Mitt Romney won the Florida Presidential Preference Primary on Tuesday, earning the state's 50 delegates and distancing himself from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as the Republican front-runner for 2012.
The Associated Press projected Romney's commanding victory shortly after 8 p.m., when the final polls closed in Florida's Panhandle.
The former Massachusetts governor had taken more than 47 percent of the vote to 31 percent for Gingrich after returns from 38 percent of the polls were in.
In Manatee County, Romney took 48 percent of the vote, followed by Gingrich with 27 percent. Rick Santorum had 16 percent.
At 9:04 p.m., 121 of 124 precincts had reported across Manatee County. Here is a look by the numbers:
Mitt Romney, 18,413
Newt Gingrich, 10,525
Rick Santorum, 6,269
Ron Paul, 2,457
Rick Perry, 204
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