United States Presidential Election, 2016 (The More Things Changed)

The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th and most recent quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Labor Secretary Tom Perez, running on the Democratic ticket, defeated the Republican Party's nominees of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence and the Libertarian Party's nominees of former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld.

Voters selected members of the Electoral College by "winner-takes-all" plurality in each state; those electors will in turn vote for a new president and vice president on December 19, 2016. Clinton obtained the required majority to become President-elect of the United States, winning 24 states and the District of Columbia with 307 electors out of 538. Clinton is expected to take office as the 45th President on January 20, 2017; Perez is expected to take office as the 48th Vice President.

The 2016 election marked the first time in American presidential history that a candidate was elected without any prior experience in public service, and the first time a woman was nominated by a major party. The estimated 137.3 million ballots surpassed the 2008 election as the largest number of votes ever cast for president. With 62.3 million votes, Trump received more votes than any other Republican candidate in history and fourth most votes among all Presidential elections, whereas Clinton received the third most votes ever with 65.9 million, behind Obama's 2008 and 2012 totals.