How does Texas's Primary/Caucus work?

[Adelante]

Texas is the most un-primary of primaries there is.

For one thing, there aren't any delegates awarded to the winner of the state -- no statewide bonus delegates, nothing. For another, a third of the delegates will be chosen through a complicated caucus system.

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The process has two steps. First, folks vote. 126 delegates will be accorded proportionally via state senate district. Then, when polls close, they caucus in more than 1,000 precincts.

At the caucus, attendees chose the identity of the delegate and the presidential candidate that the delegate is supposed to represent. These delegates are sent to a "senatorial convention" a few weeks later, during which the final math is worked out and the actual delegate slate for the convention is chosen.

67 delegates will be chosen this way.

Suffice it to say: whatever you call Texas's system -- a hybrid, a primacaucus, whatever -- do not assume that, because it's a big state and the media calls it a primary, the math favors Hillary Clinton.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/texass_unique_primaucus.php

[Deep13]

1. Nifty. Thanks for the encouragement.

:-)

[ctaylors6]

2. It's ridiculously complicated. I think there are actually 228 total delegates ...

126 based on primary votes in 31 state senatorial districts. Only the number of delegates per district is not equal; it's based on prior years' turnout.

42 based on caucuses of some kind that begin election night

60 combined superdelegate/pledge party delegates

AND to make it even more interesting it's effectively an open primary. You don't pre-register by party affiliation. When you got to vote in the primary you tell them which party primary you want to vote in. You are held to that party for the election cycle but can pick when you walk in.

Here's another link (houston chronicle): http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5528612.html