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Ernest Wittenborn, Jr.

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Ernest Wittenborn, Jr.
Republican National Convention, 2016
Status:District-level Delegate
Congressional district:6
State:North Carolina
Bound to:Unknown
Delegates to the RNC 2016
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Ernest Wittenborn, Jr. was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from North Carolina.[1] In the North Carolina Republican primary election on March 15, 2016, Donald Trump won 29 delegates, Ted Cruz won 27 delegates, John Kasich won nine, and Marco Rubio won six. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Wittenborn was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how North Carolina’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[2]

Delegate rules

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

Delegates from North Carolina to the Republican National Convention were elected at congressional district conventions and the state convention in May. Delegates from North Carolina were required by state party rules to declare themselves in public "as a representative of a Candidate on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot" prior to their election as a delegate. At-large delegates were required to list their top three presidential candidates in order of preference and indicate whether they would be willing to commit to a candidate whom they do not personally favor.

North Carolina primary results

See also: Presidential election in North Carolina, 2016
North Carolina Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes Delegates
Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Trump 40.2% 462,413 29
Ted Cruz 36.8% 422,621 27
John Kasich 12.7% 145,659 9
Marco Rubio 7.7% 88,907 6
Ben Carson 1% 11,019 1
Jeb Bush 0.3% 3,893 0
Mike Huckabee 0.3% 3,071 0
Rand Paul 0.2% 2,753 0
Chris Christie 0.1% 1,256 0
Carly Fiorina 0.1% 929 0
Rick Santorum 0.1% 663 0
Jim Gilmore 0% 265 0
Other 0.5% 6,081 0
Totals 1,149,530 72
Source: The New York Times and North Carolina Board of Elections

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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North Carolina had 72 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 39 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 13 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally according to the statewide vote.[3][4]

Of the remaining 33 delegates, 30 served at large. North Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis according to the statewide primary vote. 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]

See also

Footnotes

  1. NC GOP, "ICYMI: NCGOP 2016 State Convention Recap," accessed June 16, 2016
  2. To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
  4. 4.0 4.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016