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Mike Stopa
Mike Stopa was a 2013 Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House representing the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts.[1] He was defeated by Frank Addivinola in the Republican primary on October 15, 2013.[2]
Stopa began working as a physicist at Harvard in 2004.[3]
Elections
2013
Stopa was a 2013 Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House representing the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts.[1] The election was held to replace outgoing Rep. Ed Markey (D) who was elected to the U.S. Senate in the June 25th election for John Kerry's vacant seat after his appointment as Secretary of State.[4][5] He was defeated by Frank Addivinola in the Republican primary on October 15, 2013.[2]
| U.S. House, Massachusetts District 5 Special Republican Primary, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Frank Addivinola |
49.1% | 4,760 | ||
| Tom Tierney | 25.6% | 2,478 | ||
| Mike Stopa | 25.3% | 2,457 | ||
| Total Votes | 9,695 | |||
| Source: Official Results from Massachusetts Elections Division | ||||
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Stopa was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts. Stopa was one of 22 delegates from Massachusetts bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the national convention.[6] 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.
Delegate rules
District-level delegates from Massachusetts were elected at congressional district caucuses, while at-large delegates were elected by the Massachusetts Republican State Committee. At-large delegate candidates were required to "express a commitment to a qualifying Presidential candidate" prior to their election as delegates. Massachusetts delegates stipulated bound to the candidate to whom they pledged their support through the first round of voting at the national convention. State party bylaws in 2016 stipulated that if a presidential candidate "dies, withdraws, or changes his party registration" prior to the convention, his or her delegates "shall go to the convention unpledged."
Massachusetts primary results
| Massachusetts Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
|
Donald Trump |
49% | 312,425 | 22 | |
| Marco Rubio | 17.7% | 113,170 | 8 | |
| Ted Cruz | 9.5% | 60,592 | 4 | |
| John Kasich | 17.9% | 114,434 | 8 | |
| Ben Carson | 2.6% | 16,360 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 1% | 6,559 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.3% | 1,906 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 1,864 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.2% | 1,153 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0.1% | 753 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.1% | 709 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0.1% | 500 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 293 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.4% | 2,325 | 0 | |
| No preference | 0.5% | 3,220 | 0 | |
| Blank votes | 0.2% | 1,440 | 0 | |
| Totals | 637,703 | 42 | ||
| Source: Massachusetts Elections Division and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Massachusetts had 42 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 27 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's nine congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's district delegates.[7][8]
Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to at least 5 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to win 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.[7][8]
Recent news
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wicked Local.com, "FIFTH DISTRICT RACE: GOP candidate Mike Stopa declares candidacy" accessed July 31, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 WCVB.com, "Massachusetts 5th District Congressional Primary Results," accessed October 15, 2013
- ↑ Wicked Local: Medford, "SPECIAL ELECTION: Harvard nanophysicist Mike Stopa makes run for Congress," accessed September 2, 2013
- ↑ Boston.com, "Secretary of state to set Senate special election date of June 25," January 28, 2013
- ↑ The Boston Globe, "William ‘Mo’ Cowan to be interim US senator," January 30, 2013
- ↑ Massachusetts GOP, "MassGOP caucuses," April 30, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
