[dvwjr]

The Republican contests in States which take place before April 1st, 2012 are all proportional contests (with the exception of Florida which the RNC granted a waiver to allow winner-take-all but then Florida lost half its delegates because it moved its Primary up to January 31st, 2012) by design. This was to prevent an early wrap up of the contest as happened in 2008 with John McCain.

Iowa and New Hamphshire are both proportionally allocated delegates. Iowa finally selects its national convention delegates at a State Convention Saturday June 16, 2012. Given the vote count with Romney winning by 8 votes the Iowa delegate break down looks somewhat as follows:

Romney     6 delegates
Santorum   6 delegates
Paul       6 delegates
Gingrich   4 delegates
Perry      3 delegates
Bachmann   0 delegates
Huntsman   0 delegates
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Pledged   25 delegates
Unpledged  3 delegates
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Total     28 Iowa National Convention delegates

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[jjotto]

Just FYI, Iowa delegates will not be chosen until June. This straw vote does not bind anyone to anything.

[ez]

I got a feeling around convention time we’ll all be saying “Plus don’t forget those 8 votes Santorum got back in Iowa.”