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The2020 Michigan Democratic presidential primary took place on March 10, 2020, as one of several states voting the week afterSuper Tuesday in theDemocratic Party primaries for the2020 presidential election. TheMichigan primary was anopen primary,[1] with the state awarding 147delegates towards the2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 125 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
Former vice presidentJoe Biden decisively won the primary and every county in the state, getting almost 53% of the vote and 73 delegates. SenatorBernie Sanders received around 36% of the vote and 52 delegates, marking a clear regression in support for him from2016, when he edged outHillary Clinton by 1.42% and won 73 of the state's 83 counties.[2] Biden's victory was powered by support from African Americans, older voters, working class voters, and moderate voters.[3]
Despite losing every county and almost all municipalities, Sanders was still able to win some of the major cities in the state including:Ann Arbor,Dearborn,Grand Rapids,Lansing andKalamazoo.[4]
Michigan was one of sixstates (along withDemocrats Abroad) which held primaries on March 10, 2020, one week afterSuper Tuesday.[5] Voting took place throughout the state from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. local time. In the open primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 125 pledged delegates to the2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of these, between 4 and 9[6] were allocated to each of thestate's 14 congressional districts and another 16 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 27 at-large delegates.[7] The March primary as part of Stage I on the primary timetable received no bonus delegates, in order to disperse the primaries between more different date clusters and keep too many states from hoarding on a March date.[8]
After district conventions on May 16, 2020, during which district-level delegates were selected, the state central committee meeting subsequently was held on June 13, 2020, to vote on the 27 at-large and 16 pledged PLEO delegates for the Democratic National Convention. The delegation also included 22 unpledged PLEO delegates: 12 members of theDemocratic National Committee, 9 members of Congress (both senators and 7 representatives), and the governorGretchen Whitmer.[7]
| Pledgednational convention delegates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Del. | Type | Del. |
| CD1 | 5 | CD8 | 6 |
| CD2 | 5 | CD9 | 7 |
| CD3 | 5 | CD10 | 4 |
| CD4 | 4 | CD11 | 7 |
| CD5 | 6 | CD12 | 7 |
| CD6 | 5 | CD13 | 7 |
| CD7 | 5 | CD14 | 9 |
| PLEO | 27 | At-large | 16 |
| Total pledged delegates | 125 | ||
The following people have been included on the list issued by the Michigan Secretary of State for the presidential primary.[9]
Running
Withdrawn
There was also an uncommitted option on the ballot.[10]
| Polling aggregation | |||||||
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| Source of poll aggregation | Date updated | Dates polled | Joe Biden | Bernie Sanders | Tulsi Gabbard | Other/ Undecided[e] | |
| 270 to Win[11] | Mar 10, 2020 | Mar 4–9, 2020 | 57.0% | 32.3% | 1.3% | 9.4% | |
| RealClear Politics[12] | Mar 10, 2020 | Mar 4–9, 2020 | 55.7% | 33.3% | 1.3% | 9.7% | |
| FiveThirtyEight[13] | Mar 10, 2020 | until Mar 9, 2020[f] | 55.3% | 31.9% | 1.2% | 11.6% | |
| Average | 56.0% | 32.5% | 1.3% | 10.2% | |||
| Michigan primary results (March 10, 2020) | 52.9% | 36.4% | 0.6% | 10.1% | |||
| Tabulation of individual polls of the 2020 Michigan Democratic primary | ||||||||||||||||
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| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size[g] | Margin of error | Joe Biden | Michael Bloomberg | Cory Booker | Pete Buttigieg | Kamala Harris | Amy Klobuchar | Beto O'Rourke | Bernie Sanders | Elizabeth Warren | Andrew Yang | Other | Undecided | |
| Swayable[14] | Mar 9, 2020 | 3,126 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 62% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 28% | – | – | 10%[h] | – | |
| AtlasIntel[15] | Mar 7–9, 2020 | 528 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 48% | 3% | – | – | – | – | – | 40% | 1% | – | 3%[i] | 5% | |
| Data for Progress[16] | Mar 7–9, 2020 | 320 (LV) | ± 5.5% | 59% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 38% | – | – | 2%[j] | – | |
| Mitchell Research & Communications[17] | Mar 8, 2020 | 602 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 54% | 1% | – | 1% | – | 1% | – | 33% | 3% | – | 3%[k] | 5% | |
| Target Insyght[18] | Mar 8, 2020 | 600 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 65% | 2% | – | – | – | 1% | – | 24% | 3% | – | 3%[l] | 1% | |
| Concord Public Opinion Partners/ The Welcome Party[19] | Mar 7–8, 2020 | 305 (LV) | – | 54% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23% | – | – | 1%[m] | 22% | |
| YouGov/Yahoo News[20] | Mar 6–8, 2020 | –(RV)[n] | ± 5.8% | 54% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 42% | – | – | – | – | |
| Monmouth University[21] | Mar 5–8, 2020 | 411 (LV) | ± 4.8% | 51% | 3% | – | <1% | – | <1% | – | 36% | 1% | – | 7%[o] | 2% | |
| ROI Rocket[22] | Mar 4–8, 2020 | 1,000 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 55% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 45% | – | – | – | – | |
| The Progress Campaign (D)[23][1] | Mar 3–7, 2020 | 417 (RV) | ± 4.7% | 51% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 44% | – | – | 1% | 4%[p] | |
| EPIC-MRA/Detroit Free Press[24] | Mar 4–6, 2020 | 400 (LV) | ± 4.9% | 51% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 27% | – | – | 9%[q] | 13%[r] | |
| Mar 5, 2020 | Warren withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 4, 2020 | Bloomberg withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 2, 2020 | Klobuchar withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 1, 2020 | Buttigieg withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| GlenGariff Group Inc./Detroit News/WDIV-TV[25] | Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2020 | 600 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 29% | 11% | – | 6% | – | 3% | – | 23% | 7% | – | 6%[s] | 16% | |
| Feb 29, 2020 | South Carolina primary; Steyer withdraws from the race after close of polls | |||||||||||||||
| YouGov/University of Wisconsin-Madison[26] | Feb 11–20, 2020 | 662 (LV) | – | 16% | 13% | – | 11% | – | 8% | – | 25% | 13% | – | – | 14%[t] | |
| Feb 11, 2020 | New Hampshire primary; Yang withdraws from the race after close of polls | |||||||||||||||
| Baldwin Wallace University/Oakland University/Ohio Northern University[27] | Jan 8–20, 2020 | 477 (RV) | – | 27% | 9.1% | – | 6.3% | – | 1.9% | – | 21.6% | 13.6% | 3.5% | 5.3%[u] | 10.6% | |
| Jan 13, 2020 | Booker withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| Dec 3, 2019 | Harris withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| Nov 24, 2019 | Bloomberg announceshis candidacy | |||||||||||||||
| Emerson College[28] | Oct 31 – Nov 3, 2019 | 454 | ± 4.6% | 34% | – | 3% | 8% | 3% | 0% | – | 28% | 19% | 2% | 3%[v] | – | |
| Nov 1, 2019 | O'Rourke withdraws from the race | |||||||||||||||
| Siena Research/New York Times[29] | Oct 13–26, 2019 | 203 | – | 30% | – | 0% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 17% | 21% | 1% | 1%[w] | 23% | |
| Kaiser Family Foundation[30] | Sep 23 – Oct 15, 2019 | 208 (LV) | – | 19% | – | 1% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 15% | 25% | 1% | 0%[x] | 27% | |
| Denno Research[31] | Sep 21–24, 2019 | 217 | – | 27% | – | 1% | 4% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 12% | 23% | 1% | 4%[y] | 23%[z] | |
| Climate Nexus[32] | Jul 14–17, 2019 | 324 (LV) | – | 35% | – | 2% | 4% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 16% | 14% | 1% | 2%[aa] | 13%[ab] | |
| Zogby Analytics[33] | May 23–29, 2019 | 268 | ± 6.0% | 27% | – | 1% | 9% | 7% | 1% | 4% | 18% | 8% | 2% | 5%[ac] | – | |
| Denno Research[34] | May 8–10, 2019 | 235 | – | 37% | – | 3% | 5% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 16% | 9% | 0% | 4%[ad] | 23% | |
| Apr 25, 2019 | Biden announceshis candidacy | |||||||||||||||
| Apr 14, 2019 | Buttigieg announceshis candidacy | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 14, 2019 | O'Rourke announceshis candidacy | |||||||||||||||
| Emerson College[35] | Mar 7–10, 2019 | 317 | ± 5.5% | 40% | – | 3% | 0% | 12% | 5% | 2% | 23% | 11% | – | 4%[ae] | – | |
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[37] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 840,360 | 52.93 | 73 |
| Bernie Sanders | 576,926 | 36.34 | 52 |
| Michael Bloomberg(withdrawn)[b] | 73,464 | 4.63 | |
| Elizabeth Warren(withdrawn)[b] | 26,148 | 1.65 | |
| Pete Buttigieg(withdrawn)[c] | 22,462 | 1.41 | |
| Amy Klobuchar(withdrawn)[c] | 11,018 | 0.69 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 9,461 | 0.60 | |
| Andrew Yang(withdrawn)[a] | 2,380 | 0.15 | |
| Tom Steyer(withdrawn)[c] | 1,732 | 0.11 | |
| Michael Bennet(withdrawn)[a] | 1,536 | 0.10 | |
| Cory Booker(withdrawn) | 840 | 0.05 | |
| Joe Sestak(withdrawn) | 757 | 0.05 | |
| Marianne Williamson(withdrawn) | 719 | 0.05 | |
| John Delaney(withdrawn)[d] | 464 | 0.03 | |
| Julian Castro(withdrawn) | 306 | 0.02 | |
| Uncommitted | 19,106 | 1.20 | |
| Total | 1,587,679 | 100% | 125 |
Additional candidates
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