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State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2023
From Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia tracked state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2023 elections. There were nine state executive races without a Democratic candidate and two state executive races without a Republican candidate in 2023.[1]
Races without Democratic candidates
- Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education District 3, 5, 6, & 7
- Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry
- Louisiana Insurance Commissioner
- Mississippi Public Service Commission Northern & Southern Districts
- Mississippi Transportation Commission Northern & Southern Districts
Races without Republican candidates
Totals over time
| Change over time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Number of filing deadlines passed | Races without a Democratic candidate | Races without a Republican candidate |
| August 30, 2023 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| August 17, 2023 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
| February 10, 2023 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Methodology
There are several methodological choices that Ballotpedia made in calculating the number of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate on this page:
- State executive electoral districts can be either single-member districts (only one seat is up for election in a single district) or multi-member districts (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 multi-member district 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 race was counted as having a major party 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 This meant that a race did not count as a race without a Democratic or Republican candidate if an unofficially withdrawn candidate still appeared on the ballot.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.
- This analysis only included races in states where the candidate filing deadline had passed. However, Ballotpedia's 2022 analysis of U.S. House races without a major party candidate also included elections in states whose filing deadlines had not passed.
See also
- State executive official elections, 2023
- State legislative elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2023
- U.S. House elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2022
- U.S. House elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 1920-2018
- State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2022
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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