The Green Papers
2024 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Disclaimer:
These pages contain a combination of official, unofficial, and estimated data. The information posted here is subject to change and will be updated as official information becomes available.

The delegate selection processes herein, along with any and all dates and delegate counts associated therewith, are unofficial and based on either (1) information obtained from either Major Party, (2) Presidential Primary dates established by currently-effective State statute, or- where the foregoing information could not be obtained- (3) the state's 2020 delegate selection process and associated dates adjusted to the corresponding dates in 2024.

Democrats

  • The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee's 2 December 2022 recommendations for the "pre-window" dates have been used. Iowa is arbitrarily assigned a date of March 2024 for the time being.
  • Delegate counts reflect the DNC's 2024 Delegate Allocation document of 8 August 2022.
  • Democratic pledged delegate counts are determined by the jurisdiction's Presidential vote in 2012, 2016, and 2020; along with the jurisdiction's number of electors in 2024.
  • Democratic unpledged delegate counts are determined by the number of DNC Members, Democratic Governors, Democratic U.S. House members, and Democratic U.S. Senators serving at the time of the convention. The count for DNC Members, Distinguished Party Leaders is from the 2020 Convention. The tallies of Governors, Democratic U.S. House members, and Democratic U.S. Senators are the current officeholders.
  • Democratic Bonus Delegates and penalties are preliminary.

Republicans

  • Republican delegate counts are based on the number of Republicans elected to the State Legislatures, Governors chairs, U.S. House seats, and U.S. Senators seats through 31 December 2023. Republican unpledged delegate counts are determined by state (or equivalent) party rules. We have assumed that the policies of 2020 will apply in 2024.
  • The Republican district delegate count is based on the number of U.S. House members each state will elect in 2024.
  • Republican penalties for violating the timing window are not included in these delegate tallies.
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm Iowa Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Precinct Caucuses: March 2024 (presumably)1
County Conventions: Saturday 16 March 2024 (presumably)
District Conventions: Saturday 27 April 2024 (presumably)
State Convention: Saturday 8 June 2024 (presumably)
Democrats
CandidateDelegate Votes
Soft
Pledged
Soft
Unpledged
Soft
Total
Hard Total
(available)40.0 100.00%6.0 100.00%46.0 100.00%46 100.00%
Total40.0 100.00%6.0 100.00%46.0 100.00%46 100.00%

States Chronologically   States Alphabetically
 
Democratic Convention
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Republican Convention
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Iowa Primaries for Statewide offices and Congress
 
Iowa State and Local Government

 
   

2 December 2022: The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee moved Iowa out of the "pre-window" states. We have arbitrarily changed the caucus date to March for the time being.

March 2024 (presumably): Iowa Precinct Caucuses. Hours reportedly begin at 7:00p CST (0100 UTC). Delegate Pledging: Proportional Caucus/Convention. Voter Eligibility: Closed Caucus/Convention.

Precinct Caucuses First Expression of Preference
Not used for delegate computation. (preliminary)
Excluded from Nationwide vote.

CandidatePop
Vote
%
Total  
 

Precinct Caucuses Final Expression of Preference
Not used for delegate computation. (preliminary)
Included in Nationwide vote.

CandidatePop
Vote
%
Total  
 

Precinct Caucuses (preliminary)
Excluded from Nationwide vote.

CandidateState
Delegate
Equivalents
%
Total  
 

Democratic Party Caucuses meet in each precinct at 7 PM CST. Absentee or proxy voting is not allowed. Each Precinct Caucus chooses the precinct's delegates to the County Conventions based on presidential preference.

Satellite caucuses add additional locations for those cannot attend the in-person precinct caucus. Iowa Democrats can apply to hold a satellite at places such as factories, group homes, or community gathering facilities. Satellite caucuses are tallied as one additional county in each Congressional District. There is an out-of-state "At-Large" Satellite caucus whose votes are applied to the statewide delegates only.

  • At each caucus, each presidential contender who fails to get at least 15 percent support among the participants in the initial balloting after a period of discussion will be considered "non-viable" and all supporters of such "non-viable" presidential contenders will then be required to join in the support of presidential contenders who have remained "viable". To determine the viability of a presidential contender, multiply the number of eligible caucus attendees by the percentages below and round to the nearest whole number. This is the minimum number of delegates needed for the contender to remain viable.
    • 50% (majority vote) for caucuses electing 1 delegate.
    • 25% (one quarter) for caucuses electing 2 delegates.
    • 16.66...% (one sixth) for caucuses electing 3 delegates.
    • 15% for caucuses electing 4 or more delegates.

Example. 57 people attend a caucus electing 3 delegates. The viability is 1/6th of 57 = 9.5 rounded which is 10. Say 29 people support candidate A, 19 support candidate B, and 9 support candidate C. Candidates A and B are viable since they have support of 10 or more of the attendees. Because candidate C did not receive the support of 10 attendees, those supporting candidate C must realign to another candidate. At this point, the attendees realign themselves so 34 support candidate A and 23 support candidate B.

The caucus will next choose the precinct's delegates to who will be allocated in proportion to the percentage of the support each "viable" presidential contender received in the second round of balloting at the precinct caucus as of the time of its adjournment.

Continuing the example from above: For Candidate A: 3 (total precinct delegates) × 34 (supporters) ÷ 57 (total attendees) = 1.789 which rounds to 2 precinct delegates. Candidate B receives 3 × 23 ÷ 57 = 1.211 which rounds to 1 precinct delegate. Note: Due to rounding, the sum of precinct delegates may exceed the total number of precinct delegates allocated to the caucus. If this happens, round down the candidate with the smallest fraction. Candidates receiving 1 precinct delegate are not subject to this rule, that is, candidates cannot loose their only precinct delegate during this adjustment.

40 National Convention delegates are allocated from the state delegate equivalency results of the precinct caucuses. In addition, the first and last expression of preference are recorded.

How the Democratic Proportional Delegate Allocation Math works.

Precinct Caucuses
National Convention District Delegates
(excludes At-Large Satellite Caucus) (preliminary)

Contest
 State
Delegate
Equivalents
Votes
Qualified
State
Delegate
Equivalents
Votes
Del
CD1  6
CD2  7
CD3  8
CD4  5
Total
Delegates
  26

 

Precinct Caucuses
National Convention Statewide Delegates
(includes At-Large Satellite Caucus) (preliminary)

Contest
 State
Delegate
Equivalents
Votes
Qualified
State
Delegate
Equivalents
Votes
Del
PLEO  5
At-Large  9
Total
Delegates
  14
 

Saturday 16 March 2024 (presumably): County Conventions convene in each county to choose Congressional District delegates of which the county is a part as well as the county's delegates the Iowa State Democratic Convention.

 

Saturday 27 April 2024 (presumably): Democratic Party District Conventions convene in each congressional district to elect the district's delegates to the Democratic National Convention according to the results of the precinct caucuses. Hours reportedly begin at 9:00a CDT (1400 UTC).

 

Saturday 8 June 2024 (presumably): The Iowa State Democratic Convention convenes. Hours reportedly begin at 9:00a CDT (1400 UTC). The State Convention elects the 9 At-Large and 5 PLEO of the Iowa's Pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention according to the results of the precinct caucuses.

The remaining 6 National Convention delegates consist of

  • 6 Unpledged PLEO delegates:
    • 6 Democratic National Committee members.
    • 0 Members of Congress (0 Senators and 0 Representatives).
    • 0 Governors.
    • 0 Distinguished Party Leaders.

These 6 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

 

Notes

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

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

 

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Documentation
  Historical Analysis of the Presidential Nominating Process  
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  Primary/Caucus/Convention Glossary  
  Statutory Election Information of the Several states / Presidential Primary  
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