San Juan County Democrats gathered en masse Saturday, March 26 for the Democratic Caucus held at various locations throughout the county. Representing two precincts, a total of 386 arrived to support their preferred candidate at the Lopez School.

Participants were given time to advocate for their presidential nominee choice and to vote on which delegates to send to the San Juan County Democratic Convention on May 1.

All of San Juan county had 105 delegate spaces open. Sanders received 79 delegates and Clinton received 25. There was one unallocated delegate.

Including Lopez Island, 18 individual precinct caucuses were held on seven different islands, with 2,039 in total attendance. Sanders received 1,580 votes, or 77.5 percent of the total, while Clinton received 446, or 21.9 percent.

Washington’s Democratic Party will choose it’s presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton entirely by the voting of delegates at each caucus.

The final choice candidate to run in the November 8 national election is made at the National Democratic Convention in July.

With a huge voter turnout throughout Washington–over 230,000 people voted, Sanders won by a landslide, claiming 19,159 delegates to Clinton’s 7,140.

The San Juan County Republican party held their precinct caucus on Feb. 20 at the Woodmen Hall.