Primaries:
- Congressional and State primaries: Open partisan w/ nonpartisan registration
- Presidential primaries: Open
PRIMARY ELECTIONS STATE BY STATE
Texas
Registration:
- Texas has nonpartisan registration. There is no option to affiliate with a political party on the voter registration form.
State Partners:
Details of voting in congressional and state primary elections:
- Voters do not declare affiliation with a party in order to vote in the primary elections, but they must choose one party's ballot.
- Voters are only tied to party affiliation within the election cycle if there is a runoff.
- Texas voters are not held to past affiliations from election to election.