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The Popular Vote above is based on official returns from the 4
April Primary. This Presidential Primary coincides with a
state/local primary. These coinciding primaries tend to have an impact
upon voter turnout.
All 68 district delegates (directly elected in the 4 April Primary)
and the 10 At-Large delegates (elected by the 345 member Republican
State Committee on 20 May) will go to the convention officially
"Uncommitted". These delegates are listed as "Uncommitted" in the
"Hard Total".
Reports indicate these 78 delegates are Bush supporters so they are
listed as supporting Bush in the "Soft Unpledged" column.
Tuesday 4 April 2000: PENNSYLVANIA Presidential Primary - 68 of the
Commonwealth's 78 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".
- "Each of Pennsylvania's congressional districts are assigned 3 base
delegates each; in addition, the 5 "highest-ranked" (in terms of how
well they have supported GOP candidates over the last four years) of
the 21 congressional districts will get 1 extra delegate. Thus, 5 of
the Commonwealth's congressional districts will each elect 4 delegates
in the primary, while the remaining 16 congressional districts will
elect 3 each: a total of 68 district delegates to be elected by the
voters in the Pennsylvania Republican primary. All 68 of the
Commonwealth's district delegates will go to the Republican National
Convention officially 'Unpledged'. (Rule 8.4 of the Republican State
Committee of Pennsylvania's Rules states that all delegates and
alternate 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.")"
[NOTE: the Congressional Districts receiving the additional 4th
Republican National Convention delegate under the above provisions are:
CDs #7, #9, #16, #17 and #19.]
Friday 19 May and Saturday 20 May 2000: The
Pennsylvania Republican State Committee will meet and choose the
remaining 10 delegates.
- "The Commonwealth's 10 at-large delegates chosen by the state's
Republican State Committee will go to the Republican National Committee
officially 'Unpledged'."
Pennsylvania has 67 counties and 21 congressional districts: 48 counties are wholly within a given congressional district; 19 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.
UNDIVIDED COUNTIES (wholly within one Congressional District)
- CD # 4: Beaver, Lawrence
- CD # 5: Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Union, Venango and Warren
- CD # 6: Berks and Schuylkill
- CD # 8: Bucks
- CD # 9: Bedford, Blair, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Snyder
- CD # 10: Bradford, Lackawanna, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming
- CD # 11: Carbon, Columbia, Luzerne and Montour
- CD # 12: Cambria, Indiana and Somerset
- CD # 15: Lehigh and Northampton
- CD # 17: Dauphin and Lebanon
- CD # 19: Adams and York
- CD # 20: Greene and Washington
- CD # 21: Erie and Mercer
DIVIDED COUNTIES (split between more than one Congressional District):
- Allegheny: CDs 4, 14, 18 and 20
- Armstrong: CDs 5 and 12
- Butler: CDs 4 and 21
- Centre: CDs 5 and 9
- Chester: CDs 7 and 16
- Clarion: CDs 5 and 12
- Clearfield: CDs 5 and 9
- Crawford: CDs 5 and 21
- Cumberland: CDs 17 and 19
- Delaware: CDs 1, 2 and 7
- Fayette: CDs 12 and 20
- Lancaster: CDs 16 and 17
- Lycoming: CDs 5 and 10
- Monroe: CDs 10 and 11
- Montgomery: CDs 6, 7, 8, 13 and 15
- Northumberland: CDs 6 and 11
- Perry: CDs 9 and 17
- Philadelphia (coterminous with the City of Philadelphia): CDs 1, 2 and 3
- Westmoreland: CDs 4, 12 and 20
CD # 3 wholly within the City and County of Philadelphia
CD # 13 wholly within Montgomery County
CDs # 14 and # 18 wholly within Allegheny County
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