North Carolina Democratic Delegation 2008

The Green Papers
2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

North Carolina Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 6 May 2008¹
State Convention: Saturday 21 June 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged (source)	Soft Total	Hard Total
Obama, Barack	`875,988 55.99%`	`66.0 57.39%`	`9.0 47.37%`	`75.0 55.97%`
Clinton, Hillary Rodham	`652,994 41.74%`	`49.0 42.61%`	`3.0 15.79%`	`52.0 38.81%`
No Preference	`23,101 1.48%`
Gravel, Mike	`12,411 0.79%`
Uncommitted					`19.0 14.18%`
(available)			`7.0 36.84%`	`7.0 5.22%`	`115.0 85.82%`
Total	`1,564,494 100.00%`	`115.0 100.00%`	`19.0 100.00%`	`134.0 100.00%`	`134.0 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary,
Polling hours 6:30a EDT (1030 UTC) to 7:30p EDT (2330 UTC) / 8:30p EDT (0030 UTC). NORTH CAROLINA allows its County Boards of Elections to decide whether to keep polls open until 8:30 p.m. EDT but, outside of metropolitan areas, this local option is not often utilized and so 7:30 p.m. EDT is the networks' earliest time of projection beacuse the vast majority of that state's polls will have closed by that hour.
Voter Eligibility: Modified Primary

134 total delegate votes - 77 district / 26 at large; 12 Pledged PLEOs; 17 Unpledged PLEOs; 2 Unpledged add-ons

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Here is how we compute the delegate count (from NORTH CAROLINA Primary Returns from an official source):

A candidate must receive 15% or more of the total popular vote to qualify for delegates. Discard votes cast for those candidates who do not qualify.
Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the state-wide qualified vote.
In each jurisdiction (CD and statewide):

Total qualified vote = total votes cast for the qualifying candidates in the jurisdiction.
Allocation = (delegates for the jurisdiction) × (candidate's popular vote) ÷ (total qualified vote).
Assign each candidate the WHOLE NUMBER of delegates.
If delegates remain, allocate each of the remaining delegates to those candidates with the LARGEST REMAINDERS.

Tuesday 6 May 2008 Primary
Returns from the North Carolina Secretary of State
100% of the counties reporting as of 11:00 AM EDT 8 May 2008
Contest				Obama			Clinton
	Pop Vote	Qual Vote	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del
CD1	128,873	125,384	6	82,410	3.944	4	42,974	2.056	2
CD2	112,483	109,681	6	64,147	3.509	4	45,534	2.491	2
CD3	89,866	86,088	4	38,930	1.809	2	47,158	2.191	2
CD4	166,914	164,676	9	112,467	6.147	6	52,209	2.853	3
CD5	94,780	92,661	5	39,374	2.125	2	53,287	2.875	3
CD6	89,861	87,212	5	43,263	2.480	2	43,949	2.520	3
CD7	124,327	120,372	6	59,560	2.969	3	60,812	3.031	3
CD8	103,690	100,893	5	59,384	2.943	3	41,509	2.057	2
CD9	105,268	104,025	6	59,345	3.423	3	44,680	2.577	3
CD10	80,707	78,597	5	29,249	1.861	2	49,348	3.139	3
CD11	126,016	122,852	6	53,172	2.597	3	69,680	3.403	3
CD12	127,587	126,514	7	99,952	5.530	6	26,562	1.470	1
CD13	120,711	118,344	7	75,929	4.491	4	42,415	2.509	3
At-Large	1,471,083	1,437,299	26	817,182	14.782	15	620,117	11.218	11
PLEO	1,471,083	1,437,299	12	817,182	6.823	7	620,117	5.177	5
Delegates			115			66			49

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Edwards: 8, Obama: 1
31 January 2008: Obama: 1
1 February 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 2
16 February 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 3
15 March 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 4
19 April 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 6
30 April 2008: Clinton: 2, Obama: 6
7 May 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 8
8 May 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 9

The North Carolina Democratic Party DELEGATE SELECTION PLAN for the 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION As Approved by the State Executive Council on April 26, 2007

Having moved their first determining step from Stage II in 2004 (Saturday 17 April 2004) to Stage III in 2008 (Tuesday 6 May 2008), North Carolina receives a 30% Bonus in district at-large delegate votes (+18 district and +6 at-large).

Tuesday 6 May 2008: 115 of 134 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's North Carolina Presidential Primary. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at either the congressional district or statewide level.

77 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the caucus and conventions results in each of the State's 13 congressional districts.

CD 1: 6
CD 2: 6
CD 3: 4
CD 4: 9
CD 5: 5
CD 6: 5
CD 7: 6
CD 8: 5
CD 9: 6
CD 10: 5
CD 11: 6
CD 12: 7
CD 13: 7

In addition, 38 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary vote statewide.
- 26 at-large National Convention delegates
- 12 Pledged PLEOs

Saturday 21 June 2008: State Convention

The remaining 19 National Convention delegates consist of

17 Unpledged PLEO delegates:

9 Democratic National Committee members.
7 Members of Congress (0 Senators and 7 Representatives).
1 Governor.
0 Distinguished Party Leaders.

2 Unpledged "add-on"s (selected during the State Convention).

These 19 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

Links Links to other web sites

Constitution Links to State Constitutions
	• http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/stgovt/preconst.htm
Election Authority
	• North Carolina State Board of Elections
Legislature Links to State Legislatures
	• North Carolina General Assembly
	• North Carolina General Assembly - House
	• North Carolina General Assembly - Senate
	• North Carolina General Statutes
Democratic
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Media & others
	• Chapel Hill News
	• Concord and Kannapolis Independent Tribune
	• Daily Herald - Roanoke Rapids
	• DC's Political Report - North Carolina
	• Durham Herald-Sun
	• Goldsboro News-Argus
	• Hickory Daily Record
	• Lake Norman Navigator
	• Mooresville Tribune
	• Mount Olive Tribune
	• NC Rumors-News
	• NCRepublicans.com (not affiliated with the North Carolina Republican Party)
	• News & Record - Greensboro
	• NewsLink.org - North Carolina
	• newsobserver.com - Raleigh - Durham - Cary - Chapel Hill
	• North Carolina Open Elections
	• Politics1.com - North Carolina
	• Star-News - Wilmington
	• Statesville Record and Landmark
	• The Charlotte Observer
	• The Courier-Tribune - Asheboro
	• The Daily News - Jacksonville
	• The Enterprise Record - Davie County
	• The Fayetteville Observer-Times
	• The McDowell News
	• The Morganton News Herald
	• The New Bern Sun Journal
	• The Pilot - Southern Pines
	• The Star - Shelby
	• The Wilson Daily Times
	• Winston-Salem Journal
	• WRAL TV - CBS - Raleigh

¹ Democratic Party's "First Determining Step" of the delegate selection process.