Delegate Count Swings Back and Forth Over Time

On Tuesday, the state of California released the official totals from its Feb. 5 primary, which was won quite handily by Sen. Hillary Clinton. David Draten, a blogger at Calistics, does a district by district breakdown of the vote using the final tallies and the delegate selection rules from the California Democratic Party. He finds that the final delegate total was 203 for Clinton to 167 for Obama.
But the original election night numbers were 207 for Senator Clinton and 163 for Senator Obama - which is still the reading in delegate counts at most media sites. (Drayton points out, correctly, that many media sites are still using the wrong vote totals to calculate the delegates - he used the official results from the state of California.)
If his numbers are correct, that would be an eight vote swing for Obama in a race where every delegate counts. But there may be states whose final totals will give delegates to Clinton. (Texas, for instance, won't know what its final pledged delegates total is until final state caucus meetings are held in June.)
It only shows that we may not have a clear idea of what the pledged delegate total is until well into the summer. The links are to the newly reported supplemental vote totals and must be added to the previously reported totals to get an accurate vote count for each candidate.