Primaries and Caucuses

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Television networks have sponsored national election day exit polls since 1972 to make better predictions of election outcomes and to assemble data on who voted and why. The election night clues are crucial to the sponsoring organizations, but it is the rich demographic and opinion information that lives on and serves as grist for years of election analysis.

Data are collected from voters as they enter caucuses or exit polling places on election day and, in some states, from telephone interviews with absentee or early voters. This exit poll tool allows you see how key groups voted (and how big they were) in some of the early states.

By Voter Demographic

Other Voter Characteristics

Behind the Numbers

Clinton and Women

Forty-six percent of women voted for Clinton in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. | Read more »

Florida's GOP on Economy

45 percent of Republicans and a majority of Democrats who voted in the Florida primaries said the economy was the top issue. | Read more »

Issues and Candidate Attributes

By State

These entrance and exit polls were conducted by Edison/Mitosfky for the National Election Pool, The Washington Post and other media organizations. The NEP is a consortium of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News and the Associated Press. The margin of sampling error for individual surveys is about four percentage points; it is higher for subgroups. The states included here are those that the Post purchased from the NEP. For comprehensive data see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14685359/.

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