(Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina counted)
Newt Gingrich: 25 projected delegates
Mitt Romney: 14 projected delegates
Ron Paul: 10 projected delegates
Rick Santorum: 8 projected delegates
Total Number of delegates: 2286
Number of delegates needed to win: 1144
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Reuters
written by Greg Giroux
Thursday January 19, 2012
How many delegates are at stake?
South Carolina Republicans will send 25 delegates to the national convention, or 1.1 percent of the national total of 2,286. The Republican National Committee stripped South Carolina Republicans of half their delegates because they’re holding a primary before Feb. 1, in violation of national party rules.
How are the delegates allocated among the candidates?
South Carolina uses a “winner-take-all” system to award delegates. A candidate is awarded 11 delegates for winning the primary, plus two delegates for each congressional district won. South Carolina has seven districts beginning with the 2012 election.
South Carolina allocates its delegates differently than New Hampshire, which awarded its 12 delegates in proportion to the vote share candidates received in the Jan. 10 primary. Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucuses were non-binding and didn’t award any of the state’s 28 Republican delegates to candidates.
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