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With 98% of vote counted, Cruz getting 20 Idaho delegates, Trump getting 12

At this point this morning, 98 percent of the vote has been tallied from yesterday's Idaho presidential primary election for the GOP and Constitution Party. With 938 of 956 precincts reporting, Ted Cruz won the Idaho GOP contest with 45 percent. Donald Trump was in second place with 28.1 percent; Marco Rubio was third with 16.2 percent and John Kasich had 7.5 percent. Cruz got 96,411 votes.

Because Idaho Republican Party rules set a threshold of 20 percent before any candidate could get a share of Idaho's 32 delegates, under the current numbers, Cruz gets 20 of Idaho's GOP delegates and Trump gets 12. Neither Rubio nor Kasich gets any.

In the Constitution Party contest, Scott Copeland was the Idaho winner with 51.7 percent or 245 votes. J.R. Myers was second with 28.9 percent, or 137 votes; and Patrick Anthony Ockander came in third with 19.4 percent, or 92 votes.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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