If Bainbridge Island students could vote Tuesday, it looks like Hillary Clinton would become the 45th president of the United States.
The ones closest to voting age would have nothing to do with it, however.
Results were announced Monday in Washington’s Mock Election, held last week for K-12 students across the state by the Washington Office of the Secretary of State.
More than 38,000 students participated in this year’s Mock Election, which featured the presidential race, the race for U.S. Senate between incumbent Sen. Patty Murray and Republican Chris Vance, and the contest for governor between Gov. Jay Inslee and GOP challenger Bill Bryant.
Students also “voted” on three initiatives on this November’s ballot: I-1433 (increasing the state minimum wage), I-1491 (restricting access to firearms) and I-735 (a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case).
Clinton was the statewide winner over Republican candidate Donald Trump, with 50 percent of students who voted picking the former Secretary of State and First Lady over the reality television star and real estate mogul, who collected 30 percent of the student vote.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson pulled in 8.2 percent of the vote, while Jill Stein of the Green Party finished with 5.6 percent.
On Bainbridge, student voters gave Clinton a less resounding win than the statewide tally (48.7 percent), while Trump did better here (35.9 percent).
Stein also did better on Bainbridge; she finished with 10 percent of the presidential vote while Johnson had 5 percent.
Most of the votes cast in the Mock Election on Bainbridge came from younger students. Of the 39 students who cast votes, all but five votes came from schools other than Bainbridge and Eagle Harbor high schools.
Clinton didn’t get any votes from high schoolers in the handful of votes cast by those students. Just five high schoolers participated, with the two ballots from BHS going to Trump, who also garnered two of the three from Eagle Harbor High (Stein won the other vote).
Clinton, however, picked up the overall win via landslide among student voters in the Odyssey Multiage Program, which serves students in grades 1 through 8.
Sixteen of 19 votes went Clinton’s way, with Trump getting two, and Stein, one.
Elsewhere on Bainbridge, Trump got two votes from home education/homeschool students who participated in the Mock Election.
In the total tally of student votes across the state, Murray won in the Senate race (63 percent); Inslee was victorious in the governor’s matchup (57 percent); and students also approved the three initiatives (I-1433, minimum wage, 64 percent; I-1491, firearms restrictions, 68 percent; I-735, Citizens United, 53 percent).
On Bainbridge, Murray also won (56 percent), as did Inslee (56 percent). Island students also approved I-1433 (64 percent), I-1491 (64 percent) and I-735 (52 percent).
Students at BHS, Eagle Harbor High, Woodward Middle School, Sonoji Sakai Intermediate School, Commodore Options School, and Captain Johnston Blakely and Ordway elementary schools participated in this year’s Mock Election.
Officials with the Washington Office of the Secretary of State said this year’s turnout nearly set a new record.
A total of 38,528 students voted in the 2016 Mock Election, which was just 320 ballots below the all-time record set in 2012.
