A detail: "Independent" voters are ineligible to vote in the Democratic Primary, however, "Unaffiliated" voters are eligible to participate with the understanding that their party affiliation will automatically change to Democrat upon casting their vote.

Tuesday 5 February 2008: 107 of 127 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's New Jersey 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.

• "70 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of 20 "delegate districts". Unlike the Democratic Parties in most states, New Jersey's Democrats will NOT be allocating the state's district delegates to the Democratic National Convention by congressional district but, instead, will utilize 20 special "delegate districts", each of which will consist of two Legislative Districts paired together. (New Jersey elects its State Legislature by Legislative District shared by both the Senate [the upper house] and the General Assembly [the lower house]: each of the state's 40 Legislative Districts [LD] elects 1 of the 40 state senators and 2 of the 80 state assemblymen)... the number of district delegates to the Democratic National Convention per "delegate district" (DD) is as follows:
• DD 1 (LDs 1&2): 3 delegates
• DD 2 (LDs 3&4): 4 delegates
• DD 3 (LDs 5&6): 4 delegates
• DD 4 (LDs 7&8): 4 delegates
• DD 5 (LDs 9&30): 3 delegates
• DD 6 (LDs 10&11): 4 delegates
• DD 7 (LDs 12&13): 4 delegates
• DD 8 (LDs 14&15): 4 delegates
• DD 9 (LDs 16&23): 3 delegates
• DD 10 (LDs 17&18): 3 delegates
• DD 11 (LDs 19&20): 3 delegates
• DD 12 (LDs 21&22): 3 delegates
• DD 13 (LDs 24&25): 3 delegates
• DD 14 (LDs 26&27): 4 delegates
• DD 15 (LDs 28&29): 3 delegates
• DD 16 (LDs 31&33): 3 delegates
• DD 17 (LDs 32&36): 4 delegates
• DD 18 (LDs 34&35): 3 delegates
• DD 19 (LDs 37&38): 4 delegates
• DD 20 (LDs 39&40): 4 delegates
• In addition, 37 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary vote statewide.
  • 23 at-large National Convention delegates
  • 14 Pledged PLEOs

Thursday 17 April 2008: State Committee

The remaining 20 National Convention delegates consist of

• 18 Unpledged PLEO delegates:
• 8 Democratic National Committee members.
• 9 Members of Congress (2 Senators and 7 Representatives).
• 1 Governor.
• 0 Distinguished Party Leaders.
• 2 Unpledged "add-on"s (elected by a vote, consisting of a quorum of 40% of the Members of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.).

These 20 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".