A delegate is a person selected to represent a group of people in some political assembly of the United States. There are various types of delegates elected to different political bodies.

What is a delegate in a presidential election?

These are individuals who represent their state at national party conventions. The candidate who receives a majority of the party's delegates wins the nomination. The parties have different numbers of delegates due to the rules involved in awarding them. Each party also has some unpledged delegates or superdelegates.

What are delegates programming?

A delegate is a type that represents references to methods with a particular parameter list and return type. When you instantiate a delegate, you can associate its instance with any method with a compatible signature and return type.