State-by-State Delegate Report with Unpledged/Super Delegates Breakout ("DelSuper")

Description

During a presidential year, the Unpledged/Super Delegates report:

• Breaks out unpledged/super delegates (generally, party and elected officials).

• Provides each candidate's total delegate allocation (pledged and unpledged delegates) for each state and territory.

• Provides national totals in a pseudo-state with the identifier "US."

This report breaks out unpledged delegates that are known as "super delegates" — generally party and elected officials who are not bound by the results of a primary or caucus to support a particular candidate. Super delegates are awarded to a candidate only if they endorse that person. The report provides national totals of each candidate’s pledged and unpledged/super delegates, as well as the totals for each state, territory and the District of Columbia, all of which will be sending voting delegations to the party's national convention.

The numbers are based on party and state rules, delegate interviews and analysis of election results by the AP. The report shows the delegate total for each candidate within each delegation.

 

Note
The report includes a "state" of "UN", which is "Unassigned" and is not a state or a territory. It is a category for super delegates who have not yet been assigned to a state or territory. When an "unassigned" super delegate endorses a candidate, they will be moved from "Unassigned" to their state or territory.

Example and Data Elements

This XML example shows a partial unpledged delegate tracking 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 unpledged delegate tracking report.

 

XML Element	Description
delSuper	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.
@dVotes	Total delegates (pledged and unpledged) available for the party.
@dNeed	Total delegates needed to nominate a candidate for the party.
@pId	Party ID.
state	Contains information about the state or territory.
@sID	State or territory postal code.
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.
@sdTot	Unpledged delegates assigned to this candidate.