Chris Hughes (Tennessee)

Chris Hughes was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Tennessee. Hughes was one of 33 delegates from Tennessee bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.^[1] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.

Delegate rules[edit]

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

Delegates from Tennessee to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected directly by voters in the state primary election in March and approved by the State Executive Committee of the Tennessee Republican Party in April. Delegates from Tennessee to the national convention were bound for up to four ballots. All Tennessee delegates were bound on the first two ballots. On the third ballot, a presidential candidate needed to receive at least 20 percent of the total vote for his or her delegates to remain bound on the fourth ballot. Delegates were to be unbound after the fourth ballot.

Tennessee primary results[edit]

See also: Presidential election in Tennessee, 2016

Tennessee Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Donald Trump	38.9%	332,823	33
Ted Cruz	24.7%	211,234	16
Marco Rubio	21.2%	181,059	9
Ben Carson	7.6%	64,855	0
John Kasich	5.3%	45,258	0
Jeb Bush	1.1%	9,548	0
Mike Huckabee	0.3%	2,418	0
Rand Paul	0.3%	2,349	0
Other	0.2%	1,849	0
Chris Christie	0.1%	1,254	0
Carly Fiorina	0.1%	717	0
Rick Santorum	0.1%	713	0
Jim Gilmore	0%	269	0
Lindsey Graham	0%	257	0
George Pataki	0%	189	0
Totals		854,792	58
Source: Tennessee Secretary of State and CNN

Delegate allocation[edit]

See also:2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Tennessee had 58 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 27 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's nine congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the district vote in order to be eligible to receive any of a district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 66 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates. If the winning candidate in a district won between 20 and 66 percent of the district vote, he or she received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate (if the second place finisher did not meet the 20 percent threshold, all three delegates were allocated to the first place finisher). If no candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, the top three finishers each received one of the district's delegates.^[2][3]

Of the remaining 31 delegates, 28 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 66 percent of the statewide primary vote, he or she received all 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.^[2][3]

See also[edit]

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

Footnotes[edit]

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