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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up two fingers as he speaks to supporters at his primary election night event at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 15, 2016. His margin of victory in Missouri was less than 1 percent, raising the possibility of a recount. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Recounts are possible in Missouri after Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both won presidential primaries by less than 1 percent Tuesday.

Trump defeated Ted Cruz by 1,726 votes in the Republican vote.

Clinton edged Bernie Sanders by 1,531 votes in the Democratic race.

Missouri is not a winner-take-all primary in either party, meaning the overall winner amounts to little more than bragging rights.

From there, it gets a little more complicated.

The state's 52 GOP delegates will be awarded by the winner of the popular vote in the state's eight congressional districts. That means the vote margins could be even slimmer when the count is spliced over those boundaries.

"It looks to me like the separation is pretty clear," John Hancock, the chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, told the Post Dispatch. "The question is if the congressional districts are tight enough. And we aren't going to know that for a while."

According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the state's 52 GOP delegates will be awarded by the winner of the popular vote in the state's eight congressional districts. That means the vote margins could be even slimmer when the count is spliced over those boundaries.

In the Democratic primary, 47 of the 71 delegates will be divided based on their showings in the eight House districts. The remainder will be allotted based on their percentage of the statewide vote, the Post Dispatch reported.