The Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump will take office as the 45th President on January 20, 2017 and his running mate, Governor of Indiana Mike Pence, will take office as the 48th Vice President.
Voters selected presidential electors, who in turn will vote, based on the results of their jurisdiction, for a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. The term limit established in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent president, Barack Obama of the Democratic Party, from being elected to a third term.
The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses took place between February and June 2016, staggered among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. This nominating process was also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who in turn elected their party's presidential nominee.
Businessman and reality television personality Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presidential nominee on July 19, 2016, after defeating U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Governor of Ohio John Kasich, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and other candidates in the Republican primary elections.
Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator from New York Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee on July 26, 2016, after defeating U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Clinton would have been the first female president of the United States.
Various third party and independent presidential candidates also ran in the election. Libertarian Party nominee and former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson had ballot access in all 50 states plus Washington D.C. representing all 538 electoral votes.
Green Party nominee and former physician Jill Stein had ballot access in 44 states plus Washington D.C., representing 480 electoral votes. Johnson and Stein (who also ran as their parties' presidential nominees in the 2012 election) appeared in major national polls.
At least 24 other third party candidates and independents appeared on the ballot in at least some states or ran as write-in candidates.
Independent candidate and former Chief Policy Director for the House Republican Conference Evan McMullin led in at least one opinion poll in his home state of Utah.
No third party or independent candidate carried a state in the 2016 presidential election, nor have any of them done so since 1968.
On November 9, 2016, at 3:00 AM Eastern time, Donald Trump secured over 270 electoral votes, the majority of the 538 electors in the electoral college, enough to effectively make him the president-elect of the United States.
At 70 years of age, Trump became the oldest man ever to be elected to a first term as president, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years of age upon winning the 1980 election.
Trump will become the fifth president to be born in the state of New York, after Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; and the second president born in New York City after Theodore Roosevelt.
Trump will also become the fourth president, after James K. Polk in 1844, Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Richard Nixon in 1968, to win an election despite losing what was legally his home state.
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