Iowa, New Hampshire Come First, But Delegate Contribution is Small
While all the talk has been on Iowa and New Hampshire, voters likely won't get a sense of who will be the party nominees until after Feb. 5, the day when 22 states go to the polls to pick the Democratic choice and 19 vote in Republican rankings.
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Monday, January 07, 2008
While all the talk has been on Iowa and New Hampshire, voters likely won't get a sense of who will be the party nominees until after Feb. 5, the day when 22 states go to the polls to pick the Democratic choice and 19 vote in Republican rankings.
Normally, it takes a majority of the 2,516 delegates attending to win the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention. But in Minneapolis-St Paul on Sept. 1-4, only 2,380 of the delegates will be counted, since the Republican National Committee voted to cut by 50 percent the number of delegates who come from states that held their primary contests before Feb. 5, when RNC officials had hoped to start the nominating process. By Feb. 6, 1,258 delegates will have been selected.
The Democratic National Convention will seat 4,051 delegates from the 50 states and District of Colombia. Two states, Michigan and Florida, are being denied delegates at the Aug. 25-28 Democratic National Convention for skipping ahead of the DNC pre-Feb. 5 calendar released earlier this year. By Feb. 6, 2,238 delegates will have been selected.
Though their numbers pale in comparison to the tidal wave of Feb. 5 states, several contests including Iowa and New Hampshire are taking place before then, with varying degrees of influence and delegates.
The delegates listed below are the total number attending the conventions from each state. Delegates are both pledged and unpledged. Unpledged delegates are not bound to vote for any particular candidate.
Caucus winners are divided proportionally based on a candidate gaining a minimum threshold of 15 percent, depending on the state. Delegates from primary states can be divvied up based on the vote outcome, or in many cases, the winner of the raw vote will earn all the unpledged delegates from that state.
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The following is a partial tally of the states' contributions to the conventions:
Jan. 3: Iowa's caucuses will supply 40 delegates to the Republican convention. Caucuses are not penalized under RNC rules, and delegates are awarded proportionally.
(According to The Associated Press, 30 delegates went to Mike Huckabee and 17 to Mitt Romney, with three undesignated.)
Iowa's Democrats were also permitted to caucus without penalty. The state will supply 57 Democratic delegates, who are awarded proportionally.
(Barack Obama won 16 delegates, compared to John Edwards with 14 and Hillary Clinton with 15, AP reports. Fourteen are unpledged.)
Jan. 5: Wyoming will have 14 delegates after the RNC penalty. Delegates are awarded proportionally.
(Romney won eight delegates, Fred Thompson won three and Duncan Hunter won one, leaving two delegates available, according to AP figures.)
Jan. 8: New Hampshire will have 12 delegates after the RNC penalty. The state has 30 delegates to the Democratic convention. Delegates are awarded proportionally.
(John McCain won seven delegates, Romney won four and Huckabee picked up one, according to the AP.)
(AP: Clinton won nine, Obama won nine and Edwards won four).
Jan. 15: Michigan will have 30 delegates after the RNC penalty. Delegates are awarded proportionally. Michigan Democrats have 0 delegates at the convention after the DNC penalty.
Jan. 19: South Carolina will have 24 delegates after the RNC penalty. Delegates are awarded proportionally.
Nevada will have 34 delegates to the RNC convention and as a caucuses state is not penalized. The DNC convention will seat 33 Nevada Democrats.
Jan. 26: South Carolina will have 54 delegates to the Democratic convention. Delegates are awarded proportionally.
Jan. 29: Florida Republicans will have 57 delegates after the RNC penalty. Winner takes all.
Florida Democrats will have 0 delegates after the DNC penalty.
Feb. 1: Maine has 21 delegates and as a caucuses state was not penalized by the RNC.
Then there's Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, when thousands of delegates are at stake from the bevy of states voting that day. Here are the delegate tallies for each party in each state:
Alabama: DNC, 60. RNC, 48. (Primary; Statewide delegates awarded proportionally)
Alaska: DNC, 18. RNC, 29. (Caucuses)
Arizona: DNC, 67. RNC, 53. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Arkansas: DNC, 47. RNC, 34. (Proportional primaries)
California: DNC, 441. RNC, 173. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Colorado: DNC, 71. RNC, 46. (Caucuses)
Connecticut: DNC, 60. RNC, 30. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Delaware: DNC, 23. RNC, 18. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Georgia: DNC, 103. RNC, 72. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Idaho: DNC, 23. (Caucuses)
Illinois: DNC, 185. RNC, 70. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republicans hold loophole primary)
Kansas: DNC, 41. (Caucuses)
Massachusetts: DNC, 121. RNC, 43. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
Minnesota: DNC, 88. RNC, 41. (Caucuses)
Missouri: DNC, 88. RNC, 58. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
New Jersey: DNC, 127. RNC, 52. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
New Mexico: DNC, 38. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
New York: DNC, 281. RNC, 101. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
North Dakota: DNC, 21. RNC, 26. (Caucuses)
Oklahoma: DNC, 47. RNC, 41. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Tennessee: DNC, 85. RNC, 55. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all if he wins a majority, otherwise it is a proportional primary)
Utah: DNC, 29. RNC, 36. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories hold their primaries and caucuses after Feb. 5:
Feb. 9:
Louisiana: DNC, 67. RNC, 47. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
Kansas: RNC, 39. (Caucuses)
Virgin Islands: DNC, 9. (Caucuses)
Nebraska: DNC, 31. (Caucuses)
Feb. 10:
Maine: DNC, 34. (Caucuses)
Feb. 12:
District of Columbia: DNC, 38. RNC, 19. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Maryland: DNC, 99. RNC, 37. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Virginia: DNC, 101. RNC, 63. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Feb. 16:
Guam: RNC, 9. (Caucuses)
Feb. 19:
Hawaii: DNC, 29. (Caucuses)
Washington: DNC, 97. RNC, 40. (Democrats hold non-binding primary; Republican winner takes all)
Wisconsin: DNC, 92. RNC, 40. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Feb. 23:
American Samoa: RNC, 9. (Caucuses)
Virgina Islands: RNC, 9. (Caucuses)
Feb. 24:
Puerto Rico: RNC, 23. (Republican winner takes all)
March 4:
Ohio: DNC, 161. RNC, 88. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Rhode Island: DNC, 32. RNC, 20. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
Texas: DNC, 228. RNC, 140. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
Vermont: DNC, 23. RNC, 17. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
March 8:
Wyoming: DNC, 18. (Caucuses)
March 10:
American Samoa: DNC, 9. (Caucuses)
March 11:
Mississippi: DNC, 40. RNC, 39. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
April 22:
Pennsylvania: DNC, 188. RNC, 74. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republicans hold loophole primary)
May 3:
Guam: DNC, 9. (Caucuses)
May 6:
Indiana: DNC, 85. RNC, 57. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
North Carolina: DNC, 134. RNC, 69. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
May 13:
Nebraska: RNC, 33. (Republicans hold advisory primary)
West Virginia: DNC, 39. RNC, 30. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republican winner takes all)
May 18:
Hawaii: RNC, 20. (Caucuses)
May 20:
Kentucky: DNC, 60. RNC, 45. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
Oregon: DNC, 65. RNC, 30. (Both parties hold proportional primaries)
May 27:
Idaho: RNC, 32. (Republicans hold proportional primary)
June 3:
Montana: DNC, 24. RNC, 25. (Democrats hold proportional primary; Republicans hold advisory primary)
New Mexico: RNC, 32. (Republicans hold proportional primary)
South Dakota: DNC, 23. RNC, 27. (Both parties hold proportional primary)
June 14:
Puerto Rico: DNC, 63. (Caucuses)
March-June: Tentative -- Northern Marianas: RNC, 9. (Caucuses)
Democrats also have 11 delegates representing Democrats Abroad and 4 unpledged.
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