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    23 Official Candidates on Arizona Primary Ballot -- and Other Significant Numbers

    By William Browning | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Thu, Feb 16, 2012
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    Arizona will hold its 2012 presidential preference primary Feb. 28. GOP candidates will be looking for leverage against each other as the battle for delegates to the Republican National Convention in August continues. Arizona is the second western state to hold a presidential contest after Nevada.

    Here's a look at the Arizona primary, by the numbers.

    15: The number of counties in Arizona. Of these, Maricopa has the largest population as it contains the city of Phoenix and its suburbs.

    13: The number of hours polls will be open on election day in Phoenix. Polls open at 6 a.m. and go to 7 p.m. local time. Voters should bring acceptable forms of identification to their respective polling places.

    29: The number of delegates at stake in the Arizona primary, according to the New York Times. Mitt Romney currently leads in the delegate count with 105. Rick Santorum is second with 71. Newt Gingrich has 29 and Rep. Ron Paul has 18 among the four mainstream candidates. Someone will need to earn 1,144 delegates to win the overall nomination.

    23: The number of candidates that will appear on the official ballot in Arizona. Four of those names are mainstream candidates still in the race. Eleven people on the ballot have addresses in Arizona. The only mainstream candidate still on the ballot after dropping out of the race is Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

    186,838: The number of votes earned by Romney in 2008. He came in second in Arizona to Sen. John McCain. McCain garnered 255,197 votes in his home state on the way to securing the nomination for the nationwide Republican Party. Paul was given 22,692 votes and won 4.2 percent of the statewide total.

    1,118,938: The official number of registered Republicans on the rolls of the Arizona Secretary of State as of Jan. 1. Registered Democrats number 957,786. Only Republicans can vote in the presidential preference primary for the GOP. There are a total of 3,138,327 registered voters in Arizona.

    6,392,017: The official number of residents in Arizona as of 2010. Nearly three-fourths of them are of voting age.

    17.5: The number of the percentage of the overall population of Arizona registered as Republicans. Fifteen percent of the population identify themselves as Democrats. Arizona will not be holding a Democratic primary this year as the incumbent president is presumed to be the party's nominee. No one is running against President Barack Obama until the general election.

    William Browning is a research librarian specializing in U.S. politics. Born in St. Louis, Browning is active in local politics and served as a campaign volunteer for President Barack Obama and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

     

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