Democratic convention presidential nomination, 2024

2024 Presidential Election Date: November 5, 2024

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Kamala Harris (D) Donald Trump (R) (won) Jill Stein (G) Chase Oliver (L)

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Vice President Kamala Harris (D) won the Democratic presidential nomination on August 2, 2024, during a virtual roll call vote of Democratic convention delegates. Harris received 4,563 delegate votes, which amounted to 99% of the delegates. Almost all of the delegates were unbound following President Joe Biden's (D) withdrawal from the race.

Harris was the only qualified candidate. In order to qualify for the virtual roll call, a candidate had to submit the signatures of at least 300 delegates by 6:00 p.m. on July 30, 2024. Harris' campaign submitted signatures from 3,923 delegates. Since Harris submitted signatures from a majority of delegates, superdelegates were allowed to participate in the first round of voting at the virtual roll call.

An Associated Press survey of Democratic delegates estimated Vice President Kamala Harris (D) had reached the majority delegate threshold necessary to become the Democratic presidential nominee on July 22, 2024.

President Joe Biden (D), the former presumptive Democratic nominee, withdrew from the presidential race on July 21, 2024. He became the presumptive nominee on March 12, 2024, after winning an estimated majority of delegates in the presidential primaries.

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Presidential nomination virtual roll call

Kamala Harris received 4,563 delegate votes, while 52 delegates voted present, and 79 delegates abstained from voting.

After the presidential primaries, Joe Biden was estimated to receive 3,896 delegates, followed by 36 uncommitted delegates, Dean Phillips with four delegates, and Jason Palmer with three delegates. Biden's, Phillips', and Palmer's delegates were all unbound after each candidate withdrew from the presidential race.

In 2020, Biden won the Democratic nomination with 3,558 delegate votes, followed by Bernie Sanders with 1,151, and five abstentions. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination with 2,842 delegate votes, followed by Sanders with 1,865, and 56 unknown or abstention votes.

The following table contains the number of delegates Harris received from each state during the Democratic presidential nomination virtual roll call at held from August 1-5, 2024.

Democratic presidential nomination roll call, 2024
State	Harris
Total	4,563
Alabama	56
Alaska	19
American Samoa	10
Arizona	85
Arkansas	36
California	482
Colorado	86
Connecticut	73
Delaware	34
Democrats Abroad1	17
District of Columbia	49
Florida	243
Georgia	121
Guam	12
Hawaii	23
Idaho	27
Illinois	176
Indiana	86
Iowa	45
Kansas	39
Kentucky	56
Louisiana	47
Maine	30
Maryland	118
Massachusetts	116
Michigan	125
Minnesota	81
Mississippi	40
Missouri	68
Montana	24
Nebraska	34
Nevada	48
New Hampshire	34
New Jersey	142
New Mexico	45
New York	298
North Carolina	131
North Dakota	17
Northern Mariana Islands	11
Ohio	142
Oklahoma	41
Oregon	78
Pennsylvania	178
Puerto Rico	60
Rhode Island	34
South Carolina	65
South Dakota	20
Tennessee	72
Texas	263
Utah	34
Vermont	24
Virgin Islands	13
Virginia	119
Washington	101
West Virginia	24
Wisconsin	94
Wyoming	17

Notable declared candidates

See also: Defining noteworthy presidential candidates (2024), How we order candidate lists

The following noteworthy candidates qualified to run for the Democratic presidential nomination following Biden's withdrawal.

In order to qualify for nomination at the convention, a candidate had to submit a petition with signatures from 300 convention delegates to the Democratic National Committee by July 30, 2024.

Kamala Harris (D)

List of noteworthy candidates

• Kamala Harris (D), vice president of the United States, announced her candidacy on July 21, 2024.

Possible candidates

Possible presidential candidates

As of July 22, 2024, the following candidates had been mentioned in media reports as possible presidential candidates. Also included is whether the individual said he or she did not plan on seeking the presidential nomination or whether he or she endorsed another candidate for the nomination:

• Andy Beshear (D), governor of Kentucky (Endorsed Harris)
• Pete Buttigieg (D), U.S. Secretary of Transportation (Endorsed Harris)
• Roy Cooper (D), governor of North Carolina (Endorsed Harris)
• Mark Kelly (D), U.S. senator from Arizona (Endorsed Harris)
• Amy Klobuchar (D), U.S. senator from Minnesota (Endorsed Harris)
• Joe Manchin (I), U.S. senator from West Virginia (Declined to run)
• Wes Moore (D), governor of Maryland (Endorsed Harris)
• Chris Murphy, U.S. senator from Connecticut (Endorsed Harris)
• Gavin Newsom (D), governor of California (Endorsed Harris)
• Jared Polis (D), governor of Colorado (Endorsed Harris)
• J.B. Pritzker (D), governor of Illinois (Endorsed Harris)
• Josh Shapiro (D), governor of Pennsylvania (Endorsed Harris)
• Raphael Warnock (D), U.S. senator from Georgia (Endorsed Harris)
• Tim Walz (D), governor of Minnesota (Endorsed Harris)
• Gretchen Whitmer (D), governor of Michigan (Endorsed Harris)

Possible vice presidential candidates

As of July 30, 2024, the following candidates had been mentioned in media reports as possible vice presidential candidates. Also included is whether the individual said he or she does not plan on seeking the vice presidential nomination.

• Andy Beshear (D), governor of Kentucky
• Pete Buttigieg (D), U.S. Secretary of Transportation
• Roy Cooper (D), governor of North Carolina (Declined to run)
• Mark Kelly (D), U.S. senator from Arizona
• Wes Moore (D), governor of Maryland
• Gavin Newsom (D), governor of California
• J.B. Pritzker (D), governor of Illinois
• Gina Raimondo (D), U.S. Secretary of Commerce
• Josh Shapiro (D), governor of Pennsylvania
• Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota
• Raphael Warnock (D), U.S. senator from Georgia
• Gretchen Whitmer (D), governor of Michigan (Declined to run)

Delegates

See also: Democratic delegate rules, 2024

In 2024, there were an estimated 4,696 delegates: 3,949 pledged delegates and 747 automatic delegates—more commonly known as superdelegates.

To win the Democratic nomination, a presidential candidate needed to receive support from a majority of the pledged delegates on the first ballot: an estimated 1,975 pledged delegates.

If the convention was contested and went to a second ballot or more, automatic delegates—commonly referred to as superdelegates—would have been able to vote and a candidate would have needed to receive majority support from all delegates—2,349 votes. Previously, superdelegates were able to vote on the first ballot. This rule changed after the 2016 presidential election, when the Unity Reform Commission proposed several ways to reduce the number and power of superdelegates.