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2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary

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Field	Value
election_name	2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary
country	Tennessee
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	2004 Tennessee Republican presidential primary
previous_year	2004
next_election	2012 Tennessee Republican presidential primary
next_year	2012
election_date
image1	File:Mike Huckabee, speaking to a gathering at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.jpg
image_size	150x150px
candidate1	Mike Huckabee
color1	990000ff
home_state1	Arkansas
delegate_count1	25
popular_vote1	190,904
percentage1	34.37%
image2	File:John McCain official portrait 2009 (cropped).jpg
candidate2	John McCain
color2	ce5c17ff
home_state2	Arizona
delegate_count2	19
popular_vote2	176,091
percentage2	31.84%
image4	File:AnnMarie Romneym (cropped).jpg
candidate4	Mitt Romney
color4	85bb65ff
home_state4	Massachusetts
delegate_count4	8
popular_vote4	130,632
percentage4	23.62%
elected_members	[UT](2008-utah-republican-presidential-primary)
outgoing_members	[OK](2008-oklahoma-republican-presidential-primary)
map_image
map_caption

candidate5	Ron Paul
colour5	fed105
image5	File:Ron Paul, official Congressional photo portrait, 2007 (cropped).jpg
percentage5	5.61%
popular_vote5	31,026
home_state5	Texas
delegate_count5	0
votes_for_election	52 Republican National Convention delegates

Main article: 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries

Huckabee
McCain
Romney

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

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%	52

Candidate dropped out of the race before the primary

References

"Tennessee Republican Delegation 2008". The Green Papers.
(February 8, 2008). "Clinton wins Tennessee, GOP race too close to call". Associated Press.
(February 8, 2008). "Clinton, McCain lead in Tennessee". UPI.
"Republican Primary Presidential Preference".
(2008-02-05). "RESULTS: Tennessee". CNN.

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