Presidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins
Presidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins
Early voting results show Republican
Donald Trump is on track to be the next US president – defying polling
predictions and despite the fact that Democrat Hillary Clinton looks set
to win the popular vote.Clinton has lost Florida, the most influential
of tonight’s contested states. Florida is worth 29 of the 270 votes
needed to win the presidency, far more than any other state where the
candidates looked like they would be in a close race. Thanks to Florida,
Trump’s path to becoming president is considerably less
difficult.Though media attention on the race has focused on just two
candidates, there are more. In Florida, results reported by the state’s
board of election show that more than 290,000 votes went to third-party
candidates. Clinton finished around 133,000 votes behind Trump.Trump’s
win in Florida came despite the state’s large Hispanic population.
Nearly one in five eligible Floridian voters is Hispanic, and early
voting data suggested that this overwhelmingly Democratic group turned
out in higher numbers than they did in 2012. Yet Clinton still lost the
state.By 11.30pm ET, Clinton had won a string of 14 safe Democratic
states – California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Vermont and Virginia – and Washington DC, but together those
states and DC only carry 197 electoral college votes.Trump had won 21
states: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming. Those states are worth 216 electoral
college votes.Clinton was left needing to win the remaining safe
Democratic states and all the remaining competitive ones. Even then,
that would only get the Democrats to 269 of the 270 electoral college
votes needed – so Clinton would need to grab at least one of the states
that looked set to vote for Trump. That would be incredibly difficult
for her to do.
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