Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won their primary races in Mississippi Tuesday, and they both won by significant margins in Yazoo County.
Clinton received 82.6 percent of the vote statewide to cruise past challenger Bernie Sanders. Statewide Clinton defeated Sanders, who pulled off a victory in Michigan on the same night, 182,447-36,348.
In Yazoo County, she won by an even bigger margin. Clinton received 2,203 votes to Sanders’ 203 for nearly 91 percent of the vote.
Willie Wilson received 11 votes in Yazoo County, and Rocky De La Fuente received five. Martin O’Malley, who previously dropped out of the race, received three votes.
On the Republican side Donald Trump received 47.3 percent of the vote for a statewide victory with a 191,755-147,065 win over Ted Cruz. John Kasich was a distant third with 35,817.
In Yazoo County, Trump received 54.59 percent of the vote with 1,510 votes.
Cruz was the closest challenger with 842 votes in Yazoo County. Kasich received 206 votes, and Rubio finished with 152 in Yazoo County.
Of the 10 Republican candidates who had already dropped out of the race, all but George Pataki received at least one vote. Ben Carson got the most votes among candidates who were no longer in the race with 23 votes.
The only other races on the ballot in Yazoo County were candidates who were unopposed.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson was unopposed on the Democratic ticket. He received 2,283 votes, and there were four write-in votes.
Yazoo Mississippi Delta District Levee Commissioner William Dodd was unopposed and received 944 votes.
On the Republican ticket, John Bouie II, who will challenge Thompson for the 2nd Congressional District seat in the November general election, received 2,073 votes, and there were 20 write-in votes.
