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{{Infobox election
| election_name     = Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016
| country           = United States
| type              = presidential
| ongoing           = 
| previous_election = 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
| previous_year     = 2012
| next_election     = 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
| next_year         = ''2020''
| election_date     = February 1 – June 7, 2016
| votes_for_election = 2,472 delegates to the [[2016 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]]
| needed_votes      = 1,237 delegates
| party_name        = no
| image1            = Donald August 19 (cropped).jpg
| image1_size = x150px
| candidate1        = '''[[Donald Trump]]'''
| color1            = 283681
| home_state1       = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| states_carried1   = '''32'''
| delegate_count1   = '''1,441'''
| image2            = Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore 8.jpg
| image2_size = x150px
| candidate2        = [[Ted Cruz]]
| color2            = DAA520
| home_state2       = [[Texas]]
| states_carried2   = 11
| delegate_count2   = 551
| image4            = Marco Rubio by Gage Skidmore 8 (cropped).jpg
| image4_size = x150px
| candidate4        = [[Marco Rubio]]
| color4            = C60E3B
| home_state4       = [[Florida]]
| states_carried4   = 3
| delegate_count4   = 173
| image5            = John Kasich (24618295175) (cropped).jpg
| image5_size = x150px
| candidate5        = [[John Kasich]]
| color5            = 29AB87
| home_state5       = [[Ohio]]
| states_carried5   = 1
| delegate_count5   = 161
| map_image         = Republican Party presidential primaries results, 2016.svg
| map_size          = 300px
| map_caption       = '''First place (popular vote or delegate count)''' <div style="font-size:110%;">{{legend|#283681|Donald Trump|border=0}}&nbsp; {{legend|#DAA520|Ted Cruz|border=0}}&nbsp; {{legend|#C60E3B|Marco Rubio|border=0}}&nbsp; {{legend|#29AB87|John Kasich|border=0}}</div>
----
| title = Nominee
| before_election = [[Mitt Romney]]
| posttitle = Nominee
| after_election = [[Donald Trump]]
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The '''2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses''' were held between February 1 and June 7, 2016.   Sanctioned by the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], this series of elections selected the 2,472 delegates to the [[2016 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]], which selected the Republican Party's nominee for [[President of the United States]].

On May 4, 2016, [[Donald Trump]] of [[New York (state)|New York]] became the presumptive nominee after his remaining challengers [[Ted Cruz]] of [[Texas]] and [[John Kasich]] of [[Ohio]] dropped out.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/04/politics/donald-trump-john-kasich/index.html |title=First on CNN: Kasich 'doing the right thing' by dropping out, Trump says |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=September 4, 2017 |date=May 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="kasich">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-kasich-exiting-the-presidential-race-leaving-trump-as-presumptive-nominee/2016/05/04/8137c520-1163-11e6-93ae-50921721165d_story.html |title=John Kasich exits the presidential race, leaving Trump as presumptive nominee |publisher= [[Washington Post]] |access-date=September 4, 2017 |date=May 4, 2016}}</ref>

==Nominee==
===Nominee===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|-

| colspan="28" style="background:#f1f1f1;" |

[[File:Republican Disc.svg|65px|center|link=Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party (United States)]]<big>'''2016 Republican Party ticket'''</big>
|-
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}; width:200px;"|{{colored link|white|Donald Trump}}
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}; width:200px;"|{{colored link|white|Mike Pence}}
|- style="color:#000; font-size:100%; background:#ffd0d7;"
| style="width:3em; width:200px;"|'''''for President'''''
| style="width:3em; width:200px;"|'''''for Vice President'''''
|-
| [[File:Official Portrait of President Donald Trump.jpg|center|200x200px|border]]<!-- DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENSUS. See [[Talk:Donald Trump]] -->
| [[File:Vice President Pence Official Portrait.jpg|center|200x200px|border]]<!-- DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENSUS. See [[Talk:Mike Pence]] -->
|-
| Chairman of [[The Trump Organization]]<br /><small>(1971-2017)</small>
| [[Governor of Indiana]]<br /><small>(2013-2017)</small>
|-
| colspan=2 |[[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|'''Campaign''']]
|-
| colspan=2 |[[File:Trump_Transparent.svg|center|275px]]
|}

==Candidates==
On March 23, 2015, [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Ted Cruz]] of [[Texas]] formally announced his candidacy at [[Liberty University]], and in the following months, sixteen more candidates (bringing the total to 17) entered the race: Former Governor [[Jeb Bush]] of Florida, neurosurgeon [[Ben Carson]] of Florida, Governor [[Chris Christie]] of New Jersey, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, businesswoman [[Carly Fiorina]] of Virginia, Former Governor [[Jim Gilmore]] of Virginia, Senator [[Lindsey Graham]] of South Carolina, Former Governor [[Mike Huckabee]] of Arkansas, Governor [[Bobby Jindal]] of Louisiana, Governor [[John Kasich]] of Ohio, Former Governor [[George Pataki]] of New York, Senator [[Rand Paul]] of Kentucky, Former Governor [[Rick Perry]] of Texas, Senator [[Marco Rubio]] of Florida, Former Senator [[Rick Santorum]] of Pennsylvania, businessman [[Donald Trump]] of New York, and Governor [[Scott Walker]] of Wisconsin.

The total of 17 candidates makes it the 2nd largest presidential candidate field for any single political party in American history.<ref>{{Cite web|title = More People Are Running for Presidential Nomination Than Ever|url = http://time.com/3948922/jim-gilmore-virginia-2016/|website = TIME.com|access-date = 2016-02-14|first = Jack|last = Linshi}}</ref>

Before the [[United States presidential election in Iowa, 2016|Iowa caucuses]] on February 1, candidates Perry, Walker, Jindal, Graham, and Pataki withdrew due to low polling numbers.  While leading many polls entering the Iowa caucuses, Trump came in second behind Senator Cruz. Carson dropped out after [[Super Tuesday]] on March 4, 2016.

==Money raised==
This is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it is reported to Federal Election Committee and released on February 22, 2016. Outside groups are [[Independent expenditure]] only committees also called [[Political action committee|PACs and SuperPACs]]. Several such groups normally support each candidate but the numbers in the tablet are a total of all of them. This means that a group of committees can be shown as [[Insolvency|technical insolvent]] (shown in red) even though it is not the case of all of them.

The Campaign Committees debt are shown in red if the campaign is technical insolvent. The source of all the numbers is [[Center for Responsive Politics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=2016 Presidential Race|url=http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/|website=OpenSecrets.org - Center for Responsive Politics|access-date=26 February 2016}}</ref> Jim Gilmore's information is not currently available.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:12px; text-align: center;"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Candidate
! colspan="4" |Campaign committee <small>(as of January 31)</small>
! colspan="3" |Outside groups	<small>(as of February 22)</small>
! rowspan="2" |Total spent
! rowspan="2" |Suspended<br />campaign
|-
! Money Raised
! Money spent
! Cash on hand
! Debt
! Money Raised
! Money spent
! Cash on hand

|- style="background:#f7e7ce;"
|data-sort-value="Trump, Donald"|[[Donald Trump]]
|$25,526,319
|$23,941,598
|$1,584,721
|$17,534,058<sup>[[#Notes1|∗]]</sup>
|$1,894,509
|$1,798,720
|$95,789
|'''$25,740,318'''
|Active

|- 
|data-sort-value="Cruz, Ted"|[[Ted Cruz]]
|$54,661,506
|$41,016,086
|$13,645,419
|$0
|$46,726,605
|$21,280,797
|$25,445,808
|'''$62,296,883'''
|May 3, 2016

|- 
|data-sort-value="Kasich, John"|[[John Kasich]]
|$8,648,890
|$7,172,247
|$1,476,642
|$0
|$6,729,311
|$10,958,007
|<span style="color:red">$-4,228,696</span>
|'''$18,130,254'''
|May 4, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Rubio, Marco"|[[Marco Rubio]]
|$34,652,654
|$32,935,702
|$5,055,407
|$98,000
|$34,313,903
|$28,334,553
|$5,979,350
|'''$61,270,255'''
|March 15, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Carson, Ben"|[[Ben Carson]]
|$57,860,505
|$53,713,834
|$4,146,671
|$0
|$13,807,549
|$13,985,768
||<span style="color:red">$-178,219</span>
|'''$67,699,602'''
|March 4, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Bush, Jeb"|[[Jeb Bush]]
|$33,512,524
|$30,632,058
|$2,880,466
|$59,136
|$118,740,817
|$94,262,809
|$24,478,008
|'''$124,894,867'''
|February 20, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Christie, Chris"|[[Chris Christie]]
|$7,995,895
|$7,254,221
|$741,674
|$72,579
|$23,156,157
|$21,849,465
|$1,306,692
|'''$29,103,686'''
|February 10, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Fiorina, Carly"|[[Carly Fiorina]]
|$11,848,450
|$8,490,693
|$3,357,756
|$0
|$14,184,857
|$11,768,162
|$2,416,695
|'''$20,258,855'''
|February 10, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Santorum, Rick"|[[Rick Santorum]]
|$1,426,163
|$1,403,380
|$41,966
|<span style="color:red">$899,356</span>
|$642,416
|$1,032,603
|<span style="color:red">$-390,187</span>
|'''$2,435,983'''
|February 3, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Paul, Rand"|[[Rand Paul]]
|$12,158,052
|$11,303,910
|$854,142
|$292,311
|$10,591,125
|$8,160,980
|$2,430,145
|'''$19,464,891'''
|February 3, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Huckabee, Mike"|[[Mike Huckabee]]
|$4,114,116
|$4,075,073
|$39,044
|<span style="color:red">$55,384</span>
|$5,862,475
|$5,820,361
|$42,115
|'''$9,895,434'''
|February 1, 2016

|-
|data-sort-value="Pataki, George"|[[George Pataki]]
|$544,183
|$524,850
|$19,332
|$20,000<sup>[[#Notes1|∗]]</sup>
|$1,547,674
|$1,510,759
|$36,915
|'''$2,035,609'''
|December 29, 2015

|-
|data-sort-value="Graham, Lindsey"|[[Lindsey Graham]]
|$5,629,463
|$5,329,046
|$300,417
|$57,041
|$4,388,304
|$4,279,062
|$109,242
|'''$9,608,108'''
|December 21, 2015

|-
|data-sort-value="Jindal, Bobby"|[[Bobby Jindal]]
|$1,442,464
|$1,442,464
|$0
|$0
|$4,517,207
|$4,517,874
|<span style="color:red">$-666</span>
|'''$5,960,337'''
|November 17, 2015

|-
|data-sort-value="Walker, Scott"|[[Scott Walker]]
|$8,076,155
|$7,996,958
|$79,197
|<span style="color:red">$1,078,876</span>
|$24,436,318
|$24,393,632
|$42,686
|'''$32,390,590'''
|September 21, 2015

|-
|data-sort-value="Perry, Rick"|[[Rick Perry]]
|$1,427,133
|$1,766,819
|$2,403
|$0
|$15,231,068
|$15,356,117
|<span style="color:red">$-125,050</span>
|'''$17,122,936'''
|September 11, 2015
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="22" style="background: #f7e7ce; color: black; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" class="table-no"|''Active campaigns highlighted in this color''
|}'''Notes''' 
:<sup>∗</sup>This is mainly a personal loan from the candidate to the campaign as part of the candidate's self-financing.

==Results==
{{main|Results of the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016}}
[[File:Republican Party presidential primaries results by county, 2016.svg|750px|center|thumb|{{legend|#283681|Donald Trump|border=0}}
<s>{{legend|#DAA520|Ted Cruz|border=0}}</s>
<s>{{legend|#C60E3B|Marco Rubio|border=0}}</s>
<s>{{legend|#29AB87|John Kasich|border=0}}</s>
<s>{{legend|#98d5e9|Ben Carson|border=0}}</s>
{{legend|#666666|Tie|border=0}}]]

After the Iowa primaries, candidates Huckabee, Paul and Santorum withdrew due to poor performance at the ballot box.  Following the New Hampshire primary, which was a sizable victory for Trump, candidates Christie, Fiorina and Gilmore withdrew. After the conclusion of the South Carolina primary, Bush withdrew from the race following a second win for Trump. [[Ben Carson]] dropped out on March 4, 2016. [[Marco Rubio]] dropped out on March 15, 2016 after losing to Trump in his home state of Florida. [[Ted Cruz]] dropped out on May 3, 2016 after losing to Trump in Indiana.

==References==
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==Other websites==
* [https://www.gop.com/the-official-guide-to-the-2016-republican-nominating-process/ RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108193454/https://www.gop.com/the-official-guide-to-the-2016-republican-nominating-process/ |date=2016-11-08 }}
* [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/ Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions]
* [http://www.electionprojection.com/2016-elections/2016-presidential-primaries.php 2016 Presidential primaries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117030017/http://www.electionprojection.com/2016-elections/2016-presidential-primaries.php |date=2015-11-17 }}, ElectionProjection.com

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