
Trump swing state popular vote lead: 874,079 Trump also leads in the swing states as a whole: If you removed only California’s popular votes from the total, this is the result you would get, as of November 16: Here are the latest popular vote totals for the 2016 presidential election according to a spreadsheet compiled by Dave Wasserman and Cook Political Report: Without California in the popular vote totals, Trump leads the rest of the states combined by more than 1.87 million popular votes.įive states contributed to more than 35% of Clinton’s popular vote totals. (The “at least” comes into play because California was still counting unprocessed ballots as of November 16 – more than 3.4 million of them – but since the state went so large for Clinton, it’s expected that California will just add to her margin even more.)Ĭalifornia contributed more than 10% of Clinton’s overall popular vote tally.

The overall numbers obscure the fact that one state gave Clinton her edge: Populous California.Ĭlinton popular vote lead overall: At least 1.23 million.Ĭlinton popular vote lead in California alone: At least 3.1 million. How dominant is California when it comes to driving Hillary Clinton’s more than 1.2 million popular vote lead over President-Elect Donald Trump? Singer Andra Day (R) reaches to hug Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during a fundraiser at the Civic Center Auditorium Octoin San Francisco, California.
