Queens was with her — and it wasn’t even close.
While Republican nominee and Queens native Donald Trump triumphed in a stunning victory nationally, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won over Queens voters in a landslide on Tuesday.
Clinton won every single Assembly District in Queens and more than 425,000 votes cast overall. Trump garnered at least 10,000 votes in just three Assembly Districts; the 23rd (covering Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Broad Channel and much of the Rockaways), the 26th (covering much of Bayside, Douglaston, Glen Oaks and Little Neck) and the 28th (covering much of Forest Hills, Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Rego Park and Ridgewood).
The tightest race in Queens was in the 23rd District, where Clinton bested Trump by a little more than 3,000 votes.
Not surprisingly, Trump did the best in the three districts that included a sizable conservative population. A report by Renthop noted that Trump secured at least 70 percent of the political donations from three neighborhoods in Queens: Middle Village, which is in the 28th District, and Howard Beach and Breezy Point, both of which are part of the 23rd District.
Clinton earned more than 30,000 votes in three different Assembly districts in southeast Queens: the 29th (covering Jamaica, St. Albans and Laurelton), the 32nd (covering Jamaica, South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens and Rochdale) and the 33rd (covering Queens Village, Bellerose, Cambria Heights and Laurelton).
Here’s a little political factoid: Queens’ population is estimated at 2.3 million, or about 300,000 larger than the population of New Mexico. Were Queens a state unto itself, it probably would have the same number of electoral votes (5) as the Land of Enchantment, which went to Clinton on Tuesday night.
Of course, Queens is neither its own state, nor its own country — although some voters might wish it were.
