue into 2020, when Trump became the first Republican to lose Georgia since George H. W. Bush in 1992, though he won it back in 2024 by a 2 % margin. 2016 was the last presidential election in which Georgia voted to the right of any of its neighboring states (Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina), particularly Florida and North Carolina. As of the 2024 presidential race, 2016 is the last time that Burke County voted Democrat, and the last time the Democratic presidential nominee won the nationwide popular vote without winning Georgia.