Live updates as NM voters hit the polls in primary

Tuesday is Primary Day in New Mexico and five other states. Democratic and Republican voters can decide who they want for president.

View: Live results from the New Mexico primaries will be available here starting at 7 p.m.

View: Live county-by-county map of presidential primary results in New Mexico from The AP.

Democrats will decide between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. On the Republican side, there is a list of candidates but Donald Trump is already considered the presumptive nominee.

New Mexico has 34 pledged Democratic delegates and 24 Republican delegates up for grabs in Tuesday’s primary, but the Associated Press reports seven of the state’s nine superdelegates have thrown their support to Clinton.

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2:00 a.m. — FINAL NUMBERS IN; STATEWIDE VOTER TURNOUT AROUND 30 PERCENT

The New Mexico numbers are final — 33.7 percent of eligible registered voters in New Mexico cast a ballot, according to voting figures — 325,042 out of 963,352, according to the Secretary of State’s website.

Hillary Clinton won the New Mexico Democratic primary Tuesday, drawing 51.54 percent of the vote statewide, according to numbers that are virtually finalized. Bernie Sanders drew 48.46 percent of the vote.

Clinton won San Juan, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, McKinley, Cibola, Santa Fe, San Miguel, Mora, Colfax, Harding, Quay, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Grant, Luna, Dona Ana, Otero, Chaves, Eddy and Lea counties.

Sanders took the victory in Bernalillo, Taos, Union, Torrance, Catron, Lincoln, Sierra, De Baca, Curry and Roosevelt counties.

On the Republican side, every county in the state went to Donald Trump.

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10:43 p.m. — SANDERS WINS BERNALILLO COUNTY

Bernie Sanders failed to win the New Mexico Democratic primary Tuesday, but he did win the state’s most-populous county.

Sanders took home 50.9 percent of the vote in Bernalillo County, compared to Hillary Clinton’s 49.1 percent.

Sanders’ election-day votes made the difference: 19,746 people voted for him Tuesday in the county, compared to 15,970 for Clinton.

Clinton won the absentee and early votes by a combined 2,500 votes.

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10:41 p.m. — QUEZADA TAKES COUNTY COMMISSION SEAT PRIMARY

Steven Michael Quezada, of “Breaking Bad” fame, has won the Democratic primary for the Bernalillo County District 2 County Commission seat.

Quezada brought in 35.6 percent of the vote. Adrian Pedroza finished second, with 32.55 percent of the vote and Robert Chavez finished a close third, with 31.8 percent of the vote.

Quezada is currently a school board member for Albuquerque Public Schools.

He will face Patricia Paiz in the General Election for the seat. Paiz ran unopposed.

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10:16 p.m. — SANDERS TAKES LEAD OVER CLINTON IN BERNALILLO COUNTY

With 60 of 69 voting centers in Bernalillo County reporting, Bernie Sanders has taken the lead over Hillary Clinton.

Sanders lead in the state’s most-populous county now sits at less than 1,000 people. He is up 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent.

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10:15 p.m. — OBAMA CONGRATULATES CLINTON, WILL MEET WITH SANDERS THURSDAY

President Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night to congratulate her for securing “the delegates necessary to clinch” the Democratic nomination for president.

But the president did not formally endorse Clinton. The White House says the president also called Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to praise him for shining a spotlight on economic inequality and energizing millions of voters.

The statement said that Sanders requested a meeting with Obama. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday at the White House.

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10:03 p.m. — ROMERO WINS GOP PRIMARY FOR US HOUSE NM DISTRICT 3 SEAT

Michael H. Romero has won the Republican primary for the U.S. House New Mexico District 3 seat, defeating Michael Glenn Lucero.

Romero won 62 percent of the vote, compared to Lucero’s 38 percent with most of the state’s precincts at least partially reporting.

Romero will face current Rep. Ben Ray Lujan in November.

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9:45 p.m. — CLINTON NARROWLY LEADS SANDERS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY

With 40 of 69 voting centers in Bernalillo County, the state’s most populous county, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by just more than 600 votes.

Sanders leads among election day ballots, while almost 1,200 more absentee ballots were cast in favor of Clinton. Early voting numbers have also favored Clinton so far.

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9:25 p.m. — TRUMP SWEEPS TUESDAY PRIMARIES AFTER CALIFORNIA WIN

Donald Trump has swept Tuesday’s primaries after he won the Republican presidential primary in California, the biggest prize in his triumphant run to become the GOP nominee.

Trump will now go on to the national convention in July with more than enough delegates to become the official nominee, but his candidacy remains a source of controversy, with many in the GOP struggling to rally behind the brash billionaire.

Earlier Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that comments Trump made accusing a district court judge of passing a racially-motivated judgment against him were the “textbook definition of a racist comment,” and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois withdrew his support from the presumptive nominee.

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9:20 p.m. — QUEZADA TAKES LEAD IN COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRIMARY

With 25 of 69 voting centers reporting in Bernalillo County, the District 2 County Commissioner Democratic primary race is still very close, but Steven Michael Quezada has taken the lead.

Quezada, who has received vocal support from his “Breaking Bad” colleagues, currently sits in the lead with 34.6 percent of the vote.

Adrian Pedroza currently leads the race with 33.5 percent of the vote

Robert Chavez sits just behind the two, with 31.9 percent of the vote.

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9 p.m. — KOB CALLS NM DEM PRIMARY FOR CLINTON

Hillary Clinton won the New Mexico Democratic primary Tuesday, drawing 53 percent of the vote statewide, according to early numbers. Bernie Sanders has drawn 47 percent of the vote so far.

Follow along with KOB’s coverage of the New Mexico primary by clicking here.

The vote gap between Clinton and her opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, was narrower than polls had called for after Sanders campaigned in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and near Las Cruces.

Clinton herself did not campaign in the state and instead sent her husband, Former President Bill Clinton, to campaign for her in Espanola, Albuquerque and Las Cruces.

The Associated Press said late Monday that Clinton had won the total amount of pledged delegates and superdelegates to claim the Democratic nomination, something Sanders said was “disappointing” ahead of Tuesday’s important primaries in California, New Mexico and four other states.

Sanders and his supporters continued to push their message Tuesday that superdelegates will not finalize their votes until the July Democratic National Convention.

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8:43 p.m. — CLINTON CLAIMS VICTORY IN SPEECH

Hillary Clinton laid claim to the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination and with it, a piece of history Tuesday night, as she became the first woman to lead a major party’s bid for the White House.

Speaking in Brooklyn, New York, on a night where she won the New Jersey primary, Clinton told supporters that they were witnessing a historical moment.

“Thanks to you we’ve reached a milestone. First time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee,” she said, adding that the victory “belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.”

Clinton took direct aim at Donald Trump on Tuesday night as she claimed the Democratic nomination for president, calling out the billionaire for divisive rhetoric and casting his “Make America Great Again” slogan as “code for let’s take America backward.”

Clinton told supporters in Brooklyn, New York, that Trump was “temperamentally unfit” to be president, citing Trump’s attacks on a federal judge, reporters and women.

“He wants to win by stoking fear and rubbing salt in wounds and reminding us daily just how great he is,” Clinton said. “Well, we believe we should lift each other up, not tear each other down.”

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8:40 p.m. — QUEZADA CURRENTLY TRAILS IN COUNTY COMMISSIONER RACE

With five of 69 voting centers reporting in Bernalillo County, the District 2 County Commissioner Democratic primary race is very close.

Adrian Pedroza currently leads the race with 35.9 percent of the vote

Steven Michael Quezada, who has received vocal support from his “Breaking Bad” colleagues, currently sits at second with 33.3 percent of the vote.

Robert Chavez sits just behind the two, with 30.8 percent of the vote.

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8:25 p.m. — EARLY TALLIES STILL FAVOR CLINTON OVER SANDERS IN NM

Early voting totals show Hillary Clinton has a 53 percent to 47 percent lead over Bernie Sanders, with 918 of 1,492 precincts partially reporting, and only 11 precincts fully reporting.

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8 p.m. — TORREZ WINS DEM PRIMARY FOR BERNCO DA

Democratic candidate for Bernalillo County District Attorney Raul Torrez won the nomination in Tuesday’s primary matchup with Ed Perea by a landslide, garnering 67 percent of the vote in early totals.

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7:33 p.m. — TORREZ JUMPS TO BIG LEAD IN BERNCO DA RACE

Early number show Raul Torrez has a big early lead in the race for the Democratic Bernalillo County District Attorney nomination.

With just more than 32,000 votes tallied, Torrez led Ed Perea 67.4 percent to 32.6 percent.

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7:18 p.m. — KOB CALLS NM GOP PRIMARY FOR DONALD TRUMP

Donald Trump won the New Mexico Republican primary Tuesday, drawing 72 percent of the vote statewide, according to preliminary numbers.

With 496 or 1,492 total precincts partially reporting, Trump had garnered 72 percent of the vote. He was followed by Ted Cruz (10.6 percent); John Kasich (9.8 percent); Jeb Bush (3.4 percent); Ben Carson (2.6 percent) and Carly Fiorina (1.6 percent).

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7:04 p.m. — CLINTON, TRUMP LEAD EARLY TOTALS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY

The first results from Bernalillo County are in. They are the first county to report results.

Out of around 39,000 total votes, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary 53 percent to 47 percent.

Out of around 17,000 votes, Donald Trump leads Republicans with 71 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz (11 percent), John Kasich (10 percent), Jeb Bush (4 percent), Ben Carson (3 percent) and Carly Fiorina (2 percent) are following him.

Raul Torrez leads Ed Perea 67 percent to 33 percent in early numbers for the Bernalillo County District Attorney race.

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6:59 p.m. — POLLS CLOSING AT 7 P.M.

Polls statewide are set to close at 7 p.m. You can follow along with all the results by clicking here or by visiting the Secretary of State’s Office’s website.

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6:32 p.m. — ALBUQUERQUE WOMAN SAYS SHE VOTED FOR TRUMP

Claudia Scott, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, voted for Trump – a candidate she said may be “very brash” at times but speaks the truth.

“He’s saying to America what people don’t want to say out loud, but the way the feel,” she said after casting her vote at a middle school.

One of the issues she agrees most with Trump on is immigration, she said.

“I hope he doesn’t change his stand on the way that he feels,” Scott said.

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6:19 p.m. — CLINTON VOLUNTEERS SAY BERNIE SUPPORTERS SHOULD BACK HER

A Hillary Clinton volunteer in Albuquerque says supporters of Bernie Sanders should fall in line with Clinton if she is indeed the presumptive Democratic nominee.

“They said they supported Senator Sanders for a lot of the same reasons that a lot of us had respect for him,” said volunteer Lisa Hannah. “I respected him. But, I made my choice, they made their choice. But at the end of the day, only one can go forward and at this point it’s going to be Hillary Clinton.”

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6:17 p.m. — DEM DA CANDIDATES TALK PAC DONATION FROM GEORGE SOROS

The Democratic candidates for the Bernalillo County District Attorney seat both spoke up about a $100,000+ donation from billionaire George Soros to a political action committee supporting candidate Raul Torrez Tuesday.

“The problems of our criminal justice system in Albuquerque are well understood by people in this community and it’s the interest of those people in this community to change that system,” Torrez said.

“It should be very concerning to all citizens in this community that we would have external influences as we’ve seen with this billionaire from the East Coast,” his opponent, Ed Perea said Tuesday. “Billionaires own things. Billionaires expect a return on their investment. It always makes you wonder, what is his interest in contributing that type of money to this race?”

The Republican candidate for the seat is expected to speak to KOB later this evening.

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6:11 p.m. — SANDERS NM VOLUNTEERS STILL ENCOURAGING SUPPORTERS

Bernie Sanders volunteers in New Mexico are telling people Tuesday not to be discouraged by the AP’s call of Hillary Clinton being the Democratic nominee, sticking to his message that superdelegates will not be finally counted until July.

A volunteer in Albuquerque, which has been one of the top fundraising cities for the Sanders campaign, say the call should fuel Sanders supporters even more.

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6:08 p.m. — SANDERS SAYS HE’S ‘DISAPPOINTED’ IN AP CALL FOR CLINTON

Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s “disappointed” and “upset” that The Associated Press declared rival Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee on the eve of Tuesday’s election in California.

In an interview with NBC News, Sanders expressed concern that the news came the night before “the largest primary” and that it was based on what he described as “anonymous” commitments from party insiders and Democratic officials.

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5:46 p.m. — BERNCO WAIT TIMES UNDER 15 MINUTES

All voting sites in Bernalillo County currently have wait times of under 15 minutes. View wait times at all the county’s polling locations byclicking here.

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5:35 p.m. — 2 DEMS, REPUBLICAN VYING FOR BERNCO. DA SEAT

In Bernalillo County, voters will decide on Democratic and Republican candidates to replace DA Kari Brandenburg, who has been district attorney here since 2001 but announced earlier this year she would not seek re-election.

Democrats Raul Torrez and Ed Perea are fighting for the nomination. Torrez served as counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. His resume also includes a decade-long career as a U.S. attorney.

Some questions have been raised about a $100,000 out-of-state donation to a political action committee backing Torrez by billionaire George Soros.

Perea is currently a private attorney and special prosecutor for the 13th Judicial District in New Mexico.

Both were asked Tuesday how they plan to handle a massive backlog of cases in the Second Judicial District.

“Anything that’s been dismissed and can be refilled absolutely has to be reevaluated,” Torrez said. “There is a backlog of cases there and we have to take the measure of the resources that are available in the office, prioritize the defendants and go through systematically and re-evaluate those cases.”

“I would first look at the cases and why cases aren’t being prosecuted,” Perea said. “Is it an evidence issue? If it’s an evidence issue, then we work collaboratively with law enforcement to ensure we’re getting the information we need to effectively prosecute the case.”

Republican Simon Kubiak is running unopposed and didn’t not respond to calls or emails from KOB Tuesday.

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5:30 p.m. — SOME VOTERS SAY THEY DON’T FEEL DISENFRANCHISED BY EARLY NOMINEE CALLS

Many voters voiced concern Tuesday over the fact The Associated Press said late Monday that Hillary Clinton has earned enough delegate votes to clinch the Democratic nomination.

But voters in New Mexico Tuesday said overwhelmingly they still feel their votes matter with both of the nominations seemingly locked up.

“We’re voting for local politicians. We’re voting for how our state is going to be run and who’s going to run it,” said one voter.

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5:27 p.m. — CLINTON VOLUNTEER SAYS DEMS WILL UNIFY

New Mexico Hillary Clinton campaign worker Victor Reyes was one of hundreds of volunteers continuing to push for a Clinton victory in the state Tuesday. He says that he expects Sanders supporters to fall in line with Clinton when she clinches the nomination in order to stop Donald Trump.

“I think the party is going to be able to come together. I think after tonight, when we are clear we have our nominee, people will come together,” Reyes said. “Senator Sanders has said that he’ll do everything in his power to make sure that we don’t have a Donald Trump presidency.”

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5:18 p.m. — SOME HAVING TO CAST PROVISIONAL BALLOTS DUE TO CLOSED PRIMARY

41,000 voters have cast ballots at Bernalillo County voting sites, the county clerk said just after 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The Secretary of State’s Office says New Mexico voters break down like this: 47 percent Democrats; 31 percent Republicans; 19 percent independents; 3 percent other.

Some people have tried to vote at some centers only to be turned away because they were not registered as Democrats or Republicans. The County Clerk’s Office says those people have been given provisional ballots, after which they will be cross-checked with voter registrations in the county.

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5:07 p.m. — SHORT LINES, BUT ‘STEADY STREAM’ OF VOTERS IN NM

Lines have been short around New Mexico but county clerks around the state say there has been a steady stream of voters turning out for the primary.

The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office reported more than 34,000 people had cast ballots at voting sites around the county Tuesday and officials expected the number to surpass turnout for the last presidential primary in 2012.

Statewide, a review of county data shows more than 137,000 people had voted early and by absentee ballot in the days leading up to the primary.

In Las Cruces, Ralph Steinhoff and Marlin Schmidt told the Las Cruces Sun-News they were proud to vote for Republican Donald Trump, saying they wanted to vote out corruption in the country.

The wait in San Juan County was just minutes as voters showed up to the polls there.

Farmington resident Steve White told The Daily Times with the presidential nominees established, his attention is on the state of the local economy in light of the struggling oil and gas industry.

Caroline Stewart says she came out to vote for Clinton on Tuesday because it was her civic duty. The 26-year-old clerk says the presumptive Democratic nominee for president also urged supporters to vote despite the delegate count from The Associated Press.

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5 p.m. — POLITICAL SCIENCE EXPERT TALKS NM PRIMARY, GENERAL ELECTION

UNM political science professor and expert Lonna Atkeson discussed Tuesday primary, the general election and the Democratic delegate count, among many other things, with KOB ahead of our evening newscasts. She will be with KOB throughout the evening offering insight and expertise. Watch the interview with her by clicking here.

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4:22 p.m. — CLINTON WORKERS STILL CALLING, CANVASSING IN NM

Volunteers for Hillary Clinton’s campaign in New Mexico were still calling potential voters and canvassing statewide Tuesday afternoon. The field office in Albuquerque had 150 workers out in the field Tuesday.

4:06 p.m. — AP EXPLAINS DELEGATE COUNT

It takes 2,383 delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, a number Hillary Clinton reached on Monday. A look at where the race for those delegates stands, based on an Associated Press count, heading into election contests Tuesday night,can be found here.

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3:53 p.m. — TRUMP SAYS COMMENTS ON JUDGE ‘MISCONSTRUED’

Leading Republicans united Tuesday in an extraordinary denunciation of Donald Trump’s attacks on a federal judge, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling them the “textbook definition of a racist comment” though he stood by his endorsement of the presumptive presidential nominee.

Trump asserted that his comments were being “misconstrued” but did not back down or apologize for saying repeatedly that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not preside fairly over a case involving Trump University because of his Mexican heritage.

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3:50 p.m. — ALBUQUERQUE WOMAN VOTING FOR SANDERS

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lucy Demir voted for Bernie Sanders, she told The Associated Press.

“I like him because he’s really honest,” said Demir, 37. “I think he’s really direct and I appreciate how he really is trying to stay on his side of the street. I actually think some of his ideals are kind of like utopic and he’s probably not going to achieve them, but I like his character. I think he’s showed that you don’t have to be part of the establishment and you can still rise up.”

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3 p.m. — UPDATED BERNALILLO COUNTY VOTING NUMBERS

Bernalillo County reports 29,880 ballots have been cast at polling locations Tuesday as of 3 p.m. Another update is expected at 5 p.m.

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1 p.m. — VOTING NUMBERS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY

At 1 p.m., Bernalillo County reported 22,047 ballots were cast at polling locations and the county clerk’s office received 222 absentee ballots on Tuesday.

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8:30 a.m. — EARLY VOTING WAY UP IN BERNALILLO COUNTY

New Mexico’s primary Tuesday could bring the largest primary voter turnout in our state in 40 years.

Just in Bernalillo County, twice as many people have already votedin comparison to the presidential primary in 2012.

As of Monday, 48,106 people in Bernalillo County voted early, with 71 percent Democrats and 29 percent Republicans.

More than 8,000 people cast absentee ballots — 59 percent Democrats and 41 percent Republicans.

But even more people are expected on Election Day, which could push voter numbers in Bernalillo County over the 100,000 mark.

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8 a.m. — AP DECLARES CLINTON PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE

Monday night, NBC News declared Clinton the presumptive Democratic nominee based on its delegate math. It makes her the first woman ever to win enough delegates and super delegates to represent a major party in the race for president.

Sanders has not backed out yet. He insists hundreds of super delegates supporting Clinton may change their minds if he wins California. The Democratic National Convention is in July.

Meanwhile, Trump is being pressured to take back what he said about the judge in his trump university case. Trump claims the judge Gonzalo Curiel is biased because his parents were Mexican.

New Mexico is not among the last ones to vote. The final Democratic primary election day is in the Washington D.C. next Tuesday.

In Bernalillo County, voters can go to any polling place, not just the one closest to your home.

The other elections today are in New Jersey, California, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)