Washington, Nov 6 (AP) Former President Donald Trump won South Dakota's three electoral votes for president Tuesday.

The Republican nominee had been expected to prevail comfortably in a state where GOP voters outnumber Democrats by more than 2-to-1.

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No Democratic nominee has carried South Dakota since President Lyndon Johnson won in 1964. Trump received nearly 62 per cent of the vote in each of his previous runs for president, and both times his margin was more than 26 percentage points. Almost 51 per cent of the state's 616,000 registered voters are Republicans, while fewer than 24 per cent are Democrats. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 9:00 p.m. EST. (AP)

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