A rarity in modern times.
A brokered convention occurs when a political party strikes a deal to determine the presidential nominee at the convention. After the primary elections, where rank and file voters cast votes for their desired nominee, the party in recent decades had a clear winner and candidate. The last brokered convention was in 1952 when the Democrats eventually chose Adlai Stevenson. Party elites, the delegates tot he convention and party leaders, bargained for a candidate.
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