Republican delegates from Virginia, 2016

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See also: Republican delegates by state, 2016

This page includes information on Republican delegates from Virginia to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Virginia sent 49 delegates to the national convention. In Virginia’s primary election on March 1, 2016, Donald Trump won 17 delegates, Marco Rubio won 16, Ted Cruz won eight, John Kasich won five, and Ben Carson won three. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which Virginia delegates were bound to which candidate. If you have information on how Virginia's Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.

2016 Delegates

• Morton Blackwell
• John Whitbeck
• Cynthia Dunbar
• Beau Correll
• Steve Albertson
• Jeanine Lawson
• Laurie Tryfiates
• Gary Byler
• Waverly Woods
• Raymond Suttle
• John Fredericks
• Elizabeth Butler
• Robert Ike
• Diana Shores
• Gene Rose
• Suzanne Curran
• Dean Welty
• Anita Hile
• Mark Hile
• Garrison Coward
• Thomas Valentine
• William Cleveland
• Charles Keller
• Kyle Kilgore
• Christopher Labiosa
• Landon Tucker Davis
• Mick Staton
• Juanita Balenger
• Ryan Thomas
• William Petrak
• Frank Wagner
• Lori Carlson (Virginia)
• William Thomas (Virginia)
• Virgil Goode
• Jim McKelvey
• Richard Black (Virginia)
• Leon Benjamin Sr.
• Bethany Bostron
• Kathy Byron
• Ken Cuccinelli
• Anne Gentry
• Tim Hugo
• Matthew Hurtt
• Subba Kolla
• Ellen Nau
• Christopher Shores
• Virginia Thomas
• John Salm
• Kathy Hayden

RNC Rules Committee members

See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016

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 Virginia were Morton Blackwell and Anne Gentry.

Delegate rules

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

Delegates from Virginia to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the Virginia State Convention in April 2016. Except for the three unbound RNC delegates to the convention, delegates from Virginia were bound by state party rules to the results of the state primary for the first ballot of the convention. They were also required to sign a pledge indicating that they intend to support all nominees of the Republican Party during their term as a delegate.

Virginia primary results

See also: Presidential election in Virginia, 2016

Virginia Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Marco Rubio	32%	327,918	16
Lindsey Graham	0%	444	0
Ben Carson	5.9%	60,228	3
Rand Paul	0.3%	2,917	0
Mike Huckabee	0.1%	1,458	0
Ted Cruz	16.7%	171,150	8
Donald Trump	34.8%	356,840	17
Jim Gilmore	0.1%	653	0
Chris Christie	0.1%	1,102	0
Jeb Bush	0.4%	3,645	0
Rick Santorum	0%	399	0
John Kasich	9.5%	97,784	5
Carly Fiorina	0.1%	914	0
Totals		1,025,452	49
Source: CNN and Virginia Department of Elections

Delegate allocation

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016 and 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Virginia had 49 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 33 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 11 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally in accordance with the statewide vote.

Of the remaining 16 delegates, 13 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally in accordance with the statewide vote. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.

See also

• Republican National Convention, 2016
• Republican delegates by state, 2016
• 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
• RNC delegate guidelines from Virginia, 2016
• Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
• Presidential election, 2016
• Presidential candidates, 2016