State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2025

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Ballotpedia is tracking state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2025 elections. As of October 2025, there were no state executive races without a Democratic candidate and no state executive races without a Republican candidate.[1]

State executive offices up for election in 2025 include two gubernatorial seats, two lieutenant gubernatorial seats, and one attorney general seat. Including down-ballot races, there are eight state executive seats up for election across four states in 2025.[2]

Totals over time

Change over time
Date Number of filing deadlines passed Seats without a Democratic candidate Seats without a Republican candidate
September 23, 2025 3 0 0
September 9, 2025 3 0 0
August 26, 2025 3 0 0
August 12, 2025 3 0 0
July 29, 2025 3 0 0
July 15, 2025 3 0 0
July 1, 2025 3 0 0
June 17, 2025 3 0 0
June 3, 2025 3 0 0
May 20, 2025 3 0 0
May 6, 2025 3[3] 0 0
April 22, 2025 3[4] 0 0

Methodology

There are several methodological choices that Ballotpedia makes 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 counts 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 has a Democratic or Republican candidate file for any one of those seats, the race is counted as having a Democratic or Republican candidate and is not factored into the numbers reported on this page.
  • Write-in candidates are 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 is counted as having a major party candidate.
  • Candidates who officially withdraw from a race are not counted as candidates for the purpose of this analysis.
  • Candidates who unofficially withdraw from a race but will still appear on the ballot are counted as candidates for the purpose of this analysis. This means that a race will not count as a race without a Democratic or Republican candidate if an unofficially withdrawn candidate still appears on the ballot.
  • In California and Washington state, which have top-two primary systems, a race is 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 includes races in states where the candidate filing deadline has passed. However, Ballotpedia's 2025 analysis of U.S. House races without a major party candidate also includes elections in states whose filing deadlines have not passed.

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 and finalized.
  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. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidate lists from Virginia had not been finalized.
  4. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, the candidate list from Virginia had not been finalized.
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