2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries 2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary Tennessee presidential no 2004 Tennessee Republican presidential primary 2004 2012 Tennessee Republican presidential primary 2012 2008 02 05 File:Huckabee-SF-CC-024 (cropped).jpg 150x150px Mike Huckabee 990000 Arkansas 25 190,904 34.37% File:John McCain official portrait 2009 (cropped).jpg John McCain ce5c17 Arizona 19 176,091 31.84% File:AnnMarie Romneym (cropped).jpg Mitt Romney 85bb65 Massachusetts 8 130,632 23.62% UT OK 350px County winner 350px Vote share 1 #990000ff Huckabee#ce5c17ff McCain#85bb65ff Romney Huckabee #fad6e4 30 – 40% #eea3c1 40 – 50% #e66f9e 50 – 60% McCain #f9e1c6 30 – 40% #e8ba85 40 – 50% Romney #ddf0ca 30 – 40% Ron Paul fed105 File:Ron Paul, official Congressional photo portrait, 2007 (cropped).jpg 5.61% 31,026 Texas 0 52 Republican National Convention delegates The 2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008 (Super Tuesday), with 52 national delegates.Tennessee Republican Delegation 2008 http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/TN-R.phtml The Green Papers 2008-01-28 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.Clinton wins Tennessee, GOP race too close to call http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=7828203 Associated Press February 8, 2008 2008-02-05 June 2018 InternetArchiveBot no Earlier, with 31% of precincts in, McCain had 34% support, Huckabee 31%, Romney 23% and Paul 6% support.Clinton, McCain lead in Tennessee http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/05/clinton_mccain_lead_in_tennessee/2113/ https://archive.today/20110524174650/http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/05/clinton_mccain_lead_in_tennessee/2113/ dead May 24, 2011 UPI February 8, 2008 2008-02-05 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. AP exit polls showed that Huckabee did well with born-again Christians and conservatives. Results +100% of precincts reportingRepublican Primary Presidential Preference http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/results/2008-02/RepPresidentCounty.pdfRESULTS: Tennessee http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TN CNN 2008-02-05 2008-02-05 May 8, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080508012111/http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TN dead 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 553,005 100.00% 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 Tennessee Category:2008 Tennessee elections Category:2008 Super Tuesday Category:Tennessee Republican primaries