LIVE: Super Tuesday results!
On Tuesday, Republican and Democratic primary voters in a combined 13 states and US territories headed to the polls and caucuses to weigh in on the 2016 race.
Taken together, the "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses represent the largest amount of delegates up for grabs on a single day - more than 500 on the Republican side and 800 on the Democratic side.
On the Republican side, real-estate magnate Donald Trump appears poised to extend his significant delegate lead, as he headed the pack in most Super Tuesday state polls..
The former reality-television star led in polls of every Super Tuesday state except Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz's home state, and Arkansas, where a dearth of recent polling makes the state results difficult to forecast.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintained an edge in many Super Tuesday states, though recent polling suggested that insurgent rival Sen. Bernie Sanders could take home a decent percentage of delegates and potentially win in states like Vermont and Minnesota.
We'll be updating each state below. Check further down for periodic updates throughout the night.
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REPUBLICANS
- Alabama: Trump projected winner.
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Georgia: Trump projected winner.
- Massachusetts: Trump projected winner.
- Minnesota
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee: Trump projected winner.
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
Democrats
- Alabama: Clinton projected winner.
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Georgia: Clinton projected winner.
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee: Clinton projected winner.
- Texas
- Vermont: Sanders projected winner.
- Virginia: Clinton projected winner.
Live updates below.
7: 45 p.m. EST - Reuters projected Clinton the winner of the American Samoa caucuses.
7:38 p.m. EST - The Associated Press projected early delegate wins on the Democratic side.
7:38 p.m. EST - Shortly after networks projected Sanders' victory in Vermont, the senator took the stage at his primary night party, delivering a standard version of his stump speech about income and wealth inequality, and taking slight jabs at Clinton.
"I know that Secretary Clinton and many of the establishment people are saying that I am looking and thinking too big," Sanders said.
"This campaign is not just about electing a president. It is about making a political revolution."
Despite early losses in Georgia and Virginia, Sanders also assured supporters that he would remain in the race.
"By the end of tonight we are going to win many hundreds of delegates," Sanders said.
"By the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted. Thirty-five states remain. Let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental justice, for peace, to every one of those states."
7: 12 p.m. EST - Though recent surveys showed Trump with a massive lead over his Republican rivals in Virginia, some exit polls hinted that the race may be closer than late February surveys showed.
7:06 p.m. EST - Immediately after the polls closed in Vermont, Virginia, and Georgia, several networks projected winners in the three Democratic contests. Clinton clinched Georgia and Virginia, while Sanders secured a win in his home state of Vermont. On the Republican side, outlets like Reuters and Fox News called Georgia for Trump.