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Guam is a territory and not a state, making it ineligible to elect members of the Electoral College. Instead, Guam conducts a non-binding presidential straw poll during the general election. [1] In the 2024 presidential election, incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden initially ran for re-election and became the party's presumptive nominee. [2]
Since 1980, the results of the Guam poll have aligned with the results of the mainland, except in three instances: in 1980, when the islanders favored Jimmy Carter instead of eventual winner Ronald Reagan, in 2016, when they favored Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump, and in 2024, when they favored Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump.
The 2024 Guam Republican presidential caucuses were held on Saturday, March 16, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries. The Republican Party of Guam officially convened for their party convention to allocate all nine of the territory's delegates to former president Donald Trump , who became the presumptive nominee after clinching the ...
Notably, Puerto Rico becomes the second U.S. territory to implement straw polls for presidential elections, following Guam, which initiated its own straw poll in 1980 and has conducted preference votes in conjunction with each presidential election since that time. [3]
Prior to Biden dropping out of the 2024 race, 44.3% of Teamsters members supported the president, according to straw poll results released by the Teamsters. Trump was at 36.3% in the straw poll.
General elections were held in Guam on November 5, 2024. [1] Voters in Guam chose their non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives, attorney general, supreme court judges and all fifteen members of the territorial legislature. The elections were held on the same day as the 2024 United States elections.
The Legislature of Guam has fifteen members elected at large in an open primary for two year terms. The island also holds both Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses every election year, and conducts a presidential straw poll to coincide with the U.S. general election, even though Guam's votes do not officially count in presidential races.
A few hundred people attended the 4th Congressional District Presidential Tailgate and Straw Poll in Neveda to listen to Republican presidential hopefuls ahead of the Cy-Hawk game.