So it's possible that one of Biden's opponents wins some delegates to the convention based on the results (or, like what happened in Michigan, "uncommitted" wins delegates). Unlike the Republican side, Democrats always award delegates in each state proportionally to candidates who hit a 15% threshold. While the Republican National Committee's rules don't allow most states to hold true winner-take-all contests before March 15, many Super Tuesday states will turn into de facto winner-take-all states because of the one-on-one nature of the race. Are the contests winner-take-all or proportional? And after the four contests March 12, more than 50% of the delegates will have been awarded. Once all of the delegates from Super Tuesday and the previous contests are allocated, more than 47% of the delegates will have been awarded. That’s about 36% of all the delegates in the entire race. There are 865 Republican delegates at stake in the Super Tuesday GOP nominating contests. The contests in Alaska, California, Oklahoma and Utah fall into this category on the GOP side.įor all the attention paid to the first nominating contests, those early states awarded just 11% of the total delegates in the GOP presidential nominating contest. Closed: Voters must be registered with a party to vote in its primary or caucus.The Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee primaries are partially open. In some cases, voters are considered to be registered with a party if they cast their ballots in that primary, at least for the rest of the election cycle. Partially open: These contests are typically restricted to members of the party, as well as unaffiliated voters.Among the Republican contests Tuesday, Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, Texas, Virginia and Vermont are holding open primaries.
Open: Voters may choose which primary to vote in regardless of their registration (in many cases, these states also don't ask voters to register by party).