2020 Arizona Democratic primary
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The 2020 Arizona Democratic presidential primary,[1] officially the 2020 Arizona Democratic Presidential Preference Election,[2] took place on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, one of four states voting on the same day in the Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Arizona Presidential Preference Election is a closed election, with the state awarding 78 delegates, of which 67 are pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
At 8:01pm mountain time, the Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of the Arizona primary.[3]
Procedure[edit]
Arizona is one of three states which held primaries on March 17, 2020, the others being Florida and Illinois.[4]
Arizona mails ballots to voters on the Permanent Early Voting List. Ballots must have been received by 7:00 p.m. on March 17, 2020. In addition, some Arizona counties offered Early Voting Sites[5] or Early Voting Centers [6], where any voter may walk in and vote in person, Monday - Friday, February 19 through March 13, 2020.
Voting took place throughout the state from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. In the closed primary, candidates must meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 67 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention will be allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of the 67 pledged delegates, between three and six are allocated to each of the state's nine congressional districts and another nine are allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 14 at-large pledged delegates. These delegate totals do not account for pledged delegate bonuses or penalties from timing or clustering.[7]
Following the primary, district caucuses will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2020, to designate national convention district delegates, and the state convention and state committee meeting will subsequently be held in Phoenix on Saturday, May 16, 2020 to vote on the 14 pledged at-large and nine PLEO delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention. The 67 pledged delegates Arizona sends to the national convention will be joined by 11 unpledged PLEO delegates (five members of the Democratic National Committee and six members of Congress, including one Senator and five U.S. Representatives).[7]
Polling[edit]
| Polling aggregation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source of poll aggregation | Date updated | Dates polled | Joe Biden |
Bernie Sanders |
Tulsi Gabbard |
Other/ Undecided[a] |
| 270 to Win | Mar 17, 2020 | Mar 3–16, 2020 | 50.6% | 29.4% | 1.0% | 19.0% |
| RealClear Politics | Mar 17, 2020 | Mar 6–15, 2020 | 51.7% | 33.7% | 1.0% | 13.6% |
| FiveThirtyEight | Mar 17, 2020 | until Mar 16, 2020[b] | 51.6% | 26.9% | 1.1% | 20.4% |
| Average | 51.3% | 30.0% | 1.0% | 17.7% | ||
| Tabulation of individual polls of the 2020 Arizona Democratic primary | ||||||||||||||||
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| Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size[c] |
Margin of error |
Joe Biden |
Michael Bloomberg |
Pete Buttigieg |
Kamala Harris |
Bernie Sanders |
Elizabeth Warren |
Andrew Yang |
Other | Undecided | ||||
| Swayable | Mar 16, 2020 | 1,167 (LV) | ± 5.0% | 53% | – | – | – | 29% | – | – | 19%[d] | – | ||||
| Marist/NBC News | Mar 10–15, 2020 | 523 (LV) | ± 6.0% | 53% | – | – | – | 36% | – | – | 8%[e] | 3% | ||||
| 913 (RV) | ± 4.5% | 50% | – | – | – | 37% | – | – | 9%[f] | 5% | ||||||
| Monmouth University | Mar 11–14, 2020 | 373 (LV) | ± 5.1% | 51% | 5% | 3% | – | 31% | 3% | – | 2%[g] | 5% | ||||
| Latino Decisions/Univision/ Arizona State University |
Mar 6–11, 2020 | 541 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 57%[h] | – | – | – | 38%[h] | – | – | – | 5%[h] | ||||
| 51% | – | – | – | 34% | – | – | 6%[i] | 8% | ||||||||
| Bloomberg and Warren withdraw from the race | ||||||||||||||||
| OH Predictive Insights | Mar 3–4, 2020 | 398 (LV) | ± 4.91% | 45% | 12% | – | – | 17% | 13% | – | 4%[j] | 9% | ||||
| Buttigieg and Klobuchar withdraw from the race | ||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire primary; Yang withdraws from the race after close of polls | ||||||||||||||||
| Harris withdraws from the race | ||||||||||||||||
| OH Predictive Insights | Oct 31 – Nov 8, 2019 | 260 (LV) | ± 6.08% | 29% | – | 9% | 5% | 16% | 18% | 4% | 19%[k] | – | ||||
| Emerson Polling | Oct 25–28, 2019 | 339 | ± 5.2% | 28% | – | 12% | 4% | 21% | 21% | 5% | 7%[l] | – | ||||
| Siena Research/New York Times | Oct 13–26, 2019 | 209 | – | 24% | – | 5% | 3% | 16% | 15% | 1% | 1%[m] | 31% | ||||
| Change Research | Sep 27–28, 2019 | 396 (LV) | – | 15% | – | 13% | 4% | 19% | 35% | 8% | 7%[n] | – | ||||
| Bendixen&Amandi | Sep 9–12, 2019 | 250 | ± 4.3% | 29% | – | 5% | 4% | 18% | 24% | 2% | 8%[o] | 10% | ||||
| Zogby Analytics | May 23–29, 2019 | 197 | ± 7.0% | 35% | – | 6% | 4% | 16% | 10% | 0% | 11%[p] | – | ||||
Results[edit]
88% reporting.
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[9] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 231,507 | 43.1 | 26 |
| Bernie Sanders | 168,149 | 31.6 | 22 |
| Michael Bloomberg (withdrawn†) | 56,052 | 11.4 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Warren (withdrawn†) | 34,288 | 7.0 | 0 |
| Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn†) | 24,506 | 5.0 | 0 |
| Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn†) | 9,717 | 2.0 | 0 |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 2,512 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Andrew Yang (withdrawn) | 1,690 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Tom Steyer (withdrawn†) | 1,186 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Julian Castro (withdrawn) | 662 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Marianne Williamson (withdrawn) | 593 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Roque De La Fuente III | 591 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Cory Booker (withdrawn) | 411 | 0.1 | 0 |
| John Delaney (withdrawn) | 364 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Michael Bennet (withdrawn) | 268 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Deval Patrick (withdrawn) | 197 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Henry Hewes | 181 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Michael A. Ellinger | 147 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Total |
†Candidate withdrew after early voting started.
Notes[edit]
- Additional candidates
- ^ Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined
- ^ FiveThirtyEight aggregates polls with a trendline regression of polls rather than a strict average of recent polls.
- ^ Key:
A – all adults
RV – registered voters
LV – likely voters
V – unclear - ^ Gabbard with 1%; "Other" with 18%
- ^ Gabbard with 1%; "Other" with 7%
- ^ Gabbard with 2%; "Other" with 7%
- ^ Gabbard and Klobuchar with 1%; "Other" with <1%
- ^ a b c In a two-person race
- ^ Gabbard with 1%; "Other" with 5%
- ^ "Another Candidate" with 4%
- ^ Booker, Castro and Klobuchar with 2%; Bennet, Gabbard, O'Rourke and Steyer with 1%; Delaney with 0%; Bullock and Williamson with no voters; other with 7%
- ^ Gabbard, Klobuchar and O'Rourke with 2%; Sestak with 1%; Bennet, Booker, Bullock, Castro, Delaney, Steyer and Williamson with 0%; someone else with 2%
- ^ Klobuchar with 1%; Booker, Gabbard and O'Rourke with 0%; others with 0%
- ^ O'Rourke with 3%; Booker, Castro, Gabbard and Klobuchar with 1%; Steyer with 0%
- ^ O'Rourke with 4%; Castro, Klobuchar and Williamson with 1%; someone else with 1%
- ^ Booker, Castro, Delaney, and O'Rourke with 2%; Gabbard, Gillibrand, and Hickenlooper with 1%; Inslee and Klobuchar with 0%
References[edit]
- ^ "Early voting starts in Arizona Democratic presidential primary". KTAR. February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Elections Calendar & Upcoming Events". Arizona Secretary of State. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ^ "Arizona Election Results: Live Presidential Primary 2020". New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
- ^ Putnam, Josh. "The 2020 Presidential Primary Calendar". Frontloading HQ. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
- ^ https://www.recorder.pima.gov/EarlyVotingSites
- ^ https://recorder.maricopa.gov/pdf/PPE2020EVSites.pdf
- ^ a b "Arizona Democratic Delegation 2020". The Green Papers. May 5, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
- ^ "Arizona Election Results". results.arizona.vote. Arizona Secretary of State. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
- ^ "Delegate Tracker". interactives.ap.org. Associated Press. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
