The New Jersey Elections Division has posted the list of petitioning candidates for the legislature in the November 2019 election. Out of the 40 districts (each district electing two), there are only three minor party candidates. The Legalize Marijuana Party has two candidates in the 15th district, and the Libertarian Party has one in the 37th district. Each candidate needed 100 signatures.

There are also 13 independent candidates. Independent candidates in New Jersey are free to choose any short partisan label. Here is the list.

Lincoln Chafee, a former Governor and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, has changed his voter registration from independent to Libertarian. He now lives in Wyoming. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.

On June 3, the Louisiana legislature passed HB 563, which moves the 2020 presidential primary from the first Saturday in March, to the first Saturday in April.

Although Louisiana has six qualified parties, only parties with at least 40,000 registered voters have their own presidential primary in Louisiana, so this change only affects the Democratic and Republican Parties. Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news.