Maine currently uses Ranked Choice Voting in primaries for all partisan office, and general elections for federal office. LD 1666 has been introduced to use Ranked Choice Voting for state office general elections. See this story.
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The Arizona Secretary of State has released April 2025 registration data. The percentages are: Republican 35.90%; Democratic 28.64%; No Labels .82%; Libertarian .7145%; Green .11%; independent and other 33.82%.
The previous tally, January 2025, had these percentages: Republican 35.93%; Democratic 28.89%; No Labels .78%; Libertarian .7139%; Green .11%; independent and other 33.59%.
It is ironic that Arizona No Labels registration continues to rise, even as everyone is waiting for the Ninth Circuit to decide whether registered members of the party will be allowed to run for office in the 2026 No Labels primary.
The April 2025 tally is the first one in which Libertarian registration hadn’t declined, since 2022.
The Forward Party is circulating a petition for party status in New Mexico. Currently the only ballot-qualified parties in New Mexico are Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian. The branch of the Libertarian Party recognized in New Mexico is not affiliated with the national Libertarian Party.
On April 21, the Second Circuit issued a one-page order in Walder v Kosinski, 25-764. The judges want both sides to address the issue, at the upcoming oral argument, as to whether the law regulating the names of qualified parties even relates to labels chosen by petitioning candidates. This seems to suggest that the judges are leaning toward the view that nothing in New York law stops Mayoral independent candidate Jim Walden from using the label “Independence.”
UPDATE: on April 22, both sides told the court that each side would like to file a brief on this question. The two sides jointly say they can file such briefs by Friday, April 25.
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.