It’s official: While national presidential election winner Joe Biden got majorities of votes in Essex and Clinton counties, incumbent Donald Trump was the favorite in most of the North Country.

Trump received majorities in Franklin, Hamilton, St. Lawrence, Lewis, Jefferson, Washington, Warren, Fulton and Herkimer counties, according to the final presidential election vote count certified Thursday by the New York State Board of Elections.

In some of those, Trump won by huge margins, like in Lewis, Hamilton, Fulton and Herkimer. In Warren County it was by a razor-thin margin of less than 50 votes.

Yet, state-certified results from around the country show Biden to be the winner nationwide, with enough electors to win and the popular majority as well. Trump still has not conceded more than a month after Election Day and continues to say the election is being stolen from him by widespread fraud, but his legal challenges have been unsuccessful in courts.

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Local county breakdowns

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In Essex County, Biden and his vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris received 9,947 votes: 9,327 on the Democratic party line and 620 on the Working Families line. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence received 8,976: 8,394 on the Republican line and 582 on the Conservative line. Libertarians Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen got 173 votes, Brock Pierce and Karla Ballard of the Independence Party got 90, Howie Hawkins and Angela Nicole Walker of the Green Party got 73, and there were 12 write-ins, 134 blank and 65 void.

That means Biden and Harris won by 971 votes, 5% of Essex County’s total 19,470 ballots.

In Franklin County, Trump and Pence got 9,668 votes: 9,092 as Republicans and 576 as Conservatives. Biden and Harris got 9,253: 8,767 as Democrats and 486 on the Working Families line. The Libertarians got 173, the Independence candidates got 93, and the Greens got 77. There were four write-ins, 94 blanks and 58 voids.

Trump’s margin of victory was 415 votes, or 2.1% of the county’s 19,420 ballots.

Trump and Pence won big in Hamilton, the least populous of New York’s 62 counties. The incumbents got 2,225 votes (2,056 Republican and and 169 Conservative) to Biden and Harris’ 1,178 (1,131 Democratic and 47 Working Families). That’s a margin of 1,047, or 30% of the county’s 3,489 ballots, which also included one write-in, 27 blanks and two voids.