The 2008 Wyoming Democratic caucuses were a series of events designed to determine the delegate

Delegate

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s that the Wyoming Democratic Party

Wyoming Democratic Party

The Wyoming Democratic Party is the local branch of the Democratic Party in the state of Wyoming. The party is led by State Party Chair Chuck Herz.-Legislative leaders:*Senate Minority Leader: John Hastert*House Minority Leader: W. Patrick Goggles...

 sent to the 2008 Democratic National Convention

2008 Democratic National Convention

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. The party was allocated seven pledged delegates to presidential candidates on March 8 during the Wyoming Democratic County Caucuses. The remaining five pledged delegates were allocated on May 24 during the Wyoming Democratic State Convention. There were six Wyoming superdelegates, so the whole delegation was composed of 18 delegates.

Process

The Wyoming caucus were open to all eligible voters who were registered as Democrats by February 22, 2008. A 15 percent threshold was required in order to receive delegates at any caucus site. Rather than the traditional caucus format, most sites used secret ballots which were then counted and delegates apportioned, without re-caucusing of nonviable groups.

County caucuses

Caucus date: March 8, 2008

National pledged delegates determined: 12

Wyoming Democratic presidential county caucuses, 2008
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	District Delegates	Estimated national delegates
Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...	5,378	61.44%	4	7
Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...	3,311	37.83%	3	5
Other	64	0.73%	0	0
Totals	8,753	100.00%	7	12

State Convention

Convention date: May 24, 2008

National pledged delegates determined: 5

Wyoming Democratic presidential state convention, 2008
Candidate	At-Large and PLEO delegates	Percentage	National delegates
Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...	-	0.00%	7
Hillary Clinton	-	0.00%	5
Totals	5	0.00%	12

See also

• Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008
  Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008
  The 2008 Democratic presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election...
  
  
• Wyoming Republican county conventions, 2008