Here's how Texas Democrats dole out their 261 delegates in the presidential primary

[RandySF]

During the March 3 primaries, Texans in both parties will vote to determine how pledged delegates in their party vote. While the Texas Republican party is expected to allocate all of the pledged district and statewide delegates to the candidate who receives the respective majority in the district and state in March, the Texas Democratic party determines its delegates more proportionally.

District-level delegates:

The Texas Democratic Party allocates 149 district-level delegates among each of the 31 Texas Senate districts. The number of delegates each district receives is determined based on how the districts voted for the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, and the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor, Lupe Valdez. Once the primary ballots are cast in March, the district-level delegates are proportionally distributed in each district among every candidate who got more than 15% of the vote.

At-large and Pledged Elected Party Officials (PLEO):

There are 49 at-large and 30 PLEO Democratic delegates in Texas, who are allocated based on the statewide vote for the Democratic presidential candidates in March. Similarly to the district-level delegates, these delegates are all proportionally assigned to the candidates who received at least 15% of the statewide vote in March.

To allocate the delegates, the party disregards votes for any candidates who do not receive more than 15% and uses the raw votes for the other candidates to assign the district-level and statewide delegates as proportionally as possible. For example, if two candidates each got 35% of the vote in a district and none of the other candidates received more than 15%, the two candidates would each get allocated half of the delegates assigned to that district. For statewide delegates, the party does the same process with the statewide vote for both the 49 at-large and 30 PLEO delegates.

Automatic delegates:

These 33 remaining delegates, formerly known as superdelegates, include 13 Democratic members of Congress and 20 Democratic National Committee members. These unpledged delegates’ votes are not determined by the ballot box, so they can vote for any of the candidates. However, the national Democratic Party decided that these delegates can no longer vote on the first ballot at the convention starting in 2020.

How are the delegates selected?

First, local Democratic parties host county or senate district conventions during which they select delegates to the statewide party convention. At the Texas Democratic Convention in San Antonio in June, hundreds of Democrats will vote to select the district-level delegates for the candidate they support. Then, a committee will put together a list of 79 PLEOs and at-large delegates to finalize the rest of the delegation. Those delegates will go to the national convention.




https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/04/heres-how-texas-delegates-are-doled-out-presidential-primary/

[Thekaspervote]

1. Interesting read... thx

[MineralMan]

2. The process is similar in all 50 states, with some variations.