Democratic primary voters outnumbered Republicans

But not by much. The Birmingham News reports:

In the closest primary vote total yet, Democrats cast 465,023 votes for governor Tuesday compared to the 459,759 Republican ballots cast, a difference of just 5,270 votes. [That's 50.28% to 49.72%.] ...

In all, Democratic gubernatorial candidates received more votes than Republicans in 42 of the state's 67 counties. Republicans pulled more votes than Democrats in 25 counties. But among those 25 were the state's most populous counties, including Jefferson, Mobile, Montgomery, Madison, Shelby, Baldwin, Tuscaloosa, Lee, Morgan and St. Clair.