Sentence examples for delegates are selected from inspiring English sources

The convention's legitimacy, Mr. Price argued, would depend less on its openness and more on "how the delegates are selected".

Only the most local delegates are selected by any sort of popular vote, and even there, elections are stacked to perpetuate the status quo.

The rules for how Republican delegates are selected could end up turning votes for one candidate into delegates who will support another candidate at the convention.

The results of the presidential preference poll are nonbinding and serve mostly for vanity — delegates are selected through a separate vote at the caucus sites.

After the caucuses on 1 February (technically the precinct caucuses), there are county conventions and congressional district conventions, which all build to a state convention in the spring at which the national delegates are selected.

In Maryland and some other states, convention delegates are selected by a combination of primary voters and members of the state party committee — constituencies overwhelmingly supportive of Mr. Trump.

An additional 13 delegates were selected at the April convention.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the great majority of Republican and Democratic party delegates were selected through primaries.

The Texas vote was actually two contests: a primary, where two-thirds of the delegates were selected, followed by a caucus, where the remaining one-third were selected.

Another RNC committee last week recommended that half the Maine delegation not be seated after it found problems with the way the state's delegates were selected.

PETERS, Mo. – Voters here in St. Charles County did not get a say on Saturday in who will be the next Republican presidential nominee after a disorderly caucus caused organizers to adjourn before delegates were selected.