Republican delegates from Colorado, 2016

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See also: Republican delegates by state, 2016

This page includes information on Republican delegates from Colorado to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Colorado sent 37 delegates to the national convention. Thirty of them were initially pledged to Ted Cruz. The other seven were unpledged delegates. Colorado's pledged delegates were later released since Cruz withdrew from the race.[1]

2016 Delegates

Ted Cruz delegates

See also: What happens to Ted Cruz's delegates?

Unpledged delegates

RNC Rules Committee members

See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
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Each state and territorial delegation selected one male and one female delegate to sit on the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention's proceedings. The Rules Committee members from Colorado were Guy Short and Kendal Unruh.

Delegate rules

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Colorado, 2016 and Republican delegates from Colorado, 2016

At-large and congressional district delegates from Colorado to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and at the state convention. 2016 Colorado GOP bylaws did not require delegates to pledge their support to a specific candidate. If a delegate chose to pledge his or her support, however, Colorado GOP bylaws stipulated that the delegate was bound to the candidate to whom he or she pledged their support on their intent-to-run form through the first round of voting at the national convention unless released by the candidate or if the candidate's name was not placed on the nominating ballot.

Colorado caucus

See also: Presidential election in Colorado, 2016

In August 2015, the Colorado GOP cancelled its presidential preference poll, which was scheduled to coincide with the Republican caucuses on March 1, 2016. According to The Denver Post, the Republican executive committee "voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote." Colorado Republicans still sent delegates to the Republican National Convention in July 2016. District-level and at-large delegates (34) were bound according to the preferred candidates indicated on their intent-to-run forms. RNC delegates (3) were unbound, meaning that they did not have to pledge their support to a given candidate.[2] Though Republican precinct caucuses were held on March 1 in Colorado, Colorado Republican National Convention delegates were chosen at district conventions and the Colorado state GOP convention in April.[3] Colorado Republican Party rules required participants in the district conventions and statewide convention to have participated in the precinct caucuses.[4]

Delegate allocation

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016 and 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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Colorado had 37 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 21 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's seven congressional districts). Thirteen delegates served at large. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as delegates to the Republican National Convention.[5][6]

In 2015, the Republican Party of Colorado decided not to conduct a presidential preference poll in 2016. As a result, according to the Republican National Committee, all delegates were bound according to the preferred candidates indicated on their intent-to-run forms. RNC delegates were unbound, meaning that they did not have to pledge their support to a given candidate.[5][7]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Journal, "Colorado delegates back Cruz over Trump," July 20, 2016
  2. ↑ The Denver Post, "Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus," August 25, 2015
  3. ↑ Colorado GOP, "Caucus/Assembly/Convention 2016," January 19, 2016
  4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named wsj
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
  6. ↑ CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
  7. ↑ The Denver Post, "Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus," August 25, 2015
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