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Republican

50 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 Republican, 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 Republican Party^1,2	major political party	Primary election^1,3
Alaska	Alaska Republican Party^4,5	recognized political party	Another method^6,7
Arizona	Republican Party^8,9	Not given	Primary election^10,11,12
Arkansas	Republican Party of Arkansas^13,14,15	political party	Primary election^13,16
California	Republican Party^17,18	qualified political party	Another method¹⁹
Colorado	Colorado Republican Party^20,21	major political party	Primary or convention^22,23
Connecticut	Republican Party^24,25	major party	Another method^26,27,28,29
Delaware	REPUBLICAN^30,31	major political party	Primary election^32,33
Florida	Republican Party of Florida³⁴	major political party	Primary election^35,36,37
Georgia	Republican^38,39	political party	Primary election³⁹
Hawaii	Hawaii Republican Party^40,41	qualified political party	Primary election^41,42,43
Idaho	Republican Party^44,45,46	Not given	Primary election^{45,47,48,49,50}
Illinois	Republican Party^51,52	established political party	Primary election^51,52,53,54
Indiana	Republican Party^55,56	major party	Another method⁵⁵
Iowa	Republican Party^57,58,59	political party	Primary election⁶⁰
Kansas	Republican^61,62	recognized political party	Primary election⁶¹
Kentucky	Republican Party^63,64,65	political party	Primary election^{64,65,66,67,68}
Louisiana	Republican^69,70,71	major political party	Another method^69,72,73
Maine	Republican^74,75,76	qualified party	Primary election^75,76
Maryland	Republican Party^77,78,79	principal political party	Primary election^78,79,80,81
Massachusetts	Republican^82,83,84	political party	Primary election^84,85,86
Michigan	Republican Party^87,88,89	Not given	Another method^88,89,90
Minnesota	Republican^91,92,93	major political party	Primary election^93,94,95,96
Mississippi	Republican^97,98,99	Not given	Primary election^99,100
Missouri	Republican Party^101,102,103	established political party	Primary election^102,103,104
Montana	Republican^105,106,107	Not given	Primary election^{107,108,109,110,111}
Nebraska	Republican^112,113,114	recognized political party	Primary election^{115,116,117,118,119,120}
Nevada	Republican Party^121,122,123	major political party	Primary election^{123,124,125,126,127}
New Hampshire	Republican^128,129,130	party	Primary election^{131,132,133,134,135}
New Jersey	Republican^136,137	recognized political party	Primary election^136,137,138
New Mexico	Republican Party of New Mexico^139,140	major political party	Primary election^139,140
New York	Republican^141,142	Not given	Primary election^141,143,144
North Carolina	Republican Party^145,146	political party	Primary election¹⁴⁶
North Dakota	North Dakota Republican Party^147,148	established political party	Primary election¹⁴⁸
Ohio	Republican^149,150	Not given	Primary election^150,151
Oklahoma	Republican Party^152,153	recognized political party	Primary election^{153,154,155,156}
Oregon	Republican Party^157,158	major political party	Primary election^159,160,161
Pennsylvania	Republican Party^162,163	political party	Primary election^162,163,164
Rhode Island	Republican Party^165,166	political party	Primary election^167,168,169
South Carolina	Republican Party^170,171	certified political party	Primary or convention¹⁷²
South Dakota	South Dakota Republican Party¹⁷³	recognized political party	Another method^174,175,176
Tennessee	Republican Party^177,178	Not given	Primary election¹⁷⁸
Texas	Republican Party^179,180,181	Not given	Primary election^181,182,183
Utah	Republican Party¹⁸⁴	registered political party	Another method¹⁸⁵
Vermont	Republican^186,187	major political party	Primary election^{187,188,189,190}
Virginia	Republican Party^191,192	political party	Primary or convention¹⁹³
Washington	Republican Party^194,195	major political party	Another method^196,197
West Virginia	Republican Party¹⁹⁸	recognized political party	Primary election^199,200,201
Wisconsin	Republican Party of Wisconsin^202,203	recognized political party	Primary election^204,205
Wyoming	Republican Party²⁰⁶	major political party	Primary election²⁰⁷

Every party, by name and by state