The final tallies are in from fair-goers in Perry at the Georgia National Fair, participating in the fair's first-ever presidential straw poll, who crowned Republican neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp launched the Peanut Poll this year as a way to further stoke interest in the March 1 SEC Primary, which includes Georgia and a raft of southern states. More than 28,000 total votes were cast -- making it, by Kemp's calculations, the biggest straw poll in the country.
Carson narrowly topped Donald Trump among Republicans, with no one else in the field coming anywhere close. Clinton dominated her side, with nearly three times as many votes as Bernie Sanders. Maybe-candidate Joe Biden was a distant third.
Here are the full results:
Republicans:
Ben Carson -- 8,576
Donald Trump -- 8,099
Undecided -- 1,464
Carly Fiorina -- 1,203
Marco Rubio -- 1,064
Ted Cruz -- 778
Jeb Bush -- 629
Mike Huckabee -- 597
Rand Paul -- 234
John Kasich -- 132
Chris Christie -- 129
Rick Santorum -- 98
Lindsey Graham -- 80
Bobby Jindal -- 78
George Pataki -- 65
Jim Gilmore -- 42
Democrats:
Hillary Clinton -- 2,513
Undecided -- 1,170
Bernie Sanders -- 929
Joe Biden -- 396
Jim Webb -- 110
Lincoln Chafee -- 56
Martin O'Malley -- 51
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