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Note: For more than information on running for role or forming a political party, contact your state election agency.

Although there are hundreds of political parties in the United States, only sure parties authorize to have the names of their candidates for role printed on election ballots. In order to qualify for ballot placement, a political party must meet certain requirements that vary from state to state. For example, in some states, a party may have to file a petition in guild to qualify for election placement. In other states, a party must organize around a candidate for a specific office; that candidate must, in turn, win a percentage of the vote in society for the party to be granted ballot condition. In still other states, an aspiring political party must annals a sure number of voters.

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  • As of November 2021, Alabama officially recognized two political parties: the Autonomous and Republican parties.

  • In some states, a candidate may choose to have a label other than that of an officially recognized party appear alongside his or her proper noun on the election. Such labels are called political party designations. Alabama does not allow candidates to apply political party designations.

    • To learn more about ballot access requirements for political candidates in Alabama, encounter this article.

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    Process for a political party to obtain ballot condition

    DocumentIcon.jpg Run into statutes: Title 17 of the Code of Alabama

    In Alabama, a political political party is defined as an organization of voters whose candidate for a state office receives at least 20 percent of the total votes cast for that office in the general election. If a party does not meet this threshold, its members must follow the requirements ready along in Title 17 of the Code of Alabama to get ballot-qualified. This process is outlined below.[i]

    1. The party seeking official recognition by the country must submit the political party'due south emblem to the Alabama Secretary of State 60 days before the primary election. The emblem can be whatsoever graphic that provides a distinctive heading on a election, does not too closely resemble another party'southward emblem, and is no more than 1.5 inches square.[2] [3]
    2. Later on the party emblem has been filed, but before the main election, the new party must hold a mass coming together or convention to nominate candidates. Public notice of the meeting must exist given five days in advance throughout the county where the convention will be held.[2] [iv]
    3. After the meeting/convention, the new party must file a certificate of nomination with the secretary of state for each candidate nominated. These are due on the mean solar day of the primary election. Candidates of new parties will not be allowed admission to the election if they ran in the master election for another political party that same yr.[2] [5]
    4. With the certificates of nomination, a petition containing the signatures of registered voters equal to 3 percent of the votes cast for governor in the terminal general election must also be filed with the secretary of state.[ii] [6]
    5. The political party must run a candidate for land part who must receive at least 20 percent of the total votes cast for that office in the general election. If a candidate does not run across this threshold, the party must start the process over again for the next general election.

    Political parties

    See also: Listing of political parties in the United States

    As of November 2021, Alabama officially recognized two political parties. To be officially recognized by the state, a political political party's candidate for state office must receive at least 20 percent of the vote cast in the full general election. The land does, however, let parties to be recognized in only parts of the land. For example, the Alabama Libertarian Party gained ballot admission in Jefferson County, Alabama for the 2014 elections, enabling the party to nominate candidates for the Alabama Country Legislature in voting districts within Jefferson County.[7] [viii] [9]

    Party Website link By-laws/platform link
    Democratic Party of Alabama Link Party past-laws
    Republican Party of Alabama Link Party past-laws

    In some states, a candidate may cull to have a label other than that of an officially recognized party appear alongside his or her name on the election. Such labels are called political political party designations. A political party designation would exist used when a candidate qualifies as an independent but prefers to employ a different characterization. Alabama does not allow candidates to place in this way. A full of 22 states let candidates to employ political party designations in non-presidential elections.[10]

    The 11 states listed below (including Washington, D.C.) practise not provide a process for political organizations to proceeds qualified status in advance of an ballot. Instead, in these states, an aspirant party must showtime field candidates using political party designations. If the candidate or candidates win the requisite votes, the organization may then be recognized as an official political party. In these states, a political political party can be formed only if the candidate in the general election obtains a specific number of votes. The number of votes required and blazon of race vary from state to country. Details tin can exist found on the land-specific requirements pages.[11]

    Run into also

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    • Ballot access requirements for political candidates in Alabama
    • Election access requirements for presidential candidates in Alabama
    • Listing of political parties in the United States
    • Democratic Party of Alabama
    • Republican Party of Alabama

    External links

    • Alabama Autonomous Political party
    • Alabama Republican Party

    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Alabama Lawmaking, "Section 17-13-40," accessed January 7, 2014
    2. ↑ 2.0 ii.ane 2.two 2.three Alabama Secretary of Country, "Minor Party/Third Political party Ballot Access," accessed January 7, 2014
    3. ↑ Alabama Code, "Section 17-half dozen-29," accessed January 7, 2014
    4. ↑ Alabama Code, "Section 17-13-50," accessed January seven, 2014
    5. ↑ Alabama Code, "Section 17-9-three," accessed January vii, 2014
    6. ↑ Alabama Code, "Section 17-six-22," accessed Jan 7, 2014
    7. ↑ Alabama Code, "Department 17-thirteen-40," accessed Jan 7, 2014
    8. ↑ Election Admission News, "Libertarian Party on the Election in Alabama's Most Populous County, for 2014," December 3, 2013
    9. ↑ Alabama Secretary of State, "Political Political party Web Site Links," accessed November 15, 2021
    10. ↑ Alabama Secretary of State, "Petition for Ballot Access, Independent Candidate," accessed January 9, 2014
    11. ↑ Ballotpedia, "Email communication with election access expert Richard Winger," January 2014
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