Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both won the New York primaries on Tuesday.

Both CNN and AP are projecting Clinton and Trump to win the New York primary.

The polls closed at 9 p.m. Projections are based on exit polling.

  • 95 Republican delegates, 247 pledged Democratic delegates up for grabs
  • GOP candidates have a chance to trigger a winner-take-all function for delegates in each other districts and at the statewide level if they get 50 percent of the vote
  • Democratic delegates divvied up proportionally

The primary today is not without controversy, however. New York City's comptroller is ordering an audit of the city's Board of Elections.

The board has confirmed that more than 125,000 voters were removed from the voting rolls in Brooklyn. There are also reports of voters having trouble accessing polling sites.

“The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient," said Comptroller Scott Stringer. "With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don’t have a moment to spare.”

Other voting problems include numerous complaints about inadequate and underprepared poll workers; an erroneous letter sent to voters telling them the primary was in September, not April; broken voting machines and polling locations not open in time.

A lawsuit has already been filed against the state for the inexplicable purging of Democratic voters from the rolls between November 2015 and April 2016. The lawsuit calls for the immediate restoration of voting rights for those who have been barred from the polls.

Latest updates from the Associated Press

10:05 p.m.

Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic presidential primary in New York, which she represented in the U.S. Senate for eight years.

Clinton beat out rival Bernie Sanders in Tuesday's election, further extending her lead in the delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.

Most Democratic primary voters see Clinton as the best candidate to face Donald Trump if he is the Republican nominee in November, and 7 in 10 see her as the most likely eventual nominee.

Before Tuesday, Clinton led Sanders 1,292 to 1,042 in the delegate count. When including superdelegates, the AP count had Clinton at 1,761 and Sanders at 1,073.

Most of New York's Democratic delegates are awarded on a proportional basis by the outcome in each congressional district. New York has 247 pledged delegates at stake.

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10 p.m.

Donald Trump, fresh off a commanding victory in the Republican primary in his home state of New York, is suggesting he may soon have the race in hand.

Trump, speaking Tuesday night in Trump Tower, says Senator Ted Cruz "is just about mathematically eliminated" from clinching the delegates needed to win outright before the national convention.

"We don't have much of a race anymore," says Trump, declaring that his campaign is "really rocking" and he could have the nomination sown up before the party convention in Cleveland.

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9:40 p.m.

Latest results:

  • Democratic primary: 16 percent reporting
    • Hillary Clinton: 61 percent
    • Bernie Sanders: 39 percent
  • Republican primary: 16 percent reporting
    • Donald Trump: 68 percent
    • John Kasich: 19 percent
    • Ted Cruz: 13 percent

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9:05 p.m.

Cheers broke out in Trump Tower in Manhattan at 9 p.m. Tuesday night as polls closed and news organizations called the New York Republican primary for Donald Trump.

He's expected to speak soon in front of assembled reporters, supporters and staffers, who have gathered in the lobby of Trump's midtown office and residential building.

Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski says the campaign's goal is to beat the margins that rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich achieved in their home states.

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9 p.m.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has won the primary in his home state of New York.

Trump was widely expected to beat his rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich in Tuesday's election. The precise allocation of delegates from the state won't be determined until the vote results are calculated by congressional district, but Trump is certain to extend his delegate lead and come closer to the 1,237 delegates required to clinch the party's nomination.

Early results of the exit poll in the state show a large majority of New York Republicans want the next president to be a political outsider.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Trump had amassed 756 delegates, while Cruz had 559 and Kasich had 144.

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8:45 p.m.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is trying to move beyond a crushing defeat in New York, which he is dismissing as merely "a politician winning his home state."

Instead, he is pivoting with a sweeping call to unite the Republican Party by painting himself as the outsider able to capture the imagination of a party searching for leadership.

Already moving on to Pennsylvania, Cruz is saying: "This generation needs to answer a new set of questions. Can we? Should we? Will we?"

Cruz is comparing his candidacy to Ronald Reagan's and John F. Kennedy's, asking the Pennsylvania audience, "Are we still those people, those dreamers and doers?"

The Pennsylvania primary is April 26.

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8:15 p.m.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he believes the Republican presidential primary will be "deadlocked" and delegates will choose their nominee at the party's convention in July.

Kasich spoke in Annapolis, Maryland, on the evening of the New York primary. Maryland holds its primary next Tuesday.

Kasich is predicting that neither Ted Cruz nor Donald Trump will win enough delegates to clinch the GOP nomination before the convention in Cleveland. He is pitching himself as a candidate with a positive and unifying message.

Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich attended the event. He says Kasich's resume "reflects what the country needs right now."

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Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in New York and Ken Thomas and Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report.