Final preparations made ahead of Tuesday’s GOP primary

The presidential election is in full swing, and Tuesday Idahoans hit the polls for the GOP primary.

There are 32 delegates up for grabs in Idaho, and the way candidates gain those delegates could make the state a bigger player in this election.

Idaho is a proportional delegate state, which means the candidates win delegates based on the percentage of the vote they get. But for a GOP candidate to get any Idaho delegates he must get at least 20 percent of the vote. If someone gets over 50 percent of the vote, then that candidate would get all of the delegates.

“It does not take very many points, very many votes, from 48 and a half to 50 percent, and they get double the delegates,” Bonneville County Republican Chairman Doyle Beck said.

A candidate needs 1,237 delegates to secure the nomination.

“It always matters. No one should ever think their vote doesn’t count because you don’t know,” Beck said. “I’ve heard of stories where somebody lost by two votes.”

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