On Tuesday, March 15, Florida voters gathered to voice who they wanted to be the next President of the United States and the two candidates that won the support of the state, one Republican and one Democrat, were revealed.
Hillary Clinton started her campaign trail with suspicions and distrust due to the reports of false claims and divulging federal secrets.
Despite that cause for alarm, Clinton has pushed her way through the campaign season and secured the title of being the Democrat front-runner.
Election officials were able to tally some of Florida voters’ early votes and Clinton was already projected to win the Florida Democratic vote before March 15 came around.
By the end of the March 15 tallying of votes, Clinton was revealed to have won the Democrat vote with 1,097,400 votes (or 64.45 percent) and was backed by 133 delegates. Bernie Sanders, who received 566,603 votes (or 33.27 percent) and was backed by 65 delegates, followed behind Clinton in the polls.
In Madison County, the two Democratic candidates scored high votes in the county, with Clinton taking 1,548 of the votes (or 62.44 percent) and Sanders taking in 743 votes (or 29.97 percent).
Leading Florida’s Republican voters was Donald Trump. American voters either hate the business-mogul-turned-politician or love him and judging by the votes of the Florida Republicans, Florida has cast its vote to support the New York-born businessman.
Statewide, Trump secured 1,077,221 Florida’s Republican voters (or 45.74 percent) and 99 delegates. Trailing behind him in the state polls was candidate Marco Rubio, who was presented with 636,653 (or 27.03 percent) of Florida’s votes before announcing his intentions to drop out of the presidential race.
In Madison County, Trump won again as he won 796 votes (or 48.98 percent) from the Republican voters in the county. Following Trump in the Madison County polls was candidate Ted Cruz with 472 votes (or 29.05 percent). In the state poll, Cruz received 403,640 (or 17.14 percent) of Florida’s voters.
Madison County voters turned out to the polls at only 41.24 percent, which is cause for distress as there are 10,163 registered voters in the county but only an estimated 4,191 ballots were turned in.
The presidential race is ongoing, as the candidates will be moving on to be featured in the polls of Arizona as well as in the Utah caucus on Tuesday, March 22.