Everything You Need to Know About the 2024 Presidential Primaries

Republican presidential hopefuls have been battling it out on debate stages and in poll rankings for months — but finally, with the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the GOP will begin to tally votes and put numbers on the board as Republicans across all 50 states and a handful of territories pick their nominee.

Out of 2,429 total delegates to the national convention in play, the magic number to secure the Republican nomination is 1,215. And while early states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina — draw a lot of attention and are viewed as a test for which candidates have staying power in the competition, just 2.55 percent of the total number of delegates up for grabs will be allocated in January and 3.29 percent will be allocated in February. March, thanks to "Super Tuesday" will see more than half — 65.54 percent — of Republican delegates allocated.

The delegates for each state are a mix of automatically allocated at-large (AL) delegates — each state gets ten, plus additional bonus AL delegates based on recent Republican electoral victories — while American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands get six delegates, D.C. receives 16 delegates, and Puerto Rico gets 20 delegates. In addition, the three Republican National Committee members from each are delegates to the national convention and each state receives three congressional district (CD) delegates per district as selected by their respective residents.

According to the Republican National Committee's 2024 nominating process, 43 states are holding presidential primaries, nine are holding presidential preference caucuses, and three states are holding presidential preference votes at state/congressional conventions. American Samoa and Michigan will decide via resolutions at their state conventions how to allocate their respective delegates while Guam, Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota will not allocate their delegates — a total of 142 delegates accounting for 5.75 percent of the total number — which will head "unbound" to Milwaukee for July's national convention.