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