PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY RESULTS VARY BY COUNTY

posted by Andrea Kelly

Arizona's presidential preference election is over, and we know Mitt Romney won the entire state with a 20-point lead over Rick Santorum.

But the results vary county to county.

In Pima County, Romney's lead was 14 points, he had 44 percent of the vote to Santorum's 30 percent. In Maricopa, Romney widened his lead to 25 points, with 49 to 24 percent of the voters.

Two more rural counties favored Santorum a bit more. Republican voters in Yuma and Cochise counties gave Romney just a five-point lead against Santorum.

Ron Paul got about 8 percent in each of the counties mentioned above, and Newt Gingrich won about 16 percent of the vote in those counties, except for his 20 percent showing in Yuma County.