Daily Kos Elections is pleased to unveil our 2024 primary calendar, where you'll find a complete list of major-party filing deadlines, primaries, and runoffs for all 50 states. We also include the dates of each presidential primary, which often take place months before the state's downballot nomination contests. Sometimes, though, the two coincide, which frequently leads to higher-than-normal primary turnout.
One of the things we pay careful attention to at Daily Kos Elections is each state's candidate filing deadline, since it represents the point at which prospective candidates need to decide whether or not they'll actually run for office. The first deadline of the cycle was on Nov. 10 in Alabama, where a brand-new congressional map will be used for the first time, while Arkansas followed on Nov. 14.
That gives us the opportunity to run down the state of play for the state's key races, which we did in Alabama and Arkansas and will be doing as each new state's filing deadline passes. And several are coming up soon: Illinois, California, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio all have deadlines in December.
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