2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary

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2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary
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118 delegates (105 pledged, 13 unpledged)
to the Democratic National Convention
The number of pledged delegates won is determined by the popular vote
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Candidate Joe Biden Bernie Sanders
(withdrawn)
Home state Delaware Vermont
Delegate count1050
Popular vote922,177101,668
Percentage84.9%9.4%
Georgia Democratic presidential primary election results by county, 2020.svg
Election results by county
  Joe Biden
Pledged national
convention delegates
TypeDel.TypeDel.
CD1 5 CD8 4
CD2 5 CD9 4
CD3 4 CD10 4
CD4 7 CD11 5
CD5 7 CD12 4
CD6 5 CD13 6
CD7 5 CD14 3
PLEO14At-large23
Total pledged delegates105

The 2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary was held on June 9, 2020 alongside the West Virginia primary, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election. It was originally scheduled for March 24, 2020, but was moved to June 9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and previously cast early mail-in votes were disallowed and separately counted. The election coincided with primaries for Georgia's Class 2 Senate seat and Georgia's U.S. House of Representatives seats. The Georgia primary was an open primary, which awarded 118 delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of whom 105 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the primary results.

Contents

Former vice president and recently determined presumptive nominee Joe Biden won the primary and all 105 delegates with roughly 85% of the vote, while senator Bernie Sanders only received little more than 9%. Ten other withdrawn candidates, notably senator Elizabeth Warren in third place, made up the remaining 6%. [1] When totalling from the participation in the March 24 and June 9 primaries, this primary theoretically resulted in the highest Democratic presidential primary turnout ever.

Procedure

Georgia was previously scheduled to be the only state voting on March 24, 2020, in the Democratic primaries, [2] after secretary of state Brad Raffensperger had announced the date of the primary on June 19, 2019. The move marked a departure from past years, shifting away from an earlier March contest on Super Tuesday (traditionally made up of many southern states and therefore dubbed the "SEC primary"). Although its later date had the potential to diminish its influence, the Georgia primary's separation from other states on the primary calendar might also have placed it in a more influential position should the primary still have been competitive by then. [3] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the primary was first on March 14 moved by Raffensperger to the general Georgia primary date for other offices on May 19, [4] and then both primaries were on April 9 again rescheduled to June 9, with Georgia voting alongside equally rescheduled West Virginia on that day. [5] More than 200,000 votes had already been cast by mail in the March 24 primary before it was cancelled. These votes were not included in the official June 9 primary result, however they were separately counted. [6] Voters who participated in the March 24 primary were able to vote again in the June 9 primary, but only for other offices. [7]

Voting was expected to take place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. In the open primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 105 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of these, between 3 and 7 were allocated to each of the state's 14 congressional districts and another 14 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 23 at-large delegates. Due to the original March date the primary as part of Stage I on the primary timetable received no bonus delegates, in order to disperse the primaries between more different date clusters and keep too many states from hoarding on a March date. [8]

District-level delegates were elected on May 23 (caucuses to be held online, previously scheduled for March 28 or March 29) and then selected the 14 pledged PLEO delegates also online on June 20 (previously scheduled for April 18). [9] The state committee meeting was subsequently held also on June 20 and voted on the 23 at-large delegates for the Democratic National Convention. The delegation also included 13 unpledged PLEO delegates: 8 members of the Democratic National Committee, 4 representatives from Congress, and former president Jimmy Carter. [10]

Candidates

The following candidates qualified for the ballot in Georgia: [11]

Running

Withdrawn

Polling

Polling aggregation
Source of poll aggregationDate
updated		Dates
Polled		 Joe
Biden 		Bernie
Sanders 		Undecided [lower-alpha 1]
FiveThirtyEight Mar 14, 2020until Feb 13, 2020 [lower-alpha 2] 67.3%30.1%2.6%
Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Joe
Biden		Michael
Bloomberg		Pete
Buttigieg		Kamala
Harris		Bernie
Sanders		Elizabeth
Warren		Andrew
Yang		OtherUndecided
Apr 8, 2020Sanders suspends his campaign
The Progress Campaign (D) Mar 12–21, 2020913 (RV)± 4.6%63%–––34%–––2.3% [lower-alpha 3]
University of Georgia Mar 4–14, 2020807± 3.4%66%–––22%––1% [lower-alpha 4] 11%
Mar 5, 2020Warren withdraws from the race
Mar 4, 2020Bloomberg withdraws from the race
Mar 1, 2020Buttigieg withdraws from the race
Landmark Feb 12, 2020500± 4.3%32%14%5%–14%4%–6% [lower-alpha 5] 26%
Feb 11, 2020Yang withdraws from the race
Dec 3, 2019Harris withdraws from the race
SurveyUSA Nov 15–18, 2019536± 5.2%36%6%7%6%17%14%–5%9%
Climate Nexus Nov 4–10, 2019457± 3.6%31%–4%4%14%14%2%11% [lower-alpha 6] 19%
Landmark Sep 18–21, 2019500± 4.1%41%–5%6%8%17%2%6% [lower-alpha 7] 15%
Change Research Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine Sep 7–11, 2019755± 3.6%33%–7%7%17%22%3%10% [lower-alpha 8] –
SurveyMonkey Jul 2–16, 2019402± 6.4%31%–5%15%12%13%4%11% [lower-alpha 9] 9%

Results

2020 Georgia Democratic presidential primary [12]
CandidateVotes %Delegates [13]
Joe Biden 922,17784.86105
Bernie Sanders (withdrawn)101,6689.36
Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn)21,9062.02
Andrew Yang (withdrawn)9,1170.84
Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn)7,6570.70
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn)6,3460.58
Michael Bennet (withdrawn)5,1540.47
Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn)4,3170.40
Tulsi Gabbard (withdrawn)4,1170.38
Tom Steyer (withdrawn)1,7520.16
John Delaney (withdrawn)1,4760.14
Deval Patrick (withdrawn)1,0420.10
Total1,086,729100%105

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined
  2. ↑ FiveThirtyEight aggregates polls with a trendline regression of polls rather than a strict average of recent polls.
  3. ↑ Listed as "other/undecided"
  4. ↑ Gabbard with 1%
  5. ↑ Klobuchar with 3%; Steyer with 2%; Gabbard with 1%
  6. ↑ Booker and Williamson with 2%; Bennet, Bullock, Castro, Delaney, Gabbard, Klobuchar, and Steyer with 1%; Sestak with 0%
  7. ↑ Booker with 2%; Gabbard, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, and Williamson with 1%; Bennet, Castro, and Steyer with 0%
  8. ↑ O'Rourke with 3%; Booker, Gabbard, and Williamson with 2%; Castro and Klobuchar with 1%; Bennet, Bullock, Delaney, Messam, and Steyer with 0%
  9. ↑ Castro with 3%; Booker, Bullock, and Klobuchar with 2%; O'Rourke and Ryan with 1%; Bennet, de Blasio, Delaney, Gabbard, Gillibrand, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Messam, Moulton, Sestak, and Williamson with 0%

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