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Republican delegates from Illinois, 2016

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See also: Republican delegates by state, 2016

This page includes information on Republican delegates from Illinois to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Illinois sent 69 delegates to the national convention. Fifty-four delegates from Illinois were pledged to Donald Trump; nine were pledged to Ted Cruz; and six delegates were pledged to John Kasich.

2016 Delegates

Donald Trump delegates

Ted Cruz delegates

See also: What happens to Ted Cruz's delegates?

John Kasich delegates

RNC Rules Committee members

See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
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Each state and territorial delegation selected one male and one female delegate to sit on the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention's proceedings. The Rules Committee members from Illinois were John Cabello and Demetra DeMonte.

Delegate rules

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

District-level delegates from Illinois were elected directly by voters at the state primary election on March 15, 2016. At-large delegates were selected at the state convention in May 2016. District-level delegates to the national convention could run as "uncommitted" delegates or they could declare their support for a specific candidate. 2016 Illinois GOP bylaws considered a vote for a delegate to be an "expression of sentiment" and "only advisory to the Delegate or Alternate Delegate so elected, unless otherwise directed by the Rules of the Republican Party." At-large delegates were bound to support the winner of the statewide vote in Illinois' primary election for an undetermined number of ballots.

Illinois primary results

See also: Presidential election in Illinois, 2016
Illinois Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes Delegates
Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Trump 38.8% 562,464 54
Ted Cruz 30.2% 438,235 9
John Kasich 19.7% 286,118 6
Marco Rubio 8.7% 126,681 0
Ben Carson 0.8% 11,469 0
Jeb Bush 0.8% 11,188 0
Rand Paul 0.3% 4,718 0
Chris Christie 0.2% 3,428 0
Mike Huckabee 0.2% 2,737 0
Carly Fiorina 0.1% 1,540 0
Rick Santorum 0.1% 1,154 0
JoAnn Breivogel 0% 16 0
Totals 1,449,748 69
Source: The New York Times and Illinois State Board of Elections

Delegate allocation

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016 and 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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Illinois had 69 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 54 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 18 congressional districts). According to the Republican National Committee, Illinois' district-level delegates were "elected directly on the primary ballot and bound to the candidate for whom they [declared] themselves."[1][2]

Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. Illinois' at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the statewide primary 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. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[1][2]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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