Bernie Sanders won the Maine Democratic caucus on Sunday with 64.9 percent of all votes cast. Twenty-five delegates were at stake for the national convention, as well as five superdelegates. While the allocation of the pledged electoral delegates will be determined at the state convention, according to Maine Democratic Committee Director Jeremy Kennedy, the superdelegates are largely pledged already, although they can change their votes at the convention.

Superdelegates committed to Clinton are U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, former party official Maggie Allen and party vice chair and Small Business Advocate Peggy Schaffer. Superdelegate and former State Senator Troy Jackson is committed to Sanders. Maine Democratic Party Chairman Phil Bartlett, the state’s fifth superdelegate, is uncommitted.

Nearly 48,000 Mainers caucused at almost 500 sites across the state, according to the Maine Democratic Committee.

As crowded as the Lincoln County caucuses were, other sites, especially those in big cities, were much more difficult to get into. Party leaders say that at some sites, people waited for hours in very long lines, and some were forced to cast provisional ballots because town clerks had to leave at some point during the process, Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling stated in a Facebook response to a question from the Wiscasset Newspaper.

The confusion led to speculation that the parties would reconsider a presidential preference primary in the future.

Sen. Justin Alfond (D-Portland) said he is announcing emergency legislation this term to bring back the primary. His new legislation would apply to both Democrats and Republicans.

In both 1996 and 2000, the major qualified political parties (Democratic and Republican) opted to hold Presidential Preference Primaries. In 2003, the Maine Legislature repealed the Presidential Preference Primary law.

In a press release Sunday, Sanders thanked Maine voters and encouraged them to encourage friends and relatives in other states to get out the vote.