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Selection of the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2020 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses are a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the approximately 3,979[lower-alpha 1] pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Those delegates shall, by pledged votes, elect the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.[4] The process began on February 3 and is scheduled to conclude in June 2020 after all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad have voted.
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This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (March 2020) |
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First place by initial pledged delegate allocation
First place by popular vote
First place by convention roll call
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The campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination began on July 28, 2018, when Maryland Congressman John Delaney became the first Democratic presidential candidate to announce his run for President. By April 2019, more than 20 major candidates were recognized by national and state polls, causing the field of 2020 major Democratic presidential candidates to exceed the field of 17 major candidates in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries as the largest presidential candidate field for any single U.S. political party in a single election cycle.[5][6][7][8] With the addition of Michael Bloomberg on November 24, 2019, the total number of major Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 Democratic primaries totaled 29.[9] In May 2019, CBS News referred to the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates as "the largest and most diverse Democratic primary field in modern history", including at least six female presidential candidates.[10]
Independent of the result of primaries and caucuses, the Democratic Party will, from its group of party leaders and elected officials, also appoint 771[lower-alpha 2] unpledged delegates (superdelegates) to participate in its national convention. In contrast to all previous election cycles since superdelegates were introduced in 1984, superdelegates will no longer have the right to cast decisive votes at the convention's first ballot for the presidential nomination. They will be allowed to cast non-decisive votes if a candidate has clinched the nomination before the first ballot, or decisive votes on subsequent ballots in a contested convention.[4][11][12]
As of March 5, 2020,[update] 26 candidates have suspended their campaigns, and three major candidates are still seeking the nomination: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Tulsi Gabbard. The debate in Westerville, Ohio, on October 15, 2019, featured 12 candidates, setting a record for the highest number of candidates in one presidential debate.