Another delegate question:
Illinois (R): March 15
Overview
69 Delegates (2.79% of total)
Open Primary
15 At-Large (Winner Take All)
54 District (directly elected)
Delegate Allocation and Selection
A presidential preference poll is on the ballot; the winner of this poll wins all 15 At-Large delegates. 12 of these are chosen at the State Convention on May 22.
Additionally, voters directly vote for 3 delegates running for a slot within their CD; the delegate candidates have their Presidential preference listed on the ballot. All current candidates have a complete slate of delegates. The top three delegate vote-getters in each CD get their ticket punched to Cleveland. Voters are not obliged to vote for delegates who match the candidate they voted for in the preference poll. Often, there are some personally popular delegate candidates who can get elected on the strength of their name alone (e.g. in 2008, Dennis Hastert, a Romney delegate, was elected in his CD despite a McCain win there in the preference poll).
In the 2012 results here on Atlas:
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2012&fips=17&f=1&off=0&elect=2
it says that in the 2012 GOP primary results in Illinois, there were 15 delegates "unallocated". Is that a mistake? Or does the delegate allocation process allow such a large number of unallocated delegates in Illinois? (Were these district level delegates that expressed no presidential preference on the ballot?) Would we be likely to see a repeat of that this time, or are the rules now different?
Illinois had 15 unpledged or Superdelegates in 2012.
As per Green Papers
