In the United States, the nonpartisan blanket primary, introduced in Louisiana for partisan state elections in 1975 and federal elections in 1978 ( with a short return to a closed primary system in 2010 ), is virtually identical to the two-round system.

The main difference between a nonpartisan blanket primary and a standard two-round system is that a second round of voting is required, even if one candidate wins an absolute majority of votes in the primary.

Both Jindal and Dardenne were easy statewide winners in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007.

Long defeated the Democratic candidate, Thomas Taylor Townsend, in the 2007 nonpartisan blanket primary.

* Boyd B. Durr ( 1926-2010 ), Ajax native, United States Army Air Corps service in World War II, law-enforcement officer from 1946-2000, Natchitoches town marshal, Democratic sheriff of Natchitoches Parish during the 1990s until unseated in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by Victor E. Jones, Jr.

It is one of three parishes — the others are neighboring Red River and St. Bernard near New Orleans – to have rejected the successful GOP gubernatorial candidate, U. S. Representative Bobby Jindal in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007.

Edward L. Brown, Sr., the African American mayor of St. Joseph, unseated the long-term incumbent, Whitfield " Whit " Jones, who is white, in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 7, 2000.

Sheridan was defeated in the 1987 nonpartisan blanket primary by Jerry A. Thomas, a physician in Franklinton.

In 1980, Long defeated State Representative Louis Woody Jenkins of Baton Rouge, 484, 770 ( 57. 6 percent ) to 325, 922 ( 38. 8 percent ) in the state's nonpartisan blanket primary.

Moore had led the balloting in the nonpartisan blanket primary but lost the general election to Breaux in a nationally Democratic year.

Louisiana uses a nonpartisan blanket primary, also called a " jungle primary ", for state and local offices.

Louisiana is the only place that uses a nonpartisan blanket primary.

After enduring three grueling rounds of voting in the 1971 – 1972 campaign, Edwards pushed a bill through the legislature that limited state elections to two rounds by having Democratic, Republican, and independent candidates run together on the same ballot in an nonpartisan blanket primary.

In 1978, Roemer lost in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat, which was vacated by popular incumbent Joe Waggonner of Bossier Parish.

Treen ran that year in the nonpartisan blanket primary for governor, only the second such election held in Louisiana.

In 1978, Johnston defeated then Democrat, later Republican, State Representative Louis E. " Woody " Jenkins of Baton Rouge in the nonpartisan blanket primary, 498, 773 ( 59. 4 percent ) to 340, 896 ( 40. 6 percent ).

In California's newly implemented nonpartisan blanket primary, the top two vote recipients, regardless of party, proceed to compete in the general election.

Perkins won an open seat in the Louisiana House representing District 64 ( the eastern Baton Rouge suburbs, including part of Livingston Parish ) when he defeated Democrat Herman L. Milton of Baker 63 percent to 37 percent in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995.

( Louisiana's nonpartisan blanket primary was not enacted until 1975.

As Australia shares its monarch equally with fifteen other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and the sovereign lives predominantly outside New South Wales ' borders, the governor's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his or her behalf, acting within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.

As Canada shares its monarch equally with fifteen other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and the sovereign lives predominantly outside Canada's borders, the governor general's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his or her behalf, acting within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

Primaries can be used in nonpartisan elections to reduce the set of candidates that go on to the general election ( qualifying primary ).

In his first campaign ever, the 33 year old Cavanagh entered the 1961 Detroit mayoral race, one of eleven candidates in the nonpartisan primary opposing incumbent Louis Miriani.

Nebraska uses a single nonpartisan primary for the State Legislature but not for other state and local races.

Although required by the tenets of constitutional monarchy to be nonpartisan while in office, governors general were frequently former politicians ; a number held seats in the House of Lords by virtue of their inclusion in the peerage.

Council members are elected at-large for four-year terms, by the voters of the municipality through nonpartisan municipal elections held the 2nd Tuesday in May, in odd-numbered years.

Fuller beat Luken by 54-38 percent in the nonpartisan primary held September 11, 2001.

Today, nonpartisan elections are generally held for municipal and county offices, especially school board, and are also common in the election of judges.

A sister, Rosie Cuellar-Castillo, is the Laredo municipal judge, having won a nonpartisan runoff election held on December 11, 2010.

The appointed justice must be approved by the voters on a nonpartisan ballot at the first statewide general election held more than three years after appointment ; thereafter, each justice must participate in another retention election every ten years.

All judges and justices in Alaska must stand for judicial retention elections ( approval by the voters ) on a nonpartisan ballot at the first statewide general election held more than three years after appointment, and periodically thereafter.

The appointed judge must be approved by the voters on a nonpartisan ballot at the first statewide general election held more than three years after appointment ; thereafter, each court of appeals judge must participate in another retention election every eight years.

On July 20, 2010, the Hoboken Council voted to move the nonpartisan municipal elections to be held on the same day as the statewide general election in November.

Today its focus is on ethics and it is known as the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the voice for ethics in international affairs.

In a nonpartisan system, no official political parties exist, sometimes reflecting legal restrictions on political parties.

In nonpartisan elections, each candidate is eligible for office on his or her own merits.

In April 1986, he won election as mayor ( a nonpartisan position ) of his adopted hometown, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California – a small, wealthy village and artists ' community on the Monterey Peninsula.

Moderation of the spoils system at the federal level came with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.

In some states, judges are elected ( sometime on a partisan ballot, other times on a nonpartisan one ), while in others they are appointed by the governor or state legislature.

Judges are either appointed by the governor after being reviewed by the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation ( JNE ) if a vacancy is created during a sitting judges six-year term, or elected by the county residents in nonpartisan elections if the vacancy occurs at the end of a six-year term.

Board members are elected on a nonpartisan, county wide basis, with seven representatives chosen from the six townships and two members selected at-large.

The sheriff and county attorney are also elected on a nonpartisan ticket.

A Cumberland Presbyterian and a Mason, Churchill served as mayor and on the municipal school board, both nonpartisan positions.

Ocala is governed by a five member board of councillors and a mayor, all of which are elected on a nonpartisan basis.

The government consists five council members, with all positions elected at large in nonpartisan elections to serve four-year terms on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election in even-numbered years on the second Tuesday in May.

Rapid growth led to financial turmoil, and inefficiencies in the town government resulted in the adoption of a new nonpartisan Council-Manager form of government under the 1923 Municipal Manager Law in a referendum on September 16, 1930.

Trustees are elected in nonpartisan elections on an at-large basis to staggered four-year terms of office.

Members are elected in nonpartisan elections to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election in even years.

The City Council consists of three members elected at large from the city as a whole, and six members who each represent one of the city's six wards, all of whom are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections on a staggered basis, with the six ward seats up for election together and the three at-large and mayoral seats up for vote two years later.