2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary

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2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary

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52 Republican National Convention delegates
Candidate Mike Huckabee John McCain Home state Arkansas Arizona Delegate count 25 19 Popular vote 190,904 176,091 Percentage 34.37% 31.84%   Candidate Mitt Romney Ron Paul Home state Massachusetts Texas Delegate count 8 0 Popular vote 130,632 31,026 Percentage 23.62% 5.61%
County winner Vote share      Huckabee      McCain      Romney Huckabee   30 – 40%   40 – 50%   50 – 60% McCain   30 – 40%   40 – 50% Romney   30 – 40%

The 2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008 (Super Tuesday), with 52 national delegates. ^[1] Mike Huckabee narrowly defeated John McCain to win the largest share of Tennessee's delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention. Both McCain and the third-place candidate Mitt Romney received delegates along with Huckabee.

At 10:15 PM ET on February 5, the Associated Press reported that with 44% of precincts reporting Huckabee and McCain were tied with about one-third of the vote each. ^[2] Earlier, with 31% of precincts in, McCain had 34% support, Huckabee 31%, Romney 23% and Paul 6% support. ^[3]

The City Paper reported that voter turnout could beat the state's record of 830,000 in 1988 when Al Gore was on the presidential ballot for the first time. ^[3]

AP exit polls showed that Huckabee did well with born-again Christians and conservatives. ^[2]

Results

100% of precincts reporting ^{[4] [5]}

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Mike Huckabee	190,904	34.37%	25
John McCain	176,091	31.84%	19
Mitt Romney	130,632	23.62%	8
Ron Paul	31,026	5.61%	0
Fred Thompson*	16,263	2.94%	0
Rudy Giuliani*	5,159	0.93%	0
Alan Keyes	978	0.18%	0
Duncan Hunter*	738	0.13%	0
Tom Tancredo*	194	0.03%	0
Uncommitted	1,830	0.33%	0
Total	553,005	100%	52

* Candidate dropped out of the race before the primary

See also

• 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries
• 2008 Tennessee Democratic presidential primary
• 2008 United States presidential election in Tennessee
• 2008 Tennessee elections

References

1. "Tennessee Republican Delegation 2008". The Green Papers. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
2. "Clinton wins Tennessee, GOP race too close to call". Associated Press. February 8, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
3. "Clinton, McCain lead in Tennessee". UPI. February 8, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.{{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)
4. "Republican Primary Presidential Preference" (PDF).
5. "RESULTS: Tennessee". CNN. February 5, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.