Florida: Partial results have suggested that Mitt Romney has won the Republican primary election in Florida on Tuesday.
With 70 percent of the vote counted, Romney had 47 percent of the vote to Gingrich’s 32 percent in the largest of the four Republican presidential nominating contests so far this year.
US television networks projected Romney as the winner just as the last polls closed in Florida.
This win will provide the political momentum he had lost after Gingrich’s victory in the South Carolina primary on January 21.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor would get all 50 of Florida’s delegates to the Republican National Convention in August. A candidate will need 1144 delegates to become the nominee.
Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has vowed to fight on until the convention regardless of Tuesday’s outcome. He says the race is far from over.
Mr Romney and Mr Gingrich, plus Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, are seeking to become the Republican nominee and challenge Mr Obama in November’s general election.
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