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|+ North Carolina Republican primary, March 15, 2016 |
| rowspan="2" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" | Votes ! rowspan="2" | Percentage ! colspan="3"| Actual delegate count |
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| Bound
! Unbound ! Total |
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| Donald Trump |462,413 |40.23% |29 |0 |29 |
| Ted Cruz
|422,621 |36.76% |27 |0 |27 |
| John Kasich
|145,659 |12.67% |9 |0 |9 |
| Marco Rubio
|88,907 |7.73% |6 |0 |6 |
| Ben Carson (withdrawn)
|11,019 |0.96% |1 |0 |1 |
| No Preference
|6,081 |0.53% |0 |0 |0 |
| Jeb Bush (withdrawn)
|3,893 |0.34% |0 |0 |0 |
| Mike Huckabee (withdrawn)
|3,071 |0.27% |0 |0 |0 |
| Rand Paul (withdrawn)
|2,753 |0.24% |0 |0 |0 |
| Chris Christie (withdrawn)
|1,256 |0.11% |0 |0 |0 |
| Carly Fiorina (withdrawn)
|929 |0.08% |0 |0 |0 |
| Rick Santorum (withdrawn)
|663 |0.06% |0 |0 |0 |
| Jim Gilmore (withdrawn)
|265 |0.02% |0 |0 |0 |
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! colspan="3" | Unprojected delegates: ! 0 ! 0 ! 0 |
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! Total: !1,149,530 !100.00% !72 !0 !72 |
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Source: [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/NC-R The Green Papers] |