MINNESOTA Democratic Precinct CAUCUSES

Tuesday 5 February 2008

72 of 88 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are pledged to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's Minnesota Precinct Caucuses: 47 delegates are to be allocated proportionally to presidential contenders based on the results from the caucuses in each of the State's 8 congressional districts; 25 delegates allocated to presidential contenders based on the total caucus 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. (This is what is generally known as a "firehouse primary": during Democrat-Farmer Labor Party precinct meetings- in which local party officers are elected and delegates are chosen for the party's county and higher tier conventions (organizational bodies having nothing directly to do with the pledging of National Convention delegates to presidential contenders [although these later meetings will choose the actual delegates themselves])- a binding presidential preference canvass is also being taken).

MINNESOTA DELEGATE SELECTION PLAN FOR THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. APPROVED BY SCC -- 4-21-07

Here is how we estimate the delegate count (based on preliminary results of the Tuesday 5 February 2008 preliminary caucuses from an official source with 99.76% of the districts reporting):

1. 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.
2. Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the state-wide qualified vote.
3. In each jurisdiction (CD and statewide):
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.

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Clinton: 3, Edwards: 2, Obama: 2
31 January 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 2
2 February 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 3
9 February 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 6
29 February 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 8
5 April 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 9
19 April 2008: Clinton: 3, Obama: 10
3 June 2008: Clinton: 2, Obama: 11
4 June 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 12
8 June 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 14