From the Missouri Democratic Party…

The Missouri Democratic Party today preliminarily awarded 36 delegates each to Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton following their thrilling performances in Tuesday’s Missouri Presidential Primary.

By virtue of his 10,479-vote victory statewide, Obama won Missouri’s statewide delegates by a 13-12 margin, while Clinton won Missouri’s congressional district delegates by a 24-23 margin.

According to the Missouri Democratic Party delegate selection plan, Missouri Democrats award 72 of their 88 delegates proportionally based on how the presidential candidates perform in the primary. Of those 72 delegates, 25 are awarded proportionally based on statewide performance, while 47 of the delegates are awarded proportionally based on performance in Missouri’s nine congressional districts. Congressional districts with higher past Democratic performance receive a greater share of the 47 delegates. Candidates must meet a 15 percent threshold to qualify for delegates. Therefore, the percentages in the following chart do not include votes cast for candidates that did not meet the threshold. The delegate breakdown is as follows:

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(* The statewide vote totals are slightly more than the sum of the congressional district totals because some local election authorities have not assigned absentee votes to their appropriate precincts yet. This should not affect the delegate totals for either candidate.)

The remaining 16 of Missouri’s 88 Democratic delegates are unpledged superdelegates, who are members of Missouri’s Democratic Congressional delegation, Missouri members of the Democratic National Committee, and distinguished party leaders. These superdelegates will cast their vote at the August Democratic National Convention in Denver for their favorite candidate, regardless of Tuesday’s primary results.

St. Louis County Results

In Lacy Clay’s 1st Congressional District (north St. Louis County):

DEMOCRATS
BARACK OBAMA . . . . . . . . . 62,264 (68.54%)
HILLARY CLINTON . . . . . . . . 27,323 (30.08%)

REPUBLICANS
JOHN MCCAIN. . . . . . . . . . 8,922 (38.40%)
MITT ROMNEY. . . . . . . . . . 7,639 (32.88%)
MIKE HUCKABEE . . . . . . . . . 4,994 (21.49%)
RON PAUL. . . . . . . . . . . 1,069 (4.60%)
RUDY GIULIANI . . . . . . . . . 217 (.93%)
FRED THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . 183 (.79%)

In Russ Carnahan’s 3rd Congressional District (south St. Louis County):

DEMOCRATS
BARACK OBAMA . . . . . . . . . 23,600 (55.63%)
HILLARY CLINTON . . . . . . . . 17,888 (42.17%)
JOHN EDWARDS . . . . . . . . . 675 (1.59%)

REPUBLICANS
JOHN MCCAIN. . . . . . . . . . 8,988 (43.39%)
MITT ROMNEY. . . . . . . . . . 6,957 (33.58%)
MIKE HUCKABEE . . . . . . . . . 3,519 (16.99%)
RON PAUL. . . . . . . . . . . 840 (4.06%)
RUDY GIULIANI . . . . . . . . . 168 (.81%)
FRED THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . 134 (.65%)

With 20% of precincts reporting, PubDef.net is projecting that Barack Obama (D) and John McCain (R) have won the City of St. Louis.

Now we’re heading to the Obama Watch Party at The Moolah…

Barack Obama will very likely win Lacy Clay’s 1st Congressional District, but a good predictor of how well Obama will do in the all-important delegate count in Missouri will be how well he does in Russ Carnahan’s 3rd Congressional District.

The 1st District, located in north St. Louis City, midtown, and north and central St. Louis County) has a very large African-American population.

The 3rd District is mostly white and contains parts of the City of St. Louis basically south of Interstate 44 and parts of south St. Louis County.

Both Clay and Carnahan have endorsed Obama.

DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton - 34.15%
Barack Obama - 54.79%

REPUBLICANS
Ron Paul - 5.96%
Fred Thompson - 5.96%
Mitt Romney - 25.47%
Rudy Giuliani - 9.76%
John McCain - 30.89%
Mike Huckabee - 16.53%

PROPOSITION S (Sales Tax Increase)
YES - 64.31%
NO - 35.69%

These numbers reflect 2,651 absentee ballots.