Super Tuesday Results: Mitt Romney Pulls Ahead, But Republican Race to Continue on

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared to pull off a narrow win in Ohio on Super Tuesday but lost several other states to challenger Rick Santorum.

The day of 10 primaries and caucuses produced no knockout punch, rather another split verdict that overshadowed Romney’s claim of collecting the most delegates.

Romney remains ahead in the delegate count, and thus the race for the nomination, but any hopes of asserting himself as the inevitable nominee fell short again.

Far from bringing more clarity to the GOP presidential race as some in the party had hoped, Tuesday’s elections gave every candidate cause to keep driving forward.

Newt Gingrich won a definitive victory in Georgia. Santorum won in Tennessee, North Dakota and Oklahoma. Ron Paul even posted several second-place finishes.

Romney won Massachusetts, where he served as governor; Virginia, where neither Gingrich nor Santorum qualified for the ballot; and Vermont, Idaho and Alaska.

In Ohio, The Associated Press named Romney the winner early this morning, though some news outlets have not called it yet, and Santorum has not conceded.

Regardless of that outcome, Ohio's tight race and his defeats elsewhere show continuing vulnerabilities for Romney on both geographic and ideological grounds.

Even with most people operating under the assumption that he remains the most likely GOP nominee, he has nonetheless lost states across several regions.

Just the same, he's winning. With 1,144 delegates needed to cinch the nomination, Romney 332 delegates to Santorum’s 139, Gingrich's 73 and Paul's 35.

Super Tuesday results by state after the jump ...

Alaska Republican Caucuses Results

1. Mitt Romney 4,225 (32.6%)
2. Rick Santorum 3,762 (29.0%)
3. Ron Paul 3,105 (24.0%)
4. Newt Gingrich 1,834 (14.2%)  

Georgia Republican Primary Results

1. Newt Gingrich 417,364 (47.4%)    
2. Mitt Romney 225,926 (25.7%)       
3. Rick Santorum 172,473 (19.6%)       
4. Ron Paul 57,125 (6.5%) 

Idaho Republican Caucuses Results

1. Mitt Romney 27,514 (61.6%)
2. Rick Santorum 8,115 (18.2%)
3. Ron Paul 8,086 (18.1%)
4. Newt Gingrich 940 (2.1%) 

Massachusetts Republican Primary Results

1. Mitt Romney 260,509 (72.1%)
2. Rick Santorum 43,614 (12.1%)
3. Ron Paul 34,575 (9.6%)
4. Newt Gingrich 16,756 (4.6%) 

North Dakota Republican Caucuses Results

1. Rick Santorum 4,510 (39.7%)
2. Ron Paul 3,186 (28.1%)
3. Mitt Romney 2,691 (23.7%)
4. Newt Gingrich 962 (8.5%) 

Ohio Republican Primary Results

1. Mitt Romney 453,927 (38.0%)
2. Rick Santorum 441,908 (37.0%)
3. Newt Gingrich 174,606 (14.6%)
4. Ron Paul 110,633 (9.3%)

North Dakota Republican Primary Results

1. Rick Santorum 96,759 (33.8%)
2. Mitt Romney 80,291 (28.0%)
3. Newt Gingrich 78,686 (27.5%)
4. Ron Paul 27,572 (9.6%)

Tennessee Republican Primary Results

1. Rick Santorum 204,978 (37.3%)
2. Mitt Romney 153,889 (28.0%)
3. Newt Gingrich 132,142 (24.0%)
4. Ron Paul 49,782 (9.0%)

Vermont Republican Primary Results

1. Mitt Romney 22,533 (39.8%)
2. Ron Paul 14,407 (25.4%)
3. Rick Santorum 13,401 (23.7%)
4. Newt Gingrich 4,608 (8.1%) 

Virginia Republican Primary Results

1. Mitt Romney 158,050 (59.5%)
2. Ron Paul 107,470 (40.5%)