Parties · 33 states

Libertarian

33 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 Libertarian, 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
Alaska	Alaska Libertarian Party^1,2	recognized political party	Another method^3,4
Arizona	Libertarian Party^5,6	Not given	Primary election^7,8,9
Arkansas	Libertarian Party of Arkansas^10,11	new political party	Convention^12,13
California	Libertarian Party^14,15	qualified political party	Another method¹⁶
Colorado	Libertarian Party of Colorado^17,18	minor political party	Another method¹⁹
Connecticut	Libertarian Party²⁰	minor party	Another method^21,22,23
Delaware	LIBERTARIAN²⁴	minor political party	Convention^25,26
Florida	Libertarian Party of Florida²⁷	minor political party	Primary election^28,29,30
Hawaii	Libertarian Party of Hawaii^31,32	qualified political party	Primary election^32,33,34
Idaho	Libertarian Party^35,36,37	Not given	Primary election^{36,38,39,40,41}
Indiana	Libertarian Party^42,43	minor party	Convention⁴²
Kansas	Libertarian^44,45	recognized political party	Convention⁴⁴
Louisiana	Libertarian^46,47	recognized political party	Another method^46,48
Maine	Libertarian^49,50,51	qualified party	Primary election^50,51
Michigan	Libertarian Party^52,53,54	Not given	Convention^{54,55,56,57,58}
Mississippi	Libertarian^59,60,61	Not given	Primary election^61,62
Missouri	Libertarian Party^63,64,65	established political party	Primary election^64,65,66
Montana	Libertarian^67,68,69	Not given	Primary election^{69,70,71,72,73}
Nebraska	Libertarian^74,75,76	recognized political party	Primary election^{77,78,79,80,81,82}
Nevada	Libertarian Party^83,84,85	minor political party	Another method^84,85,86
New Mexico	Libertarian Party of New Mexico^87,88	minor political party	Another method⁸⁸
North Carolina	Libertarian Party^89,90	political party	Primary election⁹⁰
Ohio	Libertarian^91,92	Not given	Primary election^92,93
Oklahoma	Libertarian Party^94,95	recognized political party	Primary election^95,96,97,98
Oregon	Libertarian Party^99,100	minor political party	Convention^101,102
South Carolina	Libertarian Party¹⁰³	certified political party	Primary or convention¹⁰⁴
South Dakota	South Dakota Libertarian Party¹⁰⁵	recognized political party	Primary or convention^{106,107,108,109}
Texas	Libertarian Party^110,111,112	Not given	Convention^112,113,114
Utah	Libertarian Party¹¹⁵	registered political party	Another method^116,117
Vermont	Libertarian^118,119	minor political party	Convention^120,121,122
West Virginia	Libertarian Party¹²³	recognized political party	Primary or convention^124,125
Wisconsin	Libertarian Party of Wisconsin^126,127	recognized political party	Primary election^128,129
Wyoming	Libertarian Party¹³⁰	minor political party	Convention¹³¹

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