ST. PAUL, Minn. – Republican Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States if Minnesota high schoolers decided the election.

Minnesota Students Vote 2016 is the first statewide mock election for high schoolers in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and results released Monday show Trump was the most popular choice among the 77,000 voters across 213 high schools, KARE reports.

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The Trump-Pence ticket took 34.79 percent of the vote, followed by Clinton and Kane with 32.89 percent. The next closest vote-getters were Dan Vacek and Mark Elworth Jr., president and vice presidential candidates for the Legal Marijuana Now party.

Minnesota Students Vote 2016 is an effort by the Secretary of State to engage students in the voting process through a real world voting experience. Results released Monday represent the majority of the 280 high schools participating in the mock election, and they’re expected to be updates as the last several dozen schools submit vote totals.

At St. Cloud Technical High School, where Clinton won with 55 percent of the vote to Trump’s 27 percent, principal Charlie Eisenreich said teachers have built lessons around the mock election, which has given students a way to participate in the 2016 election.

“They’ve been doing lessons in most of the social studies courses over the past few months,” he told the St. Cloud Times. “In fact, I sat in one of our English-learner classes where they were comparing and contrasting Clinton and Trump and talking about the issues.”

In other schools, like Sauk Rapids High School, administrators said they tried to make the voting experience as authentic as possible by requiring students to register ahead of time.

“We tried to make it more of a realistic experience for students,” principal Erich Martens told the news site. “We wanted them to do the process of being intentional about getting involved.”

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Some schools had already released student voting results, including Willmar Senior High School where Trump won with 207 of the 514 votes cast by students, according to the West Central Tribune.

“I think it’s good to get people involved in this sort of thing,” said Key Club Vice President Carly Hulstein, who is too young to vote officially this year but helped to organize the mock election last week. “We are more informed than people think.”

Statewide vote totals through Oct. 31, according to the Office of The Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon:

Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence, Republican – 26.930 – 34.97%

Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, Democrat – 25,333 – 32.89%

Darrell Castle and Scott Bradley, Constitution Party – 986 – 1.28%

Dan R. Vacek and Mark Elsworth, Jr., Legal Marijuana Now – 4,570 – 5.93%

Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart, Socialist Workers Party – 665 – .086%

Jill Stein and Howie Hawkins, Green Party – 2,764 – 3.59%

“Rocky” Roque De La Fuente and Michael Steinberg, American Delta Party – 1,160 – 1.51%

Evan McMullin and Nathan Johnson, Independence – 1,658 – 2.15%

Gary Johnson and William Weld, Libertarian Party – 4,371 – 5.68%

Write-In – 7,124 – 9.25%

Spoiled ballots – 1,456 – 1.89%