Complete county precinct results as well as state tallies are found

All but counted out of the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for president, former Vice President Joe Biden rebounded after Super Tuesday with key delegate wins in several states, including Virginia, that effectively put a much-needed spring in his step.

Here in Rappahannock County, Biden unofficially won 51 percent of the ballots cast (676 votes) to Bernie Sanders’ 25 percent (330). Michael Bloomberg finished in third place among county voters, receiving 10 percent of the tally (133), while Elizabeth Warren finished right on his heels with just over 9 percent of Rappahannock support (124).

Piedmont District voters in Rappahannock threw the most support behind Sanders, handing him 72 votes, followed by Hampton voters with 68 (see graphic). But voters in those same large districts surrounding Sperryville and Washington overwhelmingly supported Biden, with 147 and 159 votes respectively.

It was only a few minutes after the seven polling stations in Rappahannock closed Tuesday night that Biden was declared the overall winner of Virginia’s

Presidential Primary, easily defeating Sanders, who finished in second place.

For Sanders, as seen in other Super Tuesday states, the all-important young voter ages 20-29, who for months have filled the Vermont senator’s exuberant rallies around the country, didn’t show up to Virginia polling stations in the numbers required by his campaign to win.

That said, the Virginia Board of Elections reported over 1.3 million votes cast in the 2020 Democratic primary, shattering the previous turnout record of 986,000 votes in 2008. The unprecedented surge in turnout was seen by the party as a sign of high Democratic enthusiasm, which have propelled Democrats to historic victories across the commonwealth since 2016.

This week’s voter turnout in Virginia is a 68 percent increase over 2016's Democratic presidential primary turnout.

Statewide, Biden captured almost 54 percent of the ballots (705,834 votes and 66 delegates) compared to Sanders’ 23 percent (305,922 votes and 31 delegates). Elizabeth Warren received almost 11 percent of the commonwealth’s vote (142,568 with 2 delegates) and Michael Bloomberg about 10 percent of the tally (127,980, with no delegates).

All told across the country, Biden won primaries in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota and Massachusetts. Sanders was victorious in California (albeit final results, especially the vital delegate county, won’t be known for days if not weeks) Colorado, Utah, and his home state of Vermont.