Super delegate

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A Super Delegate ( English superdelegate ) is a senior member of the Democratic Party in the United States that can be turned on to clear the Democratic presidential candidate in the US election campaign set. Super delegates are

The term “super delegate” is informal. The official designation is unpledged party leader and elected official delegate (German: not obliged party leader and elected official delegate). In contrast to the delegates elected in primary elections , superdelegates are not bound to any candidate. There were 796 superdelegates at the 2008 Democratic National Convention for the election of the presidential candidate. They thus made up around a fifth of the delegates.

The introduction of the super delegates was decided in 1982 after the lost presidential election in 1980 . They wanted to give the active politicians of the Democratic Party a greater role in the selection of the presidential candidate.

On August 25, 2018, the Democratic National Committee decided that super delegates would no longer be allowed to participate in the first round of voting. However, if no candidate reaches a majority of the elected (pledged) delegates, superdelegates are entitled to vote in all subsequent votes.

The Republicans have a similar process. The term super delegate is rarely used there. More common, however, is unpledged delegate .

References and comments

  1. ↑ US Democrats disempower super delegates. spiegel.de, August 25, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2018 .

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