- Polls in the Arizona primary just closed at 7 p.m. MST (10 p.m. ET) on Tuesday.
- Arizona polls close after Former Vice President Joe Biden secured decisive victories in Florida and Illinois, the two other huge states that held primaries on March 17.
- We'll have up-to-the-minute, automatically updated live results and vote counts here. Follow along for results.
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Polls in the Arizona primary closed at 7 p.m. MST and 10 p.m. ET.
Arizona Democratic primary results:
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Pre-primary:
- Going into Tuesday's primaries, former Vice President Joe Biden has won 864 pledged delegates to the Democratic convention in July, leading Sen. Bernie Sanders' 705. 1,991 delegates are needed to secure a majority and the nomination without a potentially contested convention.
- During Sunday night's debate, Biden pledged to select a woman as his running mate should he win the nomination.
- Biden's commanding lead in recent primaries suggests that the Democratic electorate is more focused on beating Trump than in Sanders' proposed ambitious democratic socialist platform.
- Tuesday's primaries come amid a growing coronavirus pandemic. Louisiana announced on Friday that it would be postponing the Democratic primary there, originally scheduled for April 4, for over two months.
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What's at stake in the primary?
Arizona's presidential preference election is a closed contest. A total of 78 delegates have been allocated to the Copper State, including 67 pledged delegates up for grabs.
As in most other states, candidates must earn over the minimum threshold of 15% of the vote in a given district or statewide to earn any delegates.
This is what the polling said ahead of the Arizona primary:
FiveThirtyEight's average of the latest polling data has Biden ahead with 55.2%, and Sanders taking 31.8%. Hawaiian US Representative Tulsi Gabbard trails behind with just 1.4%.
And according to FiveThirtyEight's primary election forecast, Biden is currently the favorite in the Grand Canyon state. The site is currently forecasting the former vice president "to win an average of 58% of the vote." FiveThirtyEight gives Sanders a one in 50 chance to win in Arizona.
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