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Hillary Clinton

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LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 11:17 AM Apr 2016

There are reasons why Wyoming ended in a tie for delegates. [View all]

Wyoming only had 8 delegates at the district level. Any even number of delegates 8 or lower would had been a tie based on the caucus results from Saturday. If the number of delegates had been odd Sanders would had received more. If Wyoming had over 8 district delegates Sanders would had received more delegates than Clinton.

But because Wyoming's votes for Democratic Presidents is the lowest of all states. 33% lower than next lowest Alaska. They would have the fewest number of delegates.

Sanders also only won Wyoming by 55%. If he had won Wyoming with just over 58% he would had a delegate advantage over Clinton.

Just as the other states the calculation to determine split of delegates is not done on the total pledged delegates. Each congressional district, the at-large, and the PLEO delegates are calculated separately.

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