In Photos: Election Day 2016 Around Campus

The 2016 Presidential Election affected much of campus Tuesday as students held watch parties and phone banks. The Crimson's multimedia team documented the day as the votes came in.

By Crimson Multimedia Staff

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Noah R. Wagner '18 stands in Ticknor Lounge, the impromptu headquarters of the Harvard Democrats on Tuesday. Photographer: Sidni M. Frederick

Ruben E. Reyes Jr. '19, an active Crimson editorial editor, signs students into a get out the vote event for the Harvard Democrats in Ticknor Lounge on Tuesday. Photographer: Sidni M. Frederick

Antonia S. Washington '18 makes calls during a Harvard Democrats get out the vote event in Ticknor Lounge Tuesday afternoon. Photographer: Sidni M. Frederick

{textmod size=slideshow header="Election Watch Parties" text="Across campus, election watch parties were hosted from the Institute Of Politics to upperclassman Houses. The Crimson multimedia team caught student reactions throughout the night." align=center}

Students and professors fill the Institute of Politics on Tuesday night for a lotteried election watch party.Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

Students cheer as some of the first election results are released Tuesday night at the IOP watch party. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

Students watch the election results from Quincy Dining Hall Tuesday night. Photographer: Helen Y. Wu

Caroline M. Tervo '18 reacts to the election results on Tuesday night at the IOP watch party. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

{textmod size=slideshow header="Shift in The Atmosphere" text="As Donald Trump started to pull up in the polls the mood of the Harvard community, who strongly support Hillary Clinton, started to turn somber." align=center}

Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, a Harvard Kennedy School student, prays for Hillary Clinton after a report shows Donald Trump leading the polls in Florida on Tuesday night at the IOP watch party. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

Rush Doshi, donning a Hillary Clinton sticker, checks his phone in despair shortly after the announcement of Donald Trump winning Ohio. Doshi attended the watch party in Quincy dining hall Tuesday night. Photographer: Helen Y. Wu

Students react to Trump winning battleground state Florida Tuesday at the IOP election watch party. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

Emily Oliveira '18 looks on in grief while watching the election results come in on Tuesday night at the IOP watch party. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

Caroline M. Tervo '18, Sally C. Marsh '18 and Megan K. Mers '17 comfort each other as the election results come in on Tuesday night at the IOP watch party. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang

Isabel R. Steinhaus '18 talks to Nida Ansari '18 discuss the election results while passing in front of a cardboard Hillary Clinton on the way out of the IOP election watch party Tuesday night. Photographer: Jessica M. Wang