PRIMARY ELECTIONS STATE BY STATE

Pennsylvania

Primaries:

  • Congressional & State primaries: Closed
  • Presidential Primaries: Closed
Primary Type Definitions

Registration:

  • Voters may or may not choose to affiliate with a political party, however, affiliation with a party is required to vote in primary elections.
  • 14% of Pennsylvania voters are registered as unaffiliated or “other.”

Details of Congressional & local primary elections:

  • Voters must affiliate with a party in order to vote in that party's primary.
  • Voter registration closes 30 days before the primary election.

Campaign & State Partners

Ballot PA has launched a legislative campaign (in both the Senate and the House) to allow independent voters in the state the right to vote in Republican and Democratic primary elections. Both pieces of legislation aim to address the voter suppression currently happening in the state and enfranchise the 1.2 million Pennsylvanians currently locked out of the process.

Other State Partners: Committee of Seventy, Independent Pennsylvanians

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