[Beagle8U]

There were about 15 candidates on the TX ballot.

[manc]

but how many was running at the time?

[Jay Thomas]

You said “there were about 15 candidates on the TX ballot.”

The top 5 candidates were 96.6 percent of the vote. Adding the remaining 3.4 percent left over still has Cruz at 47.2, assuming all of the 3.4 goes to Cruz.

https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=texas%20primary%202016%20results&eob=m.07b_l/R/2/short/m.07b_l/