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PRIMARY RESULTS: Texas - March 9
Democratic Presidential: Open primary
232 total delegates* -- 195 tied to March 9 primary

State Information: 34 electoral votes
12,041,793 registered voters -- voters do not register by party
This page represents results, including delegate count, reported immediately after each state's contest. More >
RACE STATUS CANDIDATE VOTES VOTE% DEL PRECINCTS LOCAL EXIT POLL
Texas
updated: 10:24 a.m.,
March 11
 Kerry 563,030 67%183 100% reporting results by county voter survey results
  Edwards 120,533 14%10
  Dean 40,038 5%0
  Sharpton 31,169 4%2
  Kucinich 16,023 2%0

 Texas has 195 pledged and 37 unpledged delegates. Of the 195 pledged delegates, 127 are district-level delegates (based on results of a given district's binding primary), 43 are at-large delegates and 25 are "party leader and elected official" (PLEO) delegates. Of the 37 unpledged delegates, 34 are PLEO delegates and three are add-ons selected at the state Democratic convention on June 19, 2004.
• For more about the delegate selection process, click here.
• How does CNN project winners in races? Click here.
• Exit polls are a survey of selected voters taken soon after they leave their voting place. Pollsters use this sample information, collected from a small percentage of voters, to track and project how all voters or specific segments of the voters sided on a particular race or ballot measure. For more on how to read exit polls, click here.
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