Local election results

Thursday, November 10, 2016

The big news during this year's general election is that Donald Trump won the Presidency with 279 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 228. At press time, Clinton won the popular vote with 60,122,876 to Trump's 59,821,874, making this the fifth election in U.S. history where a candidate won the popular vote and lost the electoral college. The last time was Al Gore in 2000. Others include Andrew Jackson in 1824, Samuel Tilden in 1876, and Grover Cleveland in 1888. Poinsett County voters supported Trump with 5,489 votes reported by the county clerk's office. Clinton won 1,878 votes in Poinsett County.

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