Republican Convention 2008

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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Republican Convention
Presidential Nominating Process
39th Republican National Convention: Monday 1 September - Thursday 4 September 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged	Soft Total	Alternative Soft Total*	Hard Total
McCain, John Sidney, III	`9,614,718 46.65%`	`1,326 72.90%`	`140 24.96%`	`1,466 61.60%`	`1,572 62.48%`	`1,052 44.20%`
Romney, Mitt	`4,567,080 22.16%`	`140 7.70%`	`35 6.24%`	`175 7.35%`	`193 7.67%`	`146 6.13%`
Huckabee, Michael Dale "Mike"	`4,147,885 20.12%`	`244 13.41%`	`16 2.85%`	`260 10.92%`	`263 10.45%`	`166 6.97%`
Paul, Ronald Ernest "Ron"	`1,145,050 5.56%`	`26 1.43%`	`16 2.85%`	`42 1.76%`	`42 1.67%`	`10 0.42%`
Giuliani, Rudolph William	`592,355 2.87%`
Thompson, Fred Dalton	`287,581 1.40%`		`11 1.96%`	`11 0.46%`	`11 0.44%`
(others)	`65,888 0.32%`	`1 0.05%`		`1 0.04%`	`1 0.04%`
Uncommitted	`59,358 0.29%`	`41 2.25%`	`52 9.27%`	`93 3.91%`	`85 3.38%`	`263 11.05%`
Keyes, Alan L.	`56,263 0.27%`	`2 0.11%`		`2 0.08%`	`2 0.08%`
Hunter, Duncan	`37,880 0.18%`		`1 0.18%`	`1 0.04%`	`1 0.04%`
No Preference	`22,583 0.11%`
Tancredo, Thomas Gerald "Tom"	`8,602 0.04%`
Cox, John H.	`3,351 0.02%`
Brownback, Samuel Dale	`2,838 0.01%`
Uninstructed	`850 0.00%`
Unpledged	`224 0.00%`
(available)		`39 2.14%`	`290 51.69%`	`329 13.82%`	`346 13.75%`	`743 31.22%`
Total	`20,612,506 100.00%`	`1,819 100.00%`	`561 100.00%`	`2,380 100.00%`	`2,516 100.00%`	`2,380 100.00%`

2,380 total delegates
(before penalties: 2,516 total delegates - 560 base at-large / 1,305 re: 435 congressional districts / 168 party / 483 bonus)

States Chronologically States Alphabetically Democratic Convention

On 8 November 2007 the Republican National Committee voted 121 to 9 to sanction 5 states for beginning their Presidential Nominating Process prior to 5 February 2008 in violation of Party Rule 16. Florida, New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina, and Wyoming will each lose half of their delegates to the National Convention.

TheGreenPapers.com will be tracking delegate counts as both "Soft" (here assuming that relevant delegations will remain sanctioned into the National Convention [that is: with half the originally allocated delegates to be seated at the Republican National Convention]) and as "Alternative" (here assuming that the full delegation of an affected jurisdiction- as originally allocated before being sanctioned- is eventually to be seated [that is, at some point before the Convention, sanctions will be lifted]) from now until the Party's National Convention convenes or until no delegation is any longer sanctioned, if this should occur prior to the Convention.

Reference: CALL FOR THE 2008 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION - November 9, 2007

Monday 1 September - Thursday 4 September 2008: 39th Republican National Convention, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

The 39th REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION will have a total of 2,380 delegates, with 1,191 (a majority) necessary in order for a Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidate to be nominated.

The rules for the 2008 Republican National Convention call for the following formula for determining the number of delegates:

For the 50 states:
- 10 at-large delegates for each state
- 3 delegates for each congressional district in the state
- "Bonus" delegates are awarded to states which cast their electoral vote for the 2004 Republican presidential nominee (George W. Bush), such states receiving 4.5 delegates plus 60 percent of their 2004 electoral vote.
- States are also given one "bonus" delegate for each of the following:
  - a Republican United States Senator;
  - a delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives which is at least half Republican;
  - a Republican Governor;
  - a house of the state's Legislature controlled by Republicans or in which the Republican membership has increased by at least 25 percent of the total number of seats;
  - Republican control of both houses of the state's Legislature.
6 at large delegates for American Samoa
16 at large delegates for the District of Columbia
6 at large delegates for Guam
20 at large delegates for Puerto Rico
6 at large delegates for the Virgin Islands
For all 50 states, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands - 3 party leaders: the national committeeman, the national committee woman, and the chairman of the state Republican Party