Wisconsin Primary Elections: Live Coverage And Results

Sanders continues to dominate among self-identified independent voters who choose to cast their ballots in the Democratic primary. He is winning 71 percent of them. Among self-identified Democrats, he’s winning only 50 percent of the vote.

Since 24 of Wisconsin’s Republican delegates are awarded on a winner-take-all basis by Congressional district, the geographic split of the GOP vote matters quite a lot. The initial news from the exit polls is pretty good for Cruz, therefore, who leads in four out of five regions of the state. However, Trump narrowly leads Cruz 46-to-43 in Northwest Wisconsin, which means he should be competitive in the 7th and perhaps the 3rd Congressional Districts.

Cruz seems to be doing pretty well tonight, and is winning across a lot of demographics — for instance, he is winning both white college graduates as well as whites with no high school degree, a group that often supports Trump. But exit polls are showing that Trump is winning among those voters who make less than $50,000, those who identify as independent, and those who define their ideology as “moderate” as opposed to “somewhat” or “very” conservative.