U.S. Elections: Result Analysis That Explains Trump’s Shocking Victory

The electoral has voted and the results revealed Donald Trump as the elected 45th President of the United States. While many are not yet ready to face this reality, at the end of the day, it's important to get the facts straight through an analysis of the results map.

While popular votes result is in favor of Clinton, but Trump's party earned their winning streak from various states including Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina. According to Telegraph UK, this was even before learning that the same results hold true for Pennsylvania, a state that has never endorsed a Republican running for president since 1988.

A U.S. election results report last November 11 showed Republican winning with 306 votes, while Democrats getting only 232. To get into more detail of the figures per state, a presidential results map was provided by Telegraph UK and it depicts a chart with each state sized by their number of electoral college votes to illustrate how the large states had the most influence to move the result numbers.

The Key States

Florida and Ohio were regarded as key states in the election. Both states were also known as the swing states for having a lot of electoral votes to distribute. The final votes they cast will have a major impact on the final result, and this explains why the candidates frequented these stated with visits and advertising.

Part of the swing states roster were Arizona, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Virginia. Among the five, only Virginia called for Clinton.

Trump's biggest victories

To enumerate the states with the most votes for Trump as reported by The Telegraph, they are Wyoming (70.1%), West Virginia (68.7%), Oklahoma (65.3%), North Dakota (64.1%), and Alabama (62.9%). The state of Wyoming is the source of Trump's most resounding victory with 174,248 votes in favor of him.

Neither Trump nor Clinton

There were also Americans who were dissatisfied with both candidates. Compared to the last three elections, there was a noticeable spike resulting to over six million people who voted for third party candidates. This is a triple increase, versus the 2012 election.

Congressional votes

The two chambers comprising the America's legislature also had elections. There were 51 in favor of Trump, while 48 with Clinton. It's interesting to note that both the Senate and the House of Representatives were with the Republican prior to voting.