Read more about the allocation of electoral votes. The District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution. Each candidate running for President in your State has his or her own group of electors known as a slate.
Read more about the qualifications of the electors and restrictions on who the electors may vote for. The general election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you vote for a Presidential candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's preferred electors.
Learn more about voting for the electors. Under Rule 12 J of the Democratic National Committee's delegate selection rules, any pledged delegate who expressed a candidate preference is encouraged but not required to vote for the candidate that he or she has been elected to support. There are three distinct types of pledged delegates: [7]. Pledged district delegates are distributed and elected at a district level usually the congressional district, but sometimes by state legislative district.
Pledged "add on" delegates allow for party leaders and elected officials to be represented. The number of such delegates is calculated by a particular formula in which the total number of both pledged district and pledged at-large delegates for a state is multiplied by 0.
Pledged add-on delegates most often are selected in a similar manner to at-large delegates. Unpledged delegates , often called " superdelegates ," are automatic delegates to the Democratic National Convention. They are not required to pledge their support to any presidential candidate. Unpledged delegates include members of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic members of Congress, Democratic governors, or distinguished party leaders, including former presidents and vice presidents.
They are free to support any presidential candidate of their choosing. Each state sends three members of the Republican National Committee to the Republican National Convention as automatic delegates. They comprise approximately seven percent of all delegates. According to the Congressional Research Service, "They are unbound in most states, but a few state parties bind them to vote as part of the whole delegation at the national convention.
The remaining delegates from each state are either at-large delegates or congressional district delegates. Every state receives a minimum of 10 at-large delegates.
Republican bound delegates are obligated to support a particular candidate as determined by state primaries and caucuses. In an interview with The Washington Post , political scientist Josh Putnam said that more than 95 percent of Republican delegates are bound. Excepting a handful of states, bound delegates are released after the first ballot. Unbound delgates are "are free to vote for any candidate, regardless of the caucus or primary results in" their state.
In the Republican context, pledged delegates encompass both bound delegates and unbound delegates who have been pledged to a candidate "by personal statements or even state law, but according to RNC rules, may cast their vote for anyone at the convention.
The tables below provide details about the Democratic and Republican presidential nominating contests in the 50 states, Washington, D. Choosing each State's electors is a two-part process. First, the political parties in each State choose slates of potential electors sometime before the general election.
Second, during the general election, the voters in each State select their State's electors by casting their ballots. The first part of the process is controlled by the political parties in each State and varies from State to State. Generally, the parties either nominate slates of potential electors at their State party conventions or they chose them by a vote of the party's central committee.
This happens in each State for each party by whatever rules the State party and sometimes the national party have for the process. This first part of the process results in each Presidential candidate having their own unique slate of potential electors. Political parties often choose individuals for the slate to recognize their service and dedication to that political party.
They may be State elected officials, State party leaders, or people in the State who have a personal or political affiliation with their party's Presidential candidate. For specific information about how slates of potential electors are chosen, contact the political parties in each State. The second part of the process happens during the general election. When the voters in each State cast votes for the Presidential candidate of their choice they are voting to select their State's electors.
The potential electors' names may or may not appear on the ballot below the name of the Presidential candidates, depending on election procedures and ballot formats in each State.
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