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Republican delegates from Kentucky, 2016

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This page includes information on Kentucky's Republican delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Kentucky sent 46 delegates to the national convention. In the Kentucky Republican caucuses on March 5, 2016, Donald Trump received 17 delegates, Ted Cruz received 15, and Marco Rubio and John Kasich received seven each. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which Kentucky delegates were bound to which candidate. If you have information on how Kentucky's Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.

2016 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 Kentucky were Ralph Alvarado and Kelly Knight Craft.

Delegate rules

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

Delegates from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention were selected by nomination committees and approved at the county and state conventions. Kentucky GOP rules required national convention delegates to have supported the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Kentucky GOP rules and Kentucky state law required delegates from Kentucky to vote for the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention. If a candidate died or withdrew prior to the first round of voting at the national convention, the chairman of the Kentucky delegation was to call a meeting at which the delegates were to vote on the remaining candidates and be reallocated on the basis of the results.

Kentucky caucus results

See also: Presidential election in Kentucky, 2016
Kentucky Republican Caucus, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes Delegates
Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Trump 35.9% 82,493 17
Ted Cruz 31.6% 72,503 15
Marco Rubio 16.4% 37,579 7
John Kasich 14.4% 33,134 7
Ben Carson 0.8% 1,951 0
Rand Paul 0.4% 872 0
Other 0.2% 496 0
Jeb Bush 0.1% 305 0
Mike Huckabee 0.1% 174 0
Chris Christie 0% 65 0
Carly Fiorina 0% 64 0
Rick Santorum 0% 31 0
Totals 229,667 46
Source: The New York Times and Republican Party of Kentucky

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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Kentucky had 46 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 18 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's six congressional districts). District delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any district delegates.[1][2]

Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive 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. The RNC delegates were allocated in the same manner as the at-large delegates.[1][2][3]

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
  3. ↑ Republican National Committee, "Memorandum on Binding of RNC Members," January 29, 2016
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