Are any of the Dem primaries Tuesday winner take all?

[speedoo]

Thanks in advance.

[tammywammy]

1. No

[Bicoastal]

2. I don't think so--that's more a GOP thing than ours.

[speedoo]

3. Thanks. nt

nt

[earthside]

4. No, not anymore.

I think Democrats ended winner take all with the McGovern Commission in 1971.

[David in Canada]

5. No.

The winner-take-all system is a GOP-only policy.

Democratic primaries allocate delegates two ways. The first is by statewide totals. The second is via totals in any given congressional district. The districts delegate total could be weighted for their average support for Democratic nominees in a general election.

Any candidate who gets 15% statewide gets a portion of the statewide delegates. A candidate who wins 15% in a Congressional district also gets a proportion of those delegates as well, irregardless if he or she has received the prerequisite 15% in the statewide count.

An example of a candidate who failed to gain the prerequisite 15% of the vote for statewide delegates but achieved said threshold at the Congressional district level is Al Sharpton in the 2004 South Carolina primary. He received 10% statewide but earned 1 delegate from the majority-minority 6th Congressional District.