By the Numbers: How the Delegate Math Is Unfolding

— -- There has been a two-week gap in the presidential election calendar since the last state-wide primary with voters from both parties was held two weeks ago.

But it's been a busy delegate battlefield for both the Republican and the Democratic parties during that period.

Delegate Dance

In Wyoming, on April 9, Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton, 56 percent to 44 percent, but both netted seven pledged delegates. Clinton received 11 total delegates from Wyoming because she received the backing of four superdelegates.

This past Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz netted an additional 14 delegates in Wyoming when the state held its convention, adding to the nine he gained when the state held its caucuses in March.

Cruz's biggest recent victory came in Colorado where he took home 34 of the state's delegates after the state’s convention. Colorado did not hold a preference vote, meaning that the delegates decided who they would support, a dynamic that prompted Donald Trump to cry foul.

Trump secured 12 delegates in Missouri after he was officially declared the winner of the state, which helped him slightly, adding to his triple-digit overall delegate lead.

Going into today's New York primary, Trump leads the Republicans with 756 total delegates, Cruz has 559 total delegates, and Kasich has a total of 171 delegates.

Clinton has a total of 1,758 delegates and Sanders has 1,076 total delegates going into New York.

Political Percentages

If Trump cracks 50 percent of the vote in New York, he will be the only GOP candidate to amass a majority of the vote in a state this primary season. He came close in Massachusetts, but got 49 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio, who has since dropped out of the race, amassed a majority of the vote in Puerto Rico, garnering 74 percent. However, Puerto Rico is a territory and that 74 percent only amounted to 27,485 votes.

By contrast, the high-water marks on the Democratic side were 86 percent of the vote for Sanders in Vermont and 83 percent of the vote for Clinton in Mississippi.

When it comes to tonight, the candidates' percentage results mean different things for the two different parties.

For the Democrats, the lessening gap between Clinton and Sanders could be something of a "moral victory" for Sanders, who has been slowly creeping in on Clinton's double-digit lead in New York polls.

Phillip Wallach, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said that Sanders' team will portray tonight's vote as an way of "winning an important moral victory if they keep the margin of Clinton's win small."

That said, she is still expected to win tonight and take home more delegates, adding to her significant edge over Sanders in the delegate race.