The Wahkiakum County Eagle - Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891

Washington's voters narrowly favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the Democrat party presidential primary election Tuesday.

Statewide, Clinton received 53.63 percent of the vote, compared to Sanders's 46.73 percent.

However, the Democrats use the caucus system to select delegates to the national convention, and Sanders won heavily in the caucuses.

Wahkiakum County voters favored Sanders 274-266 votes, or 50.74 percent to 49.26 percent.

Pacific County voters favored Clinton 1,364 votes to 1,263, or 41.9 percent to 48 percent.

The only Republican still in the race, Donald J. Trump dominated that party's primary, drawing 76.22 percent of the votes statewide.

Although they've ended their campaigns, Ted Cruz received 10.12 percent of the statewide vote and John R. Kasich 9.85.

The Republican party will proportionally allocate delegates to the national convention based on the voting totals.

Wahkiakum County voters gave Trump 84 percent of the vote; Kasich had 7.3 percent; other totals were unavailable at deadline.

Pacific County voters went 83 percent for Trump and 7.5 percent for Cruz.