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Mitt Romney Wins Washington Caucuses

04 March 2012 04:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Mitt Romney has won the Washington Republican presidential caucuses, according to ABC News’ projection, APA reports quoting news.yahoo.com website.

After Republicans caucused at Washington precincts Saturday, the state party will continue counting votes into Saturday night. Final results have not yet been released.

In preliminary returns released by the state party, Romney led with 32 percent of the vote. Ron Paul (27 percent), Rick Santorum (25 percent), and Newt Gingrich (13 percent) followed.

"The voters of Washington have sent a signal that they do not want a Washington insider in the White House. They want a conservative businessman who understands the private sector and knows how to get the federal government out of the way so that the economy can once again grow vigorously," Romney said in a statement released by his campaign.

The former Massachusetts governor held a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday night as the results were tabulated.

ABC and other outlets will project the allocation of Washington’s 43 delegates based on the final results of Saturday’s caucuses. Those delegates will be officially allocated at Washington’s May 31-June 2 state convention.

In addition to casting "straw-poll" votes for presidential candidates, Washington Republicans elected delegates to that state convention in Saturday’s precinct caucuses.