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The Popular Vote above is based on official returns from the 7 March Primary.
Here's how we estimate the delegate count:
- If one candiate receives more than 50% of the statewide popular vote then that candidate receives all 14 delegates. Bush received over 50% of the popular vote.
- Otherwise, allocate the 14 delegates proportionally by popular vote.
Tuesday 7 March 2000: All 14 of Maine's delegates to the Republican
National Convention are allocated to a presidential contender in
today's Maine Presidential Primary.
- "The 14 National Convention delegates are to be allocated to
the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in
the primary statewide, notwithstanding that candidate's percentage of
the total primary vote statewide. This winning candidate will be said
to have received the 'final net primary vote'. A majority of the
votes, however, is required in order for a presidential contender to be
allocated National Convention delegates in this winner-take-all system.
If the candidate with the highest total of the votes statewide should
fail to get a majority of the vote statewide, the 14 National
Convention delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders
based on the primary vote statewide. If this proportional system is
thus invoked by the failure of the top vote-getting contender to get a
majority of the votes cast statewide, a threshold (currently unknown)
will be required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated
National Convention delegates."
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