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Donald Trump won the vast majority of the state's 95 delegates in Tuesday's primary election, including all three from the 11th Congressional District that Staten Island shares with parts of southern Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Donald Trump's Staten Island supporters were confident the brash businessman would win in the borough, but even his most staunch allies were pleasantly surprised that the GOP front-runner on Tuesday took the Island with 82 percent of the vote, setting a record for the highest margin of victory for the candidate so far in the national race.

Voters in the 11th Congressional District, made up of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, gave Trump 80 percent of the vote, making it the largest margin of victory in the entire state, out of 27 congressional districts.

Whether considering the 82 percent on Staten Island or the 80 percent in the 11th Congressional District, it's clear that Trump's victory here is his largest yet in the race.

Trump won the vast majority of the state's 95 delegates after winning the state with 60 percent of the vote.

On Staten Island, he got 73 percent in the North Shore's 61st Assembly district represented by Assemblyman Matthew Titone; 85 percent in the South Shore's 62nd district, that Ron Castorina Jr. was just elected to; 80 percent in the mid-Island's 63rd district represented by Assemblyman Michael Cusick; and 82 percent in the East Shore's 64th district, represented by Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.

Councilman Joe Borelli (R-South Shore) is a co-chairman of Trump's New York campaign, and sees the candidate's win by a large margin as further evidence that voters are fed up.

"People on Staten Island somewhat feel dictated to by an increasingly liberal governor, mayor and City Council and I believe people are just looking for someone to lead them and stand up for our side," he said.

A fixture on CNN in recent weeks as an unofficial spokesman for the Trump campaign, Borelli said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a "non-starter" not because of his disparaging "New York values" comment but because he opposed funding the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, as well as funding for Hurricane Sandy victims.

Cruz got no delegates in New York's race, while Ohio Gov. John Kasich took a small handful.

But with both mathematically unable to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination before the convention in July, Borelli thinks that fact will attract voters in coming primaries over to Trump's side.

"People don't want to vote for a candidate whose strategy for winning is not by winning the popular vote, it's by winning these insider delegate contests," he said.

For Richard Flanagan, a political science professor at the College of Staten Island, Trump's victory on the Island is a sign that an outsider status is appealing here and marching orders from the party matters less than elsewhere.

"My first thought is that the Staten Island party identity is worn lightly historically, with all of the Reagan Democrats out here who would vote in the old days," he said. "There's something in the DNA in the political tradition about not respecting establishment dictates all that much. That's a piece of it."

The Trump vote is explained by the Island being "more anti-establishment" than other places in New York City, Flanagan said, and local politicians, like Borelli, know it from taking the pulse of the community.

"The Trump problem for the national party isn't a problem in New York, we're used to him," Flanagan said.

Local GOP Chairman John Antoniello, a Trump supporter, was pleasantly surprised by Trump's big win here.

"It's pretty awesome, for any candidate in any election to get 80 percent. That's a landslide by far."

Hillary Clinton won the 11th CD with a narrow 51 percent of the vote, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders getting 49 percent.

But Sanders coming that close to a win and Trump taking home a huge win here makes sense, argues Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant who advised Bill Clinton in his 1996 presidential election.

"Both candidates represent the revolt by people who feel they are being used by government, taking advantage of by New York elites and whose voices aren't heard, and that corresponds with what Staten Islanders feel every day."

As for what the Island's vote Tuesday means for the November election, Borelli is pleased to see the borough put on the national map.

Tuesday night "was the pivotal moment of the campaign and it's great that Staten Island finally got to play a monumental role in a presidential election."