Vermont Democratic Delegation 2008

The Green Papers
2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Vermont Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 4 March 2008¹
State Convention: Saturday 24 May 2008
National Convention Delegate Meeting: Saturday 7 June 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged (source)	Soft Total	Hard Total
Obama, Barack	`91,901 59.31%`	`9.0 60.00%`	`5.0 62.50%`	`14.0 60.87%`	`9.0 39.13%`
Clinton, Hillary Rodham	`59,806 38.59%`	`6.0 40.00%`	`1.0 12.50%`	`7.0 30.43%`	`6.0 26.09%`
Edwards, John	`1,936 1.25%`
Kucinich, Dennis J.	`1,010 0.65%`
Write-In	`307 0.20%`
Uncommitted					`8.0 34.78%`
(available)			`2.0 25.00%`	`2.0 8.70%`
Total	`154,960 100.00%`	`15.0 100.00%`	`8.0 100.00%`	`23.0 100.00%`	`23.0 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary,
Polling hours 5:00a EST (1000 UTC) to 7:00p EST (0000 UTC). Polls may open as early as 5:00a and no later than 10:00a as set by the Board of Civil Authority.
Voter Eligibility: Open Primary
Voter Affiliation: Voter registration does not include party affiliation

23 total delegate votes - 10 district / 3 at large; 2 Pledged PLEOs; 7 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-on

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Vermont Primaries for Statewide offices and Congress

Vermont State and Local Government

VERMONT DELEGATE SELECTIION PLAN FOR THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ISSUED BY THE VERMONT DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAY 19, 2007

Here is how we compute the delegate count (based on official returns from the 4 March primary):

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. Clinton and Obama have qualified for delegates.
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.

Contest				Obama			Clinton
�	Pop Vote	Qual Vote	Del	Vote	Alloc	Del	Vote	Alloc	Del
CD	154,960	151,707	10	91,901	6.058	6	59,806	3.942	4
PLEO	154,960	151,707	2	91,901	1.212	1	59,806	0.788	1
At-Large	154,960	151,707	3	91,901	1.817	2	59,806	1.183	1
Delegates	�	�	15	�	�	9	�	�	6

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Obama: 2
9 February 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 4
16 February 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 5

Tuesday 4 March 2008: 15 of 23 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's Vermont 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.

10 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the statewide primary results as Vermont has only one Congressional District.
In addition, 5 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary vote statewide.
- 3 at-large National Convention delegates
- 2 Pledged PLEOs

The State Convention caucuses will select the district delegates on 24 May 2008.

Participation in Vermont�s delegate selection process is open to all voters who wish to participate as Democrats.

Saturday 24 May 2008. State Convention.

Saturday 7 June 2008: National Convention Delegate Meeting

The remaining 8 National Convention delegates consist of

7 Unpledged PLEO delegates:

5 Democratic National Committee members.
2 Members of Congress (1 Senator and 1 Representative).
0 Governors.
0 Distinguished Party Leaders.

1 Unpledged "add-on" (selected by a quorum of elected district level delegates).

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

Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
	• Vermont Secretary of State
	• Vermont Secretary of State - Elections and Campaign Finance
Legislature Links to State Legislatures
	• State of Vermont Legislature
Democratic
	• The Vermont Democratic Party
Media & others
	• Bennington Banner
	• Brattleboro Reformer
	• Burlington Free Press
	• DC's Political Report - Vermont
	• News & Citizen - Morrisville
	• Politics1.com - Vermont
	• Rutland Herald
	• The Addison County Independent
	• The Barre Montpelier Times Argus
	• The Deerfield Valley News - West Dover
	• The Dwinell Political Report
	• The Stowe Reporter
	• The World - Barre
	• Valley News - White River Junction
	• Valley Reporter - Waitsfield
	• Vermont Guardian
	• Vermont Public Radio
	• Vermont Public Television
	• WCAX TV - CBS - Burlington
	• Williston Observer
	• WPTZ & WNNE TV - NBC - The Champlain Channel - Plattsburgh - Burlington
	• WVNY TV - ABC - Burlington - Plattsburgh

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