Tuesday 5 February 2008: Precinct / House District Caucuses. Precincts within House Districts combine to hold House District-wide Caucuses. State Convention Delegates are allocated to presidential contenders in proportion to the percentage of the support each candidate receives at the Caucus- a mandatory 15 percent threshold being required for such allocation.

Here's how we estimate the delegate count (based on the number of state convention delegates (the Vote in our table below) elected at the 5 February Caucuses from a party source. Note that zero national convention delegates are allocated during the Precinct Caucuses - national convention delegates are first elected in May):

1. A candidate must receive 15% or more of the total popular vote to qualify for delegates. Discard votes cast for those candidates who do not qualify. Obama and Clinton have qualified for delegates.
2. Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the state-wide qualified vote.
3. In each jurisdiction (CD and statewide):
1. Total qualified vote = total votes cast for the qualifying candidates in the jurisdiction.
2. Allocation = (delegates for the jurisdiction) × (candidate's popular vote) ÷ (total qualified vote).
3. Assign each candidate the WHOLE NUMBER of delegates.
4. If delegates remain, allocate each of the remaining delegates to those candidates with the LARGEST REMAINDERS.

Saturday 24 May 2008: The Alaska State Democratic Convention convenes. The State Convention chooses Alaska's 13 Pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at either the congressional district or statewide level.

The Alaska State Convention chooses 8 district delegates, such choice reflecting the support for the presidential contenders among the delegates to the State Convention from each Legislative District.

In addition, 5 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based the support for the presidential contenders in the State Convention as a whole.

• 3 at-large National Convention delegates
• 2 Pledged PLEOs

The remaining 5 National Convention delegates consist of

• 4 Unpledged PLEO delegates:
• 4 Democratic National Committee members.
• 0 Members of Congress (0 Senators and 0 Representatives).
• 0 Governors.
• 0 Distinguished Party Leaders.
• 1 Unpledged "add-on" (selected at the state convention).

These 5 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".