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

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Ballotpedia tracked state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2025 elections. In 2025, there were no state executive races without a Democratic candidate and no state executive races without a Republican candidate.[1]


Totals over time

Change over time
Date Number of filing deadlines passed Seats without a Democratic candidate Seats without a Republican candidate
November 4, 2025 3 0 0
October 21, 2025 3 0 0
October 7, 2025 3 0 0
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[2] 0 0
April 22, 2025 3[3] 0 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 officially withdrew from a race were not counted as candidates for the purpose of this analysis.
  • 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 This meant that a race did not count as a race without a Democratic or Republican candidate if an unofficially withdrawn candidate still appeared on the ballot.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 2025 analysis of U.S. House races without a major party candidate also included elections in states whose filing deadlines had 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. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidate lists from Virginia had not been finalized.
  3. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, the candidate list from Virginia had not been finalized.
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