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 XML example shows a sample cumulative delegate report.

 

  Note

 

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.

 

 

 

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.