Hillary Clinton Wins Scholastic Student Vote
Kids across the U.S. have cast their votes for president.
Most voters will make their picks for president on November 8, but our readers have already made their choice. Hillary Clinton won this year’s Scholastic Student Vote.
The Democratic candidate for president received 52 percent of the student votes, while her main challenger, Republican Donald Trump, received 35 percent. The remaining 13 percent was split among dozens of write-in candidates.
The person with the third most votes was Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, who received about 2 percent. Not far behind were Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who had challenged Clinton for the Democratic nomination (the act of being formally chosen as a candidate for a job or position), and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. About 153,000 students nationwide, from kindergarten through grade 12, voted online or by mail-in paper ballot.
Since 1940, the results of the student vote have usually mirrored the outcome of the presidential election. In fact, Scholastic readers have been wrong only twice. In 1948, kids picked Thomas E. Dewey over President Harry S. Truman. And in 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for the eventual president, John F. Kennedy.
Will the student voters be right again? Find out on November 8!
Student Vote Results Map
Student Vote Results by State
Note: The Scholastic Student Vote is not based on a scientifically designed sample of the student population. It is an educational activity meant to give students an opportunity to express their opinions about the 2016 presidential election.
| STATE | CLINTON | TRUMP | OTHERS |
| Alabama | 32% | 51% | 17% |
| Alaska | 36% | 35% | 29% |
| Arizona | 56% | 33% | 11% |
| Arkansas | 36% | 50% | 14% |
| California | 71% | 19% | 10% |
| Colorado | 59% | 28% | 14% |
| Connecticut | 55% | 32% | 13% |
| Delaware | 51% | 27% | 22% |
| Florida | 48% | 39% | 13% |
| Georgia | 48% | 37% | 15% |
| Hawaii | 48% | 25% | 27% |
| Idaho | 41% | 38% | 22% |
| Illinois | 58% | 31% | 11% |
| Indiana | 45% | 43% | 11% |
| Iowa | 41% | 42% | 17% |
| Kansas | 39% | 40% | 21% |
| Kentucky | 39% | 45% | 15% |
| Louisiana | 37% | 52% | 12% |
| Maine | 44% | 40% | 15% |
| Maryland | 66% | 21% | 13% |
| Massachusetts | 65% | 24% | 11% |
| Michigan | 49% | 36% | 15% |
| Minnesota | 54% | 33% | 13% |
| Mississippi | 41% | 52% | 7% |
| Missouri | 35% | 52% | 13% |
| Montana | 29% | 56% | 15% |
| Nebraska | 38% | 51% | 10% |
| Nevada | 59% | 28% | 13% |
| New Hampshire | 50% | 31% | 18% |
| New Jersey | 54% | 37% | 9% |
| New Mexico | 57% | 25% | 18% |
| New York | 56% | 35% | 9% |
| North Carolina | 49% | 40% | 11% |
| North Dakota | 25% | 63% | 12% |
| Ohio | 43% | 42% | 15% |
| Oklahoma | 44% | 49% | 7% |
| Oregon | 58% | 26% | 16% |
| Pennsylvania | 48% | 41% | 10% |
| Rhode Island | 52% | 29% | 19% |
| South Carolina | 47% | 43% | 9% |
| South Dakota | 42% | 46% | 12% |
| Tennessee | 42% | 45% | 13% |
| Texas | 49% | 40% | 11% |
| Utah | 44% | 27% | 29% |
| Vermont | 50% | 23% | 26% |
| Virginia | 50% | 37% | 13% |
| Washington | 60% | 25% | 15% |
| Washington, D.C. | 34% | 29% | 37% |
| West Virginia | 25% | 65% | 10% |
| Wisconsin | 46% | 40% | 14% |
| Wyoming | 22% | 49% | 29% |