Florida Republican Delegation 2008

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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Florida Republican
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 29 January 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Hard Total	Floor Vote
McCain, John Sidney, III	`701,761 36.00%`	`57 100.00%`	`57 100.00%`
Romney, Mitt	`604,932 31.03%`
Giuliani, Rudolph William	`286,089 14.68%`
Huckabee, Michael Dale "Mike"	`262,681 13.47%`
Paul, Ronald Ernest "Ron"	`62,887 3.23%`
Thompson, Fred Dalton	`22,668 1.16%`
Keyes, Alan L.	`4,060 0.21%`
Hunter, Duncan	`2,847 0.15%`
Tancredo, Thomas Gerald "Tom"	`1,573 0.08%`
Total	`1,949,498 100.00%`	`57 100.00%`	`57 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All (by district and statewide),
Polling hours 7:00a EST (1200 UTC) / 7:00a CST (1300 UTC) to 7:00p EST (0000 UTC) / 7:00p CST (0100 UTC). Relatively small portions of this state are in CDT and so the vast majority of the polls are closed by the time indicated EDT.
Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary

57 total delegates - penalty: 50% of 114 [10 base at-large / 75 re: 25 congressional districts / 3 party / 26 bonus]

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29 August 2008 - Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer released the following statement on Florida’s delegation to the Republican National Committee:

“I am pleased to announce that Florida’s entire delegation will be seated on the floor at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. All 114 delegates and all 111 alternates will be seated and Florida will enjoy full representation at the Convention. A compromise reached with the RNC and the McCain campaign states that 57 of the delegates will receive traditional voting rights, while the other half of Florida’s delegation will become ‘honored guests’ with full delegate rights and privileges."

Certified FLORIDA PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY returns from an official source.

Assuming the Florida delegation is sanctioned, the primary is winner take. John McCain, having received the most votes, receives all 57 delegates in our "Soft" and "Hard" counts.

Assuming that the Florida delegation is seated (our "Alternate Count"), here's how we estimate the delegate count (based on certified returns from an official source):

The candidate with the greatest popular vote in each of the 25 districts receives that district's 3 delegates.
The candidate with the greatest statewide popular vote receives 39 delegates.

Contest			McCain			Romney
	Pop Vote	Del	Vote	%	Del	Vote	%	Del
CD1	106,154	3	39,305	37.026%	3	27,937	26.317%
CD2	71,132	3	25,231	35.471%	3	20,720	29.129%
CD3	30,745	3	9,296	30.236%		10,132	32.955%	3
CD4	96,036	3	26,967	28.080%		38,816	40.418%	3
CD5	129,257	3	43,776	33.867%	3	41,625	32.203%
CD6	105,113	3	31,781	30.235%		37,591	35.762%	3
CD7	108,792	3	34,431	31.648%		40,622	37.339%	3
CD8	84,175	3	27,482	32.649%	3	26,250	31.185%
CD9	93,129	3	33,700	36.186%	3	28,420	30.517%
CD10	84,685	3	32,163	37.980%	3	24,965	29.480%
CD11	37,476	3	14,695	39.212%	3	10,418	27.799%
CD12	74,536	3	26,948	36.154%	3	23,373	31.358%
CD13	119,811	3	44,405	37.063%	3	39,088	32.625%
CD14	135,901	3	42,960	31.611%		56,163	41.326%	3
CD15	107,620	3	37,711	35.041%	3	34,860	32.392%
CD16	102,059	3	37,455	36.699%	3	31,249	30.619%
CD17	10,844	3	4,614	42.549%	3	1,952	18.001%
CD18	58,818	3	29,034	49.362%	3	9,943	16.905%
CD19	47,494	3	18,518	38.990%	3	12,400	26.109%
CD20	41,942	3	17,856	42.573%	3	9,619	22.934%
CD21	55,610	3	27,387	49.248%	3	8,736	15.709%
CD22	81,933	3	32,958	40.226%	3	24,657	30.094%
CD23	16,412	3	6,507	39.648%	3	3,853	23.477%
CD24	97,204	3	32,324	33.254%	3	31,423	32.327%
CD25	52,620	3	24,257	46.098%	3	10,120	19.232%
Statewide	1,949,498	39	701,761	35.997%	39	604,932	31.030%
Delegates		114			99			15

On 8 November 2007, the RNC made a determination that Florida's Tuesday 29 January 2008 caucuses violate Republican Party Rule Number 16. The rule states that the process of selecting National Convention Delegates must not begin before Tuesday 5 February 2008. Florida is sanctioned 50% of their delegation hence, the number of delegates is decreased from 114 to 57. The eliminated positions include the 3 automatic delegates (State Chair, National Committeewoman and National Committeeman).

TheGreenPapers.com will be tracking delegate counts as both "Soft" (here assuming that relevant delegations will remain sanctioned into the National Convention [that is: with half the originally allocated delegates to be seated at the Republican National Convention]) and as "Alternative" (here assuming that the full delegation of an affected jurisdiction- as originally allocated before being sanctioned- is eventually to be seated [that is, at some point before the Convention, sanctions will be lifted]) from now until the Party's National Convention convenes or until no delegation is any longer sanctioned, if this should occur prior to the Convention.

Alternative Soft Total Plan. This plan assumes the delegation is not sanctioned.

Tuesday 29 January 2008: All 114 of Florida's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Florida Presidential Primary.

75 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 25 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates and the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in that district will receive all of that district's National Convention delegates.
36 at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 26 bonus delegates) are to be allocated to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide.
3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Florida's Republican Party, will attend the convention, by virtue of their position, bound to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide.

Soft/Hard Total Plan. This plan assumes the delegation is sanctioned.

Tuesday 29 January 2008: All 57 of Florida's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Florida Presidential Primary.

All 57 delegates are to be allocated to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide.

Delegates at the Congressional District level will be chosen between 6 February 2008 and 30 April 2008 at the delegate selection caucuses. At-Large delegates will be chosen between 6 February 2008 and 31 May 2008 at an Republican Party of Florida Executive Board meeting.