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Election 2012 Updates

Latest Delegate Count

Updated: February 1, 2012

Republican (1,144 needed to win)

Mitt Romney 69
Newt Gingrich 23
Rick Santorum 13
Ron Paul   3
Jon Huntsman   2

Democratic (1,214 needed to win)

Barack Obama 0

Delegate counts provided by the Associated Press

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