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In the interest of completeness, I’ll post this before I forget:
Saturday 4 February 2012: Republican Party Precinct Caucuses meet. Each Precinct Caucus casts votes for Presidential candidates and chooses the precinct’s delegates to the County Conventions. There are 1,835 caucuses (the party published the 1,835 number before the caucuses but the certifed vote showed 1,800 caucuses). Most caucuses run from noon to 3p PST but at least one caucus in Clark County (home to possibly half of all Republicans expected to participate) will begin at 7p PST. The party plans to announce the first set of results at 5p and the second set at 10p. (0600 GMT).
28 National Convention delegates are proportionally bound to Presidential contenders based on today’s caucus vote. A 3.57% threshold is required in order for a contender to be allocated delegates [1 / 28 delegates = 3.57%]. For those candidates receiving 3.57% or more of the vote: The number of delegates = 28 × (candidate’s popular vote) ÷ (total statewide vote). Round to the nearest whole number. The rules for rounding to too few or too many delegates are not known.
(click here to continue reading Nevada Republican Delegation 2012.)
- Dog Mittens Romney – 14 delegates
- Newtonious Leroy Gingrich – 6 delegates
- Ronald The Clown Paul – 5 delegates
- Sticky-Rick Santorum – 3 delegates
And with addition of so-called Super Delgates, I have the current total as:
- Romney – 93 (8.14% of 1,143 total delegates needed for majority)
- Gingrich – 36 (3.15% of total needed)
- Paul – 14 (1.22% of total needed)
- Santorum – 10 (0.87% of total needed)