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2. The Democratic Party Primary

verfasst von : Michael A. Jones, David McCune, Jennifer M. Wilson

Erschienen in: Delegate Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We detail the process by which delegates are allocated to presidential candidates in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. First, we examine how delegates are apportioned among the states prior to the state contests and then explain the process by which they are subsequently divided into statewide and district-wide delegates. Then, using data from recent primaries, we illustrate the use of Hamilton’s method with a threshold, as prescribed by the Democratic Delegate Selection Rules, to allocate delegates to candidates based on their share of the popular vote, and explain how the geometry of the simplex can be used to visualize the allocation. We conclude with a brief discussion of the use of ranked choice voting in Democratic primaries.

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Fußnoten
1
In some election years, SEV was the average number of the state’s electoral votes in the current election year and the previous two presidential elections.
 
2
Each state party also receives a certain number of unpledged PLEO delegates, or superdelegates. These delegates played a large role in the 2008 and 2016 primaries, but in 2020 the rules were changed so that these delegates were not allowed to cast a vote in the initial round of voting at the Democratic National Convention. Thus, unpledged PLEO delegates vote only if a candidate does not secure a majority of the pledged delegate vote, which did not occur.
 
3
This rule was used by all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico, which divided its 44 base delegates into 33 district, 11 at-large delegates.
 
4
This was confirmed with state party officials from Colorado and county party officials from Iowa.
 
5
We note that the HI primary allows for voters to vote for uncommitted. This shadow candidate was not eliminated until Round 4, having lasted longer than Deval Patrick, Tom Steyer, and Amy Klobuchar. In HI’s second CD, uncommitted lasted until Round 6.
 
6
We obtained the ranked choice vote data for HI, KS, and WY and verified this ourselves. We were unable to obtain the AK data but were told in a private communication by an election official that the use of RCV also made no difference in AK.
 
Literatur
Zurück zum Zitat Balinski ML, Young HP (2001) Fair representation: meeting the ideal of one man, one vote, 2nd edn. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC Balinski ML, Young HP (2001) Fair representation: meeting the ideal of one man, one vote, 2nd edn. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC
Zurück zum Zitat Lucas WF (1983) The apportionment problem. In: Brams SJ, Lucas WF, Straffin PJ Jr (eds) Political and related models, modules in applied mathematics. Springer, New York, Chapter 14, pp 358–396 Lucas WF (1983) The apportionment problem. In: Brams SJ, Lucas WF, Straffin PJ Jr (eds) Political and related models, modules in applied mathematics. Springer, New York, Chapter 14, pp 358–396
Metadaten
Titel
The Democratic Party Primary
verfasst von
Michael A. Jones
David McCune
Jennifer M. Wilson
Copyright-Jahr
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24954-9_2