The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, despite losing the popular vote. Trump took office as the 45th president, and Pence as the 48th vice president, on January 20, 2017.
Donald J. Trump(R)
Donald J. Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated 16 other candidates in the primaries. His political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. Despite not being favored in most forecasts, he was elected over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, although he lost the popular vote. He became the oldest first-term U.S. president, and the first without prior military or government service.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 until 2013. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election, which she lost to Donald Trump. She is the current chancellor of Queen's University Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hillary Rodham Clinton(D)
Jill Stein(G)
Other presidential candidates include Jill Stein from Green Party and Garry Johnson from Libertarian Party.
Garry Johnson(L)
The 2016 race started early with a large field of potential candidates, some of whom acted very much like, well, candidates — making appearances in early primary states, vying for commitments from big donors and assembling teams that could quickly pivot and become campaign staff. There is so much more to the elections apart from the charisma of the candidates and their campaigns which include the flow of money from the committee to the candidates as well as there own financing schemes to boost up there chances of winning. Our goal is to analyze the performance of candidates across the United States from different political parties as well as there campaign financing scheme which include individual candidate contribution, committee contribution, loan taken by an individual and other parameters which might or might not have affected a candidates chances of winning the 2016 United States Election.
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Flourish
Datawrapper
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