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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm Pennsylvania Republican
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 22 April 2008
Summer Meeting: Friday 6 June 2008
Republicans
CandidatePopular
Vote
Delegate Votes
Hard TotalFloor Vote
McCain, John Sidney, III595,175  72.86% 73  98.65%
Paul, Ronald Ernest "Ron"129,323  15.83%  
Huckabee, Michael Dale "Mike"92,430  11.31%  
Uncommitted 74 100.00% 
(available)   
(not voting)  1   1.35%
Total816,928 100.00%74 100.00%74 100.00%

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Tuesday 22 April 2008 PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY Returns from an official source


   

Pennsylvania allocates its 74 as follows:

  • 61 congressional district delegates are directly elected by primary voters.
    • 57 delegates: 19 Congressional Districts × 3 delegates per district = 57.
    • 4 delegates (corrected 27 March 2008): (14 - 10) at-large delegates are allocated to those congressional districts that have best supported GOP candidates over the last four years per Rule 8.2. Each of those districts receives 1 extra delegate.
  • 10 at-large delegates are selected by members of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania per Rule 8.3.
  • 3 party leader delegates (the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Pennsylvania's Republican Party) will attend the convention by virtue of their position.

All 74 of the Commonwealth's district delegates will go to the Republican National Convention officially 'Unpledged'.


Tuesday 22 April 2008: PENNSYLVANIA Presidential Primary

61 of the Commonwealth's 74 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be directly elected in a LOOPHOLE type primary, in which delegates are elected separately from a presidential preference "beauty contest".

  • CD 1: 3
  • CD 2: 3
  • CD 3: 3
  • CD 4: 4
  • CD 5: 3
  • CD 6: 3
  • CD 7: 3
  • CD 8: 3
  • CD 9: 4
  • CD 10: 3 (corrected 27 March 2008)
  • CD 11: 3
  • CD 12: 3
  • CD 13: 3
  • CD 14: 3
  • CD 15: 3
  • CD 16: 3
  • CD 17: 3
  • CD 18: 4
  • CD 19: 4

Rule 8.4 of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania's Rules states that all delegates elected by Congressional District "...shall run at large within the Districts and shall not be officially committed to any particular candidate on the ballot."

 

Friday 6 June 2008: Summer Meeting. The Pennsylvania Republican State Committee will meet to choose 10 at-large delegates.

  • The Commonwealth's 10 at-large delegates, chosen by the state's Republican State Committee, will go to the Republican National Convention officially "Unpledged".

In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Pennsylvania's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.


Links Links to other web sites

Constitution   Links to State Constitutions
  http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/Constitution.html (The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania does not maintain an online database containing this State's Constitution: rather, this is a portion of a private website maintained by the Hon. Thomas E. Martin, Jr., Esq.- a Pennsylvania District Court Judge in Chester County, PA- who operates this site on the "shareware model"; he asks [but does not demand]: "If after using this website you have found it to be helpful, we ask you to send a $10. contribution to share in the maintenance cost to MARTIN LAW OFFICES, LLP, Post Office Box 392, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348.")
Election Authority
  Pennsylvania Department of State
  Pennsylvania Department of State - Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation
  VotesPA.com - The Pennsylvania Department of State's online voting information center
Legislature   Links to State Legislatures
  Pennsylvania General Assembly
  Pennsylvania House of Representatives
  Pennsylvania Senate
Republican
  Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus
  Pennsylvania Senate Republican News
  Republican Party of Pennsylvania
Media & others
  Altoona.com - State College
  Centre Daily Times - State College
  DC's Political Report - Pennsylvania
  Gateway Newspapers - Aspinwall - Monroeville - Pittsburgh- Wexford
  Gettysburg Times
  Grassroots PA
  I Love Altoona
  Issues PA - The Pennsylvania Economy League
  Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia
  Keystonepolitics.com - Harrisburg - Philadelphia - Pittsburgh - Lehigh Valley - Northeast
  KYW AM - Newsradio - Philadelphia
  LancasterOnline.com
  Norwin Star
  PA from Democracy
  PennLive.com - Harrisburg
  Pennsylvania Ballot Access Coalition
  Philadelphia Daily News
  Philadelphia Gay News
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Pocono Record - Stroudsburg
  Politics1.com - Pennsylvania
  PoliticsPA.com
  Reading Eagle
  Scranton Times Tribune
  Sewickley Herald - Pittsburgh
  The Beaver County Times
  The Citizens Voice - Wilkes-Barre
  The Daily Item - Sunbury
  The Daily Local News - West Chester
  The Daily News - McKeesport
  The Daily Pennsylvanian - University of Pennsylvania
  The Herald - Sharon
  The Herald Standard -Uniontown
  The Insider Archive
  The Mercury - Pottstown
  The Morning Call - Allentown
  The Northeast News Gleaner - Northeast Philadelphia
  The Pennsylvania Report
  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  The Philadelphia Tribune
  The REPUBLICAN & Herald- Pottsville
  The Sentinel - Carlisle - Shippensburg
  The Times-Tribune - Scranton
  The Toledo Times - Toledo
  Times Leader - Wilkes-Barre
  Times News - Lehighton
  York Daily Record

 


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