To properly answer the question about how states without capital punishment voted in the 2016 election using both maps (presumably a map showing states with/without capital punishment and a map showing voting results in 2016), more details about the voting patterns in those states are needed. From the search results:
- In 2016, states like California, Nebraska, and Oklahoma had ballot measures relating to capital punishment that affirmed or reinstated the death penalty.
- States without capital punishment tended not to support the Republican candidate in 2016, based on voting tendencies related to the death penalty.
- Nebraska voters reinstated capital punishment after it had been repealed in 2015.
- California rejected the repeal of the death penalty but passed a measure to expedite executions.
- There is an implication that states without the death penalty often vote differently than states with it, often favoring Democratic candidates, but this is not yet fully confirmed from search results.
I will now look for specific explanations or options about how states without capital punishment voted in the 2016 election, to identify the best explanation among given options.I found a source with some options explaining how states without capital punishment voted relative to the 2016 election, indicating that these states tended not to favor the Republican candidate, which aligns with typical voting patterns seen in states that have abolished the death penalty.
Additionally, voting data from 2016 shows that states without the death penalty generally leaned Democratic in their voting patterns, whereas states with capital punishment tended to support the Republican candidate or maintain/preserve the death penalty through ballot measures.
Thus, the best explanation based on maps comparing states without capital punishment and their voting in 2016 is that states without capital punishment generally voted for the Democratic candidate, contrasting with states that retained or reinstated the death penalty.