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State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2021
From Ballotpedia
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Ballotpedia tracked state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2021 elections. There were no state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in 2021.[1]
The state executive offices up for election in 2021 included two gubernatorial seats, two lieutenant gubernatorial seats, and one attorney general seat. Including down-ballot races, there were seven state executive offices up for election across four states in 2021.
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 This meant that a race did not count as a race without a Democratic or Republican candidate if an unofficially withdrawn candidate still appeared on the ballot.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
- State executive official elections, 2021
- State legislative elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2021
- U.S. House elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2020
- U.S. House elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 1920-2018
- State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2020
Footnotes
- ↑ The analysis on this page only includes data from filing deadlines that have passed where the candidate list has been released.
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