Trump, Sanders win in Westport on Super Tuesday
Westport voters chose Donald Trump in a big way and backed Bernie Sanders by a tighter margin in Super Tuesday primary voting.
Voter turnout was at record levels for a Presidential primary in Westport: 4742 voters (42.07 percent).
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Trump, Sanders win in Westport on Super Tuesday
Westport voters chose Donald Trump in a big way and backed Bernie Sanders by a tighter margin in Super Tuesday primary voting.
Voter turnout was at record levels for a Presidential primary in Westport: 4742 voters (42.07 percent).
In the Democratic primary, Sanders took 1,492 Westport votes (51.9 percent) to Hillary Clinton’s 1,318 votes (45.9 percent).
Clinton won in Massachusetts overall, 50.1 percent to 48.7 percent.
In the Republican primary, Trump won by a landslide in Westport with 1,012 votes (55.9 percent) - more than twice as many as his competitors combined.
- Marco Rubio: 282 (15.6 percent)
- John Kasich: 239 (13.2 percent)
- Ted Cruz: 189 (10.4 percent)
Statewide, Trump won with 45.2 percent of the vote.
- Kasich: 18%
- Rubio: 17.9%
- Cruz: 9.6%
- Carson: 2.6%
- Bush: 1.1%
- Christie: 0.3%
- Paul: 0.3%
- Fiorina: 0.2%
- Gilmore: 0.2%
- Huckabee: 0.1%
- Santorum: <0.1%
