Parties · 48 states

Democratic

48 states list a party by this name for the November 3, 2026 election. Each state party is its own organization with its own rules. We group them by the name the states use; our sources don't say whether, or how, they are tied to a national party.

Research draft

Research draft. We gathered this from official sources: election offices, state laws and court records, each linked to its source. Separate reviewers checked a random sample of 54 facts from the party research against the cited sources and found 4 errors, since corrected; 1 couldn’t be checked because the source wouldn’t display its text. The rest hasn't been reviewed fact by fact yet, so check the linked source before relying on anything here.

§1State parties

Each state party named Democratic, by state, as the state names it, with the state's own class for it where it has one.
State	Name as the state gives it	State's class	Picks nominees by
Alabama	Alabama Democratic Party^1,2	major political party	Primary election^1,3
Alaska	Alaska Democratic Party^4,5	recognized political party	Another method^6,7
Arizona	Democratic Party^8,9	Not given	Primary election^10,11,12
Arkansas	Democratic Party of Arkansas^13,14,15	political party	Primary election^13,16
California	Democratic Party^17,18	qualified political party	Another method¹⁹
Colorado	Colorado Democratic Party^20,21	major political party	Primary or convention^22,23
Connecticut	Democratic Party^24,25	major party	Another method^26,27,28,29
Delaware	DEMOCRATIC^30,31	major political party	Primary election^32,33
Florida	Florida Democratic Party³⁴	major political party	Primary election^35,36,37
Georgia	Democrat^38,39	political party	Primary election³⁹
Hawaii	Democratic Party of Hawaii^40,41	qualified political party	Primary election^41,42,43
Idaho	Democratic Party^44,45,46	Not given	Primary election^{45,47,48,49,50}
Illinois	Democratic Party^51,52	established political party	Primary election^51,52,53,54
Indiana	Democratic Party^55,56	major party	Another method⁵⁵
Iowa	Democratic Party^57,58,59	political party	Primary election⁶⁰
Kansas	Democratic^61,62	recognized political party	Primary election⁶¹
Kentucky	Democratic Party^63,64,65	political party	Primary election^{64,65,66,67,68}
Louisiana	Democratic^69,70,71	major political party	Another method^69,72,73
Maine	Democratic^74,75,76	qualified party	Primary election^75,76
Maryland	Democratic Party^77,78,79	principal political party	Primary election^78,79,80,81
Massachusetts	Democratic^82,83,84	political party	Primary election^84,85,86
Michigan	Democratic Party^87,88,89	Not given	Another method^88,89,90
Mississippi	Democratic^91,92,93	Not given	Primary election^93,94
Missouri	Democratic Party^95,96,97	established political party	Primary election^96,97,98
Montana	Democratic^99,100,101	Not given	Primary election^{101,102,103,104,105}
Nebraska	Democratic^106,107,108	recognized political party	Primary election^{109,110,111,112,113,114}
Nevada	Democratic Party^115,116,117	major political party	Primary election^{117,118,119,120,121}
New Hampshire	Democratic^122,123,124	party	Primary election^{125,126,127,128,129}
New Jersey	Democratic^130,131	recognized political party	Primary election^130,131,132
New Mexico	Democratic Party of New Mexico^133,134	major political party	Primary election^133,134
New York	Democratic^135,136	Not given	Primary election^135,137,138
North Carolina	Democratic Party^139,140	political party	Primary election¹⁴⁰
Ohio	Democratic^141,142	Not given	Primary election^142,143
Oklahoma	Democratic Party^144,145	recognized political party	Primary election^{145,146,147,148}
Oregon	Democratic Party^149,150	major political party	Primary election^151,152,153
Pennsylvania	Democratic Party^154,155	political party	Primary election^154,155,156
Rhode Island	Democratic Party^157,158	political party	Primary election^159,160,161
South Carolina	Democratic Party^162,163	certified political party	Primary or convention¹⁶⁴
South Dakota	South Dakota Democratic Party¹⁶⁵	recognized political party	Another method^166,167,168
Tennessee	Democratic Party^169,170	Not given	Primary election¹⁷⁰
Texas	Democratic Party^171,172,173	Not given	Primary election^173,174,175
Utah	Democratic Party¹⁷⁶	registered political party	Another method¹⁷⁷
Vermont	Democratic^178,179	major political party	Primary election^{179,180,181,182}
Virginia	Democratic Party^183,184	political party	Primary or convention¹⁸⁵
Washington	Democratic Party^186,187	major political party	Another method^188,189
West Virginia	Democratic Party¹⁹⁰	recognized political party	Primary election^191,192,193
Wisconsin	Democratic Party of Wisconsin^194,195	recognized political party	Primary election^196,197
Wyoming	Democratic Party¹⁹⁸	major political party	Primary election¹⁹⁹

Every party, by name and by state