What happend VA? Only 3 votes?

[davegod75]

Can someone please explain to me how we only had 3 votes in Tampa? The district conventions alone had way more than that.

[cjm]

Virginia delegates were bound to the results of the super Tuesday primary.

RP only won one district, which was worth 3 votes. Virginia has 11 districts, 3 delegates each, for a total of 33 delegates. There are also 13 at-large delegates that would be allocated proportionately if no one received a majority, but since Romney won 60% of the vote, he got all of those 13 as well. Then there were 3 super delegates (party insiders), for a total of 49 votes.

RP supporters were elected to many of the delegate slots, but they were bound to vote for Romney on the first ballot. There is a thread here that suggests 25/49 were RP supporters.