Colonel William A. Phillips

The 2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008 (Super Tuesday), with 52 national delegates.^[1] 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 of 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.^[2] Earlier, with 31% of precincts in, McCain had 34% support, Huckabee 31%, Romney 23% and Paul 6% support.^[3]

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.^[3]

AP exit polls showed that Huckabee did well with born-again Christians and conservatives.^[2]

Results

**100% of precincts reporting**^[4]^[5]
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. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Clinton wins Tennessee, GOP race too close to call". Associated Press. February 8, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b "Clinton, McCain lead in Tennessee". UPI. February 8, 2008. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2008.
^ "Republican Primary Presidential Preference" (PDF).
^ "RESULTS: Tennessee". CNN. February 5, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.

[tennesseetgp-1] "Tennessee Republican Delegation 2008". The Green Papers. Retrieved January 28, 2008.

[AP-1-2] "Clinton wins Tennessee, GOP race too close to call". Associated Press. February 8, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.^{[permanent dead link]}

[UPI-1-3] "Clinton, McCain lead in Tennessee". UPI. February 8, 2008. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2008.

[4] "Republican Primary Presidential Preference" (PDF).

[5] "RESULTS: Tennessee". CNN. February 5, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2008.

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