--- title: Delegate Calculator: Can Republicans Stop Donald Trump? description: Make your own predictions and see what will happen with our interactive delegate calculator canonical: https://time.com/4254330/donald-trump-republican-nomination-brokered-convention-delegate-calculator/ author: Chris Wilson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-11T17:10:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:23.158Z article:section: Politics og:title: See Whether Republicans Can Stop Trump With This Delegate Calculator og:description: Game out the delegate math with this interactive calculator and see whether the front runner can reach the magic number of 1,237 delegates og:url: https://time.com/4254330/donald-trump-republican-nomination-brokered-convention-delegate-calculator/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Whether Republicans Can Stop Trump With This Delegate Calculator twitter:description: Game out the delegate math with this interactive calculator and see whether the front runner can reach the magic number of 1,237 delegates twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See Whether Republicans Can Stop Trump With This Delegate Calculator > Sponsored content. 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While [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4255169/gop-debate-contested-convention-trump/) has benefited enormously from having his opposition split between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, it has come at a cost: He is not accumulating delegates fast enough to ensure that he will hit the magic number 1,237—over half the total number of delegates—by the time the last state has voted. To see just how thin his margin is, TIME built an interactive primary calculator that lets you enter your prediction for votes in the remaining contests and games out the delegate count accordingly. The calculator has the allocation rules for each state baked into the math, so the results represent the closest possible approximation of how the delegates would be divided based on your input. Most importantly, you can manipulate the outcome of individual states to build a more nuanced scenario. Interestingly, if Trump loses just one of the winner-take-all contests, like Florida or Ohio, the odds that he can clinch the nomination with his typical share of the vote, around 35% or so, plummets significantly. Even if he squeaks it out, it will not be until the last day of the primaries, owing to delegate-rich California voting on June 7 along with four other smaller states. Trump will almost certainly win the most delegates, followed by Cruz in a distant second. But if he fails to secure the nomination in the first round of voting at the convention, after which a huge number of delegates are no longer bound to the wishes of their state’s voters, anything can happen. _Chris Wilson is the director of data journalism at TIME_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4254330/donald-trump-republican-nomination-brokered-convention-delegate-calculator/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4254330/donald-trump-republican-nomination-brokered-convention-delegate-calculator/"},"headline":"See Whether Republicans Can Stop Trump With This Delegate Calculator","datePublished":"2016-03-11T17:10:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:23.158Z","description":"Game out the delegate math with this interactive calculator and see whether the front runner can reach the magic number of 1,237 delegates","url":"https://time.com/4254330/donald-trump-republican-nomination-brokered-convention-delegate-calculator/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4254330/donald-trump-republican-nomination-brokered-convention-delegate-calculator/","name":"See Whether Republicans Can Stop Trump With This Delegate Calculator"}}]}] ```