Tom Watson (Kentucky)

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Tom Watson
Republican National Convention, 2016
Status:| Delegate
State:| Kentucky
Bound to:| Unknown
Delegates to the RNC 2016
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## Contents

* 1 Delegate rules
* 2 Kentucky caucus results
* 3 Delegate allocation
* 4 See also
* 5 Footnotes

Tom Watson was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kentucky.[1] In the Kentucky Republican caucuses on March 5, 2016, Donald Trump received 17 delegates, Ted Cruz received 15, and Marco Rubio and John Kasich received seven each. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Watson was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Kentucky’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[2]

## Delegate rules[edit]

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Kentucky, 2016 and Republican delegates from Kentucky, 2016

Delegates from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention were selected by nomination committees and approved at the county and state conventions. Kentucky GOP rules required national convention delegates to have supported the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Kentucky GOP rules and Kentucky state law required delegates from Kentucky to vote for the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention. If a candidate died or withdrew prior to the first round of voting at the national convention, the chairman of the Kentucky delegation was to call a meeting at which the delegates were to vote on the remaining candidates and be reallocated on the basis of the results.

## Kentucky caucus results[edit]

See also: Presidential election in Kentucky, 2016
Kentucky Republican Caucus, 2016

Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates
Donald Trump | 35.9% | 82,493 | 17
Ted Cruz  | 31.6% | 72,503 | 15
Marco Rubio  | 16.4% | 37,579 | 7
John Kasich  | 14.4% | 33,134 | 7
Ben Carson  | 0.8% | 1,951 | 0
Rand Paul  | 0.4% | 872 | 0
Other  | 0.2% | 496 | 0
Jeb Bush  | 0.1% | 305 | 0
Mike Huckabee  | 0.1% | 174 | 0
Chris Christie  | 0% | 65 | 0
Carly Fiorina  | 0% | 64 | 0
Rick Santorum  | 0% | 31 | 0
Totals | 229,667 | 46
Source: The New York Times and Republican Party of Kentucky

## Delegate allocation[edit]

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Kentucky had 46 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 18 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's six congressional districts). District delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any district delegates.[3][4]

Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were allocated in the same manner as the at-large delegates.[3][4][5]

## See also[edit]

* Republican National Convention, 2016
* 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
* RNC delegate guidelines from Kentucky, 2016
* Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
* Presidential election, 2016
* Presidential candidates, 2016

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ Cincinnati.com, "Kentucky GOP releases list of delegates," April 25, 2016
2. ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
5. ↑ Republican National Committee, "Memorandum on Binding of RNC Members," January 29, 2016

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