Following the final certified results, Sanders would actually have won 2 delegates more, but as the results were only completed in September, roughly a month after the national convention, he apparently received a lower amount of 43 or 44 delegates at the time of the convention, with media either reporting the initial preliminary 231–43 number or in most cases just ceasing to follow up on the numbers long before even any relevant percentage had been reached in the ballot count.

[1][2] State statute originally had mandated that the primary would be held on February 4 for procedural reasons, which would have violated the window sanctioned by the national party.

[1] In September 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law that designated April 28 as the state's presidential primary date.

In the closed primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable.

[10] On April 28, Andrew Yang sued the New York State Board of Elections over this decision, saying that it "creates a dangerous precedent".