2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries 2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary Arkansas presidential no 2012 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary 2012 2020 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary 2020 2016 03 01 File:Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg 160x160px Hillary Clinton d4aa00 New York 146,057 66.08% 22 File:Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg Bernie Sanders 228B22 Vermont 66,236 29.97% 10 2016_Democratic_Presidential_Primary_in_Arkansas_by_county.svg 210px County resultsClinton: #faec63 40–50% #eccc4b 50–60% #cdac39 60–70% #a8862b 70–80% #684614 80–90%Sanders: #a6f398 40–50% #71bc62 50–60% AS CO 37 Democratic National Convention delegates (32 pledged, 5 unpledged)The number of pledged delegates received is determined by the popular vote The 2016 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Arkansas as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, dubbed "Super Tuesday," Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Arkansas primary. Opinion polling Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries Results Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries Primary date: March 1, 2016 National delegates: 69 Analysis Arkansas, the state where Hillary Clinton served as First Lady during her husband Bill Clinton’s tenure as governor, gave Clinton one of her largest victories during the course of the Democratic Primary. She swept the state among every major demographic – gender, race, income, and educational attainment. According to exit polls, 67 percent of voters in the Arkansas Democratic Primary were white and they opted for Clinton by a margin of 62–35 compared to the 27 percent of African Americans who backed Clinton by an even larger margin of 91–6.http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/ar/Dem 2016 Election Center CNN 2016-09-25 After his landslide defeat, the Sanders campaign reported that Hillary Clinton had notched wins in southern states including Arkansas because Bernie Sanders did not compete with her, although this claim was widely debunked.http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-campaign-rewrites-history-of-losses-653984323970 Sanders campaign rewrites history of Super Tuesday losses 2016-08-07 See also 2016 Arkansas Republican presidential primary References 30em Arkansas Democratic primary 2016 Category:March 2016 in the United States