GOP State Platforms

GOP State Platforms are the work of state delegates who typically meet every two years within their own states.

Idaho GOP Platform

The Idaho Republican Party Platform was adopted on June 20, 2026, at the state convention held in Meridian, Idaho. It's well-organized across 36 pages with plenty of space among its 19 Articles.

Strengths

• supporting vaccine choice, including a conscientious objection to vaccination
• opposing ranked-choice voting
• does not endorse a Con Con despite pressure to do so
• opposes term limits
• opposes "allow[ing] those who have no loyalty or allegiance to the Idaho Republican Party or its platform and Resolutions to select our candidates"; instead supports allowing "all people who have affiliated as Republicans at least one year prior to the primary election and who support a vast majority of the Idaho Republican Platform" to vote in GOP primaries.

Weaknesses

• silent about the gambling pandemic
• fails to criminalize possession and use of the abortion pill, but does have strong pro-life statements
• fails to oppose data centers

South Dakota Platform

The 2024 South Dakota Platform is posted online.

Improvements Needed

Section 3.7 Vaccine Choice. We support the full right of vaccine choice without forcing a vaccine on any individual who objects to it.

Section 4.11 Predatory Gambling. We oppose predatory gambling in all its forms, including our opposition to sports gambling, prediction markets, and gambling by anyone under the age of 21.

Section 5.14 Data Centers. We support a moratorium on data centers until many issues, including energy and water use, noise, and cost/benefits, can be addressed with full transparency

Section 8.5 Sanctity of Life by adding this sentence. We support criminalizing the possession and/or use of the abortion pill, which terminates a human life while harming the mother.

North Dakota GOP Platform

The North Dakota Republican Party's is much too short to draw many conclusions.

North Dakota has some "convention resolutions", but it is unclear what those mean.

Strengths

• strongly supports the right to bear arms
• strongly affirms traditional marriage, the family, and the party's stated American moral tradition

Weaknesses

• the platform itself does not specifically address gambling in the manner of the South Dakota platform
• does not contain a specific provision criminalizing possession or use of the abortion pill
• does not oppose data centers
• too brief, does not address many policies

Oklahoma GOP Platform

The 2024 Oklahoma Platform is posted online.

Strengths

• strongly supports parental rights, including parents' authority over their children's healthcare, vaccine choice, and education
• has terrific pro-life language, including support for a state constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion and the abortion pill as murder (see: Biased murder statistics)
• opposes homosexual marriage

Weaknesses

• despite its strong pro-life language, the platform does not specifically identify the abortion pill by name as a separate criminal offense
• does not contain a specific plank opposing gambling or sports gambling
• does not specifically address data center development
• the platform contains no specific provision addressing a Con Con or an Article V constitutional convention

Maine GOP

The Maine GOP party platform is only six pages long, and has this powerful ending: "May God bless America and may God bless the great state of Maine."

Strengths

• Endorses a parental bill of rights
• Supports enacting a right to work law
• Supports repealing Maine's ranked choice voting system
• Supports local food rights, an insightful proposal not found in another GOP platform (so far)

Weaknesses

• Silent on data centers
• Does not oppose the death pill, and merely one sentence about the sanctity of human life
• No anti-gambling provision

New Hampshire

The New Hampshire GOP platform powerfully ends with the words "May God forever bless the United States of America and the great State of New Hampshire."

Strengths

• Strongly opposes new taxes and budget gimmicks to falsely pretend that taxes have been lowered
• Endorses a parental bill of rights
• Endorses fetal personhood

Weaknesses

• Silent on data centers
• Only rejects gambling "as a means to balance the budget or increase spending"

Vermont GOP

The Vermont Republican Party adopted its current platform at its platform convention on May 30, 2026, the delegates having gathered in Randolph. At roughly five hundred words across a preamble, nine brief headings, and a conclusion, it is the shortest platform surveyed here, briefer even than North Dakota's.

Strengths

• Opens on the Declaration of Independence and the Creator as the source of unalienable rights, and closes by affirming "one nation under God"
• Defends Vermont's longstanding tradition of school choice
• Endorses religious protection for every healthcare worker
• Names the family as the fundamental institution on which society rests
• Insists that government be administered transparently and without political bias

Weaknesses

• Silent on data centers
• Silent on gambling in every form, predatory or otherwise
• Merely affirms the inherent value of human life in a single clause. Does not mention abortion, the abortion pill, or fetal personhood
• Contains no mention whatever of the Second Amendment or the right to keep and bear arms
• Does not define marriage, or mention it
• Silent on ranked choice voting, term limits, and a Con Con
• Says nothing about who may vote in Republican primaries

Florida GOP

The Republican Party of Florida does not publish a platform written by Florida delegates. Its website offers a mission statement praising freedom, liberty, personal responsibility, and accountability, followed by a Reagan quotation, and nothing more. The party instead follows the national Republican platform. Florida is thus the largest state surveyed here and the only one whose delegates write nothing of their own; the 2024 national document it defers to runs sixteen pages across ten chapters.

Strengths

• The national platform's seventh promise defends the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
• Chapter Eight promotes a culture valuing the sanctity of marriage and the foundational role of families
• Chapter Seven endorses universal school choice in every state, supports homeschooling families equally, restores parental rights, and champions the right to pray and read the Bible in school
• Chapter Seven also closes the federal Department of Education and returns schooling to the states
• Chapter Nine defends religious liberty and creates a federal task force on anti-Christian bias
• Separately from the platform, the Republican Party of Florida Executive Board unanimously resolved in 2024 to oppose the state constitutional amendments on abortion and on recreational marijuana

Weaknesses

• There is no Florida platform at all, and so nothing that Florida delegates may be held to, amended, or measured against
• The national platform names abortion a single time, and leaves the matter to the states rather than protecting the unborn child directly
• Does not criminalize possession or use of the abortion pill, and does not adopt fetal personhood outright
• Says nothing of gambling, sports betting, or prediction markets, an omission of some weight in a state with an enormous wagering compact
• Silent on data centers
• Silent on vaccine choice and on medical conscientious objection
• Silent on a Con Con, on term limits, and on ranked choice voting
• Invokes the sanctity of marriage without ever defining it as the union of one man and one woman, unlike the Oklahoma platform