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Democratic Party primaries, 2020
| 2020 Democratic Party primary elections |
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| Battleground primaries |
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| Federal primaries |
| U.S. Senate primaries U.S. House primaries |
| State primaries |
| Gubernatorial primaries Attorney General primaries Secretary of State primaries State legislative primaries |
| Primary overviews |
| Democratic Party primaries, 2020 Republican Party primaries, 2020 Top-two battleground primaries, 2020 |
| Primaries by state |
Ballotpedia covered every Democratic Party state and federal primary in 2020 to highlight the intraparty conflicts that shaped the party and the general election. This page is an overview of those primaries, with links to Ballotpedia's coverage of all Democratic U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and state-level primaries.
Click here to read about Republican Party primaries in 2020.
Federal primaries
- See also: United States Congress elections, 2020
All 435 U.S. House seats and 33 U.S. Senate seats were up for regular election on November 3, 2020. Special elections were also held in both chambers.
Ballotpedia's coverage of Democratic federal election primaries in 2020 is linked below:
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2020
- United States Senate Democratic Party primaries, 2020
State primaries
Ballotpedia's coverage of Democratic state legislative and executive primaries in 2020 is linked below:
- State legislative Democratic primaries, 2020
- Democratic Party gubernatorial primaries, 2020
- Democratic Party Attorney General primaries, 2020
- Democratic Party Secretary of State primaries, 2020
Primaries by state
All 50 states held primaries for state or federal offices in 2020.[1] During the year, many states postponed elections in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This chart reflects those changes. For more information about election date postponements in response to the coronavirus pandemic, click here.
See also
- Republican Party primaries, 2020
- Democratic Party primaries, 2018
- The Heart of the Primaries
- Ballotpedia: Our approach to covering primary elections
Footnotes
- ↑ In Louisiana, which uses a majority-vote system, all candidates regardless of partisan affiliation appeared on the November 3 first-round ballot. Candidates receiving more than 50% of the vote won the election outright. Otherwise, the top two candidates advanced to a second round on December 5.
