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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Katie Forster

US election 2016: Guam, which has historically predicted election winner, picks Clinton

Hillary Clinton has claimed her first victory in the US presidential election – on the the tiny island of Guam in the west Pacific Ocean.

Votes in the US territory, which has a population of around 165,000, do not count towards the final result, but the result has historically been a reliable indicator of which way the vote will swing.

Ms Clinton took 71.6 per cent of the territory’s votes, with her Republican rival Donald Trump lagging behind on 24.2 per cent. 

Guam has predicted the election correctly every year for the last 32 years, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The only year it did not manage to predict the president was in 1996, when a typhoon disrupted voting on election day.

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