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Republican delegates from North Carolina, 2016

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See also: Republican delegates by state, 2016

This page includes information on Republican delegates from North Carolina to the 2016 Republican National Convention. North Carolina sent 72 delegates to the national convention. In the North Carolina Republican primary election on March 15, 2016, Donald Trump won 29 delegates, Ted Cruz won 27 delegates, John Kasich won nine, and Marco Rubio won six. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which North Carolina delegates were bound to which candidate. If you have information on how North Carolina'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 North Carolina were Zandstra Bunn and Thomas Stark.

Delegate rules

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

Delegates from North Carolina to the Republican National Convention were elected at congressional district conventions and the state convention in May. Delegates from North Carolina were required by state party rules to declare themselves in public "as a representative of a Candidate on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot" prior to their election as a delegate. At-large delegates were required to list their top three presidential candidates in order of preference and indicate whether they would be willing to commit to a candidate whom they do not personally favor.

North Carolina primary results

See also: Presidential election in North Carolina, 2016
North Carolina Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes Delegates
Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Trump 40.2% 462,413 29
Ted Cruz 36.8% 422,621 27
John Kasich 12.7% 145,659 9
Marco Rubio 7.7% 88,907 6
Ben Carson 1% 11,019 1
Jeb Bush 0.3% 3,893 0
Mike Huckabee 0.3% 3,071 0
Rand Paul 0.2% 2,753 0
Chris Christie 0.1% 1,256 0
Carly Fiorina 0.1% 929 0
Rick Santorum 0.1% 663 0
Jim Gilmore 0% 265 0
Other 0.5% 6,081 0
Totals 1,149,530 72
Source: The New York Times and North Carolina Board of Elections

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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North Carolina had 72 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 39 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 13 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally according to the statewide vote.[1][2]

Of the remaining 33 delegates, 30 served at large. North Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis according to the statewide primary vote. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[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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