HANCOCK – In the Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders defeated Clinton in Michigan 49.9 to 48.2 percent, with results mostly reflecting an urban/rural split. Clinton won all three Detroit metropolitan counties, plus a few assorted others, while Sanders won most of the rest of the state, including the entire U.P. with the exception of Menominee County.

Overall, Sanders won 65 electoral votes, while Clinton won 58 delegates.

According to results released by county clerks, in Houghton County Sanders got 2,039 votes, good for about 64 percent, while Clinton garnered about 35 percent of the votes. In Baraga County, Sanders took 371 votes (55 percent), to Clinton’s 270 votes (40 percent). In Keweenaw County, Sanders got 188 votes (58 percent), to 128 (40 percent) for Clinton. Ontonagon County cast 362 ballots for Sanders (49 percent) and 327 (44 percent) for Clinton.

At the Houghton County Democratic Party office in Hancock, Anne Newcombe was helping coordinate a strong push for Sanders that included canvassing and rides to polling places. She said other members of the party were working out of the same office to campaign for Clinton, but the life-size Sanders cutout standing outside the office was telling.

Newcombe said early in the day she was confident Sanders could still catch up to Clinton nationally, particularly if he could win California, a winner-take-all state with huge population and delegate count.

“Take the superdelegates out if it, and it’s close,” she said, pointing to delegates who aren’t bound by the primaries and that have so far been awarded mostly to Clinton based on preliminary statements. “Historically, they go mostly to the people’s choice.”