Saturday, March 10, 2012

Santorum wins Kansas


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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