Projections from exit polls also take into account the consistency between exit poll results and pre-primary polls.
The rest will be allocated when voters come back to their precincts after the primary polls have closed and caucus.
In the short run, though, Mr Strauss-Kahn will return to find his natural ally, Ms Aubry, running far behind Mr Hollande in the primary polls.
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Pundits also were citing the role of former President Bill Clinton in helping his wife recover from what pre-primary polls were suggesting was a deficit of 9 percentage points to Obama in New Hampshire.
Mr Hollande has since secured a wide lead and, although the open primary makes the polls difficult to read, now seems the clear favourite.
When Obama crushed Clinton in the South Carolina primary, exit polls indicated that the former president's campaigning was an important factor in determining the vote of approximately six in 10 voters.
Mr. Lhota has been leading the Republican primary field in recent polls.
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Polls predicting primary-election results get the outcome wrong because of low turnout, the near impossibility of determining accurately who will and will not vote, and the extreme volatility that sometimes occurs after interviews have been completed.
Recent polls had shown Gephardt running fifth place or worse in New Hampshire, where voters there go to the polls for a primary next Tuesday.
That the general public shares the sensibilities exhibited by Likud primary voters is made clear by the fact that Likud's standing in the polls has not significantly diminished since the primary.
He has trailed former Rudy Giuliani aide Joe Lhota in recent polls of the Republican primary.
The majority of white voters in the primary supported his rivals, exit polls showed.
All of the excitement around Barack Obama, and him pulling up in the polls in some early primary states.
Kerry headed into the Wisconsin primary with a lead in the polls and 14 victories in 16 state nominating contests.
Obama beats Gingrich, Santorum and Paul in at least six polls taken during the Primary season, including those conducted by conservative Fox News.
Before his late surge in the Hawkeye State, Mr. Santorum barely registered in polls of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
But, Green also points out that exit polls from the Wisconsin primary on Feb. 19 indicate that the "Catholic gap" that Clinton has enjoyed could be evaporating.
Mr. Thompson has been hovering around the middle of the pack in the crowded Democratic primary for mayor, according to recent polls.
But as the state prepares to hold its Democratic primary Tuesday, Clinton remains ahead in polls by between 5 and 8 percentage points.
Romney has never led among Republican primary voters in any of our IBOPE Zogby polls.
On Saturday, New Orleans residents go to the polls to vote in the mayoral primary.
Polls in the early caucus and primary states are more important.
More Republican primary voters agreed with him than disagreed, exit polls showed.
According to exit polls at the state's Democratic primary in 2008, race was an important factor for a fifth of white voters.
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It's - actually, the most recent polls here in Arizona - our presidential primary is February 5th, and McCain hasn't really done any campaigning here.
McCain won the New Hampshire primary in 2000 and he's been leading polls of New Hampshire Republicans for the past two years -- until now.
Polls indicated he would lose heavily in a Republican primary election to Marco Rubio, who is backed by tea partyers.
The latest survey, a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, echoed earlier polls by showing Weiner getting 15 percent of the Democratic primary vote, behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at 25 percent.
In an average of recent polls in Florida, Giuliani only registers 16 percent among Republican primary voters.
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