Santorum Wins Over St. Charles County Voters, Claims Missouri

Just a week removed from a , Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum soared to a dominating victory in Missouri's non-binding presidential preference primary.

Santorum won a whole lot of momentum, but no delegates—the Republican nominee will be chosen at a March 17 caucus rather than the primary.

Still, Santorum's win in Missouri—and Minnesota, where he did pick up some much-needed delegates—put him back in the thick of things in the hunt for the GOP nomination.

Santorum received 56.3 percent of the vote in St. Charles County and more than doubled the vote total of the perceived Republican front runner Mitt Romney, who claimed 25.4 percent of the vote.

Statewide, the former Pennsylvania Senator got 55.7 percent of the vote while Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, received 24.9 percent vote.

Patch was on hand at Santorum's election night party at the St. Charles Convention Center. For a transcript of that blog, .

Here's how the vote shaped up when all was said and done:

St. Charles County

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