State and Presidential Primaries Rescheduled
On April 27, New York became the first state to cancel its presidential preference primary. It was originally set for April 28 and had been postponed until June 23 to share the ballot with the scheduled state primary.
Fifteen other states and one territory have rescheduled presidential primaries, mostly to coincide with scheduled congressional and state primaries, or — as Hawaii did — switched to voting by mail with extended deadlines.
They are: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming and Puerto Rico.
Thirty-eight states and territories, including New York, already have or still plan to conduct primaries for congressional and state candidates as originally scheduled this spring and summer.
The Hawaii Democratic Party canceled its April 4 in-person presidential primary and extended the deadline for mail-in ballots to May 22. Its state primaries remain scheduled for August 4.
On June 2, there will be 10 primaries, including five as scheduled — state primaries in Iowa, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota and District of Columbia — and five rescheduled contests.
Of those five, Delaware’s and Rhode Island’s presidential primaries were changed to coincide with scheduled state primaries while presidential and state primaries in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were pushed back to June 2 from earlier dates.
On June 9, there will be five primaries. Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina will conduct state contests as scheduled while postponed presidential/state primaries in Georgia and West Virginia have been reset for this date.
There will be six primaries on June 23, including South Carolina’s state run-off and New York’s state primary as scheduled and four that had been postponed.
Of the four rescheduled primaries for June 23, Kentuckians will vote in state/presidential contests while Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia voters will cast ballots in state runoff and primaries.
On June 30, Colorado, Oklahoma and Utah state primaries remain on tap as scheduled.
New Jersey’s presidential/state primaries have been rescheduled from June 2 to July 7 and Louisiana’s presidential primary, postponed from April 4, will coincide with the scheduled state primary on July 11.
Alabama, Texas and Maine will conduct rescheduled state primaries on July 14.
Seven state primaries remain set as scheduled for August 4 — Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Washington, Tennessee, Hawaii — and four state primaries remain unchanged and on tap for August 11; those in Minnesota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Connecticut’s presidential/state primaries scheduled for April 28 are set for August 11, which will also see Georgia’s state run-off, previously set for July 21.
Between August 18 and mid-September, eight states, including Florida, plan to stage state primaries as scheduled.