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This article refers to the selection process of the Republican U.S. presidential candidate in the...

This article refers to the selection process of the Republican U.S. presidential candidate in the 2008 general election. For results of specific primaries and caucuses, see Results of the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries. Notes for the following table: Delegate counts is the final estimated delegate count. Republican candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaigned for the nomination of their party in a series of primary elections and caucus events. Unlike the Democratic Party, which mandates a proportional representation for delegate selection, the Republican Party has no such limitation. For states with primaries, some states choose to use the "winner-take-all" method to allocate delegates within a state, while others do winner-take-all within a specific congressional district, and still others use the proportional process. Unlike the Democratic Party state party by-laws determine whether each delegate is pledged and for long the delegate is pledged. In caucus states, most state parties use a two pronged process. A straw poll, often called a presidential preference poll, is conducted of the attendees at the caucus. The results are released to the media