Donald Trump defied expectations winning the U.S. presidency in one of the more decidedly nasty election cycles in recent memory, changing the political landscape for the next four years.

In the lead-up to the polls closing at 9 p.m. on Election Day, where Bronx residents overwhelmingly voted for Mrs. Clinton, the Norwood News visited several sites in the neighborhood, observing voters casting their vote without much of a wait.

Outside PS 86 on Reservoir Avenue and 195th Street in Kingsbridge Heights, a steady stream of voters congregated under the scaffolding after casting their ballot.

Arturo Sealy, 53, hadn’t planned to be one of them. But Sealy’s niece changed that after calling to convince him to hit the voting booth. “At first I wasn’t going to vote, but then I said, ‘Let me go out and let my voice be heard.’ I decided I had to cast my ballot because every vote matters,” said Sealy, a window installer who wore a baseball cap that read “CIA: Christians in Action.” “I don’t want to vote for somebody who doesn’t know about politics, somebody that cares about the people. No offense on Trump, but I haven’t heard no good things from him, I haven’t heard his point on the military or the economy. All I heard is a childish approach … I don’t want him in office.”

Around 8 p.m., Wanda and Louis Corporan easily cast their votes at Glad Tidings Assembly of God on Van Cortlandt and Jerome avenues in Norwood. They said they felt more comfortable coming after work since the lines can be long and unpredictable when polls first open. They estimated Election Day 2016 went “90 percent smoother” than when they last voted two years ago.

Wanda, 45, a health and education advocate, said the most important reason for her coming out to vote was to represent Latino families in the community and make it known that “our voice can make a difference.” She said she spent the past two years preparing for the election by familiarizing herself with the process and the candidates.

Shortly after sunrise on Tuesday, the election spirit was palpable, with excitement spreading down Jerome Avenue before many of the shops opened, with neighbors and shop workers calling out to each other, asking if the other had voted yet.

Voters who showed up at PS 280 on East Mosholu Parkway between Rochambeau and Steuben avenues early Tuesday were rewarded with sunny skies, crisp fall air and no wait times.

“We were trying to go as early as possible to beat” the lines, said Stefan Betters, 26, who works as a manager at Starbucks. “We were expecting to wait.”

Betters and Christa Price crossed Mosholu Parkway wearing their “I Voted Stickers” around 7:30 a.m. Price, a 29-year-old social worker, said “defeating the Trump” was the reason they were out so early in the day to vote. As for the other candidates, Betters and Price said they read up on the candidates in races other than the election last night.

“We did a little bit of research and decided not to go with [U.S. Senator from New York] Chuck Schumer but [Green Party candidate] Robin Laverne Wilson,” Price said. “But that was a last minute decision—we hadn’t heard anything about her until last night and didn’t know what was going to be on the ballot.”

By the end of the night, Schumer secured 70 percent of the vote, sealing a third term.

As for how orderly they were, Gwen McSwain, voting at a polling site on Olinville Avenue, saw it was “much more crowded than the last” election cycle.

Dorothy Kaalund voting at the same location had a different outlook on her voting experience this time around. “Last time I came in and I walked in and walked out instantly, I did my thing and was gone, but not this time.”

Seryi Betancourt, 30, said that the only candidate who knocked on her door this election season was running for a volunteer board position. Betancourt said she started reviewing the sample ballot about a week and a half ago.

“I’m not the kind of person who just votes for my party. It’s the issues I care about,” said Betancourt, a project manager at an ad agency. “I think I told my friends to view the sample ballot yesterday, though.”

But sample balloting was not on the agenda of Kofi Busia, 58, who drove up in his off-duty yellow taxi to vote, and said that he’s a loyal member of the Democratic Party. “I know who I have to vote for,” said Busia, a registered Democrat originally from Ghana who said he voted in the last two presidential elections. “This campaign was tough. Thank God it’s ended now.”