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There are 12 overall delegates and 3 per county. However, more than 12/3 sometimes run for the delegate slots. You vote your preference for candidate and then pick the delegates you want to send to the convention. Most people will pick the delegates that match their overall choice. I voted Huckabee in the main choice as he is still in the race. However, Fred still could win this county, so I picked people that I knew would be good people to have at the convention.

State-wide, those 12 are split by percentage of the vote (with a 15% minimum showing required for delegates.) If anyone gets 66.6% (I think that’s the threshold) they get all 12. The same rules are applied county by county for the 3/county.

Here is the official:

Tuesday 5 February 2008: 39 of Tennessee’s 55 delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today’s Tennessee Presidential Primary.

27 district delegates, 3 from each of the 9 congressional districts, are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the primary results in that district.
12 at-large delegates are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the primary results statewide.
Delegates are allocated to Presidential candidates as follows:

If a candidate receives 66.6% of the vote statewide and 66.6% in each and every congressional district, that candidate receives all delegates from Tennessee.
If no candidate receives 66.6%, delegates are distributed proportionally. If a candidate receives over half of the votes statewide, they will receive seven delegates. The remaining five will be proportioned out among the other candidates receiving more than 20% of the vote.
If no candidate receives 66.6% of the vote in a congressional district, delegates are distributed as follows:
The candidate receiving the most votes receives 2 delegates.
The candidate receiving the next highest number of votes receives 1 delegate.