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| Elections in Colorado |
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| Pledged national convention delegates | |
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| Type | Del. |
| CD1 | 9 |
| CD2 | 9 |
| CD3 | 5 |
| CD4 | 5 |
| CD5 | 4 |
| CD6 | 6 |
| CD7 | 6 |
| PLEO | 9 |
| At-large | 14 |
| Total pledged delegates | 67 |
The 2020 Colorado Democratic presidential primary took place on March 3, 2020, as one of 15 contests scheduled on Super Tuesday in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election, following the South Carolina primary the weekend before. The Colorado primary, the first in the state since 2000, was a semi-closed primary and awarded 79 delegates towards the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 67 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
Senator Bernie Sanders won the primary with 37% of the vote and ultimately received 29 delegates, ahead of former vice president Joe Biden, who won roughly 25% and received 21 delegates.[1][2][3] Although former mayor Michael Bloomberg and senator Elizabeth Warren both surpassed the 15% threshold, following their withdrawal from the race in the next two days, the Colorado Democratic Party decided to directly calculate the delegate count without statewide delegates for Bloomberg and Warren, differing from the usual process in most states, where statewide delegates are calculated regularly and later reallocated to remaining candidates.[4] Otherwise Bloomberg and Warren would have won 14 and 12 delegates instead of 9 and 8 delegates, while Sanders and Biden would have had only 24 and 17 delegates.
Sanders also benefited from that procedure after withdrawing in April: while his and Biden's campaign had agreed on Sanders keeping the statewide delegates he had won, the additional 5 statewide delegates he gained through Bloomberg's and Warren's withdrawal would all have been allocated to Biden as the presumptive nominee in accordance with the typical procedure and would have put Biden in front of Sanders with 26 to 24 delegates. Some media estimates, which did not notice the special approach of Colorado Democrats, reported these numbers as the final result.[5][6]
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- ^ James Anderson (March 4, 2020). "Bernie Sanders wins Colorado's presidential primary". Associated Press. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
- ^ "Live results: 2020 Colorado Democratic presidential primary". Washington Post. March 27, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
- ^ "Delegate tracker and results". Reuters Graphics. August 17, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
- ^ "Colorado Democratic Delegation 2020". The Green Papers. May 3, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
- ^ "Live Results: Colorado Presidential Primary 2020". New York Times. March 23, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
- ^ "Who's Winning the 2020 Presidential Delegate Count?". Bloomberg News. August 14, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2022.