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State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2020

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Ballotpedia tracked state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2020 elections. Fourteen state executive races did not have a Democratic candidate, and 17 state executive races did not have a Republican candidate.[1]

State executive offices up for election in 2020 included 11 gubernatorial seats, nine lieutenant gubernatorial seats, 10 attorney general seats, and seven secretary of state seats. Including down-ballot races, there were 171 state executive offices up for election across 29 states in 2020.[2]

Races without Democratic candidates

Alabama

Kansas

New Mexico

Oklahoma

Texas

Utah

Races without Republican candidates

Colorado

Kansas

Massachusetts

New Mexico

Utah

Vermont

Washington

Totals over time

Change over time
Date Number of filing deadlines passed Seats without a Democratic candidate Seats without a Republican candidate
October 28, 2020 29 14 17
October 21, 2020 29 14 17
October 14, 2020 29 14 17
October 7, 2020 29 14 17
September 30, 2020 29 14 17
September 23, 2020 29 14 17
September 16, 2020 29 14 17
September 9, 2020 29 14 17
September 2, 2020 29 14 17
August 26, 2020 29 18 20
August 19, 2020 29 18 20
August 12, 2020 29[3] 18 20
August 5, 2020 28 18 19
July 29, 2020 28 18 19
July 22, 2020 28 18 19
July 15, 2020 27 14 16
July 8, 2020 26 14 16
July 1, 2020 26 14 16
June 24, 2020 26 14 16
June 17, 2020 26 13 13
June 10, 2020 25 13 13
June 3, 2020 25[4] 13 6
May 27, 2020 21 11 5
May 20, 2020 21 11 5
May 13, 2020 20 11 5
May 6, 2020 18 11 5
April 29, 2020 18 11 5

Methodology

There are several methodological approaches Ballotpedia used to calculate the number of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate on this page:

  • State executive electoral districts can be either single-member districts (SMD - only one seat is up for election in a single district) or multi-member districts (MMD - more than one seat is up for election in a single district). Regardless of district type, this page counted races without a Democratic or Republican candidate, not seats. This means that if an MMD race with three seats up for election in a single year had a Democratic or Republican candidate file for any one of those seats, the race was counted as having a Democratic or Republican candidate and was not factored into the numbers reported on this page.
  • Write-in candidates were not counted as candidates for the purpose of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate. However, if a write-in candidate advanced from a primary to a general election and became a regular candidate on the general election ballot, that candidate was counted for the purposes of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate.
  • Candidates who unofficially withdrew from a race but still appeared on the ballot were counted as candidates for the purpose of this analysis. This meant that a race did not count as a race without a Democratic or Republican candidate if an unofficially withdrawn candidate still appeared on the ballot.
  • In California and Washington state, which have top-two primary systems, a race was counted as not having a Democratic or Republican candidate if no candidate from a major party advanced from the primary election to the general election.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The analysis on this page only includes data from filing deadlines that have passed where the candidate list has been released. Find more information here on each state's filing deadline in 2020.
  2. ↑ Ballotpedia describes the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state as top-ballot state executive offices. Down-ballot state executive offices that exist in all 50 states include superintendent of schools, insurance commissioner, agriculture commissioner, labor commissioner, and public service commissioner. Examples of other down-ballot state executive offices include treasurer, auditor, and comptroller.
  3. ↑ At the time of this update, the candidate list from Ohio was not available.
  4. ↑ At the time of this update, the candidate list from Massachusetts was not available.
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