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Hillary Clinton

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Democrat · 1947–

Hillary Clinton

United States Secretary of State · United States senator · First Lady of the United States

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for, or held, elected office.

On the Ballot

One presidential run
2016Lost48.2% of the vote · 227 EV · v. Donald Trump

Strongest counties, 2016

Countytwo-party sharevotes
District of Columbia, DC95.7%311,268
Prince George's, MD91.3%390,385
Oglala Lakota, SD91.2%2,905
Bronx, NY90.3%399,522
San Francisco, CA90.1%405,792

Weakest counties, 2016

Countytwo-party sharevotes
Roberts, TX3.7%554
Garfield, MT5.0%718
Harding, SD5.2%770
Glasscock, TX5.8%604
Hayes, NE6.0%514