CHEYENNE (AP) — Wyoming Democrats handed presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders another victory today (Saturday) over front-runner Hillary Clinton, but the small delegate prize was split evenly between them.

Officials say the caucuses in 23 counties resulted in seven delegates each after Sanders won 56 percent of the votes cast and Clinton collected 44 percent.

The win did prolong the momentum of Sanders, who has now won seven of the last eight caucuses and primaries, but still trails Clinton in the overall delegate count.

Wyoming is a heavily Republican state where more than 140,000 residents are registered with the GOP, compared with about 41,000 registered Democrats.

However, the Wyoming Democratic Party has boosted its registration by about 5,000 new members this election year, state party Executive Director Aimee Van Cleave said.

Van Cleave was encouraged by the turnout of about 7,000 people even though it wasn't as big as the record 8,600 who caucused statewide in 2008.

Sanders made a campaign stop in Wyoming on Tuesday, attracting about 2,000 people at a rally in Laramie. His wife, Jane, held two town hall meetings in Wyoming leading to the caucus.

Clinton bypassed the state in favor of campaigning elsewhere, sending her husband and former President Bill Clinton to Wyoming to campaign on her behalf.

Wyoming has a total of 18 delegates who will cast votes for presidential candidates at the Democratic National Convention in July. Two are party leaders and two are national committee members who are allowed to vote independently for the candidate for their choice.

Van Cleave said Wyoming will have the fewest delegates among the states at the Democratic convention. Wyoming sends 29 delegates to the national Republican convention.