COLUMBUS – Republican Donald Trump clinched his victory in Ohio on Tuesday with support from all parts of the battleground state.
Trump’s support topped 60 percent in 67 of Ohio’s counties, and he defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in some areas Democrats traditionally count on.
Clinton won only seven of the state’s 88 counties, with her support strongest in the urban areas of Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo. She prevailed in blue-collar Mahoning County by less than 3,400 votes and lost neighboring Trumbull, Portage and Stark.
Ohio’s congressional delegation will return to Washington intact.
Republican Rob Portman’s victory for U.S. Senate was decisive. He beat Democratic challenger Ted Strickland by more than 20 percentage Strickland in a race Democrats once considered a good opportunity to pick up a Senate seat.
Central Ohio Representatives Steve Stivers, Pat Tiberi, Joyce Beatty and the rest of Ohio’s 16 U.S. House members were re-elected.
Voters turned out in respectable numbers, attracted by a presidential race that drew a great deal of attention. In Franklin County, 66 percent of registered voters went to the polls while the number was 69.3 percent statewide.
A total of 5.5 million Ohioans cast ballots, according to the Secretary of State’s office.
Earlier fears of voter intimidation never materialized and the day went smoothly.
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Voters overwhelmingly approved the Columbus City Schools’ property-tax levy, which will raise about $50 million per year for operations, including adding 325 new staff members.
School issues were also approved in Hilliard, Westerville and Bexley but went down to defeat in several districts outside Franklin County.
Columbus voters approved a $950 million bond package that sets the city up to resurface roads, install new water lines and complete other capital projects.
COTA’s sales tax renewal was approved. Transit authority officials had requested the renewal of a 0.25 percent 10-year sales and use tax that was initially approved by voters in 2006.