2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary

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.

2008 Tennessee Republican presidential primary

February 5, 2008 (2008-02-05)

52 Republican National Convention delegates
 
Candidate Mike Huckabee John McCain
Home state Arkansas Arizona
Delegate count 25 19
Popular vote 190,904 176,091
Percentage 34.37% 31.84%

 
Candidate Mitt Romney Ron Paul
Home state Massachusetts Texas
Delegate count 8 0
Popular vote 130,632 31,026
Percentage 23.62% 5.61%

Results by county
  Mike Huckabee
  John McCain
  Mitt Romney

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. 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.

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