The 2016 Democrats Abroad presidential primary took place on March 1–8, 2016. E-mail, fax, and postal voting were carried out from January 11 to March 8, while in-person voting took place from March 1–8. Results were released on March 21.
Global presidential primary
Voters may only vote once for a presidential candidate, either through Democrats Abroad, or through their home state. Those who vote in the Democrats Abroad Global Presidential Primary may continue to participate in their home state's primary or caucus for all other candidates for the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, and also for state and local elections and ballot measures, but they cannot vote twice for a presidential candidate.
Candidates Four candidates and an "uncommitted" option were printed on the Global Presidential Primary ballot PDF file, in the following name and sorting format:
Key: Withdrewprior to contest
Candidates Hillary Clinton Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Martin J. O'Malley Bernie Sanders uncommitted
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A "Global Town Hall" online videoconference was held on February 21. The Sanders and Clinton campaigns participated. De La Fuente never appeared on the list of participants, and O'Malley withdrew from the race after the Iowa caucus on February 1.
The Clinton campaign was represented by Jake Sullivan and Madeleine Albright as Clinton was absent from the town hall and attended a private fundraiser instead.
The Sanders campaign was represented by Bernie Sanders himself.
Local gatherings Wellington, New Zealand cast the "First in the World" votes at midnight on Super Tuesday, March 1. A total of 28 ballots were cast: 21 for Sanders, 6 for Clinton, and 1 spoiled ballot.
In Singapore, Democrats Abroad held a voting session on March 7, hosting a Super Tuesday presentation by KKR Director of Asia Pacific Public Affairs, Steven Okun, who under President Bill Clinton had served as Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Transportation.
Voting centers A number of cities hosted walk-in voting centers, and an official list of locations and open hours were made available as of February 6.
Canberra (ACT Chapter) Sydney (NSW Chapter) Melbourne (VIC Chapter)
Vienna
Brussels
Port Maitland, Nova Scotia (Atlantic Chapter) Calgary (Calgary Chapter) Burlington (Hamilton Chapter) Hamilton (Hamilton Chapter) Kitchener/Waterloo (Hamilton Chapter) London (London Chapter) Montreal (Montreal Chapter) Fort Erie (Niagara Region Chapter) Niagara Falls (Niagara Region Chapter) Toronto (Toronto Chapter) Vancouver (Vancouver Chapter) Victoria (Victoria Chapter)
Santiago
Taipei
Escazú Grecia Pérez Zeledón Quepos San José
Prague
Copenhagen
Bani Santiago de los Caballeros Santo Domingo
Avignon (Avignon Chapter) Bordeaux (Bordeaux Chapter) Aix-en-Provence (Marseille Chapter) Marseille (Marseille Chapter) Caen (Normandy Chapter) Paris Grenoble (Rhone Alps Chapter) Nice (Riviera Chapter) Strasbourg (Strasbourg Chapter) Toulouse (Toulouse Chapter)
Berlin (Berlin Chapter) Frankfurt (Frankfurt Chapter) Göttingen (Göttingen Chapter) Hamburg (Hamburg Chapter) Heidelberg (Heidelberg Chapter) Landstuhl (Kaiserslautern Chapter) Munich (Munich Chapter) Nuremberg (Munich Chapter) Augsburg (Munich Chapter) Cologne/Bonn (NRW Chapter) Düsseldorf (NRW Chapter) Stuttgart (Stuttgart Chapter) Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden/Mainz Chapter)
Athens
La Antigua
Hong Kong
Budapest
Bangalore Kolkata Mumbai New Delhi
Dublin Galway
Florence (Florence Chapter) Milan (Milan Chapter) Naples (Rome Chapter) Rome (Rome Chapter)
Nagoya Osaka (Kansai Chapter) Tokyo (Kanto Chapter)
Luxembourg City
Puerto Vallarta (Costa Banderas Chapter) Ajijic (Lake Chapala Chapter) Mazatlan (Mazatlan Chapter) Mexico City San Miguel de Allende (San Miguel de Allende Chapter)
Amsterdam The Hague
Auckland Wellington
Oslo
Panama City
Lima
Ortigas, Metro Manila
Cascais Lisbon
Moscow
Singapore
Barcelona (Barcelona Chapter) Madrid (Madrid Chapter)
Stockholm (Stockholm Chapter) Gothenburg (Western Sweden Chapter) Halmstad (Western Sweden Chapter) Uddevalla (Western Sweden Chapter)
Geneva Zurich
Bangkok Chiang Mai (Chiang Mai Chapter) Pattaya (Pattaya and Eastern Seaboard Chapter)
Cambridge (Cambridge Chapter) London Oxford (Oxford Chapter) Edinburgh (Scotland Chapter) St. Andrews (Scotland Chapter)
Kyiv
Abu Dhabi Dubai
Ho Chi Minh City
Provisional results
Provisional results were the ballot counts for individual walk-in voting centers. Ballots sent by post, fax, and e-mail were not included.
Provisional Results Date Location Sanders Clinton TotalSanders in %Clinton in % March 1 Canada – Vancouver East Side 88 44 13266.733.3 Costa Rica – Escazú 20 6 2676.923.1 Denmark – Copenhagen 160 53 21375.124.9 France – Grenoble 35 6 4185.414.6 France – Marseille 31 23 5457.442.6 Germany – Munich 83 50 13362.437.6 Guatemala – La Antigua 61 53 11453.546.5 Ireland – Dublin 98 37 13572.627.4 Japan – Tokyo 94 14 10887.013.0 Luxembourg – Luxembourg City 40 25 6561.538.5 New Zealand – Wellington 21 6 2777.822.2 Spain – Barcelona 85 36 12170.229.8 Spain – Madrid 323 107 43075.124.9 Sweden – Gothenburg 60 20 8075.025.0 Switzerland – Geneva 112 104 21651.948.1 Canada – Vancouver West Side 181 65 24673.626.4 United Kingdom – Cambridge 82 48 13063.136.9 United Kingdom – Edinburgh 231 62 29378.821.2 United Kingdom – London 387 243 63061.438.6 United Kingdom – Oxford 85 49 13463.436.6 March 2 Costa Rica – Grecia 33 15 4868.831.3 France – Rhone-Alps 35 6 4185.414.6 Thailand – Bangkok 82 55 13759.940.1 March 3 Costa Rica – Pérez Zeledón 32 3 3591.48.6 Japan – Nagoya 27 1 2896.43.6 Sweden – Stockholm 69 32 10168.331.7 Thailand – Pattaya 15 11 2657.742.3 March 4 Costa Rica – Quepos 23 19 4254.845.2 France – Paris 141 54 19572.327.7 France – Toulouse 31 13 4470.529.5 Japan – Nagoya 28 7 3580.020.0 Thailand – Bangkok 73 32 10569.530.5 March 5 Australia – Canberra 28 16 4463.636.4 Costa Rica – San José 22 15 3759.540.5 Germany – Cologne/Bonn 20 10 3066.733.3 Ireland – Galway 42 26 6861.838.2 Japan – Tokyo 85 16 10184.215.8 Spain – Barcelona 169 58 22774.425.6 Sweden – Stockholm 87 41 12868.032.0 Switzerland – Zürich 68 44 11260.739.3March 6 Germany – Düsseldorf 16 4 2080.020.0 Japan – Osaka 117 10 12792.17.9 Panama – Panama City 39 20 5966.133.9March 7 Singapore – Singapore 45 68 11339.860.2March 8 Japan – Tokyo 109 13 12289.310.7 Overall3,7131,640 5,35369.3630.64
Problems
Voting center cancellation The scheduled March 1 voting location in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was cancelled without prior notice. On March 3, the organizers posted an apology on Facebook.
Invalidation of ballots
The Global Council of Democrats Abroad may be invalidating all ballots from the March 5 voting center in Moscow, Russia. This is due to the event being held at a different location than the location on the official list of voting centers.
E-mail voting failure The email system for accepting ballots was down for several hours on March 7, due to the system exceeding its daily bandwidth limit of 4000 MB at FastMail.
Results
Postal mail ballots were to be dated no later than March 8, and were collected until 6 pm local time on March 13. The results of all ballots was scheduled for March 21.
Democrats Abroad will send 21 delegates (13 pledged, 8 unpledged/superdelegates) to the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Each of the 8 unpledged delegates will cast a 1/2 vote, for a total of 4 delegate votes (21 pledged and unpledged delegates, 17 delegate votes).
The results were released on March 21
Democrats Abroad primary results – March 21, 2016 Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegate votes Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total Bernie Sanders 23,779 68.79% 9 1 10 Hillary Clinton 10,689 30.92% 4 2 6 Uncommitted 75 0.22% 0 1 1 Martin O'Malley 21 0.06% 0 0 0 Rocky De La Fuente 6 0.02% 0 0 0 Total 34,570 100% 13 4 17 Source: The Green Papers
Results by country/region RegionSandersClintonO'MalleyDe La FuenteUncommittedTotalPercent of totalAfghanistan 5200070.02%Americas NCC* 3231040004271.24%Argentina 6720100880.25%Asia-Pacific NCC* 5312421027762.24%Australia 6352371008732.53%Austria 2861221004091.18%Belgium 2271500003771.09%Brazil 101330001340.39%Cambodia 5212000640.19%Canada 21711087201232729.46%Chile 110450001550.45%Republic of China 303600013641.05%Colombia 6418000820.24%Costa Rica 239911003310.96%Czech Republic 403990005021.45%Denmark 358890014481.30%Dominican Republic53 3500004031.17%Egypt 415000460.13%EMEA NCC** 5771450017232.09%France 18251058601229018.39%Germany 210380511729178.44%Greece 117930002100.61%Guatemala 108650011740.50%Hong Kong 2131370013511.02%Hungary 92350001270.37%India 137600001970.57%Indonesia 75250001000.29%Ireland 3561560015131.48%Israel 2491600034121.19%Italy 5772690028482.45%Japan 117817600213563.92%Lebanon 296000350.10%Luxembourg 65450011110.32%Mexico 84853502313884.02%Netherlands 6212900019122.64%New Zealand 476630005391.56%Nigeria1 400050.01%Norway 3281020024321.25%Panama 107430001500.43%Peru 86240001100.32%Philippines 79590101390.40%Portugal 3923000620.18%Russian Federation 4817000650.19%Singapore107 1491022590.75%South Africa 57430001000.29%South Korea 682520017352.13%Spain 129540501517064.93%Sweden 5132020027172.07%Switzerland 4473190027682.22%Thailand 6812350029182.66%Turkey 126370001630.47%Ukraine 3011000410.12%United Arab Emirates 5413342038802.55%United Kingdom 28741726415461013.34%Vietnam 123150001380.40%TOTAL23,77910,6892167534,570Percent68.79%30.92%0.06%0.02%0.22%100.00% * NCC = Non-Country Committee
** EMEA = Europe, Middle East, and Africa
See also Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016
References
External links Democrats Abroad Global Presidential Primary