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Trump roundly rejected at Dot, Mattapan polls

Dorchester and Mattapan voters fueled a strong citywide turnout on Tuesday as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris dealt a crushing defeat to Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence in Boston. The Biden-Harris team topped the ticket across the city with 83.5 percent to 15 percent for the Republicans, piling on vote totals that in some places resembled the lopsided margins more often seen for politicians running without opposition.

At Savin Hill’s 13-10 bellwether, where voters pick candidates at the Cristo Rey School, the Biden-Harris ticket prevailed, 974-343— roughly 74 percent of the vote.

In Mattapan, the margins were even more lopsided. At the Mildred Avenue school, where voters converge from three precincts to cast ballots, it was a rout. Biden-Harris won 450-26 in 17-7 and 949-37 in 17-10.

At the Lower Mills library, the home precinct of Mayor Walsh, voters broke for Biden-Harris, 789-177.

Trump performed better in a handful of precincts in and around Neponset Circle— including Florian Hall’s 16-12, a reliably right-leaning enclave that sometimes breaks for moderate and more conversative candidates over progressives.

When the votes were counted, Trump lost the precinct, but not by much. It was Biden-Harris 511, Trump-Pence 487.

Outside Florian on Tuesday, two men who support Trump held signs and waved at motorists, some of whom honked back in support. One of the men, Thomas Murphy of Dorchester, said he was backing the president because Trump is “for pro-life and we’re Christian.”

Murphy said he feared that Biden would “lock down the country for a year” to combat the coronavirus, which Murphy believes will “go away no doubt.”

He added, “but you can’t shut down the schools and lock down the country again. That will be the destruction of the United States.”

Others outside the Florian Hall double-precinct were pushing for Biden, including Brandy Fluker Oakley, who was also on the ballot Tuesday as the Democratic nominee for 12th Suffolk state representative. She was unopposed and will be sworn into office in January.

Fluker Oakley was optimistic about the turnout and the momentum she saw for Biden-Harris in the morning rush.

“I don’t know if it was the pre-work crowd or what, but there has definitely been enthusiasm, people wanting to be sure to cast their votes,” she said. “What I’m hearing in terms of turnout nationwide would signal that a change is coming but we also know that we’ve heard from 45 that if the results are not in his favor, he plans to contest them.

“What’s really hard for me is that it seems like over the last four years our country has become more and more divided. I would like to see a leadership that unifies us as opposed to keeping us apart.”

Annissa Essaibi-George, a Boston city councillor who campaigned for Biden-Harris and US Sen. Ed Markey, admitted yesterday that she had “a lot of anxiety about today.”

“I’m hopeful but, you know, cautiously optimistic,” she said. “But who knows because we also live in a little bit of a bubble here in Massachusetts.”

Election day in the city unfolded with none of the disruption and drama that was feared in other parts of the nation. The morning began with long lines at some polling locations, including the Lower Mills Library in Ward 17, where voters queued at the front door beginning at 6:30 a.m., a half hour before voting commenced. By 7:15, the line stretched down Richmond Street and halfway down the block along Dorchester Avenue. Mayor Martin Walsh, who votes in Lower Mills, was among those spotted in the line, which gradually dissipated as the early vote rush ended over the next hour.

More than a third of Bostonians had cast their ballots ahead of Nov. 3. By late Tuesday, the city Election Department reported that 274,344 votes had been cast— roughly 65.5 percent of the total electorate. If accurate, that figure is smaller than the turnout in 2016, when 66.5 percent of eligible voters participated.

Voters should not be surprised if there was not a clear national result of the presidential election on Tuesday night or for several days after, said Walsh.

“That does not mean that the voting process is broken or compromised in any way. In this particular year, it seems like we’re going to be setting a record in the country for turnout in a national election. I advise everyone to be prepared for the process to take some time,” he said.

Katie Trojano and Daniel Sheehan of the Reporter contributed to this article.