At the October 10, 2026 registration tally, North Carolina has more registered Democrats than registered Republicans. North Carolina had always had more registered Democrats than registered Republicans until the January 10, 2026 tally, when Republicans outnumbered Democrats for the first time.

Counterbalancing that, Louisiana now has more registered Republicans than registered Democrats, effective with the July 1, 2026 tally. Before that tally, Louisiana had always had more registered Democrats than registered Republicans.

Most states in the south don’t have registration by party, and have open primaries. Among the states that seceded from the union in the 1860’s, the only other state with partisan registration is Florida, which has had more registered Republicans than registered Democrats for many years. Also, Arkansas does allow voters to choose a party on voter registration forms, but the choice has no practical consequences whatsoever, and the vast majority of Arkansas voters have no registration into a party. For those few voters that do choose, Republicans outnumber Democrats.

On October 11, all four candidates on the Montana ballot for U.S. Senate debated each other. See this story. The candidates are the Republican, Democratic and Libertarian nominees, and the independent candidate.

Pennsylvania hasn’t elected anyone to its legislature, other than a Republican or Democratic nominee, since 1934, when two Socialists were elected from Reading. But this year, polls show that an independent candidate for State Senate, Jodi Borello, is tied with her only opponent, the Republican incumbent. See this story. The race is in the 46th State Senate district in western Pennsylvania.