2015 Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll
In 2015, the Center for Election Science (CES) handled the Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll, using three different voting methods: Plurality voting, Approval voting, Score voting (0-5).[1] There were 779 voters and all voters used all three voting methods. The Republican Liberty Caucus chose the approval voting results as the official results.
Results
Under all three voting systems, Rand Paul was the winner, with Ted Cruz in second place. Under Plurality, satirical candidate Gil Fulbright came in third, but he was much lower in the Approval and Score rankings. Hillary Clinton came in last, with no support under any system.
Raw score totals:
| Plurality | Approval | Score | |
| Rand Paul | 403 | 445 | 2438 |
| Ted Cruz | 342 | 399 | 2129 |
| Ben Carson | 2 | 139 | 1075 |
| Carly Fiorina | 6 | 79 | 819 |
| Marco Rubio | 2 | 75 | 703 |
| Donald Trump | 9 | 54 | 573 |
| Bobby Jindal | 0 | 51 | 678 |
| Rick Santorum | 0 | 26 | 447 |
| Mike Huckabee | 0 | 25 | 422 |
| John Kasich | 0 | 17 | 340 |
| Chris Christie | 0 | 14 | 309 |
| Gil Fulbright | 11 | 12 | 50 |
| Jeb Bush | 1 | 9 | 240 |
| George Pataki | 0 | 6 | 220 |
| Lindsey Graham | 0 | 4 | 156 |
| Jim Gilmore | 0 | 3 | 221 |
| Vermin Supreme | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| Mark Everson | 0 | 2 | 180 |
| Heather Wagenhals | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Paul Jacob | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Ron Paul | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mitt Romney | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Ben Shapiro | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Hillary Clinton | 0 | 0 | 0 |
References
- ↑ "CES Conducts the Republican Liberty Caucus Straw Poll". The Center for Election Science. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2018-12-16.