the texas democratic party used a combination of two processes to select delegates and determine how they would be allocated to each presidential candidate. first, the party used the results of the primary process to determine how 126 of its 193 pledged delegates would be allocated to each candidate. second, the party used the caucus process to select its precinct, county, state, and national delegates, and also to determine how many of the remaining 67 pledged delegates would be allocated to each candidate. many states require that candidates receive at least 15% of the total votes to receive delegates. the texas democratic party only applies this requirement to the primary process and the final step of the caucus process, since those are the only two occasions in which the party allocates delegates to candidates.