Primaries are a direct, statewide process of selecting candidates and delegates. Similar to the general election process, primary voters cast secret ballots for the candidates of their choosing.
The results are used to determine the configuration of delegates at the national convention of each party. Primaries come in two basic forms: In an open primary, all registered voters can vote for any candidate, regardless of their political affiliation. Registered Democrats may vote for a Republican candidate, and Republican voters may cast ballots for a Democrat, for instance.
But in a closed primary, voters may vote only for candidates of the party with which they are registered. Update, Feb. Its record on picking the eventual nominees is a bit rubbish too, at least when it comes to Republicans - when there's an open Republican race, Iowa hasn't opted for the eventual nominee since This year, Iowa suffered a bloody nose when the Democratic result was delayed by days due to technical glitches.
Its curtain-raiser status may now be in doubt. The tiny north-eastern state of only 1. What is a primary? Unlike a caucus, where voters are expected to turn up at a few limited locations at certain times and stick around for a while, primary voters can just turn up at a polling booth and vote in secret. Then leave. How does a primary work? The more votes a candidate gets in a caucus or primary, the more "delegates" they are awarded, and all candidates will be hoping to win an unbeatable majority of delegates.
The number of delegates differs in each state, and is decided by a convoluted series of criteria. In California's primary, for example, there are Democratic delegates up for grabs this year. In New Hampshire, it was only This year is a bit different. After New Hampshire, we started to get a clear picture of who was struggling Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren , but even though Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg had claimed the most delegates at this stage, neither is guaranteed to become the nominee.
A few other states voted in between New Hampshire and the end of February, but things really started to warm up by Super Tuesday, on 3 March. What is Super Tuesday? THE big date in the primary calendar, when 16 states, territories or groups voted for their preferred candidate in primaries or caucuses. A third of all the delegates available in the entire primary season were up for grabs on Super Tuesday.
By the end of the day it became much clearer that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were the front-runners for the Democratic nomination. The two states with the most delegates voted on Super Tuesday - California with Democratic delegates and Texas California voted three months earlier than in , making Super Tuesday even more super than normal. After hectic Super Tuesday, everyone gets to cool down for a week, before another busy day on Tuesday, 10 March, when six states vote, with delegates available.
After that, the primary season still has three months left to run and at the end, the role of those delegates will become clear Donald Trump will almost certainly be sworn in as the Republican nominee at the party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 24 and 27 August. The Democrats will confirm their candidate at their own convention between 13 and 16 July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
What happens in a convention? Let's say that during primary season, candidate A wins 10 delegates. During the convention, those 10 delegates would vote for candidate A to become the Democratic nominee. Any party member can apply to be a delegate - they tend to be party activists or local political leaders. All through the Democratic primaries, there are 3, delegates available.
This could well happen this year. There are so many candidates that no one frontrunner emerges in the primaries, and they split the delegates between them. In that circumstance, a second vote would follow. In that second vote, all the 3, delegates would vote again, except this time they would be joined by an estimated "superdelegates".
These are senior party officials past and present former president Bill Clinton is one, as is current Vermont senator and presidential contender Bernie Sanders , and they're free to vote for whomever they wish.
This is all thanks to a rule change in last time around, the superdelegates voted at the start of the convention, with the delegates. But many had pledged their support to Hillary Clinton even before the convention, leading her rival Mr Sanders to suggest the deck was stacked against him.
He's the one who campaigned for the change - and it may benefit him in After inching past Iowa, negotiated New Hampshire, survived Super Tuesday and come through the convention, there is only one step left for the nominee: the presidential election, on 3 November.
We'll explain how that one works a little closer to the time. Primaries unless stated otherwise. This is the most common kind of nominating contest. Usually the state arranges a statewide vote, and voters cast ballots in the privacy of a booth. The state then calculates vote totals into delegate allocation. Democrats allocate delegates proportionally — mostly based on statewide results and results inside individual Congressional districts.
For Republicans, some GOP primaries give their delegates to one state, while other states dole them out proportionally.
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