# What was the largest city/town to vote Trump in 2016?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880 "2019-07-11T02:27:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/1 "2019-07-11T02:27:39Z")
Urban voters tend to vote Democrat. What were the largest cities or towns that voted Trump (i.e. that Trump won the most votes in) in the 2016 election?
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/2 "2019-07-11T02:50:57Z")
Houston, I believe.
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/3 "2019-07-11T02:55:07Z")
Donald Trump got 52% of the vote in Houston in 2016.
Cite: [2016 United States presidential election in Texas - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas)
Houston, in terms of population, is America’s 4th largest city, behind New York, LA, and Chicago.
Cite: [https://ballotpedia.org/Largest\_cities\_in\_the\_United\_States\_by\_population](https://ballotpedia.org/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population)
I didn’t check the vote totals in NY, LA, or Chicago, but what do you think?
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/4 "2019-07-11T02:58:24Z")
Trump also won Phoenix, Arizona.
Cite: [2016 United States presidential election in Arizona - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Arizona)
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### Author:  [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/5 "2019-07-11T03:14:11Z")
A 3-D representation of the vote by _county_, which is not what you asked for but close and easy to read. [https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html](https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html)
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### Author:  [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/6 "2019-07-11T04:21:05Z")
_[Sorry, I accidentally did that thing that was mentioned in ATMB involving the TAB key which posts one’s post when it isn’t finished]_.
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### Author:  [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/7 "2019-07-11T04:30:40Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Donald Trump got 52% of the vote in Houston in 2016.
> Cite: [2016 United States presidential election in Texas - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas)
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> Houston, in terms of population, is America’s 4th largest city, behind New York, LA, and Chicago.
> Cite: [Largest cities in the United States by population - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population)
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> I didn’t check the vote totals in NY, LA, or Chicago, but what do you think?
52% (52.23%) was what Trump won in the state of Texas, not the city of Houston.
Here’s a map of Texas showing results by county and number of votes by size and candidates by color: [Large](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Texas_2016_presidential_results_by_county.png) [[Smaller sizes](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texas_2016_presidential_results_by_county.png#mw-jump-to-license)]
It looks like Clinton did well in the cities.
Houston is in Harris County, which voted for Clinton (53.95%) over Trump (41.61%).
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Trump also won Phoenix, Arizona.
> Cite: [2016 United States presidential election in Arizona - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Arizona)
This may be correct. Phoenix is in Maricopa County, which voted for Trump over Clinton.
Trump: 747,361 / 48.63%
Clinton: 702,907 / 45.74%
[Here’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Arizona#/media/File%3AArizona_2016_presidential_results_by_county.png) the map. I’m not sure how many of those county votes came from outside the city of Phoenix itself, though.
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### Author:  [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/8 "2019-07-11T05:11:15Z")
> [@snoe](#):
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> A 3-D representation of the vote by _county_, which is not what you asked for but close and easy to read. [https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html](https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html)
That’s a really good map. Maricopa County stands out as the tallest red county, albeit a very pale red.
Here are population statistics for Maricopa County and Phoenix.
Maricopa County: 4.307 million (2017)
Phoenix: 1.626 million (2017)
So it does seem possible, perhaps even probable, that the city of Phoenix itself voted for Clinton. Trump got 44,454 more votes than Clinton in the county as a whole, which is not a lot.
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### Author:  [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/9 "2019-07-11T05:58:21Z")
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Houston, I believe.
> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Donald Trump got 52% of the vote in Houston in 2016.
> Cite: [2016 United States presidential election in Texas - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas)
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> Houston, in terms of population, is America’s 4th largest city, behind New York, LA, and Chicago.
> Cite: [Largest cities in the United States by population - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population)
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> I didn’t check the vote totals in NY, LA, or Chicago, but what do you think?
I think you have seriously incorrect beliefs. Houston most definitely did not go to DJT. Nor did NY, LA or Chicago. Not by a long shot.
As to Texas, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas went for Clinton as well. The largest city in Texas that went to DJT was most likely Fort Worth. It is difficult finding precise totals for these cities since most of the information is by county. But Harris, Bexar, Travis and Dallas counties all went strongly to Clinton. Tarrant County went to Trump.
Since these cities contain the bulk of the population for each of these counties, it is logical to conclude the vote totals for these cities line up with how the counties went.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/10 "2019-07-11T06:05:31Z")
If it’s not Phoenix, it could be Jacksonville. Trump won Duval County, 95% of which is the city of Jacksonville (the city and county governments are consolidated, though, so it has a relatively small share of urban voters). But it was close enough that the other 5% in the remaining cities could matter.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/11 "2019-07-11T09:57:54Z")
I don’t know how big Milwaukee is, but Trump won it. (Thanks a lot, Wisconsin.)
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/12 "2019-07-11T10:40:34Z")
> [@bobot](#):
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> I don’t know how big Milwaukee is, but Trump won it. (Thanks a lot, Wisconsin.)
> **[2016 election results: Wisconsin](https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/states/wisconsin)**
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> Full election results for Wisconsin, including president, House and Senate.
No, Clinton won Milwaukee.
Also: As always with cities, we need to define our terms. City limits? Metro areas?
Most of the data I’ve seen is by counties, and this sometimes jibes with one of these definitions, and sometimes doesn’t.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/13 "2019-07-11T11:23:00Z")
Well damn. Apologies, Milwaukee. I like your Summerfest.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/14 "2019-07-11T11:30:20Z")
🙂 My city, La Crosse, (a small city on the west side of Wisconsin), BARELY had a majority for Clinton. (Well, the city had a bigger majority for her, but the county barely did.) it was a wild and crazy day…I spent the morning knocking on doors for Hilary (the lack of enthusiasm and positive energy at the local campaign HQ was a disturbing early sign), and then spent the afternoon as a trainer volunteer assistant at our polling place — after putting on my scrupulously neutral hat, of course.
Sorry for the hijack.
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### Author:  [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/15 "2019-07-11T11:47:25Z")
Any city with a sizeable minority community upwards of 40% or more most likely went to Clinton, even if just barely. Trump was just that unpopular among Black and Hispanic voters. My WAG would be one of the larger ‘suburbs’ of Dallas, like Ft Worth (okay, not really a suburb) or Arlington.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/16 "2019-07-11T11:52:05Z")
Fort Worth is definitely a city in its own right, and getting quite big. It is about the same size as Jacksonville. (Almost 900,000).
It’s looking like these two cities are about tied for the factual answer to the OP. If we have to decide between them, I’d give the prize to Fort Worth, since Jacksonville’s vote was so close to a tie.
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### Author:  [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/17 "2019-07-11T11:53:36Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Fort Worth is definitely a city in its own right, and getting quite big. It is about the same size as Jacksonville. (Almost 900,000).
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> It’s looking like these two cities are about tied for the factual answer to the OP. If we have to decide between them, I’d give the prize to Fort Worth, since Jacksonville’s vote was so close to a tie.
Out of curiosity, how much of Duval Co is Jacksonville? As I recall from my brief time living in FL, Jacksonville was pretty damn big geographically - like even larger than Los Angeles, I wanna say.
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/18 "2019-07-11T14:00:37Z")
Sorry for the bad read on a quick search. Thanks for the correction.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/19 "2019-07-11T15:33:22Z")
It’s all good. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-largest-city-town-to-vote-trump-in-2016/836880/20 "2019-07-13T16:36:40Z")
Chicago and Cook County went resoundingly for Hillary, of course. But I was heartened by the fact that Du Page County also went strongly for Clinton.
At one time, not in the too-distant past, Du Page was one of the reddest counties in the country.
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