Do Kansas Democratic delegates have to vote for Biden? Delegate questions answered

President Joe Biden suspended his campaign a month before the Democratic National Convention, where party leaders would have certified his nomination as the party’s presidential candidate.

But with Biden’s campaign suspended, what does that mean for Kansas’s democratic delegation to the committee?

How many Democratic delegates does Kansas have?

Kansas will send 39 of the convention’s 3,896 delates to the convention. Democratic bylaws calculate the formula based on the state’s population and the percentage of the total Democratic vote.

Do Kansas delegates have to vote for Joe Biden?

Joe Biden won 84% of the vote in Kansas’s Presidential Preference Primary, with the other listed candidates winning the remaining 5% and about 10% voting for none of the candidates on the ballot. But Democrats aren’t held to the results of the election, with the Democrat’s Delegate Selection Plan saying that delegates should vote “in all good conscious reflect the sentiments of those who elected them,” rather than direct primary results.

“We look forward to the process of nominating the Democrat who will defeat Donald Trump in November. We remain focused on supporting Kansas Democrats up and down the ballot,” the Kansas Democrats said after Biden’s resignation.

Democrats will be free to support a number of Democrats, but it will be a challenge to overcome Vice President Kamala Harris, who was already slated to be on the ticket and received Biden’s endorsement.

Kansas Democratic Delegates

The Kansas Democratic Party on May 25 elected the final delegation to August’s DNC Convention in a hybrid in-person and virtual committee meeting.

There are seven at-large delegates who will represent all of Kansas, four party leaders and elected official delegates and the remaining delegates were selected by region.

“Our members are diverse in age, race, gender, experiences, and geography and I could not be more pleased at the representation that Kansas will have as we re-nominate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and re-elect them in November,” said KDP Chair Jeanna Repass after delegates were selected in May.