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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
 
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Presidential Nominating Process
Precinct Caucus: Saturday 19 January 2008
County Conventions: Saturday 15 March 2008
District Meetings and State Convention: Saturday 26 April 2008 		Republicans
CandidatePopular
Vote		Delegate Votes
Soft
Pledged		Soft
Unpledged		Soft
Total		Hard Total
Romney, Mitt22,646  51.10% 17  50.00%17  50.00% 
Paul, Ron6,084  13.73% 4  11.76%4  11.76% 
McCain, John S.5,650  12.75% 4  11.76%4  11.76% 
Huckabee, Mike3,616   8.16% 3   8.82%3   8.82% 
Thompson, Fred Dalton3,519   7.94% 3   8.82%3   8.82% 
Giuliani, Rudolph W.1,910   4.31%    
Hunter, Duncan890   2.01%    
Tancredo, Thomas Gerald "Tom"     
(available)  3   8.82%3   8.82%34 100.00%
Total44,315 100.00% 34 100.00%34 100.00%34 100.00%

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27 April 2008 update
26 April 2008 Letter to Nevada Delegates Nevada Republican Party Chairman Sue Lowden
Nevada Republican party suspends State Convention in confusion
Bonfire of the Vanities at Nevada GOP Convention
Meeting reveals party in disarray
Ron Paul supporters make mark
The Nevada Republican party suspended its convention on Saturday night with no delegates elected to attend the party's national convention. The state party chairman, Sue Lowden says that the party will reconvene to nominate the state's delegates in Las Vegas at a later, yet to be determined, date. Congressman Ron Paul spoke at the convention. The dispute was over how many McCain and Ron Paul supporters would be elected as National Convention delegates.

Results from a party source (with 1,785 of 1,789 precincts reporting): Returns from the Nevada Republican Caucus
Results from a media source

Here's how we estimate the delegate count on 19 January 2008: (Based on the January 2008 Nevada Caucus results from nvgopcaucus.com. Note that zero national convention delegates are allocated during the Precinct Caucuses - national convention delegates are first elected in April.)

We have allocated the state's 31 non-party leader delegates proportionally according to the popular vote for those candidates receiving 5% or more of the vote. This is a very rough estimate and is will change by the time the state convention meets.

ContestRomneyPaulMcCainHuckabeeThompson
 Pop
Vote		Qual
Vote		DelVote%DelVote%DelVote%DelVote%DelVote%Del
Statewide44,30741,5073122,64454.555%176,08414.658%45,64813.607%43,6138.705%33,5188.476%3
Delegates  31  17  4  4  3  3

21 April 2007: Nevada Republican Party's State Central Committee voted to move its caucus up to January 19th in a near unanimous vote. National Committeewoman Beverly Willard is quoted as saying "I am absolutely thrilled about moving up this caucus.It will get more people involved in the process, help to energize the party, and put Nevada on the National Map."

8 March 2008: Nevada GOP Move Caucus To Earlier Date - Nevada Republicans have approved a plan to move their 2008 presidential caucus to Feb. 7, six weeks earlier than previously scheduled.

Nevada Secretary of State: 2008 Presidential Caucus

   

Saturday 19 January 2008: Republican Party Caucuses meet in each precinct. Each Precinct Caucus chooses the precinct's delegates to the County Conventions.

  • "There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucuses to relate the presidential preference of the Caucus participants to the choice of the precinct's delegates to the County Convention of the county in which the precinct is located. The participants at each Precinct Caucus alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor in such choice and, if so, how it is to be applied."
 

Saturday 15 March 2008: Republican Party County Conventions convene in each county. Each County Convention chooses delegates to the Nevada State Republican Convention.

  • "County Conventions choose the county's delegates to the Nevada State Republican Convention. Again, there is no formal system applied in the County Convention to relate the presidential preference of the Convention's delegates to the choice of the county's delegates to the Nevada State Republican Convention. The delegates in attendance at each County Convention alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor and, if so, how it is to be applied."
 

Saturday 26 April 2008: The Nevada State Republican Convention convenes in Reno. The State Convention chooses all 34 delegates from Nevada to the Republican National Convention. There is no formal system of allocating Nevada's National Convention delegates to presidential contenders.

  • Congressional District Caucuses, consisting of the State Convention delegates from each of Nevada's 3 congressional districts meet at the State Convention to choose the 3 National Convention delegates assigned to each congressional district. A total of 9 delegates are elected.
  • The State Convention meets as a whole to choose the 22 at-large (10 base at-large plus 12 bonus delegates) delegates from Nevada to the Republican National Convention.

In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Nevada's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.

Links Links to other web sites
Constitution   Links to State Constitutions
 • http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVConst.html
Election Authority
 • Nevada Secretary of State
 • Nevada Secretary of State: Election Center
Legislature   Links to State Legislatures
 • Nevada Assembly
 • Nevada Legislature
 • Nevada Senate
Republican
 • Nevada Republican Assembly Caucus
 • Nevada Republican Party
Media & others
 • DC's Political Report - Nevada
 • KLAS TV - CBS - Las Vegas
 • KOLO-TV - ABC - Reno
 • KRNV-TV - NBC - Reno
 • KTNV TV - ABC - Las Vegas
 • KTVN TV - CBS - Reno
 • KVBC-TV - NBC - Las Vegas
 • KVVU-TV - FOX - Henderson - Las Vegas
 • Nevada Appeal - Carson City
 • North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
 • Politics1.com - Nevada
 • Reno Gazette-Journal
 • Review-Journal - Las Vegas
 • Tahoe World
 • The Record-Courier - Gardnerville

 

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