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Republican delegates from Pennsylvania, 2016

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See also: Republican delegates by state, 2016

This page includes information on Republican delegates from Pennsylvania to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Pennsylvania sent 71 delegates to the national convention. Pennsylvania’s 14 at-large delegates and its three RNC delegates were bound by the results of the state primary election to support Donald Trump at the national convention. 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. Pennsylvania’s 54 district-level delegates were elected directly by voters in the state primary election as unpledged delegates, meaning they were not bound to vote for any specific candidate at the national convention.

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Unpledged district-level 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 Pennsylvania were Joyce Haas and Lawrence Tabas.

Delegate rules

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

At-large delegates from Pennsylvania were selected at the summer meeting of the State Committee on May 21, 2016. They were allocated to the statewide winner of the state primary election. Pennsylvania's 54 congressional district delegates were directly elected on the primary ballot as unbound delegates. They were not required to disclose which candidate they supported at the time of their election.

Pennsylvania primary results

See also: Presidential election in Pennsylvania, 2016
Pennsylvania Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes Delegates
Green check mark transparent.pngDonald Trump 56.6% 902,593 17
Ted Cruz 21.7% 345,506 0
John Kasich 19.4% 310,003 0
Jeb Bush 0.6% 9,577 0
Marco Rubio 0.7% 11,954 0
Ben Carson 0.9% 14,842 0
Totals 1,594,475 17
Source: The New York Times and Pennsylvania Secretary of State

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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Pennsylvania had 71 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, Pennsylvania's district delegates were "elected on the primary ballot as officially unbound," meaning that these delegates were not required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[1][2]

Of the remaining 17 delegates, 14 served at large. Pennsylvania's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the plurality winner of the state's primary 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]

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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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