The Green Papers: Election 2000 
 
Democratic PartyTennessee Democrat
Primary: Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Popular VoteDelegate Votes
Floor VoteHard Total
Gore, Al  198,264  92%   81.  100%   68.   84%
Uncommitted  4,407   2%         13.   16%
Bradley, Bill  11,323   5%            
LaRouche, Lyndon  1,031   0%            
Write-In  178   0%            
Total  215,203 100%   81.  100%   81.  100%
Voter Eligibility: Open Primary, Polls Close at 7 PM CST (0100 UTC)
Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary

81 total delegate votes - 44 district / 15 at-large; 9 Pledged PLEOs; 12 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-ons

Last modified Tuesday, December 26, 2000
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19 March 2000: Unpledged delegate preference update: Gore 12, Bradley 0. Unpledged delegates appear in the "Soft Unpledged" field.


The Popular Vote above is based on official returns from the 14 March Primary.

Here's how we compute the delegate count:

  1. A candidate must receive 15% or more of the total popular vote to qualify for delegates. Discard those votes cast for candidates who do not qualify.
  2. Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the statewide qualified vote. Bill Bradley, having withdrawn from the campaign, is not entitled to receive At-Large and PLEO delegates.
  3. In each jurisdiction:
    1. Total qualified vote = total votes cast for the qualifying candidates in the jurisdiction.
    2. Allocation = (delegates for the jurisdiction) × (candidate's popular vote) ÷ (total qualified vote).
    3. Assign each candidate the WHOLE NUMBER of delegates.
    4. If delegates remain, allocate each of the remaining delegates to those candidates with the LARGEST REMAINDERS.

ContestGoreBradley
 VoteDelVote%DelVote%Del
CD110,515310,515100.000%3566  
CD217,617517,617100.000%51,007  
CD326,623526,623100.000%51,802  
CD426,663426,663100.000%42,222  
CD525,793625,793100.000%61,150  
CD631,152531,152100.000%51,833  
CD720,490420,490100.000%41,068  
CD818,906518,906100.000%5936  
CD915,756715,756100.000%7493  
PLEO193,5159193,515100.000%911,077  
At-Large193,51515193,515100.000%1511,077  
Delegates 68  68  0

Gore is the only candidate to receive 15% or more of the popular vote and thus receives all the delegates.


Tuesday 14 March 2000: 68 of 81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's Tennessee Presidential Primary.

  • "44 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the State's 9 congressional districts. In addition, 15 at-large National Convention delegates plus 9 Pledged PLEOs are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary vote statewide. 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."

The remaining 13 National Convention delegates consist of 12 Unpledged PLEOs and 1 Unpledged "add-on"; these 13 delegates will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

The breakdown of unpledged delegates is:

  • 7 Democratic National Committee members
  • 4 Members of Congress (Representatives)
  • 1 Distinguished Party Leader (Vice President Al Gore)
  • 1 add-on

Tennessee will send 44 district delegates to the Democratic National Convention apportioned among its 9 Congressional Districts as follows:

  • CD # 1: 3 delegates
  • CD # 2: 5 delegates
  • CD # 3: 5 delegates
  • CD # 4: 4 delegates
  • CD # 5: 6 delegates
  • CD # 6: 5 delegates
  • CD # 7: 4 delegates
  • CD # 8: 5 delegates
  • CD # 9: 7 delegates

Tennessee has 95 counties and 9 congressional districts: 90 counties are wholly within a given congressional district; 5 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.

UNDIVIDED COUNTIES (wholly within one Congressional District):

  • CD # 1: Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington
  • CD # 2: Blount, Loudon, McMinn and Monroe
  • CD # 3: Anderson, Bledsoe, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Morgan, Polk, Roane, Sequatchie and Van Buren
  • CD # 4: Bedford, Campbell, Claiborne, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles, Grainger, Hamblen, Hardin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Pickett, Rhea, Scott, Union, Warren, Wayne and White
  • CD # 6: Cannon, Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Marshall, Overton, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson and Wilson
  • CD # 7: Cheatham, Chester, Decatur, Dickson, Fayette, Hardeman, Henderson, Hickman, Lewis, McNairy, Maury, Montgomery and Perry
  • CD # 8: Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, Obion, Stewart, Tipton and Weakley

DIVIDED COUNTIES (split between more than one Congressional District):

  • Bradley: CDs 2 & 3
  • Davidson (coterminous with the City of Nashville): CDs 5 & 6
  • Knox: CDs 1, 2 & 4
  • Robertson: CDs 5 & 7
  • Shelby: CDs 7, 8 & 9

CD # 9 is wholly within Shelby County


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