Robert Siegel | |
Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
Status: | District-level delegate |
Congressional district: | 4 |
State: | Georgia |
Bound to: | Unknown |
Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
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Robert Siegel was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Georgia.[1] In the Georgia Republican primary election on March 1, 2016, Donald Trump won 42 delegates, Marco Rubio won 16, and Ted Cruz won 18. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Siegel was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Georgia’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[2]
Delegates from Georgia to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in June 2016. Delegates from Georgia were "bound" to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention unless their candidate withdrew from the race after the state primary election—in which case Georgia state law required those delegates to be "unpledged" at the national convention.
Georgia Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
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Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
Donald Trump | 38.8% | 502,994 | 42 | |
Marco Rubio | 24.4% | 316,836 | 16 | |
Ted Cruz | 23.6% | 305,847 | 18 | |
John Kasich | 5.6% | 72,508 | 0 | |
Ben Carson | 6.2% | 80,723 | 0 | |
Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 7,686 | 0 | |
Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,486 | 0 | |
Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,146 | 0 | |
Lindsey Graham | 0% | 428 | 0 | |
Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,625 | 0 | |
George Pataki | 0% | 236 | 0 | |
Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,910 | 0 | |
Rick Santorum | 0% | 539 | 0 | |
Totals | 1,295,964 | 76 | ||
Source: Georgia Secretary of State and CNN |
Georgia had 76 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 42 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 14 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally; the highest vote-getter in a congressional district received two of that district's delegates, and the second highest vote-getter received the remaining delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district, he or she won all three of that district's delegates.[3][4]
Of the remaining 34 delegates, 31 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to win any of Georgia's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide 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.[3][4]
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