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2024 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
 
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Presidential Nominating Process
Candidate filing deadline: Monday 25 March 2024
Primary: Tuesday 4 June 20241
Special post-Primary State Convention: Wednesday 12 June 2024
Democratic State Committee / State Convention: Saturday 15 June - Tuesday 18 June 2024
Democrats
CandidateDelegate Votes
Hard TotalVirtual Roll Call
Harris, Kamala Devi 142  97.93%
(present) 2   1.38%
(available)4   2.76%1   0.69%
Biden, Joseph Robinette "Joe", Jr.122  84.14% 
Uncommitted19  13.10% 
Total145 100.00%145 100.00%

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New Jersey Primaries for Statewide offices and Congress
 
New Jersey State and Local Government

 
 

Delegate Selection Plan from the New Jersey Senate Democratic Party.

28 July 2023: DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting Committee Meeting found this plan in conditional compliance.

Candidate list from the New Jersey Division of Elections.

4 June 2024 primary results from a media source.


   

This Presidential Primary coincides with a state/local primary. These coinciding primaries tend to have an impact upon voter turnout.

Participation in New Jersey's delegate selection process is open to all voters registered as Democrats. 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 4 June 2024: New Jersey Primary. Hours reportedly 6:00a-8:00p EDT (1000-0000 UTC). Delegate Pledging: Proportional Primary. Voter Eligibility: Modified Primary.

Primary
Included in Nationwide vote.
Estimate updated 11 June 2024 02:30p EDT.

CandidatePop
Vote
%
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.569,88187.33%
Uncommitted63,6649.76%
Terrisa Lin Bukovinac18,9962.91%
Total652,541100.00%
 

126 of 145 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are pledged 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. Write in candidates are permitted. How the Democratic Proportional Delegate Allocation Math works.

  • 84 delegates are to be pledged proportionally to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of 20 "delegate districts" (unlike the Democratic Parties in most other 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).
  • In addition, 42 delegates are to be pledged to presidential contenders based on the primary vote statewide.
    • 28 at-large National Convention delegates
    • 14 Pledged PLEOs

Primary

Contest
 Pop
Vote
Qual
Vote
Del
DD1 (LDs 1&2)  5
DD2 (LDs 3&5)  3
DD3 (LDs 4&6)  4
DD4 (LDs 7&14)  5
DD5 (LDs 8&12)  4
DD6 (LDs 9&11)  3
DD7 (LDs 10&30)  3
DD8 (LDs 13&19)  4
DD9 (LDs 15&23)  2
DD10 (LDs 16&17)  5
DD11 (LDs 18&22)  5
DD12 (LDs 20&21)  5
DD13 (LDs 24&25)  2
DD14 (LDs 26&27)  4
DD15 (LDs 28&34)  5
DD16 (LDs 29&31)  5
DD17 (LDs 32&33)  5
DD18 (LDs 35&40)  5
DD19 (LDs 36&38)  5
DD20 (LDs 37&39)  5
PLEO  14
At-Large  28
Total
Delegates
  126

District-level delegates are elected by a two-part primary in which delegate positions are allocated based on a Presidential preference primary and filled through the election of delegates directly on the ballot. National Convention District delegates slates are approved by each Presidential candidate prior to the primary.

 

Wednesday 12 June 2024: Special post-Primary State Convention.

If a presidential candidate has qualified to receive District delegates but has failed to slate a sufficient number of delegate candidates, a special post-primary caucus fills the positions.

 

Saturday 15 June - Tuesday 18 June 2024: Democratic State Committee / State Convention

National Convention Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates are elected according to the results of the primary.

The remaining 19 National Convention delegates consist of

  • 19 Unpledged PLEO delegates:
    • 8 Democratic National Committee members.
    • 10 Members of Congress (2 Senators and 8 Representatives).
    • 1 Governor.
    • 0 Distinguished Party Leaders.

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



16 March 2022: NJDSC Letter to DNC to consider making New Jersey one of the first presidential primary states, LeRoy J. Jones, Jr., Chairman, New Jersey Democratic State Committee

circa 28 March 2023: A bill has been drafted in the New Jersey legislature that would allow New Jersey to employ ranked choice voting.

 

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.

 

Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
  New Jersey Division of Elections
  New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission
Democratic
  New Jersey Assembly Democratic Majority
  New Jersey Senate Democrats
  The New Jersey Democratic State Committee
Media & others
  centraljersey.com - Packet Publications - Princeton
  New Jersey Globe
  NJ.com- Everything Jersey Star-Ledger, Trenton Times, Jersey Journal and other NJ newspapers
  NJBiz.com
  NJTV - New Jersey Public Television - Englewood
  PolitickerNJ.com
  Politics1.com - New Jersey
  Press of Atlantic City
  the Trentonian
  The Westfield Leader
 


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  Results Status and Date Retrieved  
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Documentation
  Historical Analysis of the Presidential Nominating Process  
  Historical Analysis of the apportionment of delegate votes at the National Conventions of the two major parties  
  Primary/Caucus/Convention Glossary  
  Statutory Election Information of the Several states / Presidential Primary  
  Dates of PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES re: selection and/or allocation/distribution of Delegates to Major Party National Conventions  
 
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