On March 10 Kansas held its Republican Presidential Caucus. With all caucus sites reporting, Santorum won the state by a considerable margin.
Here are the vote totals from the New York Times website.
Rick Santorum 15,290 51.2%
Mitt Romney 6,250 20.9%
Newt Gingrich 4,298 14.4%
Ron Paul 3,767 12.6%
Uncommitted 122 0.4%
Herman Cain 39 0.1%
Jon Huntsman 38 0.1%
Rick Perry 37 0.1%
Michele Bachmann 16 0.05%
As you can see, all eight major candidates that remained in the race before Herman Cain dropped out were on the ballot. There remain 975 provisional ballots whose legitimacy the party has not yet determined.
The Kansas Republican Party decided not to run caucus sites in 15 sparsely populated counties. Republicans who lived there had to vote in neighboring counties. Santorum received the most votes in 89 counties. Romney won one county, Lane County.
Here are the results from Saline and Riley County.
Saline County Riley County
Santorum 358 51.5% Santorum 276 38.5%
Romney 147 21.2% Romney 202 28.2%
Gingrich 110 15.8% Gingrich 133 18.5%
Paul 72 10.4% Paul 100 13.9%
Others 8 1.2% Others 6 0.8%
According to the Kansas Republican Party website, there were 763, 640 registered Kansas Republicans in 2010. According to the Kansas Republican Party, 30,832 people cast their ballots in the caucus. Based on these figures, 4.04% of registered Republicans voted in the Kansas Republican presidential caucus.
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