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Sally Atwater
Sally Atwater was a Republican candidate for South Carolina Superintendent of Education in the 2014 elections.[1]
Atwater was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from South Carolina. She was one of 50 delegates from South Carolina bound to support Donald Trump on the first ballot.[2][3] 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.
Elections
2014
Atwater ran for election to the office of South Carolina Superintendent of Education. Atwater finished among the top two in the Republican primary on June 10 but lost the in runoff on June 24 to Molly Mitchell Spearman.
Runoff results
| South Carolina Superintendent of Education, Republican Runoff, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Molly Mitchell Spearman |
57.2% | 76,672 | ||
| Sally Atwater | 42.8% | 57,452 | ||
| Total Votes | 134,124 | |||
| Election results via South Carolina State Elections Commission. | ||||
Primary results
| South Carolina Superintendent, Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
| Molly Mitchell Spearman |
22.4% | 64,992 | ||
| Sally Atwater |
22% | 63,584 | ||
| Sheri Few | 19.4% | 56,044 | ||
| Gary Burgess | 10.7% | 31,091 | ||
| Amy Cofield | 7.2% | 20,720 | ||
| Charmeka Childs | 6.7% | 19,436 | ||
| Elizabeth Moffly | 6% | 17,421 | ||
| Don Jordan | 5.6% | 16,246 | ||
| Total Votes | 289,534 | |||
| Election results via South Carolina State Elections Commission. | ||||
Campaign finance summary
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2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Atwater was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from South Carolina.
Delegate rules
In South Carolina, national delegates were selected at congressional district conventions and the South Carolina Republican State Convention. State party rules allocated each congressional district's three delegates to the presidential candidate who received the most votes in that district. At-large delegates were allocated to the winner of the statewide primary. All delegates were bound for the first ballot at the Republican National Convention.
South Carolina primary results
| South Carolina Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
|
Donald Trump |
32.5% | 240,882 | 50 | |
| Marco Rubio | 22.5% | 166,565 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 22.3% | 165,417 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 7.8% | 58,056 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 7.6% | 56,410 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.2% | 53,551 | 0 | |
| Totals | 740,881 | 50 | ||
| Source: South Carolina State Election Commission | ||||
Delegate allocation
South Carolina had 50 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 21 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's seven congressional districts). South Carolina's district-level delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the vote in a given congressional district was allocated all three of that district's delegates.[4][5]
Of the remaining 29 delegates, 26 served at large. South Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the greatest number of votes statewide received all 26 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 pledged to support the candidate who won the South Carolina primary.[4][5]
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Sally + Atwater + South + Carolina + Education"
See also
- South Carolina Superintendent of Education
- South Carolina down ballot state executive elections, 2014
Footnotes
- ↑ The State, "Exclusive: Sally Atwater, widow of GOP operative, to run for SC education chief," February 7, 2014
- ↑ South Carolina Republican Party, "2016 National Convention Delegate/Alternate Election Results," May 7, 2016
- ↑ The Post and Courier, "No single candidate may end up with all of South Carolina’s delegates," February 19, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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