... the South Carolina Republican Party shall conduct a statewide presidential preference primary on a date within two weeks after the New Hampshire Republican Primary or earlier if necessary to preserve South Carolina's "First in the South" status. [South Carolina Republican Party Rules - Rule 11(b)(1)] Saturday 20 February 2016: South Carolina Primary. Hours 7:00a-7:00p EST (1200-0000 UTC). Delegate Binding: Winner-Take-All (district and statewide) Primary. Voter Eligibility: Open Primary. Primary

Source: South Carolina Election Commission.

Status: Official. Retrieved: Thursday 24 March 2016.

Included in Nationwide vote. Candidate Pop

Vote % Donald John Trump, Sr. 240,882 32.51% Marco A. Rubio 166,565 22.48% Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz 165,417 22.33% John Ellis "Jeb" Bush 58,056 7.84% John Richard Kasich 56,410 7.61% Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. 53,551 7.23% Total 740,881 100.00% Saturday 20 February 2016: All 50 of South Carolina's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's South Carolina Presidential Primary. [Reference: The Rules of the South Carolina Republican Party as amended by 2015 South Carolina Republican Party State Convention] 21 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the state's 7 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates and the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in that district will receive all 3 of that district's National Convention delegates. [Rule 11(b)(4)]

29 (10 base at-large delegates plus 16 bonus delegates plus 3 RNC delegates) at-large delegates are to be allocated to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide. [Rule 11(b)(5)] Primary

Source: Email from the South Carolina Election Commission.

Status: Official. Retrieved: Saturday 26 March 2016. Contest Trump Rubio Pop

Vote Del Pop

Vote % Del Pop

Vote % Del CD1 127,320 3 36,859 28.950% 3 33,672 26.447% CD2 120,424 3 34,763 28.867% 3 28,401 23.584% CD3 118,687 3 37,290 31.419% 3 25,258 21.281% CD4 127,134 3 35,759 28.127% 3 31,075 24.443% CD5 99,670 3 34,326 34.440% 3 19,900 19.966% CD6 46,749 3 16,970 36.300% 3 9,508 20.338% CD7 103,683 3 44,915 43.320% 3 18,751 18.085% Statewide 743,667 29 240,882 32.391% 29 166,565 22.398% Total

Delegates 50 50 Each congressional district delegate ... shall be bound during the first ballot at the convention to the presidential candidate who received the greatest number of votes .... If the candidate who received the greatest number of votes in that particular delegate’s home district is not placed in nomination, a delegate must then be bound to the congressional district's second or third place finisher in the presidential preference primary, respectively. If none of the top three finishers in the congressional district presidential preference primary are placed in nomination, delegates shall be unbound.

Each delegate-at-large shall be bound for the first ballot to the candidate who received the largest number of votes statewide in the presidential preference primary. If the candidate who receives the greatest number of statewide votes in the presidential preference primary is not placed in nomination, a delegate must then be bound to the state's second or third place finisher in the presidential preference primary, respectively. If none of the top three finishers in the statewide presidential preference primary are placed in nomination, delegates shall be unbound. [South Carolina Republican Party Rules - Rule 11(b)(4), (5)]