It was an early night for projecting the winners of New Hampshire's presidential primary election. On Tuesday night and through early Wednesday morning, the votes showed an easy win for Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Democratic Party

Sanders, senator for the neighboring state of Vermont, was the projected winner as of 8 p.m. EST. With 32 delegates up for grabs, which includes eight superdelegates and 24 pledged, Sanders won with 60 percent of the vote, or 138,716 votes with 93 percent of the precincts reporting. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attracted 38 percent, or 88,827 votes based on the 93 percent of precincts reporting. Sanders swept Clinton in all 10 New Hampshire counties by double-digit figures.

On the delegate count, however, Clinton still narrowly outperformed Sanders. With the primary results, Sanders won 15 delegates to Clinton's 14 delegates. Clinton maintains the lead with overall delegates, with 44, while Sanders has 36. A Democratic presidential candidate needs 2,383 delegates to win the nomination.

"The passion and enthusiasm of Granite State Democrats was on full display in today's First-in-the-Nation Primary that set records for turnout. Voters across our state demonstrated why New Hampshire continues to hold a special place as the first in the nation primary," said New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley in a statement.

"I want to congratulate Senator Bernie Sanders on his win here tonight and to commend him and Secretary Hillary Clinton on running tremendous organizations here in the Granite State," added Buckley. "Their work here on the ground organizing voters around their commitment to move our country forward has not only moved forward Democratic values in our state, but has helped give New Hampshire Democrats in November a strong foundation from which to build."

The New Hampshire Republican State Committee took a swipe at the Granite State's Democrats' vote for Sanders.

"Tonight, New Hampshire Democrats embarrassed Hillary Clinton by overwhelmingly supported a radical socialist who supports policies that would kill jobs and destroy our economy," said New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn. "Bernie Sanders decisive victory shows how extreme the Democrat Party has become and how dramatically out of touch it is with the values and priorities of middle class families."

Republican Party

Similar to Sanders, Trump was the projected winner early in the night. The businessman won with 35 percent, or 92,103 votes with 92 percent of precincts reporting.

Trump held a comfortably lead while second place was initially too close to call. In the end, Ohio Gov. John Kasich sat with second place with 16 percent, or 41,645 votes. Kasich received enough votes to dethrone the Iowa caucus winner, Ted Cruz, to third place, with 12 percent (30,264 votes).

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tied with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 11 percent, but the former received slightly more votes with 29,083 votes to 27,695 votes, respectively.

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