Delegates at each stage of the Democratic caucus-assembly process aren't pledged to a candidate but are selected based on candidate preference.
To vote, participants completed a form with their contact information and candidate preference.
The party's seat actually goes to the candidate who received the most votes, out of the voters who expressed a candidate preference.
The by-election was expected to be a close contest on both eliminated candidate preference flows and the final TCP vote.
Assignments are made during the summer and are based upon managers' preferences, candidate preferences and qualifications, and workload requirements.
Whilst he came sixth out of 16 candidates, he came third after eliminated candidate preferences with 15.9 percent.
Competition between lists is usually more of a feature of campaign strategies than for effective candidate preferences, and does not bear prominent in elections.
Different polling organizations use different "screens" to detect those respondents most liable to convert their stated candidate preferences into votes on Election Day.
Scientific assessment is impossible because a Korean law (to be superseded later this month) prohibits publication of surveys of candidate preferences.
Ballots with candidate preference are now used statewide in Washington State and California.