2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

The 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Wisconsin voters chose ten electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting Republican nominee Donald Trump against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. On April 5, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Wisconsin voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president in an open primary; voters were allowed to vote in either party's primary regardless of their own party affiliation. Bernie Sanders prevailed in Wisconsin's Democratic primary, while Ted Cruz won Wisconsin's Republican primary. In the general election, Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin, defeating Clinton by a margin of 0 %, with 47 % of the total votes to 46 %, the lowest percentage of victory since 2000. Trump's victory in Wisconsin was attributed to overwhelming and underestimated support from white working-class citizens in the state's rural areas, a demographic that had previously tended to either vote for the Democratic candidate or did not vote at all. As of the 2024 presidential race, this is the last time that Door County voted for the Republican candidate in a presidential election, and the only time since 1960 that the Democratic presidential nominee won the nationwide popular vote without winning Wisconsin.