YORK – Participating York County Democrats overwhelmingly favored Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in last weekend’s caucus exercise.

Late Saturday afternoon, 109 registered Democrats gathered at the Kilgore Library in York to participate in the caucus – as did thousands of others across the state as there were caucuses in each of the 93 counties.

In the end, 73 York County Democrats sided with Sanders (66 percent), compared to 36 (33 percent) favoring Clinton.

That held pretty much true for the rest of the state, as 57.1 percent of Nebraska Democrats stated their favor with Sanders, compared to 42.9 percent for Clinton.

It should be noted that while 109 participated in York County – which is consistent with the number that participated here during the 2008 Democratic caucus – it is a pretty small percentage of the total number of registered Democrats in the county. As of the last primary election, according to the Nebraska Secretary of State’s office, there were 1,908 registered Democrats in this county.

As far as neighboring counties, Seward had a turn-out of 207 people, with 58 percent in favor of Sanders and 41 percent for Clinton.