2016 Montana Democratic presidential primary

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{{Infobox election

| election_name = 2016 Montana Democratic presidential primary

| country = Montana

| type = presidential

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 2008 Montana Democratic presidential primary

| previous_year = 2008

| election_date = {{Start date|2016|06|07}}

| next_election = 2020 Montana Democratic presidential primary

| next_year = 2020

| outgoing_members = CA

| elected_members = NJ

| image1 = File:Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg

| image_size = 160x160px

| candidate1 = Bernie Sanders

| color1 = 228B22

| home_state1 = Vermont

| delegate_count1 = 11

| popular_vote1 = 65,156{{Cite web |url=http://sos.mt.gov/elections/2016/2016PrimaryStateCanvass.pdf |title=Montana Secretary of State - Official Primary Results |access-date=2016-08-13 |archive-date=2016-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010131348/http://sos.mt.gov/elections/2016/2016PrimaryStateCanvass.pdf |url-status=dead }}

| percentage1 = 51.56%

| image2 = File:Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg

| candidate2 = Hillary Clinton

| color2 = d4aa00

| home_state2 = New York

| delegate_count2 = 10

| popular_vote2 = 55,805

| percentage2 = 44.16%

| map_image = 300px

| map_size = 300px

| map_caption = Election results by county.

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Sanders

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Clinton

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The 2016 Montana Democratic presidential primary was held on June 7 in the U.S. state of Montana as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

The Democratic Party's primaries in California, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota were held the same day, as were Republican primaries in the same five states, including their own Montana primary. Additionally, the Democratic Party held North Dakota caucuses the same day.

Opinion polling

{{see also|Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries}}

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Results

{{see also|Results of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries}}

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Analysis

Heading into the final batch of primaries on June 7, Montana was generally seen as a state Bernie Sanders would win, being largely whiter and more rural and less densely populated than the country at-large. Sanders has also generally performed well in the Pacific Northwest. Having put Barack Obama over the top mathematically in its Democratic Primary in 2008, Montana again voted against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

While Clinton won in the cities of Great Falls and Billings (where she had dispatched her husband earlier that month), Sanders won in Helena and Missoula and swept most of the rural counties of the state. However, that same day Clinton won large victories in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota and was able to claim the Democratic nomination.

References

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