RNC delegate guidelines from Maine, 2016

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This page provides known guidelines for Republican delegates representing Maine at the 2016 National Republican Convention, as compiled from the Maine Republican Party's "Resolution establishing the 2016 Maine Republican Party Caucus Date, Presidential Preference Vote, and National Delegate Allocation." The full text of relevant regulations is reproduced below.

HIGHLIGHTS

Maine sent 23 delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention, including 6 congressional district delegates, 14 at-large delegates, and three Republican National Committee delegates. All Maine delegates were allocated on a proportional basis.

Maine's delegation to the national convention was elected at the state convention.

Maine GOP bylaws in 2016 stipulated that delegates were to be bound to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention. If a candidate "withdraws" prior to the convention, his or her delegates become were to become "unbound."

Resolution establishing the 2016 Maine Republican Party Caucus Date, Presidential Preference Vote, and National Delegate Allocation

The text below has been reproduced verbatim from: Resolution establishing the 2016 Maine Republican Party Caucus Date, Presidential Preference Vote, and National Delegate Allocation

WHEREAS, Rule 16(f) of the Rules of the Republican Party requires the Maine Republican Party to submit to the Republican National Committee on or before October 1st 2015 a plan for election, selection, allocation or binding of delegates and alternate delegates to the national convention.

WHEREAS, Rule 16(a) of the Rules of the Republican Party requires any state that institutes a statewide preference poll to use the results to bind that states delegation in either a proportional or winner-take-all manner.

WHEREAS, Rule 16(c)(1) of the Rules of the Republican Party restricts primaries, caucuses, or conventions from occurring prior to March 1st for the purpose of electing, selecting, allocating or binding delegates to the national convention.

WHEREAS, Rule 16(c)(2) of the Rules of the Republican Party restricts the method of binding delegates to the national convention to the proportional method when a caucus occurs prior to March 15th.

WHEREAS, Rule 16(c)(3)(ii) of the Rules of the Republican Party allows a state that binds its delegates proportionally to set a threshold in which a candidate may win all of the states delegates so long as the candidate receives no less than 50% of the votes cast.

WHEREAS, Rule 5.1(a) of the Rules of the Maine Republican Party assigns the State Committee with prescribing the rules and procedures for the conduct of municipal caucuses, including the date.

WHEREAS, Rule 5.1(b) of the Rules of the Maine Republican Party states that all municipal caucuses shall be conducted no later than the first Sunday in March of each even numbered year.

WHEREAS, Rule 1.0 of the Proceedings of the 2016 Convention provides that the 2016 Maine Republican Party Convention will comprise of a general session, and caucuses representing each Congressional District.

WHEREAS, Rule 5.1(a) of the Proceedings of the 2016 Convention provides: “The total number of delegates and alternates shall be determined by the formula set forth in the rules adopted by each national convention. Of such total number, three (3) delegates and three (3) alternates shall be elected in the District Caucus of each congressional district and the remainder of said delegates and alternates shall be elected at-large by the convention as a whole. Any election with more candidates than the number of delegates and alternates shall be conducted by written ballot.”

WHEREAS, The 2016 Maine Republican State Convention will be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine April 21st through the 23rd 2016.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Maine Republican State Committee establishes Saturday March 5th, 2016 the date in which municipal caucuses and the Republican presidential preference poll shall occur.

RESOLVED, Delegates and alternate delegates shall be bound on a proportional basis through the first ballot to candidates receiving in excess of 10% of the statewide vote of the presidential preference poll. If no Presidential Candidate reaches the 10% threshold of the statewide vote, the threshold becomes 5% for a candidate to receive delegates and alternate delegates.

RESOLVED, If a candidate receives in excess of 50% of the statewide vote of the presidential preference poll, that candidate receives all of Maine’s delegates.

RESOLVED, Delegates and alternate delegates shall be bound by the following formula: The votes received by each Presidential Candidate who receives in excess of the threshold, without rounding, shall be divided by the total number of votes cast for all Presidential Candidates receiving in excess of the threshold. Starting with the candidate receiving the highest number of statewide votes, the percentage shall be multiplied by the total number of delegates rounding up to the next whole number to produce the delegate allotment for each candidate. This allocation process shall be repeated with each of the remaining Presidential Candidates in descending order of their statewide totals until all available delegates are allotted.

RESOLVED, The proportional delegate allocation shall be rounded to the nearest whole delegate. In the event that a delegate is unallocated due to mathematical rounding, the unallocated delegate vote shall be cast in favor of the candidate closest to the rounding threshold. In the event that delegates are over-allocated due to mathematical rounding, the over-allocated delegate shall be removed from the candidate furthest from the rounding threshold.

RESOLVED, If a Presidential Candidate who is allocated delegates withdraws prior to the National Convention, the delegates bound to that Candidate become unbound.

RESOLVED, The election of Maine’s delegation to the 2016 Republican National Convention will be held during the 2016 Maine Republican State Convention pursuant to the rules set forth in the Proceedings of the 2016 Convention.

RESOLVED, that this resolution be transmitted to the Secretary of the Republican National Committee.

ADOPTED BY THE MAINE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE THIS 19th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2016.

See also

• Republican National Committee
• Republican National Convention rules, 2012
• Republican National Convention, 2016
• Types of delegates
• Presidential election in Maine, 2016