Super Tuesday: Massachusetts Results
This article originally appeared in Forbes.
Super Tuesday is here, and there are 42 R / 116 D delegates at stake in Massachusetts. Before and after the polls close at 8 p.m. ET, look here for updates from the state where Hillary Clinton holds her narrowest lead. Links to our coverage of the other Super Tuesday states can be found here.
8:34 AM EST (March 2)
Hillary Clinton has won another state. She has won Massachusetts, but by less than 2%. She won 50.3% of votes and Bernie Sanders won 48.5%. As to the delegate math, that means that Clinton won 45 delegates and Sanders won 43.
In the Republican primary, Donald Trump ended up winning 49% of the vote and earning 22 delegates. John Kasich and Marco Rubio each won 8 delegates and Ted Cruz won 4 delegates. Since Ben Carson did not reach the 5% threshold, he walked away with no Bay State delegates.
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10:16 PM EST
With 65% reported, Hillary Clinton is leading Bernie Sanders with 51.3% to his 47.5%. It is still too close to call.
In the Republican primary, with 77 % reported, Donald Trump is winning with 49% of voters. It is no question he will win. The only question is by how much.
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8:03 PM EST
Polls closed in four more states at 8 p.m., including Massachusetts. Some more states have been called. Based on exit polls, Fox News has called Massachusetts for Donald Trump. But it is too early to call the Democratic race.
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7:39 PM EST
Results are coming in for Super Tuesday. As expected, for example, Bernie Sanders won Vermont. Polls close at 8 p.m. in Massachusetts. It has been sunny today.
Republican primary voters have a choice of 13 candidates, including George Pataki. Democratic primary voters have the choice of four candidates.
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3:47 PM EST
Massachusetts is one of the 11 Super Tuesday states that is in play for Democrats, as it is one of the states the Sanders campaign thinks it could win. How do the polls look? In the FiveThirtyEight weighted forecast, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is projected to win 52.3% of the votes, while Senator Bernie Sanders is projected to win 44.8%.
Interestingly, nearly 20,000 Democrats changed their party affiliation ahead of today’s primary. Independents can vote in the Republican primary.
The Republican primary is less of a race for first place. The FiveThirtyEight weighted forecast projects that Donald Trump will win 48.9% of votes cast. Candidates have to win at least 5% of the vote to be awarded delegates, which is bad news for Ben Carson who is projected to win 2.6%.
Notes on the Massachusetts primary:
- Delegates: 42 R / 116 D
- Open to non-partisans? Partial (Open to independents but not Democrats)
- Polls close: 8 p.m. ET
- Largest counties: Middlesex (Boston suburbs), Worcester, Essex (Boston suburbs), Suffolk (Boston), Norfolk (Boston suburbs)
- GOP rules:
- At-large delegates allocated statewide: All 42 delegates are awarded proportionally based on statewide vote share among candidates who win at least 5% of the vote.
- Votes cast in 2008 & 2012 GOP primaries: 497,531 / 370,425
- Notes: Massachusetts’ low vote threshold of 5% is good news for Ted Cruz, who is polling at 10% in the FiveThirtyEight weighted forecast, and potentially bad news for Ben Carson, who is at 4%. John Kasich is doing well—for him—in the Bay State, with 19%; Marco Rubio at 23% is 20 points behind Donald Trump.
- Democratic notes: Massachusetts, the third-largest delegate state on the Democratic side on Super Tuesday, is also the source of Hillary Clinton’s narrowest lead. In theFiveThirtyEight weighted forecast, her lead over Bernie Sanders is 7 points, 52-45%.