SANDPOINT — A total of 6,053 votes were cast in Bonner County’s presidential primary election on Tuesday.

“The voter turnout was approximately 22 percent. We will refine all these numbers for the March 17 canvass,” said Charlie Wurm, a deputy clerk in the Bonner County Elections Office.

Republican voters in Bonner County put their support behind President Donald Trump, while Democrats gave former Vice President Joe Biden the edge over Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s presidential primary election.

Trump received 3,162 votes in the Republican primary, according to unofficial primary results posted online by the Bonner County Clerk’s Office. Trump won 94.59 percent of the GOP vote in the county. His closest competitor was Bill Weld, who won just 86 votes, or 2.57 percent of the Republican vote. Joe Walsh collected 63 votes (1.88 percent) and Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente received 14 votes (0.42 percent). Bob Ely and Matthew John Matern each received nine votes, which worked out to be 0.27 percent of the vote.

In the crowded race for the Democratic Party nomination, Biden garnered 1,274 votes (47.63 percent), while Sanders won 1,126 votes (42.09 percent). Bonner County Democrats gave Elizabeth Warren 94 votes (3.51 percent), Michael Bloomberg 83 votes (3.10), Pete Buttigieg 34 votes (1.27 percent), Amy Klobuchar 35 votes (1.31 percent) and Tulsi Gabbard 13 votes. Andrew Yang received seven votes and Tom Steyer received four votes in Bonner County.

Democrats Corey Booker, Steve Burke and Deval Patrick each received a single vote, while Julian Castro, Roque De La Fuente, John K. Delaney and Marianne Williamson received zero votes in Bonner County.

In the Constitution Party primary, Don Blankenship received seven votes and Daniel Clyde Cummings won six votes. Don J. Grundmann received five votes and Charles Kraut, J.R. Meyers and Sheila “Samm” Tittle each received two votes in Bonner County.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.