Hillary Clinton has beaten Donald Trump in Orange County, the first time since the Great Depression the county has gone blue in a presidential election.

Clinton, the Democratic nominee who lost the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump Tuesday, has received nearly 50 percent of the Orange County vote with all precincts reporting and 795,000 votes counted as of Wednesday morning, according to the Orange County registrar of voters. Trump had 44.9 percent of the vote.

The last time Orange County went blue was in 1936 – at the height of the Depression and five years before the United States entered World War II – when voters backed incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt over Kansas Gov. Alf Landon.

That election, though, was a landslide: Landon only won two states, Vermont and Maine.

But flipping Orange County is likely little consolation for Clinton or her supporters. Trump swept through the Midwest, with Wisconsin pushing him over the 270 required Electoral College votes – even though Clinton was narrowly ahead on the popular vote as of Wednesday morning.

She gave her concession speech on Wednesday.

And Orange County is becoming increasingly blue. Even though Republicans have a 3.8-percentage point advantage among the county’s electorate, Democrats are on a trajectory to overtake the GOP in voter registration in the next few years.

In 2012, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney beat President Barack Obama in Orange County by 6 points.

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