The South Carolina primary has been the focus of the race for the Republican presidential nomination for much of the last month, but it won’t be the only race in which Republicans will vote for a presidential candidate or contest crucial delegates on Saturday.
More than 1,800 miles away, Republican leaders in Wyoming are scheduled to meet to select the first of the state’s 29 delegates to this summer’s Republican National Convention, but that contest will be held in South Carolina. primary election or any other presidential election. This year is far away.
Like a handful of other states, Wyoming does not hold a presidential primary in which voters go to the polls or vote by mail.
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Instead, both parties have adopted what is known as a “caucus” system. This is a multi-step process, starting with local meetings (usually at the constituency level) and moving to mid-level meetings, usually in counties or districts. level (or both) and culminates in the state party convention.
At each level, participants elect delegates to attend events at the next level, and finally somewhere along the way, delegates to the national party convention are awarded to candidates and individuals are selected to hold that office. Masu. The entire process can take several months.
Iowa and Nevada are both well known for their presidential caucuses, and while Wyoming’s Republican process has some structural similarities to other caucus systems, there are some notable differences. be.
A Wyoming-Montana border sign appears on the side of the Belfry Highway in Powell, Wyoming, on May 24, 2017. Republican leaders from two Wyoming counties will meet on February 24, 2024 to begin selecting the first of 29 state delegates to this summer’s Republican National Convention in a “caucus” format. is. (AP Photo/Robert Yun)
First, the Wyoming Republican Party has not held a statewide presidential election poll, at least this year. In states like Iowa and Nevada, a statewide “winner” is reported based on the voting results of precinct caucus participants. Not so for Wyoming Republicans. The only presidential outcome reported from the Wyoming Republican Party’s caucus process is how many delegates each presidential candidate received to the national convention.
There are no tables or graphics showing raw vote totals or vote percentages like there are in other presidential nomination races. The state party has held non-binding straw and caucus votes in the presidential race in the past, with Mitt Romney winning in 2012 with 39% of more than 2,100 votes cast. – but it had no effect on the delegates.
Another key difference is that the Wyoming Republican Party does not hold all of its events on the same day. In Iowa, each state’s Republican Party convened all precinct-level caucuses on the same day, January 15th. This year, Wyoming’s 23 county-level Republican committees have mostly held precinct caucuses on different days, with the first scheduled for Feb. 2 and the last scheduled for Saturday. county.
Precinct caucuses are open to any registered Republican who will be 18 by the November election. After caucus participants discussed issues of interest, they selected individuals to represent their districts at county conventions. There, participants will vote for presidential candidates and award delegates to the national convention.
Each of the 23 counties is competing for one delegate to the national convention. The winner of the vote at the county convention receives the sole delegate for that county. These events are usually open to the public, but only individuals elected by their precinct caucuses can vote for president at county conventions.
Also, like precinct caucuses, county conventions are not all scheduled on the same day. The first two county conventions will honor delegates in Campbell and Carbon counties on Saturday. The rest will follow suit sometime in the next two weeks. One party in Platte County has not yet scheduled a convention, according to the state party’s public calendar of events.
At the county convention, 23 of the 29 state delegates to the national convention will be honored. The remaining six delegates will be honored at the state party convention in April.
Here’s a summary of what to expect in Wyoming over the next few days.
Wyoming Republican County Convention
Each of Wyoming’s 23 counties holds a county Republican convention to honor delegates to the national convention. The first county tournament will be held on Saturday, with the remaining county tournaments to be held over the next two weeks.
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One delegate attends each county convention, for a total of 23 delegates. The Associated Press will report on how many delegates each presidential candidate received. There is no statewide presidential vote.
The state’s remaining six delegates will be honored at the state convention in April.
Who can vote at the county convention?
Those elected at precinct caucuses held across the state in February gather at county conventions to vote on which presidential candidate will win their county’s delegates.
