Results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries

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2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
← 2016 February 3 to August 11, 2020 2024 →
2,550 delegate votes (2,443 pledged and 107 unpledged) to the Republican National Convention[1]
1,276[1] delegates votes needed to win
 
Candidate Donald Trump Bill Weld
Home state Florida[2] Massachusetts
Delegate count 2,549[1] 1[1]
Contests won 56[a][b] 0
Popular vote 18,159,752[1] 454,402[1]
Percentage 93.99% 2.35%
First place by first-instance vote
Previous Republican nominee

Donald Trump

 Republican nominee

Donald Trump

Below is a detailed tally of the results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primary elections in the United States. In most U.S. states outside New Hampshire, votes for write-in candidates remain untallied.

Primary elections and caucuses can be binding or nonbinding in allocating delegates to the respective state delegations to the Republican National Convention. But the actual election of the delegates can be at a later date. Delegates are (1) elected at conventions, (2) from slates submitted by the candidates, (3) selected by the party's state chairman or (4) at committee meetings or (5) elected directly at the party's caucuses and primaries. Until the delegates are apportioned, the delegate numbers are by nature projections, but it is only in the states with nonbinding caucuses where they are not allocated at the primary or caucus date.

Several states decided to cancel their primaries and caucuses.[5] They cited the fact that Republicans canceled several state primaries when George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush sought a second term in 1992 and 2004, respectively, and Democrats scrapped some of their primaries when Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were seeking reelection in 1996 and 2012, respectively.[6][7] Hawaii was the only state among the cancelled races to officially appoint their pledged delegates immediately to incumbent President Donald Trump in 2019.[3] Donald Trump's over 18 million votes he received in the Republican Primary is the most ever for an incumbent President in a primary.

Major candidates

The table below shows the four candidates that have either (a) held public office, (b) been included in a minimum of five independent national polls, or (c) received substantial media coverage. The president's challengers withdrew from the race after the primaries started, or in the case of De la Fuente, accepted one or more 3rd party nominations.[8][9][10]

Not shown: Alaska, Wyoming, South Carolina, American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, Northern Marianas

Legend:   1st place
(popular vote)		 2nd place
(popular vote)		 3rd place
(popular vote)		 Candidate has
withdrawn		 Candidate unable to
appear on ballot

On the ballot in one or more states

The following other candidates are listed by the number of states, that they are on the ballot.

National popular vote totals for other candidates
Candidate Votes[11] No. states on ballot
Uncommitted, "write-ins", errors, and other non-votes[18][19] 206,920 Several†
Matthew John Matern 40,276 10 (CA, CO, ID, LA, MO, NH, OK, TX, UT, WV)
Bob Ely 11,956 8 (ID, MO, LA, NH, OK, TX, UT, WV)
Zoltan Istvan 14,291 5 (CA, CO, NH, OK, TX)
Robert Ardini 20,293 4 (CA, CO, NH, UT)
Mark Sanford 4,258 1 (MI)
Mary Maxwell 929 1 (NH)
Eric Merrill 524 1 (NH)
William N. Murphy 447 1 (NH)
Stephen B. Comley, Sr. 202 1 (NH)
Rick Kraft 109 1 (NH)
Juan Payne 83 1 (NH)
President R. Boddie 72 1 (NH)
Larry Horn 65 1 (NH)
Star Locke 66 1 (NH)

†Several states provide the number of write-in votes without specifying who they're for.

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