Hillary Clinton just won the nation's largest student election in a landslide

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More than 380,000 students in grades 2 through 12 have voted to elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States.

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Held by the 3-year-old education start-up Newsela, a platform for boosting literacy rates across the US, the voting took place from October 17 to November 1. With a total electorate of 384,972 students across all 50 states, it was the largest student election in the country.

When the votes were counted, Clinton took 57% to Donald Trump's 32%. Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson split the remainder.

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Clinton won most swing states and even pulled students from states that most polls predict will vote for Trump on November 8. According to FiveThirtyEight, for instance, Trump has a 92% chance of winning Georgia in the national election, but Clinton won that state among students.

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Newsela

In line with the anticipated breakdown on Tuesday, students of minority races primarily supported Clinton, while white voters tended to back Trump.

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In schools with more than 70% minority students, Clinton won more than 75% of votes. In schools with more than 70% white students, she won about 33%.

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Data also reveals younger kids tended to favor Clinton more heavily over Trump. While roughly 60% of elementary school students backed Clinton, that percentage shrank to below 50% among high schoolers.

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Newsela

The results are similar to those of the nation's second-largest student election, which was run by Scholastic and included 153,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Clinton won that vote with 52% to Trump's 35%.

Since Scholastic's first election in 1940, student voters have only picked a different candidate than the one who won the general election two times: in 1948 and 1960.

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