Five states (and the Northern Mariana Islands) head to primaries or caucus sites Tuesday to have their say in the Republican presidential primary process. Combined, the six contests will award 30 percent of the delegates needed to win the GOP nomination. Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of how the delegates will be allocated once the votes are counted. (All times are EST.)
Florida
Polls close: 7 p.m.
Total delegates: 99. Winner take all. Whichever candidate wins the statewide vote wins all 99 delegates. They do not need to get a majority of the votes.
Illinois
Polls close: 8 p.m.
Total delegates: 69
At-large delegates: 12. Winner take all. Whichever candidate wins the statewide vote wins all 12 at-large delegates. They do not need to get a majority of the votes. The three Republican National Committee delegates are also tied to the candidate who wins the statewide vote, so the candidate is guaranteed to earn at least 15 delegates.
Congressional district delegates: 54. Illinois has 18 congressional districts, each one gets three delegates. Voters directly elect delegates who have a presidential preference indicated on the ballot.
Missouri
Polls close: 8 p.m.
Total delegates: 52. If a candidate gets more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, they win all 52 delegates. Otherwise, see below.
At-large delegates: 25 (technically). If no one gets a majority of the statewide vote, only nine at-large delegates are given to the statewide leader. The 16 remaining “at-large delegates” are actually distributed evenly to the eight congressional districts.
Congressional district delegates: 24 (technically). Missouri has eight congressional districts. Whoever gets the most votes in each congressional district gets five delegates (three come from the pool of congressional district delegates, two come from the pool of at-large delegates).
North Carolina
Polls close: 7:30 p.m.
Total delegates: 72. Proportional distribution. Candidates do not have to reach a specific threshold to earn delegates. It’s unclear how rounding occurs, but other than that, the system is simple proportional distribution. If someone gets a third of the votes, they get a third of the delegates (24).
Northern Mariana Islands
Caucuses run from 3:30 a.m. to 5 a.m.
Total delegates: 9. Winner-take-all. Whichever candidate gets the most votes at the caucus wins all 9 delegates. They do not need to get a majority of the votes.
Ohio
Polls close: 7:30 p.m.
Total delegates: 66. Winner-take-all. Whichever candidate wins the statewide vote wins all66 delegates. They do not need to get a majority of the votes.
In every state, three of the total delegates are RNC delegates: the national committeeman, the national committeewoman, and the chairman of the state party. These delegates are tied to a specific candidate, they are not allowed to choose whomever they want like superdelegates can on the Democratic side.
Jason Russell is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
