Super Tuesday took place on March 1, which consisted of a dozen states and one territory. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia held their contests for both Republicans and Democrats. Republicans in Alaska also held caucuses. Democrats in Colorado held their caucuses as well.

This is otherwise known as the “SEC Primary” due to all the southern states holding their contests. It gives flavor to the southern Republicans.

Six hundred and sixty-one Republican delegates and 865 delegates were allocated from Super Tuesday. Front runner for the Republicans, Donald Trump, took 247, Ted Cruz took 214, Marco Rubio with 94, followed by John Kasich taking 19, and Ben Carson with only three. The front runner for the Democrats, Hilary Clinton, came out with 506 and Bernie Sanders came in with 342.

Under party rules, no state holding its primary before March 15 can do a winner-take-all allocation of delegates, meaning that all Super Tuesday states divided up their delegates in some way. In some states, that’s close to directly proportional to voter results, whereas others have a “winner-take-most” allocation structure or minimum vote thresholds for scoring delegates.

No other primary day has as many delegates grouped at once, and thus no other day gives a single candidate as much of a chance to declare a sense of certainty about his or her position. The less local the race becomes, the more serious the contenders are as national candidates.

Republicans need 1,237 delegates for the nomination and the Democrats need 2,383. The race is becoming much closer between candidates. Trump and Cruz seem to be heading off the Republicans, while Clinton and Sanders are trying to take over each other and the votes.

If the voting continues to take place the way Super Tuesday took place then Donald Trump will trump the nomination. He is leading all the national polls and the people’s vote.