1988 Republican Party presidential primaries
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From January 14 to June 14, 1988, Republican voters chose their nominee for president in the 1988 United States presidential election. Incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1988 Republican National Convention held from August 15 to August 18, 1988, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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2,044 delegates to the 1988 Republican National Convention 1,023 (majority) votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gold denotes a state won by George H. W. Bush. Green denotes a state won by Pat Robertson. Purple denotes a state won by Bob Dole. Grey denotes a territory that did not hold a primary. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As the incumbent vice president of the popular Republican President Ronald Reagan, George Bush was seen by many Republicans as a surrogate candidate for a third term of the president who could not seek reelection again. After Bush was nominated, Dan Quayle was chosen as Bush's running mate, and the Republican ticket went on to win the general election against the Democratic ticket of Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen by a wide margin. It was the third consecutive Republican victory in a presidential election, marking the first time since President Harry S. Truman's surprise 1948 victory that any party had held the White House more than two terms, and remains the most recent occurrence.