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Under party rules, automatic delegates shall "legally reside in their respective state and ... shall be recognized as part of their state's delegation" (Rule 9.E). [7] For example, in the 2008 convention, former Maine Governor Kenneth M. Curtis was a superdelegate (by virtue of his position as a past DNC chair), but because he had moved to Florida in 2006, he was counted as part of the Florida ...
The Democratic Party uses pledged delegates and unpledged delegates (generally known as superdelegates or sometimes as automatic delegates), a combined system which had been introduced in 1984. Between 1984 and 2016, a candidate for the Democratic nomination had to win a majority of combined delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention .
The pledged delegates are allocated proportionally, with certain threshold requirements, based on the statewide and congressional-level results from the primary.
Pledged and bound delegates must vote for a particular presidential candidate at the convention based on the results of the primary or caucus in their state. These are the delegates who are up for ...
Superdelegates used to cast votes to pick a nominee along with pledged delegates during the first round of voting at the convention, but rules changes following the 2016 presidential election bar ...
[1] [2] [3] The 8 unpledged delegates from Democrats Abroad carry half-votes at the convention, yielding a total of 712 votes. [4] Unpledged delegates represent about 15% of the overall convention votes (4,767 delegates, 4,763 votes) and come from several categories of prominent Democratic Party members:
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There were 4,051 pledged delegates and 714 superdelegates in the 2016 cycle. [165] Under the party's delegate selection rules, the number of pledged delegates allocated to each of the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. is determined using a formula based on three main factors: