Editing Republican National Committee (section)

====2011 election====
{{Main|2011 Republican National Committee chairmanship election}}
[[File:Reince Priebus by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|Chairman of the Republican National Committee [[Reince Priebus]] at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in October 2011 in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]]]
[[Michael Steele]] ran for re-election at the 2011 RNC winter meeting.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/12/13/sources-say-steele-will-seek-second-term-rnc-chair |title=Steele Seeks Second Term As RNC Chair |first=Doug |last=McKelway |date=December 13, 2010 |access-date=March 12, 2014 |newspaper=Fox News |archive-date=December 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214235650/http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/12/13/sources-say-steele-will-seek-second-term-rnc-chair |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other candidates were [[Reince Priebus]], Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman, [[Ann Wagner]], former Ambassador to Luxembourg, [[Saul Anuzis]], former Republican Party Chairman of Michigan, and [[Maria Cino]], former acting Secretary of Transportation under [[George W. Bush]]. Steele's critics increasingly called on him to step down as RNC Chair when his term ended in 2011. A debate for Chairman hosted by [[Americans for Tax Reform]] took place on January 3 at the [[National Press Club (USA)|National Press Club]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/76074-steele-faces-opposition-dissent-among-rnc-members/ |title=Steele faces opposition, dissent among RNC members |date=November 27, 2010 |access-date=March 11, 2014 |newspaper=The Hill |first=Elise |last=Viebeck |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312224959/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/130791-steele-faces-opposition-dissent-among-rnc-members |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rncdebate.org/ |publisher=Americans for Tax Reform and The Daily Caller |access-date=March 11, 2014 |title=The RNC Chairman's Debate |date=January 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312224431/http://www.rncdebate.org/ |archive-date=March 12, 2014}}</ref> The election for Chairman took place January 14 at the RNC's winter meeting with Reince Priebus winning on the seventh ballot after Steele and Wagner withdrew.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Candidate
!Round 1
!Round 2
!Round 3
!Round 4
!Round 5
!Round 6
!Round 7
|-
|'''[[Reince Priebus]]'''
|style="background:cornflowerblue;"|45
|style="background:cornflowerblue;"|52
|style="background:cornflowerblue;"|54
|style="background:cornflowerblue;"|58
|style="background:cornflowerblue;"|67
|style="background:cornflowerblue;"|80
|style="background:limegreen;"|97
|-
|[[Saul Anuzis]]
|24
|22
|21
|24
|32
|37
|43
|-
|[[Maria Cino]]
|32
|30
|28
|29
|40
|34
|28
|-
|[[Ann Wagner]]
|23
|27
|32
|28
|28
|17
|style="background:lightgrey;"|''Withdrew''
|-
|[[Michael Steele]]
|44
|37
|33
|28
|style="background:lightgrey; text-align:center"|''Withdrew''
|style="background:lightgrey;"|
|style="background:lightgrey;"|
|}

:{{Color box|limegreen|border=darkgray}} Candidate won majority of votes in the round
:{{Color box|cornflowerblue|border=darkgray}} Candidate secured a plurality of votes in the round
:{{Color box|lightgrey|border=darkgray}} Candidate withdrew