State executive official elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2022

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Ballotpedia tracked state executive races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in the 2022 elections. In 2022, there were a total of 43 state executive races without a Democratic candidate and 12 state executive races without a Republican candidate.[1]

State executive offices up for election in 2022 included 36 gubernatorial offices, 30 lieutenant gubernatorial offices, 30 attorney general offices, and 27 secretary of state offices. Including down-ballot races, there were 307 state executive offices up for election across 44 states in 2022.[2]

See below for information on:

For November 8, 2022, election results, see:


Races without Democratic candidates

Races without Republican candidates

Totals over time

Change over time
Date Number of filing deadlines passed Seats without a Democratic candidate Seats without a Republican candidate
October 27, 2022 50 43 12
October 13, 2022 50 43 12
September 29, 2022 50 43 12
September 15, 2022 50 43 13
September 1, 2022 50 43 13
August 18, 2022 50[3] 43 13
August 4, 2022 50[4] 43 13
July 21, 2022 48[5] 42 7
July 7, 2022 47[6] 41 7
June 23, 2022 47[7] 41 6
June 9, 2022 45[8] 32 6
May 26, 2022 36[9] 29 7
May 12, 2022 35[10] 29 7
April 28, 2022 35[11] 25 3
April 14, 2022 32[12] 20 3
March 31, 2022 27[13] 20 3
March 17, 2022 20[14] 13 2
March 3, 2022 9[15] 13 2
February 17, 2022 6[16] 4 1

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

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, candidates lists from Michigan and Rhode Island had not been finalized.
  4. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Michigan and Rhode Island had not been finalized.
  5. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Massachusetts and Michigan had not been finalized.
  6. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, and South Dakota had not been finalized.
  7. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Vermont had not been finalized.
  8. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming had not been finalized.
  9. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Washington had not been finalized.
  10. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah had not been finalized.
  11. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah had not been finalized.
  12. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia had not been finalized.
  13. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Indiana, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Utah, Illinois, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, Maryland, New Mexico, Missouri, South Dakota, and South Carolina had not been finalized.
  14. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, California, Georgia, Idaho, Utah, Illinois, Montana, Colorado, and Maine had not been finalized.
  15. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Indiana, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Mississippi had not been finalized.
  16. ↑ Note: At the time of this update, candidates lists from Kentucky, Alabama, West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana had not been finalized.
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