Puerto Rico Democratic Delegation 2008

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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Puerto Rico Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Sunday 1 June 2008¹
Democratic Assembly: Saturday 21 June 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Hard Total	Floor Vote
Clinton, Hillary Rodham	`263,120 68.42%`	`38.0 60.32%`
Obama, Barack Hussein	`121,458 31.58%`	`17.0 26.98%`
Uncommitted		`8.0 12.70%`
(available)
(not voting)			`63.0 100.00%`
Total	`384,578 100.00%`	`63.0 100.00%`	`63.0 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary,
Polling hours 8:00a AST (1200 UTC) to 3:00p AST (1900 UTC).
Voter Eligibility: Open Primary

63 total delegate votes - 36 district / 12 at large; 7 Pledged PLEOs; 7 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-on

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Sunday 1 June 2008 Puerto Rico Primary returns from an official source.

Saturday 21 June 2008 Puerto Rico Democratic Assembly coverage from Vocero De Puerto Rico: Divididos demócratas locales.

Information in English and Spanish-- Puerto Rico's 2008 Democratic presidential primary from ElectionResources.org.

Here is how we compute the delegate count:

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.

Sunday 1 June 2008 Primary Results
Preliminary Results as of 2 June 2008 with 100% of the units reporting
Contest				Clinton			Obama
	Pop Vote	Qual Vote	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del
SD1 San Juan	51,791	51,791	6	37,234	4.314	4	14,557	1.686	2
SD2 Bayamón	50,558	50,558	5	34,946	3.456	3	15,612	1.544	2
SD3 Arecibo	49,873	49,873	4	34,724	2.785	3	15,149	1.215	1
SD4 Mayagüez	52,936	52,936	4	36,403	2.751	3	16,533	1.249	1
SD5 Ponce	44,658	44,658	4	31,663	2.836	3	12,995	1.164	1
SD6 Guayama	45,357	45,357	4	30,054	2.650	3	15,303	1.350	1
SD7 Humacao	46,193	46,193	4	29,890	2.588	3	16,303	1.412	1
SD8 Carolina	43,212	43,212	5	28,206	3.264	3	15,006	1.736	2
PLEO	384,578	384,578	7	263,120	4.789	5	121,458	2.211	2
At-Large	384,578	384,578	12	263,120	8.210	8	121,458	3.790	4
Delegates			55			38			17

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Clinton: 3
16 February 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 2
30 April 2008: Clinton: 4, Obama: 2

Reference: PUERTO RICO AMENDED DELEGATE SELECTION PLAN COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO AMENDED DELEGATE SELECTION PLAN FOR THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ISSUED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico MARCH 6, 2008

7 March 2008 correction: Puerto Rico will hold a 1 June primary rather than a 7 June 2008 caucus. The decision to change to a caucus was made circa 6 March 2008. The previously listed caucus date of 7 June 2008 was a typo in an official document.

6 February 2008: U.S. News and Word Report: Puerto Rican Poll Power by Michael Barone
11 February 2008: Will Puerto Rico decide everything?
7 March 2008: Puerto Rico switches to a Primary, moves up to June 1
7 March 2008: Puerto Rico to Hold Democratic Primary
7 March 2008: Puerto Rico Democrats Seek to Change Contest
7 March 2008: Puerto Rico Last No More
7 March 2008: Puerto Rico seeks greater voice in Democratic race
25 March 2008: Democrats' Puerto Rico primary brought up to June 1

Having begun their first determining step in Stage III in 2008 (14 June 2008), Puerto Rico receives a 10% Bonus in district and at-large delegate votes (+3 district and +1 at-large).

Sunday 1 June 2008: 55 of 63 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's Puerto Rico Presidential Primary. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at either the senatorial district or islandwide level.

36 district delegates are proportionally allocated by senatorial district (Puerto Rico has no congressional districts).

District 1 San Juan: 6
District 2 Bayamón: 5
District 3 Arecibo: 4
District 4 Mayagüez: 4
District 5 Ponce: 4
District 6 Guayama: 4
District 7 Humacao: 4
District 8 Carolina: 5

In addition, 12 at-large and 7 Pledged PLEOs are proportionally allocated by the islandwide vote.

12 at-large National Convention delegates
7 Pledged PLEOs

Every person qualified to vote in the general election in Puerto Rico is entitled to vote in the Presidential Primary. Voters shall certify under oath that they have not participated and will not participate in the selection of Presidential candidates for any other party.

Saturday 21 June 2008: Democratic Assembly

The remaining 8 National Convention delegates consist of

7 Unpledged PLEO delegates:

6 Democratic National Committee members.
0 Members of Congress (the Resident Commissioner is a non-voting Delegate in the House of Representatives).
1 Governor.
0 Distinguished Party Leaders.

1 Unpledged "add-on" (selected during the Democratic Assembly).

These 8 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

Delegation to the National Convention

Puerto Rico Delegation (as posted by http://www.demconvention.com/, 18 July 2008)

Role	Clinton	Obama	(total)
Pledged District	0	0	0
Pledged PLEO	0	0	0
Pledged At-Large	0	0	0
Total Pledged	0	0	0
Alternate Pledged District	6	0	6
Alternate Pledged PLEO	0	0	0
Alternate Pledged At-Large	2	1	3
Total Alternates	8	1	9
Unpledged			8
Credentials Committee			3
Platform Committee			2
Rules Committee			2
Pages			2

Role(s)	Preference	Name	Residence
Alternate Pledged District	Clinton	Luis Caraballo	Cidra, PR
Alternate Pledged District	Clinton	Veronica Cortés	San Juan, PR
Alternate Pledged District	Clinton	Sergio M. Marxuach	Dorado, PR
Alternate Pledged District	Clinton	Loida Meléndez	Guaynabo, PR
Alternate Pledged District	Clinton	Hon. Luis D. Muñiz	Moca, PR
Alternate Pledged District	Clinton	Andrea A. Ríos-Rodríguez	Humacao, PR
Alternate Pledged At-Large	Obama	Alejandro García-Padilla	Caguas, PR
Alternate Pledged At-Large	Clinton	Sheymar Lausell	San Juan, PR
Alternate Pledged At-Large	Clinton	Suzette Rivera-Mac Murray	San Juan, PR
Unpledged Delegation Vice Chair		Luisette Cabanas-Colon	San Juan, PR
Unpledged Delegation Chair		Hon. Roberto L. Prats	San Juan, PR
Unpledged Add-On		Marie O. Rivera	San Juan, PR
Unpledged DNC Member		Celita Arroyo de Roques	San Juan, PR
Unpledged DNC Member		Francisco J. Domenech	Guaynabo, PR
Unpledged DNC Member		Hon. Kenneth McClintock	San Juan, PR
Unpledged DNC Member		Eliseo Roques-Arroyo	San Juan, PR
Unpledged Governor		Hon. Anibal Acevedo Vila	San Juan, PR
Credentials Committee	Clinton	Francisco Chévere	San Juan, PR
Credentials Committee	Obama	Marie H. Reinhold	San Juan, PR
Credentials Committee		Eliseo Roques-Arroyo	San Juan, PR
Platform Committee	Obama	Andrés Guillemard-Noble	Guaynabo, PR
Platform Committee	Clinton	Liza M. Ortíz-Camacho	San Juan, PR
Rules Committee	Clinton	Enid M. Gavilán	Guaynabo, PR
Rules Committee	Clinton	Miguel Lausell	San Juan, PR
Page		Michael Ayala-Carrión	Trujillo Alto, PR
Page		Marinina Luis	San Juan, PR

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