The Preliminary elections of the presidential race of 2016 had one of their biggest days this March 1st, as it was Super Tuesday. With all the chaos inside the election this year, this day could mean the fall for some of the less-popular candidates.

Already this year, the republican party lost Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum in the presidential race. With Ben Carson and John Kasich on the rocks with their low poll ratings, according to Real Clear Politics, they could be the next two to drop out of the race as well.

According to USA Today, Trump had 82 delegates in the Republican race before Super Tuesday : a huge contrast to the second place runner Ted Cruz, who only had only 17.

Initially, Donald Trump had won three out of four republican preliminary elections so far, the only one lost to Cruz in the Iowa Caucus, according to CNN News. Continuing with this trend, Trump dominated the playing field with wins in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia according the The New York Times.

This was bad news for Cruz who only won Alaska, Oklahoma and Texas. While Texas had one of the largest delegate pools, it was not enough to rise against Trump in the final hours of the polling.

However, Marco Rubio proved to be the least favored candidate of the day, winning only Minnesota, according to The New York Times.

The final republican delegate numbers were Trump with 316 delegates and Ted Cruz with 226 delegates.

On the contrary, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have had a relatively tight race for the preliminary elections before Super Tuesday. Clinton has 91 delegates where Sanders had 65.

In the Super Tuesday elections, Clinton won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, Virgina and the American Samoa, according to the New York Times.

On the other hand, Bernie Sanders had won Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Vermont.

Consequently, this gave Clinton an enormous number of delegates over Bernie Sanders.

So far, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton lead both of their parties in the primary election.

On top of these Super Tuesday results, Trump has continued to excel in most of the primary elections. According to the New York Times, he has won Kentucky, Louisiana, Hawaii, Michigan, Mississippi, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and Northern Mariana Islands Republicans. This leaves Trump with 673 delegates.

In the meantime, Ted Cruz is at 410 delegates. He has won Kansas, Maine and Idaho since the first Super Tuesday.

After Marco Rubio lost his home state of Florida, he made the general announcement that he would be dropping out of the presidential race.

However, John Kasich continues to run even though he only has 143 delegates, not far behind Rubio’s 169.  

Also, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continue to have their tight races throughout the states.  Since Super Tuesday, Sanders has won Kansas, Nebraska, Maine and Michigan. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton has won Mississippi, the Northern Mariana Islands Democratic Convention, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio.

All candidates have been creeping up towards the amount needed for the nomination, with upcoming primaries and caucuses all throughout March and into June.