Northwest Ohio election results

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann wave to supporters at his Super Tuesday campaign rally in Boston. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge

Romney wins GOP race in Ohio

COLUMBUS -- Mitt Romney squeezed out a win in pivotal Ohio, captured four other states with ease and padded his delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination but was forced to share the Super Tuesday spotlight with a resurgent Rick Santorum.

On the busiest night of the campaign, Romney scored a home-state win in Massachusetts to go with primary victories in Vermont and in Virginia — where neither Santorum nor Newt Gingrich was on the ballot. He added the Idaho caucuses to his column.

Ohio was the big win, though, and the closest contest of all.

Santorum countered crisply, winning primaries in Oklahoma and Tennessee and the North Dakota caucuses — raising fresh doubts about Romney's ability to corral the votes of conservatives in some of the most Republican states in the country.

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Northwest Ohio election coverage:

• Election results by the numbers
• Voter turnout low in Lucas County
• Kucinich concedes defeat, blasts Kaptur campaign
  
• Kaptur leading Kucinich in 9th District Democratic primary
• Northwest Ohio voters pass 4 levies
• Bowling Green voters to get new pool
• Woodmore schools bond issue approved
• Ohio Treasurer Mandel to run against Brown for Senate
  
• O'Neill to challenge Ohio Supreme Court incumbent
• Napoleon voters OK bond issue for schools
• Perrysburg residents vote to pull from TARTA
• Herringshaw to run for Wood County Commissioner in fall
• Copeland winning Democratic primary for recorder