Tuesday night brought a dramatic win for Bernie Sanders in Michigan, together with one of the biggest polling failures ever. We also saw Hillary Clinton winning by a huge margin—particularly for a contested primary—in Mississippi. And we had one of the crappiest nights ever for Marco Rubio.
After all that excitement, it’s time to check in with the delegate counts. As of this writing, not every delegate has been accounted for yet, but you can keep up-to-date with this spreadsheet maintained by Taniel.
The Democrats
The graph above shows the percent of pledged delegates awarded to date for each Democrat. Michigan and Mississippi for the most part offset each other, resulting in little change.
You can see the results plotted two other ways below, as well as the numbers for the Republicans.
The graph below shows each campaign’s raw delegate totals to date. The goal for each candidate is the dashed line—50 percent of all pledged delegates. About a third of the delegates have been awarded so far.
Finally, this third graph shows the size of Hillary Clinton’s net delegate lead. The massive blowout in Mississippi actually padded Clinton’s advantage, although the press coverage of the Sanders upset in Michigan has a chance to affect the state of the race.
The Republicans
Last night did little to change the delegate share on the GOP side, either. Donald Trump maintains a lead, but has less than half the delegates awarded so far, as you can see just below.
Again, the dashed line in the graph below is the goal each candidate is reaching for. Rubio was the big loser yesterday; his red line isn’t going anywhere.
Finally, Trump’s raw lead is relatively steady. It dipsy-doodled over the weekend following some Cruz wins, but after Tuesday, he’s back around the 100-delegate mark.
And that’s the delegate race so far. We’ll try to update these graphs once a week or so; in the meantime, you can follow the numbers with @taniel here.