The Democratic Party Primary

Michael A. Jones (), David McCune () and Jennifer M. Wilson ()
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Michael A. Jones: American Mathematical Society
David McCune: William Jewell College
Jennifer M. Wilson: Eugene Lang College, The New School

Chapter Chapter 2 in Delegate Apportionment in the US Presidential Primaries, 2023, pp 23-38 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We detail the process by which delegatesDelegate are allocated to presidential candidates in the Democratic Party presidential primaries. First, we examine how delegatesDelegate 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 thresholdThresholds, as prescribed by the Democratic DelegateDelegate Selection Rules, to allocate delegates to candidates based on their share of the popular vote, and explain how the geometry of the simplexSimplex can be used to visualize the allocation. We conclude with a brief discussion of the use of ranked choice voting in Democratic primaries.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24954-9_2

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