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Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Michigan, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1837, Michigan has participated in every U.S. presidential election, although they did participate in the 1836 election and receive electoral votes.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president.
Michigan had 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [4] In 2016, Trump became the first Republican to carry Michigan since 1988, when George H. W. Bush had scored a decisive nationwide win against Michael Dukakis. [5] Throughout the campaign, Biden touted his work on the auto bailout in manufacturing towns outside Detroit.
The table below is a list of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin. It is sorted to display elections by their presidential term/year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the Electoral College.
[b] The tables also indicate the historical party composition in the State Senate, State House of Representatives, the names and party affiliations of Michigan's U.S. Senators, and the party composition of Michigan's delegations to the U.S. House of Representatives.
The 85.5% support is the most the county has given to a candidate in the last 100 years. Ottawa voters supported Hoover by the fourth-largest margin among Michigan counties.
Then, in 2016, Republican Donald Trump carried Michigan by 0.23% in an unexpected sweep of the Rust Belt, which earned him a presidential victory. The state returned to the Democratic column four years later, as Joe Biden carried it by 2.78% over Trump - the narrowest margin for a victorious Democrat since the extremely close 1960 election.
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