A Primary election is an election at which only enrolled members of a party may vote. Primaries are held by the party to choose their candidates for the General Election.

A primary election is a nominating election in which each political party decides who will represent it in the general election. In the case of a nonpartisan election, the two candidates who receive the most votes then proceed to run in the general election.

If you are a registered voter, you may vote in any primary. However, if a primary is held in for both parties in the same election district, you must choose in which party primary you wish to vote and may only vote in one.

The General Election is held after the Primary Election. Primary Elections are held by a state-by-state basis. Click here to find out when your state's Primary Election is. The Primary Election narrows the field of candidates. Each party selects a party member in the Primary Election, to run for the General Election. Most commonly the Democratic Party chooses one candidate and the Republican Party another during the primary elections.

No. In Vermont there is no party registration. Everyone can vote in the primary election ? but you can only vote on one ballot. You will be given three ballots ? a Democrat, Republican and Progressive ballot. You mark one of the ballots and put the remaining two into a discard bin. Which ballot you chose to vote is private (except during the presidential primary where voters must publicly take one ballot or the other.)

When you arrive at your polling place you must choose to vote Republican, Democrat or you can decline to choose. Declining to choose – You may only vote in the non-partisan races (there are no non-partisan offices for the 2007 Primary). These limitations don’t apply during a November General Election, only in Primary Elections.

A Primary Election is defined as a partisan election in which candidates are nominated. The nominees of each party are then placed on the ballot for the General Election. In Missouri you must declare your party when voting in a primary The voter must choose which party ballot he wishes to vote on the day of the Primary if the voter wishes to vote for candidates. The voter can ask for a non-partisan ballot if they wish to vote on the questions on the ballot only.

Whether you do or do not vote in a primary election has no bearing on your eligibility to vote in a general election. If you are properly registered, you are eligible to vote.

Yes! Arizona is now an open primary state. Independents may vote for candidates of recognized parties in the Primary Election.

No. Oklahoma is a closed primary state. Only registered voters of a political party may vote to select their party's nominees. Details.

Missouri has what is known as an "open"; primary. In an open primary, voters may take a ballot for any party and vote for those candidates. Missouri does not require voters to "affiliate"; with any political party when they register. In "closed"; primary states, voters are required to "affiliate"; with a political party when they register to vote and are then allowed to vote only for candidates from their registered political party.

No. Due to recent changes, you will not lose your unenrolled status if you vote in a primary election. For questions regarding your voter registration status, call the Election Commission at (617) 796-1350.

Judicial positions are nonpartisan. Therefore, unlike candidates running for legislative or executive offices, judicial candidates are not competing in the primary to be a political party's candidate on the general election ballot in November. For many judicial positions, the "primary" election is the determinative event.

Voters will make a decision on the Measure on May 20, 2003. All Oregon elections are vote-by-mail, so ballots will appear in mailboxes beginning the first week in May. If you are not registered to vote and would like to vote on the Measure your registration card must be postmarked or received 20 days prior to Election Day or by April 29th, 2003 for the May election.

Two bond questions will be voted on at a special referendum election on June 12, 2007. A referendum election will also be held on November 6, 2007.