On March 3, the Democratic presidential campaign will be far from over and the arcane rules for winning in the Golden State will come into play.
California will send 494 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., this July. Most of them — 271 delegates — will represent one of the state’s 53 congressional districts.
The key in each of these micro-primaries is that a candidate must win at least 15% of the votes cast to walk away with convention delegates. End up with less than 15% of the vote in either a congressional district or the statewide primary, and the candidate gets nothing. In fact, those votes are completely cast aside: The unlucky candidates are crossed off the list and the vote percentages are recalculated.
Of the qualified votes, the first-place candidate received 19 of 50 . The second-place candidate received 16 of 50 votes . And the third-place candidate received 15 of 50 votes .Rounding off for the final delegate total The first-place candidate received 38% of the qualified primary vote. Multiply that by the total delegates available and the result is 2.66 delegates, which would be rounded up to 3.
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