Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and business mogul Donald Trump won easy victories in the New York state primaries on Tuesday, winning both the state and Onondaga County.

Trump won 45.6 percent of the vote in Onondaga County, according to The New York Times. Ohio Gov. John Kasich followed Trump in Onondaga County with 36.4 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came in last with 18 percent.

Clinton won 53 percent in Onondaga County, beating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by 6 percent.

Every candidate in both parties made campaign stops in Syracuse in the last few weeks before the primary, with Trump and Sanders drawing the largest crowds at the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center.

Both Trump and Clinton were expected to win the state, as polls coming out of the state before the primary showed both candidates with massive leads.

Trump, who was projected as the winner right after the polls closed at 9 p.m. EST, earned 60 percent of the vote statewide, as of 11:15 p.m. EST, with 91 percent reporting statewide, according to The New York Times. He is on track to win every county in New York, with the exception of Manhattan, where Kasich is ahead by 2 percent, as of 11:15 p.m. EST.

Kasich is still behind Trump by a large margin overall, with 25 percent of the vote statewide — 35 percent behind Trump, as of 11:15 p.m. EST. Cruz is even further behind with 15 percent of the vote as of 11:15 p.m. EST, according to The New York Times.

If Trump gets 50 percent of the vote statewide, he’ll receive all of New York’s 95 delegates. If he doesn’t, the other Republican candidates, Kasich and Cruz, need to pass a 20 percent threshold to get any delegates at all.

A Republican candidate needs 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination. If no candidate wins 1,237 by the end of primary season in June, the GOP nominee is determined through a contested convention.

On the Democratic side, Clinton was projected the state winner at 9:40 p.m. EST, with about 32 percent of the state reporting, according to The New York Times. Clinton carried all of the counties in and around New York City, but struggled in most counties in upstate New York, which went to Sanders. Onondaga County, Monroe County (where Rochester is located) and Erie County (where Buffalo is located) are the only counties that Clinton won in upstate New York.

As of 11:15 p.m. EST, Sanders was 16 percent behind Clinton statewide.

To win the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs 2,383 delegates.

The next primaries will be held on April 26 in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

Published on April 19, 2016 at 11:49 pm

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