2024 Maine Republican presidential primary

2024 Maine Republican presidential primary

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20 Republican National Convention delegates
 
Candidate Donald Trump Nikki Haley
Home state Florida South Carolina
Delegate count 20 0
Popular vote 79,034 27,912
Percentage 71.92% 25.40%

The 2024 Maine Republican presidential primary was held on March 5, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 20 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a winner-take-most basis.[1] The contest was held on Super Tuesday alongside primaries in 14 other states. This was a semi-closed primary where party members may only vote in their respective party's primary, but unenrolled voters may choose a party's primary to participate in. This change in law from Maine's previous closed primary went into effect on May 14, 2022, without Gov. Janet Mills' signature.[2]

On December 28, 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows declared that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment due to his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[3] Following the Supreme Courts unanimous decision in Trump v. Anderson that Trump should remain on the ballot, Bellows withdrew the ban.

  1. ^ "Maine Republican Presidential Nominating Process". thegreenpapers.com. March 5, 2023. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  2. ^ Meyers, David. "Maine joins list of states with open primaries". The Fulcrum. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
  3. ^ Seitz-Wald, Alex (December 28, 2023). "Maine's top election official rules Trump ineligible for 2024 primary ballot". NBC News. Retrieved December 28, 2023.