Trump wins Tennessee by 26 points in final vote tally
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Will all precincts reporting, Republican Donald Trump has won Tennessee’s presidential election by 26 percentage points.
More than 1.5 million voters cast their ballots in favor of Trump, or 61 percent, compared with about 866,000 for Democrat Hillary Clinton, or 35 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson received 2 percent of the state vote.
Trump won 91 of the state’s 95 counties, earning more than three-quarters of the vote in 47 of them. His highest winning percentage was in Wayne County on the Alabama border, where he won 86 percent to Clinton’s 12 percent.
Clinton won more than 60 percent of the vote in Davidson and Shelby counties, which are home to Nashville and Memphis. She also more narrowly won Haywood and Hardeman counties in western Tennessee.
