The United States presidential election of 2016, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will elect a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. The term limit established in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent President, Barack Obama, of the Democratic Party, from being elected to a third term.

The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses is taking place between February 1 and June 14, 2016, staggered among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. This nominating process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee.

Democratic Party presidential primaries

Leading candidates

Candidate		Most recent position	Candidacy	Estimated delegate votes		Contests won
				Pledged and Superdelegates	Path to nomination
Keith B. Warner (Nominated)		President of Oasaes (2012–16)		Pledged delegates 320 / 424   (75%)	Total delegate votes towards nomination 427/283 (151%)	7
				Superdelegates 107 / 141   (76%)	Additional delegate votes needed for nomination 0
Scarlett Haines		19th Governor of Cambridge (2012–16)		Pledged delegates 103 / 424   (24%)	Total delegate votes towards nomination 138/283 (49%)	1
				Superdelegates 34 / 141   (24%)	Additional delegate votes needed for nomination 145