Delegate Resources

Delegates study a petition printed in the Daily Christian Advocate during the 2008 United Methodist General Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. A UMNS file photo by Maile Bradfield.

Equipping delegates for GC

To help prepare delegates for the 2028 General Conference of The United Methodist Church, United Methodist Communications and the Secretary of the General Conference provide relevant and updated information.

Delegate Count

Delegate count letter - Learn how many delegates will be elected to General Conference from each Annual Conference.

"You Want to Be a Delegate?" guide - Get insights on what it means to hold the sacred responsibility of being an elected delegate.

Both of these resources are available online in English, Français, Kiswahili, and Português.

How are General Conference delegate counts calculated?

The Book of Discipline sets the requirements for assigning the number of delegates each annual conference may elect to the General Conference. As a baseline, each annual conference, provisional annual conference and missionary conference gets at least one lay and one clergy delegate. The number of eligible delegates beyond that baseline depends on the percentage of clergy members (active and retired) plus professing members in its local churches each conference has relative to the whole denomination.

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