Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton: How Pinellas County Voted

CLEARWATER, FL — A slight majority of Pinellas County’s voters were likely happy to see Republican Donald Trump take the stage in New York City early Wednesday morning to declare victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Pinellas voters gave a slight edge to Trump in Tuesday’s election, ultimately helping with the New York businessman's Sunshine State win.

Pinellas County had a total of 496,807 of its 650,644 registered voters cast ballots in the Nov. 8 general election. With 233,143 registered Democrats, 2231,616 registered Republicans and 185,885 “others,” the county came out in favor of Trump.

According to the unofficial results reported by the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office, the breakdown was as follows:

• Clinton – 233,327 votes, or 46.97 percent
• Trump – 238,746 votes, or 48.06 percent
• Gary Johnson – 13,603 votes, or 2.74 percent

Most counties in the Tampa Bay area went red in Tuesday’s election. The same cannot be said for Hillsborough County where voters favored Clinton 51.49 percent to Trump’s 44.69 percent.

Pinellas voters went blue in the 2012 election. In that race, they favored President Barack Obama 52.08 percent to Republican Mitt Romney’s 46.45 percent, according to records from the Pinellas elections office.

Trump took the Sunshine State’s 29 electoral votes with a 49 percent victory to Clinton’s 47.79 percent, according to unofficial results from the Florida Division of Elections.

Results from Tuesday’s election are considered unofficial until they are certified by the state.

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