The 2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008 (Super Tuesday), with 52 national delegates. 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. Earlier, with 31% of precincts in, McCain had 34% support, Huckabee 31%, Romney 23% and Paul 6% support.
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 reporting 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
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