Janet Beihoffer
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Minnesota |
| Role: | National committeewoman |
| Location: | Minnesota |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | •Miami University of Ohio, B.S. •George Washington University, M.B.A. |
| Website: | Official website |
Janet Beihoffer is the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Minnesota.[1]
Career
Beihoffer earned a B.S. in education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and an M.B.A. in accounting from the George Washington University. Although now inactive, she also became a registered certified public accountant in Virginia.[2]
Beihoffer is an adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University, where she teaches courses on management information systems. She previously worked at IBM as a marketing manager.[2]
Political activity
Beihoffer was first elected to serve as the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of Minnesota (Minnesota GOP) in 2012. She was re-elected to a four-year term as the party's national committeewoman in May 2016.[2][3]
Beihoffer has also served as the statewide director of election operations for the Minnesota GOP since 2008. From 2008 to 2009, she was the party's 2nd Congressional District chair.[2]
According to her profile with the Republican Party, Beihoffer is also a contributor to a political blog at www.looktruenorth.com.[2]
Community service
Beihoffer served on the board of directors for the Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People from 1990 to 1998. She later served on the Mount Olivet Lutheran Church Board of Life and Growth from 1998 to 2004.[2]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Beihoffer was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Minnesota.[4] In the Minnesota Republican caucuses on March 1, 2016, Marco Rubio won 17 delegates, Ted Cruz won 13, and Donald Trump won eight. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Beihoffer was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Minnesota’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[5]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Minnesota to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in May 2016. Delegates from Minnesota 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 prior to the convention.
Minnesota caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Minnesota, 2016
| Minnesota Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Donald Trump | 21.4% | 24,473 | 8 | |
 Marco Rubio |
36.2% | 41,397 | 17 | |
| Ted Cruz | 29% | 33,181 | 13 | |
| John Kasich | 5.7% | 6,565 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.4% | 8,422 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 207 | 0 | |
| Totals | 114,245 | 38 | ||
| Source: Minnesota Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Minnesota had 38 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-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates.[6][7]
Of the remaining 14 delegates, 11 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 85 percent of the statewide caucus vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large and district-level delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[6][7]
See also
External links
- Republican Party of Minnesota
- Jannet Beihoffer on Twitter
- Jannet Beihoffer on LinkedIn
- True North homepage
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Minnesota Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 GOP.com, "Janet Beihoffer," accessed June 5, 2016
- ↑ Blog4President.us, "Republican Party of Minnesota State Central Committee Re-Elects Janet Beihoffer as National Committeewoman," May 20, 2016
- ↑ MN GOP, "National Delegates and Alternates," accessed June 20, 2016
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
