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Zandstra Bunn
| Zandstra Bunn | |
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| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | District-level Delegate |
| Congressional district: | 13 |
| State: | North Carolina |
| Bound to: | Unknown |
| Website | |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
| Zandstra Bunn | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | North Carolina 13th District Republican Party |
| Role: | Chair |
| Location: | Raleigh, N.C. |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | Meredith College |
| Website: | Official website |
Zandstra "Zan" Bunn was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from North Carolina.[1] 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 candidate Bunn was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how North Carolina’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[2]
Career
Party involvement
Zan Bunn's work in politics began while a student at Meredith College, where she was a two-term state chair of the North Carolina Federation of College Republicans. After graduating in 1985, Bunn continued to work in Republican politics and with the Republican Party of North Carolina. She is the chair of the Republican Party in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District.[3]
According to her website, Bunn has been involved in party matters as chair of two separate district-level parties and as a member of the executive committee and central committee of the state party. She previously served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2004, 2008, and 2012.[4] She has also served as the president of the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women since 2013.[5]
Electoral politics
In electoral politics, Bunn has volunteered for both President George W. Bush and former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), directing grassroots organizing and get-out-the-vote efforts. In 2000, Bunn was the phone bank coordinator for the Wake County Region, and she coordinated phone calls for Bush's first presidential run. In 2004, she served as the deputy executive director of Bush's campaign in North Carolina.
For Dole's 2002 election, Bunn worked as the 72 hour director, a program that aimed to "to update the get-out-the-vote operation," according to the Salisbury Post.[6]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Bunn was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[7]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Delegate rules
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
| North Carolina Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald 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
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.[8][9]
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.[8][9]
Recent news
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External links
See also
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from North Carolina, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ NC GOP, "ICYMI: NCGOP 2016 State Convention Recap," accessed June 16, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 13th Congressional District Republican Party, "Leadership of the 13th Congressional District," accessed July 1, 2016
- ↑ Zan Bunn, "Right Experience," accessed July 1, 2016
- ↑ National Federation of Republican Women, "North Carolina," accessed July 1, 2016
- ↑ Salisbury Post, "Zann Bunn will be featured speaker at GOP women's meeting Aug. 10," July 26, 2006
- ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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