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Democratic Party Secretary of State primaries, 2018
In 47 states - all except Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah - the secretary of state is among the top executive offices. Although the duties and powers of the secretary of state vary from state to state, a common responsibility is management and oversight of elections and voter rolls, which are assigned to the secretary of state in 41 states. Other common responsibilities include registration of businesses, maintenance of state records, and certification of official documents. Of the 35 states in which the secretary of state is directly elected, 26 held elections for the position in 2018.
Democratic Party primary elections were held in all of those states with the exception of Indiana, Michigan, and South Dakota, in which secretary of state candidates are selected via party conventions, and California, which held a top-two primary election instead. This page provides links to deeper coverage of these Democratic primaries. For more on the Republican primaries, click here. For more on the general election coverage, click here.
For more information about secretary of state elections in 2018, click here.
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By state
Alabama
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Arizona
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Arkansas
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Colorado
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Connecticut
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Denise Merrill (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Georgia
Democratic primary candidates
Idaho
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= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Illinois
Democratic primary candidates
- Jesse White (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Indiana
Selected by nominating convention
Iowa
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Kansas
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Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Massachusetts
Democratic primary candidates
- William Galvin (Incumbent) ✔
- Josh Zakim
Michigan
Selected by nominating convention
Minnesota
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Steve Simon (Incumbent) ✔
Nebraska
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New Mexico
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- Maggie Toulouse Oliver (Incumbent) ✔
North Dakota
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Ohio
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Rhode Island
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- Nellie Gorbea (Incumbent) ✔
South Carolina
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South Dakota
Selected by nominating convention
Vermont
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- Jim Condos (Incumbent) ✔
Wisconsin
Democratic primary candidates
- Douglas J. La Follette (Incumbent) ✔
- Arvina Martin
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Wyoming
Democratic primary candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
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