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