United States presidential election in Texas, 2016

United States presidential election in Texas, 2016
Texas
November 8, 2016
 
Nominee TBA Donald Trump
(presumptive)
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York
Running mate TBA TBA

Incumbent President

Barack Obama
Democratic

The 2016 United States presidential election in Texas will take place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participate. Texas voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.

On March 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Texas voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic, Republican, and Green parties' respective nominees for President. According to the Republican Party of Texas website,

"In Texas, registered voters may vote in either political party’s primary; however, a voter may vote in only one party’s primary in each election cycle."

"If a voter votes in one party’s primary, he may not vote in the other party’s run-off election in that same year. Registered voters who do not vote in the primary election may vote in a run-off election of either party that year." [1]

Primary elections

Democratic primary

Results

Democratic primary results by county.
  Hillary Clinton
  Bernie Sanders
  Tie
Texas Democratic primary, March 1, 2016
Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates
Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total
Hillary Clinton 935,425 65.22% 147 19 166
Bernie Sanders 475,561 33.16% 75 0 75
Rocky De La Fuente 8,425 0.59%
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn) 5,337 0.37%
Willie Wilson 3,251 0.23%
Keith Russell Judd 2,505 0.17%
Calvis L. Hawes 2,016 0.14%
Star Locke 1,733 0.12%
Uncommitted N/A 0 10 10
Total 1,434,253 100% 222 29 251
Source: The Green Papers

Republican primary

Debates and forums

February 24, 2016 – Houston, Texas Megyn Kelly hosted a two-hour town hall event on the Kelly File with Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, and Carson in attendance. Trump did not participate in the forum.[2]

February 25, 2016 – Houston, Texas

Candidate Airtime[3] Polls[4]
Trump 30:23 33.6%
Cruz 19:51 20.4%
Rubio 16:48 16.4%
Kasich 17:36 9.8%
Carson 10:15 7.4%

After the caucus in Nevada, the tenth debate was held at the University of Houston in Houston and broadcast by CNN as its third of four debates, in conjunction with Telemundo. The debate aired five days before 14 states vote on Super Tuesday, March 1. While the debate was to be held in partnership with Telemundo's English-language counterpart NBC, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced on October 30, 2015, that it had suspended the partnership in response to CNBC's "bad faith" in handling the October 28, 2015, debate.[5][6] On January 18, 2016, the RNC announced that CNN would replace NBC News as the main host of the debate, in partnership with Telemundo and Salem Communications (CNN's conservative media partner). The debate was shifted a day earlier at the same time.[7] National Review was disinvited by the Republican National Committee from co-hosting the debate over its criticism of GOP front-runner Donald Trump.[8] On February 19, the criteria for invitation to the debate was announced: in addition to having official statements of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and accepting the rules of the debate, candidates must have received at least 5% support in one of the first four election contests held in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.[9] By these criteria, all five remaining candidates, Carson, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio, and Trump, qualified for invitation to the debate.

Results

Texas Republican primary, March 1, 2016
Candidate Votes Percentage Actual delegate count
Bound Unbound Total
Ted Cruz 1,241,118 43.76% 104 0 104
Donald Trump 758,762 26.75% 48 0 48
Marco Rubio 503,055 17.74% 3 0 3
John Kasich 120,473 4.25% 0 0 0
Ben Carson 117,969 4.16% 0 0 0
Jeb Bush (withdrawn) 35,420 1.25% 0 0 0
Uncommitted 29,609 1.04% 0 0 0
Rand Paul (withdrawn) 8,000 0.28% 0 0 0
Mike Huckabee (withdrawn) 6,226 0.22% 0 0 0
Elizabeth Gray (withdrawn) 5,449 0.19% 0 0 0
Chris Christie (withdrawn) 3,448 0.12% 0 0 0
Carly Fiorina (withdrawn) 3,247 0.11% 0 0 0
Rick Santorum (withdrawn) 2,006 0.07% 0 0 0
Lindsey Graham (withdrawn) 1,706 0.06% 0 0 0
Unprojected delegates: 0 0 0
Total: 2,836,488 100.00% 155 0 155
Source: The Green Papers

Green primary

The Texas Green Party held its elections at conventions at the precinct level on March 8,[10] the county level on March 12,[11] and the district level on March 19,[12] leading up to the state nominating convention in Grey Forest, Texas on April 9 and 10.[13]

On April 10th it was announced Jill Stein had won the convention.[14]

Minnesota Green Party presidential caucus, March 1, 2016[15][16]
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates
Jill Stein - - 15
Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry - - 3
Darryl Cherney - - 2
Kent Mesplay - - 2
William Kreml - - 1
Total - 100.00% 23

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About the Republican Party of Texas Primary". Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-donald-trump-wont-participated-/
  3. ↑ SPRUNT, BARBARA. "On The Clock: Trump Dominated Debate In Speaking Time". npr.org. NPR. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination".
  5. ↑ "Debate fallout: GOP suspends debate partnership with NBC". Washington Examiner. October 30, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ "RNC CANCELS ONLY DEBATE TO AIR ON SPANISH-LANGUAGE TV". Newsweek.com. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  7. ↑ "NBC replaced by CNN for GOP's Super Tuesday debate". CNN Money. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ "National Review Kicked Out of GOP Debate After Anti-Trump Stand". Wall Street Journal. January 22, 2016.
  9. ↑ Watkins, Eli (February 19, 2016). "CNN's Wolf Blitzer will moderate Republican debate in Houston". CNN. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Time to Vote Green- March 8". Green Party of Texas. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "2016 County Nominating Conventions". Green Party of Texas. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "2016 District Nominating Conventions". Green Party of Texas. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  13. ↑ "2016 State Nominating Convention". Green Party of Texas. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "Stein wins majority of Texas convention delegates". Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "Stein wins in Boston and Worcester". Green Party Watch. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Unofficial results show Stein easily winning Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party presidential primary". Green Party Watch. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

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