Monday 23 April - Friday 11 May 2012: Each county holds a Special Meeting of the County Convention to elect delegates to the Special District Conventions. The Special Meeting is attended by qualified voters from that county who filed to be a Special Meeting delegate. The qualifying period is from 23 February to 1 March 2012.

• Voting members of the State Committee, who will elect the National Convention At-Large Delegates, cannot be delegates to the Special District Convention.
• There is no formal system applied in the Special Meetings to relate the presidential preference of the participants to the choice of the meeting's delegates.

Tuesday 22 May 2012: 33 of 36 of Arkansas's delegates to the Republican National Convention are bound to presidential contenders in today's Arkansas Presidential Primary.

• 12 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 4 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. These delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows:
• If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%), that candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates.
• If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the candidate with the plurality (most votes) is allocated 2 delegates and the candidate with the next highest number of votes is allocated 1 delegate.
• 21 at-large delegates are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the statewide primary results.
• Each presidential candidate receiving 15% of the statewide vote is allocated 1 delegate.
• If a presidential candidate receives a majority of the statewide vote, that candidate is allocated the remaining at-large delegates.
• If no presidential candidate receives a majority of the statewide vote, the remaining at-large delegates are proportionally allocated among the 3 highest vote-getters. Round fractions up for the candidate who received the most votes. We assume that the 2nd and 3rd positions would have their factions rounded down to the nearest whole number.

Note: If there are too few delegate candidates to fill the allocated delegate positions for a Presidential candidate, those positions are reallocated to the presidential candidate receiving the highest number of votes who has delegate candidates available to fill the positions. This rule applies to both the district and statewide contests

National Convention Delegates shall remain committed to the Presidential Candidate designated on their filing form through the first ballot unless they are released by their designated Presidential Candidate.

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

Saturday 9 June 2012 - Special District Convention. District delegates are elected according to the results of the primary.

Saturday 23 June 2012 - State Committee Meeting. At-Large delegates are elected according to the results of the primary.