Suffolk Breaks for Trump by 8 Percent

Hillary Clinton may have won the State of New York and the popular vote, but presidential election results in Suffolk County, where she trailed Donald J. Trump by 8 percent, are more reflective of how the two candidates fared in the Electoral College.

In Suffolk, according to unofficial results from the county board of elections, 2016 voter turnout was up by 36,609 over the last presidential election. Third-party candidates got nearly three times the number of votes as they did in 2012, when Barack Obama faced Mitt Romney.

Mr. Trump won 328,403 votes to Mrs. Clinton's 276,953, or 52.13 percent to 43.96 percent.

Mrs. Clinton's tally was fewer in terms of both numbers and percentage points than Mr. Romney's 2016 vote count in Suffolk.

Mr. Obama won Suffolk in 2016 with 24,324 fewer votes than Mr. Trump got in the county on Tuesday.

The third-party candidates — Gary Johnson on the Libertarian and Independence lines and Jill Stein of the Green Party — took in a combined 20,364 votes in Suffolk (12,761 for Mr. Johnson and 7,603 for Ms. Stein). There were 4,243 write-ins for president, more than the total number of votes for Mr. Johnson in his 2012 bid for president.

In Nassau County, Mrs. Clinton was the top vote-getter in the presidential race, with 307,326 votes, or 50.88 percent, to Mr. Trump's 275,479, or 45.61 percent.