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2687d ago / 4:05 AM UTC

NBC News Exit Poll: More than Half of First-Time Voters Supported Clinton

According to the NBC News Exit Poll, one in 10 voters said they voted for the first time today. The majority of these first time voters said they voted for Hillary Clinton, and about four in 10 voted for Donald Trump. Fewer than one in 10 voted for a third-party candidate. 

Part of the reason Clinton is not doing better with this group is that nearly six in 10 first-time voters think the nation’s economy is not so good or poor. More than half say they are dissatisfied or angry with the way the federal government is working.

A majority of these new voters are under age 30 and many are nonwhite. But Clinton needs more of them than she appears to be getting tonight.

2688d ago / 3:35 PM UTC

Meet the NBC News Exit Poll Desk Team

Throughout Election Night, a team of survey research analysts will be crunching the numbers on who voted, what issues were on their minds and why they voted the way they did.

The team includes Stephanie Psyllos, manager of exit polling, NBC News; Scott Keeter, senior survey advisor at Pew Research Center; Courtney Kennedy, director of survey research at Pew Research Center; Cary Funk, associate director of research at Pew Research Center; Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute; Maureen Michaels, president of Michaels Opinion Research Inc.; Mara Ostfeld, postdoctoral fellow, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan; Patrick Egan, associate professor of politics and public policy at New York University; Hannah Hartig, assistant director, University of Pennsylvania's Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies; Jennifer Su, senior project director, Princeton Survey Research Associates International; and Andrew Arenge, assistant producer, NBC News. The NBC News Exit Poll Desk works closely with digital editors David Taintor and Elizabeth Johnstone to curate the stories we produce.