US Democratic primaries: what number of delegates does every candidate have?

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination continues tonight because the remaining candidates marketing campaign to attempt to win as lots of the 1,357 delegates as they’ll. On this single day, 14 states are voting. 

The winner will compete towards Donald Trump within the 2020 US presidential election. Candidates want a complete of 1,991 to safe the Democratic nomination. 

On Saturday, Joe Biden secured 39 delegates. The victory reenergised his marketing campaign and pit him as the first competitor to Bernie Sanders, who has led within the delegate rely since early February.

In a course of lasting till June 6, voters in every US state or territory will choose the delegates who will select the occasion’s nominee on the Democratic nationwide conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July. 

The Monetary Instances can be monitoring the outcomes state by state on this web page. Test again for our up-to-date tallies.

How the primaries work

The variety of delegates representing every state or territory is decided by a system primarily based on its inhabitants and ranges of assist for the Democratic candidate within the final three presidential elections. 

Candidates acquire “pledged” delegates, who’re sure to assist them, roughly in proportion to their share of the vote within the state’s major election or caucuses.

Greater than 700 further delegates are drawn robotically from the occasion’s management and elected officers. These superdelegates are “unpledged”, which means that they’ll assist any candidate. Below new guidelines adopted by Democrats in 2018, superdelegates will vote on the conference provided that no candidate secures a majority of the three,979 pledged delegates wanted to safe the nomination on the primary poll of the conference.

Sources: Related Press; Democratic Nationwide Committee

Further work by Jane Pong, Fan Fei, Brooke Fox and Christine Zhang

A earlier model of this web page incorrectly acknowledged that the variety of pledged delegates wanted to win on the primary poll was 1,990. The precise determine is 1,991.