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Election results, 2021: Uncontested races by state
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Last updated: December 10, 2021
This content is part of Ballotpedia's analysis of the 2021 elections. For comprehensive election results, click here.
Ballotpedia covered all federal and state races on November 2, 2021, as well as local elections in America's 100 largest cities by population. In the 2021 general election, an average of 21.8% of seats nationwide were uncontested. This percentage includes states where all seats on the ballot were contested.
The analysis below includes Ballotpedia's compiled data on the 989 seats that were on the ballot on November 2, 2021. A race was considered uncontested if the number of candidates who filed for election was less than or equal to the number of seats on the ballot.[1]
The table below shows the uncontested seat rate for each state and election type:
| 2021 uncontested seat rate by state | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Uncontested seats | Federal | State executive | State legislative | State judicial | Local | |
| Alaska | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Alabama | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Arkansas | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Arizona | 33.3% | - | - | - | - | 33.3% | |
| California | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 0.0% | |
| Colorado | 11.3% | - | - | - | - | 11.3% | |
| Connecticut | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Delaware | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Florida[2] | 5.9% | 0.0% | - | - | - | 6.3% | |
| Georgia | 14.8% | - | - | 0.0% | - | 15.4% | |
| Hawaii | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Iowa | 25.0% | - | - | - | - | 25.0% | |
| Idaho | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 0.0% | |
| Illinois | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Indiana | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Kansas | 4.0% | - | - | - | - | 4.0% | |
| Kentucky | 0.0% | - | - | 0.0% | - | - | |
| Louisiana[3] | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Massachusetts | 20.0% | - | - | 0.0% | - | 21.4% | |
| Maryland | 44.4% | - | - | - | - | 44.4% | |
| Maine | 0.0% | - | - | 0.0% | - | 0.0% | |
| Michigan | 20.0% | - | - | 0.0% | - | 21.2% | |
| Minnesota | 3.0% | - | - | - | - | 3.0% | |
| Missouri | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Mississippi | 33.3% | - | - | 33.3% | - | - | |
| Montana | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 0.0% | |
| North Carolina | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 0.0% | |
| North Dakota | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Nebraska | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| New Hampshire | 51.9% | - | - | - | - | 51.9% | |
| New Jersey | 2.9% | - | 0.0% | 3.3% | - | 0.0% | |
| New Mexico | 30.4% | - | - | - | - | 30.4% | |
| Nevada | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| New York | 32.4% | - | - | 50.0% | - | 32.2% | |
| Ohio | 15.3% | 0.0% | - | - | - | 15.5% | |
| Oklahoma | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Oregon | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Pennsylvania | 65.1% | - | - | 0.0% | 0.0% | 68.9% | |
| Rhode Island | 0.0% | - | - | 0.0% | - | - | |
| South Carolina | 25.0% | - | - | - | - | 25.0% | |
| South Dakota | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Tennessee | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Texas | 21.4% | - | - | 0.0% | - | 22.2% | |
| Utah | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | 0.0% | |
| Virginia | 11.8% | - | 0.0% | 8.0% | - | 37.5% | |
| Vermont | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Washington | 12.5% | - | - | - | 100.0% | 4.5% | |
| Wisconsin | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| West Virginia | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Wyoming | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Average | 21.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 5.9% | 33.3% | 27.1% | |
| Note: A dash ("-") indicates the state did not hold elections for the race type and 0% indicates the state did not have uncontested seats for the race type. | |||||||
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Footnotes
- ↑ Judicial retention races and races held in Washington, D.C. or the U.S. territories were not included in this analysis.
- ↑ In Florida, primary and general election races are canceled if only one candidate files for a seat. That candidate is elected without appearing on the ballot.
- ↑ Louisiana held elections on November 13, 2021. The races held on that date are not included in this analysis.
