Thread: Missouri Primary Results March 15, 2016

Missouri primary

Last updated Mar 15, 2016 at 5:14 PM PT

REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC

Mar 15
52 delegates

1% reporting	Votes
Trump	54.8% 148
Cruz	27.4% 74
Rubio	6.7% 18
Kasich	6.3% 17

Dropped out: Bush, Carson, Christie, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Santorum

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Source: AP https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...short/m.04ych/

Missouri primary

Last updated Mar 15, 2016 at 5:17 PM PT

REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC

Mar 15
71 delegates

1% reporting	Votes
Clinton	65.3% 77
Sanders	29.7% 35

Dropped out: O'Malley

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Source: AP

Missouri primary

Last updated Mar 15, 2016 at 10:25 PM PT

REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC

Mar 15
52 delegates

99% reporting	Votes
Trump	40.8% 382,093
Cruz	40.6% 380,367
Kasich	10.1% 94,533
Rubio	6.1% 57,006

Dropped out: Bush, Carson, Christie, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Santorum

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Source: AP

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...short/m.04ych/

Missouri primary

Last updated Mar 15, 2016 at 10:08 PM PT

REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC

Mar 15
71 delegates

100% reporting	Votes
Clinton	49.6% 310,602
Sanders	49.4% 309,071

Dropped out: O'Malley

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Source: AP https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...short/m.04ych/

Thank you, Missouri! Hope this holds until they certify so we'll know for sure.

Missouri win for Trump is official. Thank you, Missouri!

https://www.google.com/search?q=prim...0/g.11bx8cdj87

Missouri recount likely LINK


"The recount law in Missouri allows a second-place finisher to request a recount if the margin of victory is less than half a percentage point."

"some absentee and provisional ballots remain uncounted. These ballots will be counted in the coming days. Overseas absentee ballots will be accepted until Friday at noon. The secretary of state's office could not say how many uncounted ballots remain."

Missouri primary

Last updated Mar 27, 2016 at 5:37 PM PT

REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRATIC

Mar 15
52 delegates

100% reporting	Delegates	Votes
Trump	25	40.9% 382,093
Cruz	15	40.7% 380,367
Kasich	0	9.9% 92,533
Rubio	0	6.1% 57,006

Dropped out: Bush, Carson, Christie, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Santorum

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Source: AP https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...short/m.04ych/

Potential Missouri recount process could take months

• By Nicholas J.C. Pistor St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Mar 16, 2016 (15)

"I am going to post with the message peer pressure works," said Bob Hudgins, who stops to take a selfie for a twitter and Facebook post after casting his ballot in the primary election on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at the First Baptist Church of Ferguson. " I am an idealist myself. Bernie hits me just right, " said Hudgins, who says he doesn't dislike Hillary just prefers the platform of Sanders. Hudgins, who continues to be active in the Ferguson protests, is a for candidate for the Ferguson City Council. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton appear to have won the popular vote in Missouri’s presidential primary — just barely.

The horse race finishes mean potential recounts that could take several months, state officials said.

Stephanie Fleming, communications director for the Missouri Secretary of State, said a recount is not automatic.

A candidate who lost by less than one-half of 1 percent may request a recount in writing, Fleming said. That can be done only after the state’s vote is certified, an official process that could stretch into April.

“It’s not going to be over soon if there is a request for a recount,” Fleming said.

Currently, defeated Missouri candidates Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders fit the recount parameters. Cruz trails Trump by about one-fifth of 1 percent, while Sanders trails Clinton by one-fourth of 1 percent.

Neither the Sanders nor Cruz campaigns has responded to questions about whether they’ll seek a recount.

Because the results are so close, it remains unclear if a recount would change anything. Presidential primaries are about delegates, not popular vote.

At stake:

Republicans • 52 delegates


Missouri is a winner-take-all state for Republicans only if a candidate wins more than 50 percent of the total vote. That didn’t happen Tuesday, so a more complicated process is triggered.

With Trump netting about 40.8 percent and Cruz getting about 40.6 percent, Republicans will now allocate the state’s 52 delegates proportionally.

Trump will get 12 delegates for capturing the most votes. The rest of the delegates will be awarded to whoever has the highest vote total in Missouri’s eight congressional districts. Five delegates per district are awarded.

The congressional boundaries mean the vote margins could be more slim than the statewide results.

On Wednesday, the Missouri Republican Party announced Trump had won 37 delegates, and Cruz won 15.

Democrats • 71 delegates
The Democrats have a different process.
Forty-seven of the 71 will be divided based on the candidates’ showings in the eight House districts. The remaining 24 will be allotted based on their percentage of the statewide vote.

In addition, Missouri Democrats have 13 so-called superdelegates, elected officials and party leaders who can pledge their vote regardless of the primary results. Twelve of Missouri’s superdelegates have already endorsed Clinton.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/nationa...84529b711.html

Trump gains 12 delegates, takes total to 751

March 27, 2016 4:50 PM MST

During Missouri's Republican presidential primary, which took place on March 15, 2016, 12 delegates are awarded to the candidate who receives the most total votes statewide. Another 40 delegates were available, in groups of five, to the winner of each of the eight congressional districts in the state. This year's election had one of the closest outcomes ever in Missouri history.

As of March 27, 2016, unoficially, businessman and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has received 382,093 votes, or 40.83% of all votes cast. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has received 380,367 votes, or 40.64% of the total vote. Ohio Governor John Kasich has received 92,533 votes, or 9.9% of Missouri votes. Finally, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who has suspended his campaign, has received 57,006 votes or 6.1% of all votes cast.

The remainder of all votes (2.3% of the total votes cast in the election) were divided amongst candidates who have quit the campaign, namely Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, and others.

In Missouri, the Secretary of State is Jason Kander, a Democrat, and Secretary Kander has four weeks from the date of an election to certify the results. Since Ted Cruz lost to Donald Trump by a margin of less than 0.5%, once the Secretary certifies the election results, Cruz will have seven days to ask for a recount.

While the election has still yet to be certified, finding an additional 1,726 votes means moving votes from other candidates to Cruz. If any votes were missed, they will be missed at rates that can be quantified into a statewide error percentage for vote totals. We don't know if Cruz intends to ask for a recount or not (Cruz is not showing his hand on this one), however at the present time, the unofficial winner of the state is still Donald Trump.

Trump won five congressional districts, which awarded him 25 delegates from this category alone. Now add in 12 more for being the statewide winner, and Trump's total Missouri delegates won is 37, not 25. Ted Cruz won three congressional districts, or 15 delegates total.

With the extra 12 delegates for winning the election statewide, Trump now has 751 committed delegates, or 60% of the total required to gain the Republican nomination for president.

Ted Cruz is far back in second place behind Trump, with 465 delegates, and rounding out the field is Kasich, who now has 143 delegates.

What is difficult to understand is why, two weeks after Missouri's election, the results have still not been certified by Secretary Kander. Most of the states that voted on March 15, including Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, have long since declared an official statewide winner. There are no easy explanations for why there is a delay in Missouri.

The unofficial results in Missouri have not changed since all 100% of precincts have reported their results to the Secretary's office.

Cruz is still 1,726 votes behind, and its a big unknown if Cruz would be able to win a recount.

While recounts are not a common occurrence in every election, they do occur. Only if a recount is asked for will the Secretary of State actually conduct one, and then determine if the recount will be a machine recount, or a manual one. A machine recount uses voting machines to retabulate the total vote and to submit final results to the Secretary for an official certification of final vote totals. A manual recount means that votes are tabulated by hand.

Our take on the 12 delegates is that unofficially, Trump won the state, and won those 12 delegates. Trump additionally won five congressional districts for 25 delegates more, bringing Trump's delegate total in Missouri to 37; thus taking his 2016 election total to 751 in this year's Republican presidential primary campaign.

If the results hold up, Trump will have already collected 60% of the necessary 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president. If Trump has won the congressional districts unofficially, then that means that Trump has won the state unofficially. It's time to count all the delegates that Trump won unofficially in Missouri.

We'll keep you up to date on the latest election results here at Examiner.com. For now, it's time that Trump get credit for what he's won; unofficially or not. It was absolutely a close election, but it was Trump that won statewide on election night, and not Cruz. Let's give Trump the credit he deserves for a fine election victory in Missouri. After all, he earned it.

http://www.examiner.com/article/trum...s-total-to-751