CT 2024 Presidential Primary Results: Biden, Trump Win: AP

CONNECTICUT — Donald Trump was declared the winner of the Republican presidential primary by the Associated Press at 8:10 p.m. and President Joe Biden was declared the Democratic winner by AP at 8:08 p.m.

Both the Democrat and Republican front-runners have already clinched their nominations. Biden will be running against former President Trump in November, with both candidates easily sweeping aside primary rivals to be their party's banner bearer once again. (See below for updated results by candidate via the Connecticut Secretary of State's Office).

Republican candidates

On the Republican ballot was Trump, former South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, and pastor and businessman Ryan Lee Binkley.

• Trump: 34,187
• Haley: 6,128
• Uncommitted: 2,166
• DeSantis: 1,257
• Binkley: 212

As of 8:44 a.m., about 97 percent of the vote has been counted.

Democratic candidates

Registered Democrats could vote for Biden, U.S. Representative Dean Phillips, progressive political commentator Cenk Uygur, or self-help author Marianne Williamson.

• Biden: 54,238
• Uncommitted: 7,492
• Williamson: 1,454
• Phillips: 564
• Uygur: 310

As of 8:45 a.m., about 96 percent of the vote has been counted.

We will update the numbers for all the candidates through this evening and Wednesday morning. Keep checking back for live updates. Sign up for free Patch news alerts and daily newsletters.

Both party's ballots may have had four names on them, but all except Trump and Biden had withdrawn from their races well in advance of Tuesday's vote, and the Connecticut primary was even held earlier this year by four weeks. The move was an attempt "to increase our influence in the national political landscape and encourage more candidate to visit us during the 2024 campaign season," according to Democratic State Rep. Susan Johnson, who serves Windham.

Although none of the former candidates are likely to collect enough votes to make a real difference in the forward trajectory of the front-runners, pundits are looking closely at the margins of victory. Many Americans have taken to casting votes for the also-rans, or "uncommitted," as protests against established candidates they view as disappointments.

Connecticut will be sending 28 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 15-18, and 74 delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19-23.