# Presidential primary candidate without delegates on ballot

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-primary-candidate-without-delegates-on-ballot/848895 "2020-03-03T22:45:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-primary-candidate-without-delegates-on-ballot/848895/1 "2020-03-03T22:45:19Z")

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I’m looking at my sample ballot for the March 17 primary election (Illinois) and (after noticing how many no-longer-candidates are still listed, including Booker and Bennet 🙂 ) notice that not all the candidates in the “President, U.S.” race have designated delegates in the “Delegate to National Nominating Convention, \_\_\_ Congressional District” race. Specifically, only Biden, Sanders, and Warren have the full number in this “vote for 5” race, Buttigieg has four, Klobuchar has three, Yang has two, and Bloomberg has none at all.

So what does that mean?  
\*Does the race actually marked “President” decide everything, statewide and district delegates?  
\*Or does “President” decide who gets the statewide delegates, while the other race decides who gets delegates from my Congressional district? Which would mean that, for example, Bloomberg could never get any district delegates from my district no matter how well he does in the labeled “President” race. :dubious:

I presume a person could vote for (for instance) Sanders for “President” but Biden’s slate of delegates for the district if he/she perversely 😉 chose to?

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-primary-candidate-without-delegates-on-ballot/848895/2 "2020-03-03T23:41:51Z")

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> **[2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Illinois_Democratic_primary)**
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> The 2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary took place on March 17, 2020, the third primary Tuesday of the month, as one of three states voting on the same day in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election, while the contest in Ohio had been postponed for roughly a month. The Illinois primary was an open primary, with the state awarding 182 delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 155 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results...

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> The 155 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of the 155 pledged delegates, between 3 and 8 are allocated to each of the state’s 18 congressional districts and another 20 are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 34 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.[2]
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> National convention district level delegates are listed on the ballot and chosen during the primary. The national convention delegation meeting will subsequently be held on Monday, April 27, 2020 to vote on the 34 pledged at-large and 20 PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 155 pledged delegates Illinois sends to the national convention will be joined by 29 unpledged PLEO delegates (12 members of the Democratic National Committee; 15 members of Congress, including both Senators and 13 U.S. Representatives; the governor; and former president Barack Obama)