Cumulative Delegate Report ("DelSum")
Description
During a presidential year, the cumulative delegate report shows the
current breakdown of presidential preferences and pledges of delegates
to the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
This report provides total pledged and unpledged delegates
assigned to this candidate, including the sum of changes in the number
of pledged delegates each candidate has won and any unpledged delegate
endorsements gained or lost since midnight the day before the last election,
in the past week, and past month.
Delegate numbers are the total number of pledged and
unpledged (super) delegates for each candidate. The numbers are based
on party and state rules, delegate interviews, public statements and analysis
of election results by the Associated Press. Results are added across
states and territories where an election has occurred or where unpledged
delegates have indicated support for a candidate.
Example and Data Elements
This shows a sample
cumulative delegate report.
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This report is also available
in JSON, with the XML version of the report returned by default
when you follow the direct link to the report from the report
list (for more information, see Election
Reports). For brevity, report examples in the online documentation
are provided in XML. JSON property names match the names of the
XML elements. |
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This table describes the XML elements and attributes used in the cumulative
delegate report.
XML
Element |
Description |
delSum |
The tag for this
report. |
@timestamp |
The date and time
when the report was generated. |
@Test |
Indicates whether
the report contains test data (Test=1)
or live data (Test=0). |
del |
Contains information
about the party's delegate allocation. |
@dToBeChosen |
Total delegates
still available for allocation for the party. |
@dChosen |
Total delegates
chosen/allocated so far for the party. |
@dVotes |
Total delegates
(pledged and unpledged) available for the party (dChosen + dToBeChosen). |
@dNeed |
Total delegates
needed to nominate a candidate for the party. |
@pId |
Party ID. |
Cand |
Contains information
about the delegate allocation for each candidate. |
@cId |
Candidate's national
ID. |
@cName |
Candidate's name. |
@dropoutDate |
The date when
the candidate drops out of the race or suspends their campaign. |
@presumptiveNominee |
Value of "X" is assigned to one Democratic
candidate and one GOP candidate when enough delegates have been
allocated to them according to party rules based on presidential
nominating events. |
@conventionWinner |
Value of "X" is assigned to one Democratic
candidate after being elected during the Democratic National Convention
and one GOP candidate after being elected during the Republican
National Convention. This may or may not be the same as the
presumptiveNominee. |
@dTot |
Total pledged and
unpledged delegates assigned to this candidate. |
@d1 |
Sum of changes
in the number of pledged delegates each candidate has won and
any unpledged delegate endorsements gained or lost since midnight
the day before the last election. |
@d7 |
Sum of changes
in candidate’s pledged and unpledged delegate votes in the past
7 days. |
@d30 |
Sum of changes
in candidate’s pledged and unpledged delegate votes in the past
30 days. |
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