A guide from The National Archives on what the electoral college is and its functions.
Includes electoral college, Inauguration date, plus a chart. From USA.gov
Data-driven coverage and analysis of politics and elections.
Provides an interactive map to test out different election scenarios with the electoral college map. Also has contact information of federal and state lawmakers, as well as date and times of elections by state.
This guide presents selected material on the 2016 Presidential campaign. For general information about Government Information, or for Georgia-specific election information, see the other pages of this research guide. Also, visit the Government Documents research guide for other areas of government information.
| Presidential Candidate | Vice-President | Party |
| Donald J. Trump (winner) | Mike Pence | Republican (GOP) |
| Hillary Clinton | Tim Kaine | Democrat |
| Jill Stein | Ajamu Baraka | Green Party |
| Gary Johnson | Bill Weld | Libertarian |
There were over 20 Republican candidates who started out in the 2016 primary elections. Below are the candidates that polled the highest.
National Journal Daily - May 12, 2015
Hill - June 15, 2016
Public opinion on political issues is based on surveys of residents in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
Tracks, aggregates, and analyzes polling data from major political polls.
See the break down to county level of how GA voted in the 2016 elections.
See the breakdown at the county level of how GA voted in the 2016 elections.
Web link to the full report of the demographic composition of voters in the 2016 Presidential election. PDF download is below.
A full look at the demographic composition of voters in the 2016 election. The file is downloadable in PDF format. Published by the Census Bureau
Created by the America Museum of the Moving Images in cooperation with the Political Communication Center, the University of Oklahoma provides a history of presidential campaign commercials starting with 1952.
From Stanford University's Political Communication Lab (PCL)
Divided States of America Part 1 - PBS
Oversight of the report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election: former Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, first session, July 24, 2019.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, author.
Washington: U.S. Government Publishing Office 2020
Report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election: submitted pursuant to 28 C.F.R. §600.8(c)
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III.
Financing the 2016 Election by
Money and politics in an election that broke the mold Beginning with the 1960 election, readers could turn to one book for an authoritative and comprehensive examination of campaign finance at the federal level. Now, the latest in this respected series, Financing the 2016 Election, explores the role of money in one of the most unconventional elections in modern American history.
Votes of Confidence by
Following an interesting and hotly contested election year in 2016, Votes of Confidence offers young readers an essential guide to the past, present, and future of American elections.
Documents of recent presidential elections
Atlas of the 2016 Elections by Ryan Weichelt; J. Clark Archer; Fiona Davidson; Erin H. Fouberg; John Heppen; Kenneth C. Martis; Richard L. Morrill; Fred M. Shelley; Robert H. Watrel The 2016 presidential election was one of the most dramatic upsets in U.S. political history. Virtually all pre-election polls indicated Democrat Hillary Clinton ahead of Republican Donald Trump in the popular vote and Electoral College. The Atlas of the 2016 Elections explains the surprising Trump victory with a series of unique maps unleashing the illustrative power of cartography and the explanatory power of history and political geography.
David Leip's Atlas of Presidential Elections
offers the detailed national results for major and minor candidate for U.S. presidential election from 1789 to present. It contains information on candidates, parties, electoral vote total, maps, charts and more.
