Republican delegates from Maryland, 2016

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See also: Republican delegates by state, 2016

This page includes information on Republican delegates from Maryland to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Maryland sent 38 delegates to the national convention. All 38 delegates from Maryland were pledged to support Donald Trump at the convention.

2016 Delegates

Donald Trump delegates

• Diana Waterman (Maryland)
• Grant Helvey
• Joe Sliwka
• Michael Marchi
• J. Michael Collins
• Brian J. Noon
• Greg Ottensmeyer
• Joe Collins, Jr.
• Branch R. Jones, Sr.
• Kathy Worthington
• Collins A. Bailey
• Caleb Bailey
• Joeylynn Hough
• Laura M. Walsh
• John R. Stricklett
• Ruth Melson
• Robert B. Bowes
• David Bosse
• Kendel Ehrlich
• Mary Burke-Russell
• Shannon Wright (Maryland)
• Chris Yates (Maryland)
• Jim Crawford (Maryland)
• Chancellor Torbit
• Corrogan Vaughn
• Louis Pope
• Nicolee Ambrose
• Andrew Harris
• Don Murphy (Maryland)
• Larry Helminiak
• Steve Schuh
• John Cluster
• Kory Boone
• J.B. Jennings
• Wendell Beitzel
• Barrie S. Ciliberti
• JoAnn Fisher

RNC Rules Committee members

See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016

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 Maryland were Nicolee Ambrose and Jim Crawford.

Delegate rules

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

District-level delegates from Maryland to the Republican National Convention were elected directly by voters in the state primary election on April 26, 2016. At-large delegates were elected at the Republican state convention in May 2016. Delegates from Maryland were bound through the first two rounds of voting unless released by their candidate or their candidate failed to receive 35 percent or more of the vote in the first round of voting.

Maryland primary results

See also: Presidential election in Maryland, 2016

Maryland Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Jeb Bush	0.6%	2,770	0
Ben Carson	1.3%	5,946	0
Chris Christie	0.3%	1,239	0
Ted Cruz	19%	87,093	0
Carly Fiorina	0.2%	1,012	0
Mike Huckabee	0.2%	837	0
John Kasich	23.2%	106,614	0
Rand Paul	0.3%	1,533	0
Marco Rubio	0.7%	3,201	0
Rick Santorum	0.1%	478	0
Donald Trump	54.1%	248,343	38
Totals		459,066	38
Source: The New York Times and Maryland Secretary of State

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Maryland had 38 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). Maryland's district delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the vote in a given district received all of that district's delegates.

Of the remaining 14 delegates, 11 served at large. Maryland's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.

See also

• Republican National Convention, 2016
• Republican delegates by state, 2016
• 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
• RNC delegate guidelines from Maryland, 2016
• Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
• Presidential election, 2016
• Presidential candidates, 2016