Kathleen Gray

Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau

The race for president in Michigan got closer Tuesday once counties submitted their official results to the state, but Republican Donald Trump still remains the president-elect in Michigan, as well as the rest of the nation.

The state hasn’t yet posted the results compiled from the counties, which had to certify their results by Tuesday afternoon. But the Cook Political Report, a Washington-based newsletter, reported that according to official sources, Trump won the state by less than 1%, a margin of 9,528 votes out of 4,794,326 votes cast by Michiganders.

Before Tuesday, the Secretary of State had reported that the unofficial margin of victory for Trump was 13,107 votes. The state’s Board of Canvassers will certify Michigan’s Nov. 8 election results on Nov. 28 and the Michigan’s 16 members of the electoral college are scheduled to award the state’s 16 electoral college votes to the winner on Dec. 19.

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In Oakland County, Democrat Hillary Clinton gained 94 votes while Trump scored another 76 votes. She ended up winning the county by a tally of 343,070 to 289,203 votes for Trump. Third party and write-in candidates received 36,652 votes.

In Macomb County, both Trump and Clinton picked up an additional 76 votes and Trump easily won the county by a 224,665-176,317 margin. Third-party candidates accounted for another 17,949 votes and Macomb hasn’t posted the write-in candidate totals yet.

In Wayne County, Clinton gained 565 votes while Trump got another 32 votes after the results were canvassed and certified by the Wayne County Clerk's office. Clinton handily won the county by 519,444 to 228,993 margin over Trump. Votes for third party and write-in candidates totalled 34,282 votes.

Trump's victory in Michigan was the first for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988. He scored the victory after flipping a dozen counties in the state where voters had cast their ballots for President Barack Obama's re-election in 2012.

Contact Kathleen Gray: 313-223-4430 or kgray99@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @michpoligal