Talk:Delegate (American politics)

This article was nominated for deletion on 16 February 2019. The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

Delegate in politics

"Dude ate" should be included. Halidecyphon 17:13, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The programming note at the beginning feels very thrown in and is hard to understand. Perhaps a description could be put under the "other uses" heading. Phi*n!x 22:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

from VfD:

Delegate is a dictdef. Tempshill 23:35, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Comment: Maybe it should be a disambig page...there are many kinds of delegates. BrokenSegue 00:51, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Should ultimately be merged with the first part of delegation, under either name. As I see it, there's no difference between a "dictdef" and a stub. <KF> 01:37, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
Delete and redirect to delegation, although that's no winner, either. Dictdef. Geogre 04:38, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Keep. It needs work to become a full article, but the current contents are actually better than what's at delegation, and it is a topic we should have an article about. I've added a few sentences more. - RedWordSmith 05:45, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Merge and redirect to delegation. — Gwalla | Talk 22:05, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Keep. Acegikmo1 04:55, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Noun. Keep and expand or merge and redirect. anthony (see warning) 17:23, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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"proportional representation" (Democrats) is wrong.

The text indicates "proportional representation" for the Democrats, but is immediately followed by a 15% threshold. Those statements can both be true only if the total delegates are reduced by the percentage of votes going to candidates with <15%, or some other apportionment is applied to the residual (<15%) votes. (i.e., are the proportions of the whole divided among candidates with >15%?) I presume the answer is all regular delegates are divided proportionally among candidates with >15%. (I did not edit this because I don't know the answer, which is why I called up the article.) Unitacx 21:18, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Research shows another "proportional representation" error. From "270 to Win" https://www.270towin.com/content/thresholds-for-delegate-allocation-2020-democratic-primary-and-caucus "some are awarded based on the statewide (at-large) vote, while the remainder are based on the results in each individual congressional district [or similar division]." So we're back to the odd/even delegate districts that were critical in the 2008 primaries. If "270 to Win" is correct, this becomes proportional selection by district, which is substantially different from state-wide proportions (or state-wide proportions of candidates with >15%). Unitacx (talk) 21:30, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification requested

"...eliminate any of those they feel would not be supportive..." - What does this exactly mean? Could this be clarified? Jan Vlug (talk) 21:50, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Elected ...by whom?

Under both the Democrat and Republican section it says they are "...chosen/elected at the state or local level". By whom are they elected? Popular vote? How long do they stay "in office"? And most importantly, who are they? Isn't there one of those WP-typical "List of ... delegates" as with so many things? All in all I find this article (and the Super Tuesday one) to be rather chaotic and difficult to understand. 200.29.216.132 (talk) 18:23, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They are mostly (except the "party leaders and elected officials" category with the Democrats and the three RNC members per state with the Republicans) non-notable average Joeys who engage themselves in their party on grass-root level (although I admitt that a certain percentage of delegates is made up by lobbyists, but it doesn't change that they are mainly almost all non-notable). It wouldn't make sense to make a list of them (and their names aren't even all published). Important are the numbers of them and, as you said, how they are selected. The thing is, as always in the US, every state decides itself who is allowed to participate, but usually it's party members with the possibillity of same-day registration, so de facto it's open to anyone (except that most states don't allow to vote in more than one party's primary). The voting/selection method is also different in any state, although nowadays it's popular vote almost anywhere (but when a party has a sitting president, democracy is often heavily reduced and many state parties use the possibility to switch to whatever selection method they want in order to best protect the sitting president, and some of them even select their candidate just by e. g. a party committee vote, without any participation of other voters). --SamWinchester000 (talk) 23:59, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]