Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Tulsi Gabbard's petition to end Democratic Party superdelegate process (HRC GP) [View all]LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)It will fluctuate based on how many Governors, Senators, Representatives and whether we have a President and Vice President in office. Right now there are 261. If every state had just a Democratic Governor and Democratic Senators and Representatives there could be 588. But, that might also mean there would be more pledged delegates. Pledged delegates are allocated to each state based on past voter turnouts for the Democratic Presidential candidate.
15 percent is low enough without resulting in that group controlling the process. When it reaches about 30 percent then it might be an issue.
The only part of unpledged delegates that remains constant are the state party leaders from each state. It is the chair and vice chair. The vice chair must be of the opposite gender of the chair also.
The state party DNC members are proportionally allocated.