This is a list of straw polls that have been conducted relating to the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries.
Total Straw Poll Victories (Updated March 20, 2012)
Total Straw Poll Victories is as follows:
Straw Poll Victories After Voting Started (Updated March 20, 2012)
The number of Straw Poll victories after voting started is as follows:
Straw polls taken before voting started
January 22, 2011, Derry, New Hampshire – New Hampshire Straw Poll
Results from the 2011 New Hampshire Straw Poll were as follows:
February 10–12, 2011, Washington, D.C. – CPAC Straw Poll
Results from the 2011 CPAC Straw Poll were as follows:
February 27, 2011, Phoenix, Arizona – Tea Party Straw Polls
Results from the 2011 Tea Party Straw Poll were as follows:
Onsite Poll
Online Poll
Combined Polls
March 6, 2011, Seaside, Oregon – Dorchester Conference Straw Poll
Results from the 2011 Dorchester Conference Straw Poll were as follows:
March 15, 2011, Washington, D.C. – National League of Cities Straw Poll
Results from the 2011 National League of Cities Straw Poll were as follows:
The "50 or so votes" referenced in all articles on this ballot can only mean that there were either 32 or 64 votes given the percentages above (i.e. 3% of the vote is either 1 vote or 2 votes). Human estimation tendencies would lean towards the real answer being 64 votes.
March 20, 2011, Sacramento, California – Republican Liberty Caucus of California Presidential Straw Poll
Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll at the 2011 California Republican convention:
Finishing with less than ten votes were, in order, John R. Bolton (8), Gary Johnson (7), Herman Cain (5), Haley Barbour (4), Rick Santorum (4), Jon Huntsman, Jr. (3), Donald Trump (3), Chris Christie (2), Jim DeMint (2), Marco Rubio (2), Scott Walker (2), Paul Ryan (1), Colin Powell (1), Allen West (1), Tom McClintock (1), Dana Perino (1), and None of the Above (1).
March 31, 2011, Goffstown, New Hampshire - St. Anselm College Republicans Straw Poll
Karger wins St. Anselm straw poll
April 3, 2011, York County, South Carolina - South Carolina Straw Poll
South Carolina straw poll as part of the Grassroots SC campaign:
Also appearing on the ballot but failing to get more than 5% were, in alphabetical order, Haley Barbour, John R. Bolton, Herman Cain, Mitch Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Gary Johnson, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.
April 15, 2011, Charleston County - Republican Party Straw Poll
Source of results: CNN
April 16, 2011, Georgia's 3rd congressional district - Georgia 3rd District Convention Straw Poll
Georgia straw poll as part of the 3rd District Republican convention:
May 5–6, 2011, Columbia, South Carolina – South Carolina Republican Party Convention presidential straw poll
May 6, 2011, Washington state – Washington GOP 29th Annual Spring Gala straw poll
May 15, 2011, Kauai County, Hawaii – Hawaii GOP Presidential straw poll
Arithmetic shows 59 votes were canvassed in the straw poll (all rounded-percentages above are multiples of 1.69%).
June 16–18, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana – Republican Leadership Conference Straw Poll Source of results: Republican Leadership Conference
June 19, 2011, Clay County, Iowa - Republican Party Straw Poll
July 22, 2011, Ohio Republican Party - Ohio Republican Party Presidential Straw Poll Source of results: Politico
July 31, 2011, Denver, Colorado - Western Conservative Summit
Source of results:
August 4, 2011, Harrington, Delaware - Delaware State Fair GOP Straw Poll
Source of results:
August 13, 2011, Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa - Iowa Straw Poll
Source of results: Washington Examiner and National Journal
The day after the poll, on August 14, Tim Pawlenty announced his withdrawal from the race after his third-place finish.
Rick Perry, who was not on the poll ballot and only appeared as a write-in candidate, formally announced his candidacy while in South Carolina on the same day that the poll took place.
In June, two months before the poll, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who had won the 2007 Ames Straw Poll, announced that he would skip the 2011 Ames Straw Poll.
August 15, 2011, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Wisconsin State Fair straw poll
Source of results: