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| Western district | 7 |
| Eastern district | 6 |
| PLEO | 2 |
| At-large | 4 |
| Total pledged delegates | 19 |
The2020 Montana Democratic presidential primary took place on June 2, 2020, as one of eight delayed and regular primaries on the same day in theDemocratic Party primaries for the2020 presidential election. TheMontana primary was anopen primary, with the state awarding 25delegates to the2020 Democratic National Convention, of whom 19 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the primary results.
Former vice president and presumptive nomineeJoe Biden won the primary with more than 74% of the vote and won all delegates except one, crossing the necessary majority of 1,991 delegates to officially win the Democratic nomination three days later during the vote count,[1] while senatorBernie Sanders narrowly missed the threshold for statewide delegates with 14.7%, winning one delegate, and senatorElizabeth Warren received the remaining 8%.
Montana was one of seven states and theDistrict of Columbia to vote on June 2, 2020, in the Democratic primaries, along withIndiana,Maryland,New Mexico,Pennsylvania,Rhode Island andSouth Dakota.[2] Four of those states had moved their elections to June due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Voting took place throughout the state from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. In the open primary, instead of usingMontana's at-large congressional district, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15% in an eastern and a western district of the state (roughly coterminous with the boundaries of thestate's two former congressional districts after the 1980 redistricting) to be considered viable. The 19 pledged delegates to the2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the primary results. Of these, 6 and 7 were allocated to the eastern and western districts and another 2 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 4 at-large delegates.[3] Originally planned with 16 delegates, the final number included a 20% bonus of 3 additional delegates on the 11 district and 3 at-large delegates by theDemocratic National Committee due to the June date, which belonged to Stage III on the primary timetable.[4][5]
On June 4, county caucuses met to designate state convention delegates, and at the state convention on June 6, all pledged national convention delegates were elected. The delegation also included 6 unpledged PLEO delegates: 4 members of theDemocratic National Committee, one senator, and the governorSteve Bullock.[3]
The following candidates appeared on the ballot:
There was also a "no preference" option.
Polls with a sample size of <100 are marked in red to indicate a lack of reliability.
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size[a] | Margin of error | Joe Biden | Steve Bullock | Pete Buttigieg | Kamala Harris | Beto O'Rourke | Bernie Sanders | Elizabeth Warren | Andrew Yang | Other | Undecided |
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| Apr 8, 2020 | Sanders suspends his campaign | ||||||||||||
| Nov 1, 2019–March 5, 2020 | O'Rourke, Bullock, Harris, Yang, Buttigieg and Warren withdraw from the race | ||||||||||||
| Montana State University Billings[6] | Oct 7–16, 2019 | 40 (LV) | – | 15% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 5% | 2% | 40% | No voters | 2%[b] | 25% |
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[8] |
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| Joe Biden | 111,706 | 74.48 | 18 |
| Bernie Sanders(withdrawn) | 22,033 | 14.69 | 1 |
| Elizabeth Warren(withdrawn) | 11,984 | 7.99 | |
| No Preference | 4,250 | 2.83 | |
| Total | 149,973 | 100% | 19 |
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