Mar 1, 2016

Each election season, the name Super Tuesday is given to the day that Democrats and Republicans hold the most primaries or caucuses and, in return, the most delegates are up for grabs on either side.

This year, it’s March 1. The first Super Tuesday was in 1984, and in years past it’s been a chance to see how a candidate performs on a more nationwide than regional scale.

: Penny Novack of Buckland, MA holds a sign in support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) on March 01, 2016 in Buckland, Massachusetts. Officials are expecting a record turnout of voters in Massachusetts, one of a dozen states holding Super Tuesday presidential primaries or caucuses. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

: Sebastian Connor helps a voter cross the street to reach her polling place at Our Lady-Lourdes Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama. 13 states and American Samoa are holding presidential primary elections, with over 1400 delegates at stake. (Photo by Hal Yeager/Getty Images)

: Brian Adcock fills out voting paper work before casting his ballot at a fire station on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016, in Adairsville, Georgia. Voters head to the polls to cast their votes on Georgia’s presidential primary. (Photo by Branden Camp/Getty Images)

: Madison Albrect, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, promotes Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on campus and reminds passersby to vote Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Voters from Vermont to Colorado, Alaska to American Samoa and a host of states in between were heading to polling places and caucus sites on the busiest day of the 2016 primaries. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)

: Voters are lined up into parking lot at Flint Baptist Church waiting to vote in the primary election in Flint, Texas Tuesday afternoon March 1, 2016. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP)

: Scott Stuckey of Oklahoma City feeds a ballot into an optical scanner at Trinity Baptist Church on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma voters head to the polls for the 2016 Presidential Primary. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)

: Sean Winget signs in after showing his driver’s license to vote at Trinity Baptist Church on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma voters head to the polls for the 2016 Presidential Primary. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)

: Children play as their grandmother votes at Millwood High School on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma voters head to the polls for the 2016 Presidential Primary. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)

: An Oklahoma voter heads to vote at Mayfair Baptist Church on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma voters head to the polls for the 2016 Presidential Primary. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)

: Voters crowd into foyer of Smiley Middle School to check in with their precinct captains to attend a Democratic caucus late Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Denver. Colorado is one of 12 states casting votes for party nominees on Super Tuesday, which offers candidates the chance to garner the biggest single-day delegate haul of the nomination contests. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

: Bernie Sanders fan Angus O’Neil-Dunne, 9, stands outside with a poster as voters head inside to vote on Super Tuesday at the Robert Miller Community and Recreation Center on March 1, 2016 in Burlington, Ver. (Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti)

: Voters line up to cast their ballots on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. 13 states and American Samoa are holding presidential primary elections, with over 1400 delegates at stake. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

: An ‘I Voted” sticker is worn by man who cast a ballot in the Virgina Super Tuesday primary March 1, 20116 in Washington, DC. Americans began voting in the crucial Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in what is deemed the most critical day in the presidential nominating process. The first state to open its polling stations was Virginia at 6:00 am (1100 GMT). A total of 12 states from Alabama to Alaska are holding primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, with frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hoping to finish off their challengers. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images)

: Voters line up to vote during the Super Tuesday primary voting at a polling place located at Fire Station #10 in Arlington, Virginia, March 1, 2016. Americans began voting in the crucial Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in what is deemed the most critical day in the presidential nominating process. The first state to open its polling stations was Virginia at 6:00 am. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

: Edna Martinez wears a “I’m a Georgia Voter” sticker after casting her ballot at Taylorsville Town Hall on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016, in Taylorsville, Georgia. Voters head to the polls to cast their votes on Georgia’s presidential primary. (Photo by Branden Camp/Getty Images)

: Poll worker John Mayrand mans a manual, crank operated, ballot box on March 01, 2016 in Montague, MA. Officials are expecting a record turnout of voters in Massachusetts, one of a dozen states holding Super Tuesday presidential primaries or caucuses. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

: Volunteers Maria Nuno-Estrada (R) and Rudy Anderson speak with a voter on Super Tuesday at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Dallas headquarters March 1, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. 13 states and American Samoa are holding presidential primary elections, with over 1400 delegates at stake. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

: A volunteer wears a button in support of Hillary Clinton on Super Tuesday at Clinton’s Dallas Headquarters March 1, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. 13 states and American Samoa are holding presidential primary elections, with over 1400 delegates at stake. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

: Voters cast their ballots at the polling place at Fairfax Circle Baptist Church during Super Tuesday voting March 1, 2016 in Fairfax, United States. Officials are expecting a record turn out of voters in Virginia, one of a dozen states holding presidential primaries or caucuses. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

: Leo the dog and his owner Nina Ward wait in line with other voters to cast their ballots inside the Arlington County Fire Station 10 during Super Tuesday voting March 1, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. Officials are expecting a record turnout of voters in Virginia, one of a dozen states holding presidential primaries or caucuses. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

: People vote in a church being used as a polling station on March 1, 2016 in Ferrisburgh,Vermont. Thousands of Americans across the country are participating in Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the 2016 primary season. Thirteen states and one territory are participating in Super Tuesday: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming and American Samoa. This years election, with strong candidates on both the left and the right, is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and divisive in recent history. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

: Voters place their ballots in the gymnasium at Saint Philip AME church on Super Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia on March 1, 2016. (Tami Chappell/AFP/Getty Images)

: Voters line up to vote during the Super Tuesday primary voting at a polling place located in at Fire Station #10 in Arlington, Virginia, March 1, 2016. Americans began voting in the crucial Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in what is deemed the most critical day in the presidential nominating process. The first state to open its polling stations was Virginia at 6:00 am. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

: Voters cast their ballots at the McGee Community Center on March 1, 2016 in Conway, Arkansas. Americans began voting in the crucial Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in what is deemed the most critical day in the presidential nominating process. The first state to open its polling stations was Virginia at 6:00 am. (Michael B. ThomasAFP/Getty Images)

: A U.S. flag taped to a chair stands at the entry of the Fairfax Circle Baptist Church to indicate a polling place during Super Tuesday voting March 1, 2016 in Fairfax, United States. Officials are expecting a record turn out of voters in Virginia, one of a dozen states holding presidential primaries or caucuses. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

: Sharon Seabolt cast her ballot at Taylorsville Town Hall on Super Tuesday March 1, 2016, in Taylorsville, Georgia. Voters head to the polls to cast their votes on Georgia’s presidential primary. (Photo by Branden Camp/Getty Images)

: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes a ballot to vote in the Vermont primary at the Robert Miller Community and Recreation Center in Burlington, Vermont, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, on Super Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

: Volunteer election clerks Allie Green Jr., left, and Paul Tryhus, right, briefly leave a Fiesta Mart supermarket, a polling location, to place voting signs, before polls open in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Republicans will vote in 11 states, with 595 delegates at stake. Democrats will vote in 11 states and American Samoa, with 865 delegates up for grabs. Some states have contests Tuesday for only one party. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)

: Hours before polls open, a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer prepares brochures to be distributed to Sanders supporters reminding them to vote, on Tuesday morning, March 1, 2016 in Austin, Texas. The local Sanders campaign mobilized over 40 volunteers in a grassroots effort to canvas Austin neighborhoods before dawn. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)

: Voters line up to vote inside Dare School in York Co., Virginia on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016. (Joe Fudge/The Daily Press via AP)

: Tess, a Basset Hound and Collie mix, looks up at voters as her owner Lindsay Greco, right, casts her ballot in the Georgia primary election at a polling site in a firehouse Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

: Candidate volunteers greet voters outside of the Westover Hills Town Hall on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS)

: Stickers for voters are seen at a polling place inside Northfield Town Hall on March 01, 2016 in Northfield, MA. Officials are expecting a record turnout of voters in Massachusetts, one of a dozen states holding Super Tuesday presidential primaries or caucuses. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

Voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday

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