Ohio Republican Delegation 2008

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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Ohio Republican
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 4 March 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Hard Total	Floor Vote
McCain, John Sidney, III	`656,687 60.03%`	`85 96.59%`	`88 100.00%`
Huckabee, Michael Dale "Mike"	`335,356 30.65%`
Paul, Ronald Ernest "Ron"	`49,027 4.48%`
Romney, Mitt	`36,031 3.29%`
Thompson, Fred Dalton	`16,879 1.54%`
Uncommitted		`3 3.41%`
(available)
Total	`1,093,980 100.00%`	`88 100.00%`	`88 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All (by district and statewide),
Polling hours 6:30a EST (1130 UTC) to 7:30p EST (0030 UTC).
Voter Eligibility: Modified Primary
Voter Participation: Party members and members of other parties
Voter Affiliation: Party affiliation is changed

88 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 54 re: 18 congressional districts / 3 party / 21 bonus

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Official statewide returns from the Secretary of State from the 4 March 2008 primary.

Here is how we compute the delegate count (based on official district returns from the Secretary of State from the 4 March 2008 primary):

The candidate receiving the most votes in each CD is awarded 3 delegates.
The candidate receiving the most votes statewide is awarded 31 delegates.

Tuesday 4 March 2008 Primary
Official Results
Contest			McCain			Huckabee
	Pop Vote	Del	Pop Vote	%	Del	Pop Vote	%	Del
CD1	49,241	3	28,032	56.928%	3	14,422	29.289%
CD2	85,033	3	47,690	56.084%	3	27,077	31.843%
CD3	67,312	3	34,917	51.873%	3	25,146	37.357%
CD4	77,319	3	39,229	50.737%	3	27,406	35.445%
CD5	73,010	3	36,731	50.310%	3	24,837	34.019%
CD6	55,798	3	29,482	52.837%	3	19,568	35.069%
CD7	80,468	3	43,264	53.765%	3	29,179	36.262%
CD8	72,253	3	37,267	51.578%	3	27,113	37.525%
CD9	37,377	3	20,321	54.368%	3	10,866	29.071%
CD10	33,430	3	21,838	65.325%	3	7,418	22.190%
CD11	13,535	3	9,064	66.967%	3	2,625	19.394%
CD12	69,757	3	40,348	57.841%	3	20,255	29.037%
CD13	42,686	3	25,026	58.628%	3	11,559	27.079%
CD14	59,235	3	35,473	59.885%	3	15,560	26.268%
CD15	58,126	3	32,698	56.254%	3	17,244	29.667%
CD16	73,508	3	39,295	53.457%	3	23,769	32.335%
CD17	27,771	3	14,516	52.270%	3	8,705	31.346%
CD18	69,765	3	35,262	50.544%	3	26,089	37.396%
Statewide	1,045,624	31	570,453	54.556%	31	338,838	32.405%
Delegates		85			85

Tuesday 4 March 2008: 85 of 88 of Ohio's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Ohio Presidential Primary. These delegates are not legally bound to any candidate.

54 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 18 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 3 of that district's National Convention delegates.
31 at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 21 bonus delegates) are to be allocated to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide.

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