--- title: Election Results: See Electoral College Predictions and Wins description: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will vie for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the 2016 presidential election. See the latest here canonical: https://time.com/4561400/election-results-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-08T14:00:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T16:20:54.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Wins the Presidential Race. See the Full Results Here og:description: This Electoral College map will be updated throughout Tuesday night og:url: https://time.com/4561400/election-results-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Wins the Presidential Race. See the Full Results Here twitter:description: This Electoral College map will be updated throughout Tuesday night twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Election 2016: Donald Trump Wins, See Election Results by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:20 PM UTCPublished: Nov 8, 2016 2:00 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:20 PM UTCPublished: Nov 8, 2016 2:00 PM UTC [Republican Donald Trump](http://time.com/donald-trump-photographs/) has won the 2016 presidential election, in a stunning upset victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump built national momentum by winning states including Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania in a tighter-than-anticipated race. Trump also won red states including Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina, while [Democrat Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/hillary-clinton-photographs/) won Virginia, Colorado, and blue states including California, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York, but they weren’t enough to boost her above Trump. After millions of Americans cast their ballots on Tuesday to [determine who will be the next U.S. President](http://time.com/4562655/election-results-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-voting),[ Clinton](http://time.com/4558178/what-hillary-clintons-campaign-calendar-shows/) and Trump vied for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the 2016 presidential election. The White House hopefuls duked it out in [11 potential battleground states](http://time.com/4558915/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-electoral-map/?xid=homepage)—including the traditional red state of Georgia and the blue state of Michigan. The five most likely to be swing states were North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, [New Hampshire](http://time.com/4560184/donald-trump-new-hampshire-270/?xid=homepage) and Nevada—and so far three of those have gone to Trump. Check out the map below to see results in the presidential race from the Associated Press, as well as the balance in the Senate and House of Representatives: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4561400/election-results-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4561400/election-results-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Election 2016: Donald Trump Wins, See Election Results","datePublished":"2016-11-08T14:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T16:20:54.000Z","description":"This Electoral College map will be updated throughout as results come in","url":"https://time.com/4561400/election-results-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4561400/election-results-2016-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/","name":"Election 2016: Donald Trump Wins, See Election Results"}}]}] ```