Filing has closed for the June 2026 California top-two primary. The gubernatorial candidates of the Socialist Workers Party and of the American Solidarity Party each qualified, although the law won’t allow their party names to be listed on the ballot. The candidates are Margaret Trowe for the Socialist Workers Party, and Duane Loynes for the ASP.
On March 7, the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution asking the legislature to pass a bill to close primaries. See this story. There is no bill currently pending in the legislature on that subject.
On March 6, the Oregon legislature adjourned. HB 1330, which would have created a hybrid primary system, failed to pass. The bill would have used a top-two system, but with the extra provision that a party that had no nominee on the general election ballot as a result of the top-two process could still have a nominee on the ballot.
New Hampshire HB 1330 was defeated in Committee last month by 13-3. It would have allowed voters to choose any party’s primary ballot, regardless of how that voter was registered.
Mississippi HB 760 failed to advance, and it is now dead. It would have said that an elected official who changes parties is deemed to have resigned.
