Demetra DeMonte
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| Demetra DeMonte | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Illinois |
| Role: | National Committeewoman |
| Location: | Illinois |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | Loyola University of Chicago |
Demetra DeMonte was first elected to serve as the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Illinois in 2008 and was re-elected to a four-year term in 2016.[1]
Career
Education
DeMonte earned a B.A. in American history from the Loyola University of Chicago.[2]
Professional career
Since 1978, DeMonte has worked as the chief business operations manager of the orthodontic practice that she and her husband own.[2]
Political activity
DeMonte was first elected to serve as the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of Illinois in June 2008 and was re-elected to a four-year term in 2016. As of the 2016 Republican National Convention, she also served as the secretary of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and served on the RNC's Rules Committee and Executive Committee.[3]
Previously, DeMonte served as the state central committeewoman for the Illinois Republican Party as well as the chairman and vice chairman of the Tazewell County Republican Party. She was also the national member liaison for the State Party Coalition Program Development in 2010 and the secretary of the Midwest Region from 2009 to 2011.[3]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Demonte was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Illinois. Demonte was one of 54 delegates from Illinois bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[4] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Demonte was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[5]
According to The Washington Post, Demonte was a member of a pro-Trump "study committee" focused on "quashing any effort to unbind delegates" at the national convention. Other members of the study committee from the Rules Committee included Alexander Willette of Maine, Vincent DeVito of Massachusetts, and Bill Palatucci of New Jersey.[6]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Delegate rules
District-level delegates from Illinois were elected directly by voters at the state primary election on March 15, 2016. At-large delegates were selected at the state convention in May 2016. District-level delegates to the national convention could run as "uncommitted" delegates or they could declare their support for a specific candidate. 2016 Illinois GOP bylaws considered a vote for a delegate to be an "expression of sentiment" and "only advisory to the Delegate or Alternate Delegate so elected, unless otherwise directed by the Rules of the Republican Party." At-large delegates were bound to support the winner of the statewide vote in Illinois' primary election for an undetermined number of ballots.
Illinois primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Illinois, 2016
| Illinois Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.8% | 562,464 | 54 | |
| Ted Cruz | 30.2% | 438,235 | 9 | |
| John Kasich | 19.7% | 286,118 | 6 | |
| Marco Rubio | 8.7% | 126,681 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.8% | 11,469 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.8% | 11,188 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 4,718 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 3,428 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,737 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,540 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 1,154 | 0 | |
| JoAnn Breivogel | 0% | 16 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,449,748 | 69 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Illinois State Board of Elections | ||||
Delegate allocation
Illinois had 69 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 54 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 18 congressional districts). According to the Republican National Committee, Illinois' district-level delegates were "elected directly on the primary ballot and bound to the candidate for whom they [declared] themselves."[7][8]
Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. Illinois' at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the statewide primary vote received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[7][8]
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Illinois Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LinkedIn, "Demetra DeMonte," accessed June 5, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 GOP.com, "Demetra Demonte," accessed June 5, 2016
- ↑ Illinois Review, "IL GOP meets at state convention in Peoria," May 21, 2016
- ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Who will show up? Who will pay? The many unknowns of the GOP convention," June 29, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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