Bernie Sanders trounced Hilary Clinton in Democrats Abroad’s Global Presidential Primary.
Sanders received 69 per cent of the vote to Clinton’s 31 per cent. Martin O’Malley and Rocky De La Fuente each got less than 10 per cent of the vote.
As a result of the voting, Sanders picks up nine delegates in the primary, while Clinton gains another four.
Voting was up 50 per cent from 2009, with 34,570 voters casting their ballots from over 170 countries world-wide.
Democrats Abroad volunteers made the vote possible by running more than 150 in-person voting centres in 38 countries as well as accepting ballots by email, post and fax.
The largest number of votes came from the United Kingdom (2,874) followed by Canada with 2,171.
Votes came in from as far away as Afghanistan and Brazil and Peru.
Democrats Abroad is the official Democratic Party arm for the millions of Americans living outside the United States. The organization works to mobilize the overseas vote.
Democrats Abroad has committees throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia and maintains a support office in Washington, D.C.
The organization was formed 50 years ago from a grassroots effort to give every American abroad the right to vote without having to return to the U.S. on election day.
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