FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan
judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).
Not exact matches
The Reform Party will hold a semi-open
primary, giving about 15,000 people in Syracuse a chance to cast ballots for mayor in Tuesday's
primary as well as several
judicial races.
Most eyes may be on Buffalo's Democratic mayoral
race, but there is also a hotly - contested Erie County Legislature
primary, a number of
judicial contests and some faceoffs in the suburbs for supervisor and councilmanic seats.
Because of this year's presidential
race and the Legislature's failure to come to an agreement on recombining the congressional and state votes after a 2012
judicial decision split them, Tuesday will be the third opportunity for some voters to cast
primary votes this year.
In the county
judicial race, the Conservative Party also held a
primary last week for its 4,700 members.
Indeed, tort reform has become the
primary issue in most state
judicial races.