Republican presidential candidates have been fighting this fight on the debate stages and in poll rankings for months, but finally in delayed 2023 and early 2024 the GOP will begin tallying votes and putting the numbers on the board, just as Republicans in all 50 states and several territories choose their candidate.
Of the 2,429 delegates participating in the national convention, the magic number to guarantee the Republican nomination is 1,215. And although the initial states – Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina – attract a lot of attention and are seen as a test in which candidates can maintain their strength in the contest, only 2 .55 percent of the total number of delegates up for grabs will be allocated in January, and 3.29 percent in February. In March, thanks to “Super Tuesday”, more than half will be allocated – 65.54%. – delegates of the Republican Party.
Delegates for each state are a mix of automatically assigned at-large (AL) delegates – each state receives ten delegates plus additional AL delegates based on recent Republican electoral victories – while American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands receive six delegates, DC – 16 delegates and Puerto Rico 20 delegates. In addition, three Republican National Committee members from each state are delegates to the national convention, and each state receives three congressional district (CD) delegates from each county, elected by their residents.
Under the Republican National Committee’s 2024 nominating process, 43 states hold presidential primaries, nine states hold presidential preference caucuses, and three states hold presidential preference votes at state/congressional conventions. American Samoa and Michigan will decide through resolutions at their state conventions how to allocate their delegates, while Guam, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota will not allocate their delegates – a total of 142 delegates, representing 5.75 percent of the total – which is will travel “without strings attached” to Milwaukee for the national convention in July.
Some states allocate their delegates proportionally – a requirement for those that hold contests in the first two weeks of March – while others operate a winner-take-all system that is not allowed for states and territories that had preferential votes before March 15 .
So where does your state rank in the order of the 2024 nomination process? Townhall has everything you need.
15th January:
Iowa – 40 delegates
January 23:
New Hampshire – 22 delegates
February 8:
Nevada – 26 delegates
Virgin Islands – 4 delegates
February 24:
South Carolina – 50 delegates
March 2:
Idaho – 32 delegates
Michigan – 55 delegates
March 2-3:
District of Columbia – 19 delegates
March 4:
North Dakota – 29 delegates
March 5 – Super Tuesday:
Alabama – 50 delegates
Alaska – 29 delegates
American Samoa – 9 delegates
Arkansas – 40 delegates
California – 169 delegates
Colorado – 37 delegates
Maine – 20 delegates
Massachusetts – 40 delegates
Minnesota – 39 delegates
North Carolina – 74 delegates
Oklahoma – 43 delegates
Tennessee – 58 delegates
Texas – 161 delegates
Utah – 40 delegates
Virginia – 48 delegates
Vermont – 17 delegates
12th March:
Georgia – 59 delegates
Hawaii – 19 delegates
Mississippi – 40 delegates
Washington – 43 delegates
March 15:
Northern Mariana Islands – 9 delegates
March 19:
Arizona – 43 delegates
Florida – 125 delegates
Illinois – 64 delegates
Kansas – 39 delegates
Ohio – 79 delegates
Pennsylvania – 16 delegates (final primary date remains to be determined by the PA legislature)
March 23:
Louisiana – 47 delegates
April 2:
Connecticut – 28 delegates
Delaware – 16 delegates
New York – 91 delegates
Rhode Island – 19 delegates
Wisconsin – 41 delegates
April 18-20:
Wyoming – 29 delegates
April 21:
Puerto Rico – 23 delegates
May 4:
Missouri – 54 delegates
May 7:
Indiana – 58 delegates
May 14:
Maryland – 37 delegates
Nebraska – 36 delegates
West Virginia – 32 delegates
21th May:
Kentucky – 46 delegates
25th of May:
Oregon – 31 delegates
June 4:
New Jersey – 12 delegates
