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Judy Nichols was a 2014 Republican candidate for District 21 of the Texas House of Representatives.[1]

Campaign themes

2014

Nichols' website highlighted the following campaign themes:[2]

Judy Nichols is your Pro Life, Proven Conservative candidate for District 21. She believes in: protecting all human life regardless of where it resides, limited government, expanded liberty, defending property rights, preserving the 2nd amendment, defending Texas borders, reducing regulations on job creators, supporting local governance, asserting our state's rights, reducing spending and acknowledging the fiduciary duty every legislator has to protect taxpayers.[3]

Elections

2014

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for all 150 seats in the Texas House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on March 4, 2014. Those candidates who did not receive 50 percent or more of the vote in their party primary on March 4 faced an additional May 27 primary runoff. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in these elections was December 9, 2013. Dade Phelan defeated Judy Nichols in the Republican primary. Gavin Bruney was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Phelan defeated Bruney in the general election.[1][4][5]

Texas House of Representatives, District 21 General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngDade Phelan 74.4% 28,283
     Democratic Gavin Bruney 25.6% 9,739
Total Votes 38,022

2016 Republican National Convention

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Judy Nichols
Republican National Convention, 2016
Status:District-level delegate
Congressional district:14
State:Texas
Bound to:Ted Cruz
Delegates to the RNC 2016
Calendar and delegate rules overviewTypes of delegatesDelegate rules by stateState election law and delegatesDelegates by state

Nichols was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Nichols was one of 104 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention.[6] Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates. For more on what happened to his delegates, see this page.

Delegate rules

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

At-large delegates from Texas to the national convention were selected by a state nominations committee and approved by the Texas State GOP Convention in May 2016. District-level delegates were elected by congressional districts at the state convention and then approved by the convention as a whole. At the national convention, all delegates were bound on the first ballot unless their candidate withdrew from the race or released his or her delegates. A delegate remained bound on the second ballot if his or her candidate received at least 20 percent of the total vote on the first ballot. On the third and subsequent ballots, all delegates were to become unbound.

Texas primary results

See also: Presidential election in Texas, 2016
Texas Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes Delegates
Jeb Bush 1.2% 35,420 0
Ben Carson 4.2% 117,969 0
Chris Christie 0.1% 3,448 0
Green check mark transparent.pngTed Cruz 43.8% 1,241,118 104
Carly Fiorina 0.1% 3,247 0
Lindsey Graham 0.1% 1,706 0
Elizabeth Gray 0.2% 5,449 0
Mike Huckabee 0.2% 6,226 0
John Kasich 4.2% 120,473 0
Rand Paul 0.3% 8,000 0
Marco Rubio 17.7% 503,055 3
Rick Santorum 0.1% 2,006 0
Donald Trump 26.8% 758,762 48
Other 1% 29,609 0
Totals 2,836,488 155
Source: Texas Secretary of State and CNN

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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Texas had 155 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 108 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 36 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the primary vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates. If only one candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, he or she won all of the district's delegates. If two candidates met this threshold, the first place finisher received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate. If no candidate won 20 percent of the vote, the top three finishers in a district each received one of the district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates.[7][8]

Of the remaining 47 delegates, 44 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 of the state's at-large delegates. If only one candidate broke the 20 percent threshold, the second place finisher still received a portion of the state'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.[7][8]

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