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2020 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
 
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Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 3 March 2020 (presumably)
BPOU Conventions: Saturday 7 March - Saturday 28 March 2020
District Conventions: Sunday 29 March - Saturday 2 May 2020
State Convention: Friday 15 May - Saturday 16 May 2020
Republicans
CandidateDelegate Votes
Hard TotalFloor
Trump, Donald John39 100.00%39 100.00%
Total39 100.00%39 100.00%

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Minnesota Primaries for Statewide offices and Congress
 
Minnesota State and Local Government

 
 

"... beginning at 7:00 p.m. ... there shall be held ... a party caucus ... The chairs of the two largest major political parties shall jointly submit to the secretary of state, no later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, the single date on which the two parties have agreed to conduct their precinct caucuses ... If the chairs of the two largest major political parties do not jointly submit a single date for conducting their precinct caucuses ... the first Tuesday in February shall be considered the day of a major political party precinct caucus." [Minnesota Statutes 202A.14 § Subdivision 1. (a), (b)(1), (3)]

The 2020 Presidential Primary is scheduled for 3 March 2020 unless major party chairs agree on a different date by 1 March 2019. On 22 February 2019, the Minnesota Democratic and Republican Parties notified the Secretary of State that they agreed upon a Presidential Primary date of 3 March 2020.

2019-2022 Election Dates and Presidential primary from the Minnesota Secretary of State.

31 October 2019: The Minnesota Republican Party decided to list only President Trump on the ballot.


Returns and Certified Returns from the Minnesota Secretary of State.


The Minnesota Presidential Primary set for 3 March may be delayed due to a lawsuit, De La Fuente v Simon A19-1994. The suit claims that it unconstitutional not to give voters a choice among the candidates running for the Republican nomination.


   

Minnesota has same-day registration and does not have registration by party. Party preference is declared when requesting a primary ballot, and the preference is publicly recorded.

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (presumably): Minnesota Primary. Hours 7:00a-8:00p CST (1300-0200 UTC). Voting begins at 10:00 AM in some townships. Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-Most Primary. Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary.

Source: Minnesota Secretary of State.
Status: Official. Retrieved: Friday 20 March 2020.
Included in Nationwide vote.

CandidatePop
Vote
%
Donald John Trump137,27597.67%
Write-in2,8212.01%
William Floyd "Bill" Weld (write-in)4430.32%
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, Jr. (write-in)160.01%
Total140,555100.00%
 

All 39 of Minnesota's delegates to the Republican National Convention are bound to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's Minnesota Presidential.

If a candidate receives 85% or more of the statewide vote, that candidate receives all 39 Congressional District and At-Large delegates. Otherwise:

  • 24 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the Primary results in each congressional district. A mandatory 10% threshold (if no candidate receives 10%, the threshold is 0%) is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at the congressional district level.
  • 15 statewide delegates (10 at-large, 2 bonus, plus the 3 party leaders [the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota]) are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the Primary vote statewide. A mandatory 10% threshold (if no candidate receives 10%, the threshold is 0%) is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at the statewide level.

Rounding of the CD and statewide delegates:

  • For each candidate who has reached the threshold, starting with the candidate who received the highest number of votes, multiply 3 (delegates per CD) or 15 (delegates statewide) by the number of votes received by that candidate and divide by the total number of votes cast for all presidential candidates who also reached the threshold and round to the nearest whole number.
  • Continue until all delegates are allocated.
  • If one or more delegates remain unallocated, allocate one delegate to each candidate not previously rounded up, in the order of the greatest remaining fraction less than 0.5, until all delegates have been allocated.

Primary
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State.
Status: Official. Retrieved: Friday 20 March 2020.

ContestTrumpWrite-in
 Pop
Vote
Qual
Vote
DelPop
Vote
%DelPop
Vote
%Del
CD121,08020,669320,669100.000%3369  
CD215,26314,844314,844100.000%3370  
CD314,11513,622313,622100.000%3414  
CD49,7709,29139,291100.000%3395  
CD56,8136,38636,386100.000%3347  
CD618,23117,898317,898100.000%3289  
CD728,13827,785327,785100.000%3302  
CD827,17526,780326,780100.000%3365  
Statewide140,585137,27515137,275100.000%152,851  
Total
Delegates
  39  39   

: Winner-take-all for Trump.

National convention delegates are bound on the first ballot at the national convention. On all subsequent ballots, the delegates are unbound. If a candidate withdraws, the delegates for that candidate become unbound. If a candidate withdraws and then returns to the race, the delegates are once again bound.

 

Saturday 7 March - Saturday 28 March 2020: Republican Party BPOU [="Basic Political Organization Unit"] Conventions convene in each BPOU. Each BPOU [either a County, State Senate District or State House District] Convention chooses delegates to both the Congressional District Conventions and the State Convention.

  • BPOU Conventions choose both the BPOU's delegates to the Republican Party Convention of the Congressional District the BPOU is a part of as well as the BPOU's delegates to the Minnesota State Republican Convention. There is no formal system applied in the BPOU Convention to relate the presidential preference of the BPOU Convention delegates to the choice of the BPOU's delegates to either the Congressional District Convention in which the BPOU is located or the State Convention. The delegates in attendance at each BPOU Convention alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor and, if so, how it is to be applied.
 

Sunday 29 March - Saturday 2 May 2020: Republican Party District Conventions convene in each congressional district elect delegates to the Republican National Convention according to the results of the Presidential Primary.

 

Friday 15 May - Saturday 16 May 2020: The Minnesota State Republican Convention officially convenes in Rochester. The State Convention chooses the 12 at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 2 bonus delegates) to the Republican National Convention according to the results of the Presidential Primary.

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

 

Notes

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

 

Links Links to other web sites

Constitution   Links to State Constitutions
  http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/mncon/preamble.htm
Election Authority
  Minnesota Campaign Finance Board
  Minnesota Secretary of State Elections and Voting
Legislature   Links to State Legislatures
  Minnesota House of Representatives
  Minnesota Senate
  Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus
  Minnesota State Legislature
  MN Senate GOP - Twitter
Republican
  Minnesota House of Representatives - Republican Caucus
  Republican Party of Minnesota
Media & others
  Austin Daily Herald
  Brainerd Dispatch
  Cannon Falls Beacon
  Duluth News Tribune- Duluth
  Echo Press - Alexandria
  KSTP TV - ABC - Saint Paul
  Minnesota Lawyer - Minneapolis
  Minnesota Public Radio
  MinnPost - Minneapolis
  Morrison County Record - Little Falls
  Pioneer Press - Minneapolis - St. Paul
  Politics1.com - Minnesota
  Star Tribune - Minneapolis
  The Austin Daily Herald
  The West Central Tribune - Willmar
  Winona Daily News
 


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Documentation
  Historical Analysis of the Presidential Nominating Process  
  Historical Analysis of the apportionment of delegate votes at the National Conventions of the two major parties  
  Primary/Caucus/Convention Glossary  
  Statutory Election Information of the Several states / Presidential Primary  
  Dates of PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES re: selection and/or allocation/distribution of Delegates to Major Party National Conventions  
 
  Major Third Party Presidential Nomination Process  
 
  Straw Polls  
 
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