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Here's How The 11th Ward Voted In The Election

By  Ed Komenda and Tanveer Ali | November 11, 2016 5:03am 

 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited Chicago Monday.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited Chicago Monday.
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BRIDGEPORT — Donald Trump might have won the presidency, but Hillary Clinton won the 11th Ward.

In Tuesday’s presidential election, 17,014 residents voted in the swath of neighborhoods led by Ald. Patrick D. Thompson (11th). By tally time, 12,369 of those votes went to Clinton. Only 4,675 voters — or 26 percent — picked trump.

Take a look at how other wards voted here.

As in 2012, Democrats ran strongest in Chicago's majority African-American community areas as well as in Hispanic areas. Hispanic neighborhoods like Little Village, Hermosa and Belmont Cragin logged more votes in 2016 for Democrats than in 2012.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump's strongest neighborhoods were on the Southwest and Northwest Sides. While Mount Greenwood was the only community area where Trump got the majority of the vote, Trump improved over Republican Mitt Romney's performance in the 2012 presidential race in neighborhoods like Norwood Park, Garfield Ridge and Dunning.

Trump did worse than Republicans traditionally do in Downtown and lakefront neighborhoods like Lakeview and Lincoln Park. The number of Republican votes cast in those three community areas were down between 33 to 55 percent this year.

In the primary election, Hillary Clinton won Illinois — but it was a different story in the 11th Ward, where Bernie Sanders collected the majority of votes.

Primary election results showed folks turned out for Sanders, who took 54 percent of votes in the 11th Ward. Of the 11,609 ballots cast in the area, the senator from Vermont took 6,303 of them. With all Illinois votes counted, Clinton beat Sanders by 2 percentage points.

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