Democrats restore New Hampshire’s convention delegates after party-run nominating event

New Hampshire Democrats will send a full delegation to this summer’s Democratic National Convention after the national party’s rules committee voted Tuesday to approve a nominating event the state party held Saturday.

New Hampshire Democrats will send a full delegation to this summer’s Democratic National Convention after the national party’s rules committee voted Tuesday to approve a nominating event the state party held Saturday. The New Hampshire Democrats have not released formal results from the event, but the state will get 25 pledged delegates, as well nine automatic delegates (also known as superdelegates), according to a plan the committee approved Tuesday. The vote resolves a conflict between the state and national parties over the timing of the New Hampshire primary. “We, as a committee and as a national committee, have gone through a difficult number of weeks and months getting to this point and I know that New Hampshire has gone through a difficult number of weeks and months, where some things we’d liked to have seen take place did not,” rules co-chair Jim Roosevelt said during Tuesday’s meeting. “As it happens, all that is behind us now. We have worked out compliance with our rules and with the charter.” Democrats changed their 2024 nominating calendar to prioritize more diverse states among the early contests. Under the plan, South Carolina replaced New Hampshire as the party’s first presidential primary. But Granite State law requires its primary to be held first. New Hampshire Democrats refused to comply with the new schedule and chose to participate in the state-run contest in January, before any other primary.