Colorado Rocks Voter Turnout

Highest eligible voter turnout
1. Minnesota 74.2 percent
2. New Hampshire 72.6 percent
3. Colorado 71.3 percent 

Lowest eligible voter turnout
47(t). Tennessee, West Virginia 51.0%
49. Utah 46.4%
50. Hawaii 42.5%

From the Denver Post. The ultimate source of the turnout data is here.  Election results below are from CNN.

Nationally, eligible voter turnout was 58.4%.

Swing State Analysis

Trump won 306 electoral votes. He needed 270 to win, and 269 to tie sending the election to the U.S. House of Representatives where Trump would probably have won. Thus, if he had won 38 fewer electoral votes, he would have lost the Presidential race.

The marginal state that put Trump over the top was Pennsylvania where he won by a 1.2 percentage point margin.

What was turnout like in selected swing states and how did that compare to the results in those swing states?

Florida (Trump margin 119,770; 1.3 percentage points) 29 electoral votes

2016 Turnout 65.6% of VEP; disqualified 131,688 felons who were not currently incarcerated.

2012 Turnout 62.8% of VEP

2008 Turnout 66.1% of VEP

trump

49.1%

4,605,515

clinton

47.8%

4,485,745

johnson

2.2%

206,007

stein

0.7%

64,019

North Carolina (Trump margin 177,529; 3.8 percentage points) 15 electoral votes

2016 Turnout 64.9% of VEP; disqualified 5,747 felons who were not currently incarcerated

2012 Turnout 64.8% of VEP

2008 Turnout 65.5% of VEP

trump

50.5%

2,339,603

clinton

46.7%

2,162,074

johnson

2.8%

127,794

Pennsylvania (Trump margin 68,236; 1.2 percentage points) 20 electoral votes

2016 Turnout 61.4% of VEP; disqualified no felons who were not currently incarcerated.

2012 Turnout 59.5% of VEP

2008 Turnout 63.6% of VEP

trump

48.8%

2,912,941

clinton

47.6%

2,844,705

johnson

2.4%

142,653

stein

0.8%

48,912

Michigan (Trump margin 11,612; 0.3 percentage points) 16 electoral votes

2016 Turnout 65.6% of VEP; disqualified no felons who were not currently incarcerated.

2012 Turnout 64.7% of VEP

2008 Turnout 69.2% of VEP

trump

47.6%

2,279,805

clinton

47.3%

2,268,193

johnson

3.6%

173,057

stein

1.1%

50,700

Wisconsin (Trump margin 27,257; 1.0 percentage points) 10 electoral votes

2016 Turnout 68.3% of VEP; disqualified 66,222 felons who were not currently incarcerated

2012 Turnout 72.9% of VEP

2008 Turnout 72.4% of VEP

trump

47.9%

1,409,467

clinton

46.9%

1,382,210

johnson

3.6%

106,442

stein

1.1%

30,980

All turnout figures are persons voting for the highest office on the ballot. More details below the fold.


The data for all of  the states and for the U.S. as a whole, with the impact of the percentage of non-citizens and ineligible felons on the voting aged population, is as follows:

VEP	% Non-citizen	Prison	Probation	Parole	Total Ineligible Felon
58.40%	8.40%	1,493,706	2,298,993	461,472	3,242,614	USA
58.70%	2.60%	31,691	53,640	8,097	69,826	AL
60.60%	4.30%	5,216	7,077	2,210	11,389	AK
56.30%	9.50%	37,516	73,232	7,502	86,028	AZ
52.50%	3.80%	17,756	28,192	21,743	55,287	AR
54.60%	16.70%	136,088	0	0	136,088	CA
71.30%	7.20%	19,121	0	10,067	29,188	CO
62.60%	8.60%	16,113	0	2,564	18,677	CT
64.00%	6.00%	6,625	15,665	676	16,073	DE
60.50%	9.00%	0	0	0	0	DC
65.60%	10.70%	95,671	227,087	4,519	227,359	FL
60.00%	7.10%	50,499	471,067	25,547	339,844	GA
42.50%	8.70%	5,721	0	0	5,721	HI
59.70%	4.40%	7,901	33,450	4,217	30,850	ID
60.10%	8.90%	46,465	0	0	46,465	IL
56.20%	3.60%	28,638	0	0	28,638	IN
68.60%	3.50%	8,686	29,929	5,769	31,215	IA
55.70%	5.40%	9,326	16,328	4,051	22,521	KS
59.50%	2.50%	21,402	54,107	16,729	68,431	KY
60.20%	2.80%	37,881	40,979	29,619	90,448	LA
69.90%	1.60%	0	0	0	0	ME
61.40%	9.00%	20,388	79,539	11,537	76,467	MD
65.30%	8.90%	10,014	0	0	10,014	MA
65.60%	3.60%	42,900	0	0	42,900	MI
74.20%	4.70%	10,003	97,661	6,642	71,335	MN
53.50%	1.90%	18,756	34,398	9,883	47,902	MS
61.90%	2.60%	31,432	47,303	18,495	76,417	MO
62.20%	1.20%	3,681	0	0	3,681	MT
61.70%	5.10%	5,221	12,940	1,067	13,534	NE
57.10%	12.60%	12,537	12,027	5,927	25,199	NV
72.60%	3.00%	2,867	0	0	2,867	NH
59.20%	11.60%	20,255	115,898	14,889	100,047	NJ
54.80%	7.30%	6,879	16,060	2,255	18,128	NM
52.40%	12.00%	48,376	0	44,889	93,265	NY
64.90%	5.90%	35,726	90,918	10,025	96,665	NC
60.10%	2.50%	1,700	0	0	1,700	ND
64.50%	2.40%	51,024	0	0	51,024	OH
52.20%	4.80%	27,650	28,568	2,560	46,208	OK
66.90%	6.70%	15,075	0	0	15,075	OR
61.40%	3.50%	49,643	0	0	49,643	PA
58.80%	7.00%	3,294	0	0	3,294	RI
57.30%	3.40%	20,917	35,096	5,225	45,796	SC
58.70%	2.30%	3,528	0	2,611	6,139	SD
51.00%	3.70%	28,495	62,950	13,498	77,245	TN
51.10%	13.50%	157,361	388,101	111,412	486,110	TX
46.40%	6.70%	6,824	0	0	6,824	UT
64.60%	2.20%	0	0	0	0	VT
65.50%	6.90%	36,943	54,966	1,732	69,456	VA
64.40%	8.60%	17,345	94,112	9,880	79,928	WA
51.00%	0.90%	6,873	7,174	2,749	13,639	WV
68.30%	3.10%	22,097	46,212	20,010	67,986	WI