New Jersey holds state office elections in November of odd years. For the first time, primary ballots in all 21 counties are using an office-group primary ballot instead of a ballot that gave certain candidates a special advantage. Here is a June 2025 ballot for the Democratic primary in Monmouth County.

The reason for the new ballot format is that the old system was enjoined in federal court.

This year there are five Republicans running for Governor, and six Democrats. In 2021 there had been one candidate in the Democratic primary and four in the Republican primary.

The Mississippi legislature has adjourned. HB 38 failed to pass. It would have disrupted Mississippi’s law on the order of candidates on the ballot. Mississippi now lists candidates on the general election in alphabetical order of surname, for candidates who are nominees of a party. But HB 38 would have said that the nominees of parties that had polled 10% of the vote for president in the last election should be listed first.

HB 38 had passes the House on February 5, but it made no progress in the Senate.

In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut that if a party with a government-administered primary wants to let independents vote in its primaries, the state government cannot block that desire. Many state Democratic Parties have exercised their Tashjian rights to let independents vote in Democratic primaries. However, in Florida, the Democratic Party has never invited independents to vote in its primaries.

But, according to Open Primaries, the state chair of the Florida Democratic Party, Nikki Fried, now supports the party letting independents vote in its primaries. Fried was re-elected State chair on January 25, 2025.