Election Name: | 2016 U.S. Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucuses |
Country: | United States Virgin Islands |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | 2012 United States Virgin Islands Republican caucuses |
Previous Year: | 2012 |
Next Election: | 2020 United States Virgin Islands Republican caucuses |
Next Year: | 2020 |
Votes For Election: | 9 delegates to the Republican National Convention (6 bound, 3 unbound) |
Image1: | File:Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore 10 (cropped).jpg |
Color1: | 283681 |
Candidate1: | Donald Trump |
Home State1: | New York |
Delegate Count1: | 8 |
Popular Vote1: | 104 |
Percentage1: | 6.4% |
Color2: | 000000 |
Candidate2: | Uncommitted |
Home State2: | N/A |
Delegate Count2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 1,063 |
Percentage2: | 65.3% |
Image3: | File:Ted Cruz, official portrait, 113th Congress (cropped 2).jpg |
Color3: | DAA520 |
Candidate3: | Ted Cruz |
Home State3: | Texas |
Delegate Count3: | 0 |
Popular Vote3: | 191 |
Percentage3: | 11.7% |
Image4: | File:Senator Rubio official portrait (cropped 2).jpg |
Color4: | C60E3B |
Candidate4: | Marco Rubio |
Home State4: | Florida |
Delegate Count4: | 0 |
Popular Vote4: | 161 |
Percentage4: | 9.9% |
Image5: | File:Ben Carson by Skidmore with lighting correction.jpg |
Color5: | 9cf |
Candidate5: | Ben Carson |
Home State5: | Florida |
Delegate Count5: | 0 |
Popular Vote5: | 108 |
Percentage5: | 6.6% |
Map Size: | 200px |
The 2016 U.S. Virgin Islands Republican presidential caucuses took place on March 10 in the U.S. territory of the United States Virgin Islands as one of the Republican Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
While on the same day, neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party held any other primaries, the Democratic Party's own Virgin Islands caucuses took place only on June 4.
Six of Virgin Islands' nine Republican delegates were elected during a Presidential caucus. Territorial Caucuses met from noon to 6 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John as a Convention to vote for Presidential Preference and select at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Three party leaders—the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Virgin Islands's Republican Party—attended the convention by virtue of their position. On election day all six delegates were voted to be uncommitted to the national convention in Ohio.[1] All 6 delegates were disqualified by the territorial party and were replaced. Rubio received 2 delegates, 2 delegates were uncommitted, Ted Cruz received 1, and Donald Trump received 1. At the convention, nominee Donald Trump received 8 of 9 total delegates.
See also: Results of the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016.
Trump's 5th-place finish was his worst performance in the Republican primaries, although all the delegates decided to back him after he was determined as the presumptive nominee.