| Election Name: | 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | primary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries |
| Previous Year: | 2016 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Election Date: | February 3 to August 11, 2020 |
| Votes For Election: | 2,550 delegate votes (2,443 pledged and 107 unpledged) to the Republican National Convention[1] |
| Needed Votes: | 1,276 delegates |
| Party Name: | no |
| Candidate1: | Donald Trump |
| Color1: | 283681 |
| Home State1: | Florida[2] |
| States Carried1: | 56 |
| Popular Vote1: | 18,159,752 |
| Percentage1: | 93.99% |
| Delegate Count1: | 2,549 |
| Candidate2: | Bill Weld |
| Color2: | 00ABE1 |
| Home State2: | Massachusetts |
| States Carried2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 454,402 |
| Percentage2: | 2.35% |
| Delegate Count2: | 1 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Republican nominee | |
| Before Election: | Donald Trump |
| After Election: | 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.[3] 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.[4] [5] Hawaii was the only state among the cancelled races to officially appoint their pledged delegates immediately to incumbent President Donald Trump in 2019. Donald Trump's over 18 million votes he received in the Republican Primary is the most ever for an incumbent President in a primary.
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.[6] [7] [8]
| Dates | Candidates | Donald Trump | Bill Weld | Rocky De La Fuente | Joe Walsh | Total delegates, pledged (unpledged/total), and votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pledged delegates (unpledged / soft total)[9] (Total awarded: 2,312)[10] < | -- % of all delegates, 2,550 --> | 2,311 (38 / 2,273) 90.63% | 1 (0 / 1) 0.04% | 0 (0 / 0) 0% | 0 (0 / 0) 0% | 2,443< | --Total PLEDGED delegates--> (107 / 2,550) (90.67% awarded) 19,321,267 votes | |||||
| Popular votes | 18,159,752 (93.99%) | 454,402 (2.35%) | 108,357 (0.56%) | 173,519 (0.90%) | ||||||||
| Dec. 11, 2019 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Cancelled binding caucuses | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (19 delegates) (N/A votes) | Caucus cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 19 (0/19) (N/A votes) | |||||
| Feb. 1, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Kansas State convention | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (39 delegates) (N/A votes) | Primary cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 39 (0/39) (N/A votes) | |||||
| Feb. 3, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Iowa Proportional, binding precinct caucuses | style="background:#c579a0;" | 97.14% (39 delegates) (31,421 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 1.31% (1 delegate) (425 votes) | listed with "Other" candidates | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.08% (348 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 40 (0/40) (32,345 votes) | |
| Feb. 11, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | New Hampshire Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 84.42% (22 delegates) (129,734 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 9.01% (13,844 votes) | 0.10% (148 votes) | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | 0.55% (838 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 22 (0/22) (153,674 votes) | |
| Feb. 22, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Nevada State central committee meeting[11] | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (25 delegates) (N/A votes) | Caucus cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 25 (0/25) (N/A votes) | |||||
| Mar. 3, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Alabama Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 96.22% (50 delegates) (696,832 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 1.52% (10,978 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 50 (0/50) (724,222 votes) | ||
| Mar. 3, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Arkansas Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 97.13% (40 delegates) (238,980 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 2.12% (5,216 votes) | 0.75% (1,848 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 40 (0/40) (246,044 votes) | |
| Mar. 3, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | California Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 92.21% (172 delegates) (2,279,086 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 2.71% (66,904 votes) | 0.99% (24,351 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 2.62% (64,749 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 172 (0/172) (2,471,580) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Colorado Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 92.26% (37 delegates) (628,876 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 3.77% (25,698 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.92% (13,072 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 37 (0/37) (681,623 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Maine Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 83.85% (22 delegates) (95,360 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 22 (0/22) (113,728 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Massachusetts Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 86.32% (41 delegates) (239,115 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 9.18% (25,425 votes) | 0.24% (675 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.09% (3,008 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 41 (0/41) (277,002 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Minnesota Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 97.67% (39 delegates) (137,275 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 0.32% (443 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 0.01% (16 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 39 (0/39) (140,555 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Cancelled, binding primary | - style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (94 delegates) (N/A votes) | Primary cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 94 (0/94) (N/A votes) | ||||||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | North Carolina Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 93.53% (71 delegates) (750,600 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.93% (15,486 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 2.04% (16,356 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 71 (0/71) (802,527 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Oklahoma Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 92.60% (43 delegates) (273,738 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | 0.83% (2,466 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 3.72% (10,996 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 43 (0/43) (295,601 votes) | |||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Tennessee Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 96.47% (58 delegates) (384,266 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 0.98% (3,922 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 1.05% (4,178 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 58 (0/58) (398,314 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Texas Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 94.13% (155 delegates) (1,898,664 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 0.78% (15,824 votes) | 0.37% (7,563 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 0.73% (14,772 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 155 (0/155) (2,017,167 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Utah Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 87.79% (40 delegates) (302,751 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 6.86% (23,652 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 2.18% (7,509 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 40 (0/40) (344,852 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Vermont Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 86.49% (17 delegates) (33,984 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 10.11% (3,971 votes) | 0.87% (341 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 17 (0/17) (39,291 votes) | |||
| Mar. 10, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Idaho Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 94.46% (32 delegates) (112,373 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 2.09% (2,486 votes) | 0.54% (637 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.97% (2,341 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 32 (0/32) (118,958 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Michigan Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 93.72% (73 delegates) (640,522 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 0.89% (6,099 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | 0.60% (4,067 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 73 (0/73) (683,431 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Mississippi Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 98.62% (40 delegates) (241,985 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 0.94% (2,311 votes) | 0.44% (1,085 votes) | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 40 (0/40) (245,381 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Missouri Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 96.84% (54 delegates) (301,953 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 0.70% (2,171 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 0.65% (2,015 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 54 (0/54) (311,793 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Washington Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 98.41% (43 delegates) (684,239 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 43 (0/43) (695,275 votes) | ||||
| Mar. 17, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Florida Winner-Take-All, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 93.79% (122 delegates) (1,162,984 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 3.17% (39,319 votes) | 0.98% (12,172 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 2.05% (25,464 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 122 (0/122) (1,239,939 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Illinois Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 95.98% (67 delegates) (520,956 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 4.02% (21,833 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 67 (0/67) (542,800 votes) | |
| Apr. 7, 2020 | Wisconsin Proportional, binding primary | 97.87% (52 delegates) (616,782 votes) | 52 (0/52) (630,198 votes) | |||||||||
| Apr. 24, 2020 [12] | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | North Dakota State convention | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (29 delegates) (N/A votes) | Caucus cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 0 (29/29) (N/A votes) | |||||
| Apr 28, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Ohio Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (82 delegates) (713,546 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 82 (0/82) (713,546 votes) |
| May 1, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Virginia State convention | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (48 delegates) (N/A votes) | Primary cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 48 (0/48) (N/A votes) | |||||
| May 9, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Arizona State convention | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (57 delegates) (N/A votes) | Primary cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 57 (0/57) (N/A votes) | |||||
| May 12, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Nebraska Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 91.40% (36 delegates) (243,721 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 8.60% (22,934 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 36 (0/36) (266,655 votes)[13] | ||
| May 19, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Oregon Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 93.71% (28 delegates) (361,010 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 28 (0/28) (385,257 votes) | |||
| June 2, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Maryland Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 86.83% (38 delegates) (297,198 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 13.17% (45,092 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 38 (0/38) (342,290 votes) |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | District of Columbia Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (19 delegates) (1,559 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 19 (0/19) (1,559 votes) | ||||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Pennsylvania Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 92.14% (34 delegates) (1,053,616 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 6.07% (69,427 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.79% (20,456 votes) | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 34 (54/88) (1,143,499 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Rhode Island Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 87.13% (19 delegates) (19,176 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 5.52% (1,214 votes) | 0.83% (182 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | - | style="background:#eee;" | 19 (0/19) (22,009 votes) | ||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Montana Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 93.82% (27 delegates) (200,174 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 27 (0/27) (213,358 votes) | |||||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | New Mexico Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 91.25% (22 delegates) (144,067 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 22 (0/22) (157,876 votes) | |||||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | South Dakota Proportional, binding primary | Primary cancelled | style="background:#eee;" | 29 (0/29) (N/A votes) | ||||||||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Indiana Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 91.89% (58 delegates) (504,726 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | 8.11% (44,520 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 58 (0/58) (549,246 votes) | |||
| June 5, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Puerto Rico Caucus[14] [15] | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (23 delegates) (N/A votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 23 (0/23) (N/A votes) | |||
| June 9, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | West Virginia Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 94.39% (35 delegates) (198,741 votes) | style="background:#e9d1e1;" | 1.77% (0 delegates) (3,721 votes) | 0.73% (0 delegates) (1,537 votes) | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 1.81% (0 delegates) (3,806 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 35 (0/35) (210,557 votes) | |
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Georgia Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (76 delegates) (947,352 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | (0 delegates) (0 votes) | (0 delegates) (0 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | (0 delegates) (0 votes) | style="background:#eee;" | 76 (0/76) (947,352 votes) | ||
| June 23, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Kentucky Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 86.65% (46 delegates) (371,723 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 46 (0/46) (429,006 votes) | |||
| July 7, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | New Jersey Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 100% (49 delegates) (404,214 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 49 (0/49) (404,214 votes) | |||
| style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Delaware Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 88.05% (16 delegates) (28,876 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#d5a9c2;" | 11.95% (0 delegates) (3,920 votes) | style="background:#aaa;" | style="background:#eee;" | 16 (0/16) (32,796 votes) | |||
| July 11, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Louisiana Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 95.90% (46 delegates) (195,910 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | 1.65% (0 delegates) (3,320 votes) | 1.14% (0 delegates) (2,336 votes) | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 46 (0/46) (204,295 votes) | ||
| Aug. 11, 2020 | style="background:#eee; text-align:left;" | Connecticut Proportional, binding primary | style="background:#c579a0;" | 78.37% (28 delegates) (71,667 votes) | style="background:#ccc;" | - | 7.43% (0 delegates) (6,791 votes) | style="padding:11px 8px; background:#ccc;" | style="background:#eee;" | 28 (0/28) (91,452 votes) |
| Legend: | 1st place (popular vote) | 2nd place (popular vote) | 3rd place (popular vote) | Candidate has withdrawn | Candidate unable to appear on ballot |
|---|
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 | No. states on ballot | ||||
| Uncommitted, "write-ins", errors, and other non-votes[16] [17] | 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) | ||||
As President Trump ran unopposed in several state primaries, and caucuses were canceled to grant him bound delegations by fiat, only contested elections will be listed below.
The Iowa Republican caucus was held on February 3, 2020.
The New Hampshire Republican primary took place on February 11, 2020.
Super Tuesday began with the start of early voting in Minnesota on January 17, 2020, followed by Vermont the following day. By the end of February, all 14 states holding primaries had a substantial number of votes already cast.
In Minnesota, Georgia and Maine, the president ran unopposed.