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Brian Westrate
Brian Westrate (Republican Party) ran for election to the Wisconsin State Senate to represent District 23. He lost in the Republican primary on August 9, 2022.
Westrate was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Wisconsin. Westrate was one of six delegates from Wisconsin 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.
Elections
2022
See also: Wisconsin State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Wisconsin State Senate District 23
Jesse James won election in the general election for Wisconsin State Senate District 23 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jesse James (R) | 94.7 | 56,391 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 5.3 | 3,136 | ||
| Total votes: 59,527 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Dan Hardy (D)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 23
Dan Hardy advanced from the Democratic primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 23 on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dan Hardy (Write-in) | 72.3 | 905 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 27.7 | 346 | ||
| Total votes: 1,251 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 23
Jesse James defeated Brian Westrate and Sandra Scholz in the Republican primary for Wisconsin State Senate District 23 on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jesse James | 50.0 | 10,411 |
| Brian Westrate | 37.5 | 7,809 | ||
| Sandra Scholz | 12.4 | 2,588 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 18 | ||
| Total votes: 20,826 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
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Delegate rules
At-large delegates from Wisconsin to the Republican National Convention were selected by a committee formed by the candidate who received a plurality of the statewide vote in the state presidential primary election and ratified by the State Executive Committee. For district-level delegates, the district chairman of each district compiled a list of delegates from which the presidential candidate who won a plurality of the vote in that district selected three delegates. Delegates from Wisconsin were bound to a candidate on all ballots at the convention unless the candidate released them or failed to receive one-third of the vote on a ballot.
Wisconsin primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Wisconsin, 2016
| Wisconsin Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Ted Cruz |
48.2% | 531,129 | 36 | |
| Donald Trump | 35.1% | 386,290 | 6 | |
| John Kasich | 14.1% | 155,200 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.3% | 3,156 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.5% | 5,608 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,310 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 825 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 242 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.1% | 1,428 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,491 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 1% | 10,569 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 510 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 2,288 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,101,046 | 42 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Wisconsin Vote | ||||
Delegate allocation
Wisconsin had 42 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). District delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the vote in a congressional district received all of that district's delegates.[2][3]
Of the remaining 18 delegates, 15 served at large. Wisconsin's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis. The candidate who won a plurality of the statewide vote 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
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Wisconsin State Journal, "Wisconsin GOP releases list of all 42 delegates to Republican National Convention," April 27, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016 Cite error: Invalid
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