--- title: How Well Do You Remember the 2016 Election? Try This Quiz description: Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election one year ago. But how did each state vote? Test your memory on our interactive map quiz canonical: https://time.com/5014574/2016-election-results-map-quiz/ author: Chris Wilson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-08T14:05:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T00:30:36.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: How Well Do You Remember the 2016 Election? 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/)  ## Chris Wilson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:30 AM UTCPublished: Nov 8, 2017 2:05 PM UTC  by [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/)  ## Chris Wilson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:30 AM UTCPublished: Nov 8, 2017 2:05 PM UTC One year ago today, Donald Trump stunned the world with a decisive victory in the U.S. presidential race, [winning 306 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton’s 232](http://time.com/4587158/clinton-leads-trump-2-5-million-votes/) while [losing the popular count by nearly 3 million votes](https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/). It’s been a busy year since then — from the [executive orders](http://time.com/4979946/trump-obamacare-executive-order/) and [tweetstorms](http://time.com/4840993/donald-trump-joe-scarborough-national-inquirer/) to the [investigations](http://time.com/5006962/trumps-mueller-problem/) and [feuds](http://time.com/4993996/general-joseph-dunford-niger-watch-online/) — so no matter which way you voted on Nov. 8, 2016, you could be forgiven for not remembering the exact results. To jog your memory, we’re challenging you to reconstruct the election results by assigning the 50 states and Washington, D.C. to one candidate or the other to see how well you can recall the electoral map. (Nebraska and Maine, which split their electoral votes, should be assigned to the overall state winner.) Didn’t get them all right? In some cases, Trump won historically Democratic states by the slimmest of margins, so it’s understandable that you may have forgotten a few of the nail-biters — no matter what kind of shape your nails where in on Nov. 9, 2016. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5014574/2016-election-results-map-quiz/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5014574/2016-election-results-map-quiz/"},"headline":"Quiz: How Well Do You Remember the 2016 Election?","datePublished":"2017-11-08T14:05:33.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T00:30:36.000Z","description":"Test your memory of how America voted","url":"https://time.com/5014574/2016-election-results-map-quiz/","keywords":["2016 Election","elections","interactive studios"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"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/5014574/2016-election-results-map-quiz/","name":"Quiz: How Well Do You Remember the 2016 Election?"}}]}] ```