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