States that nominate candidates via conventions

[Orser67]

I'm curious about states that use conventions (or any other non-primary system) to nominte candidates. Afaik, Utah used to be convention only (if one candidate got 60% of the vote or more), but a newish law requires an alternate means of appearing on the ballot. Colorado also seems to use conventions to select a few candidates to appear on the primary ballot. Are there any other examples?

[PAK Man]

I thought Minnesota held conventions too, and I believe Virginia has the option of holding a convention or a primary.

Here in Iowa, parties can choose to hold a convention after the primary if no candidate filed for the seat. That's how Republicans got candidates for state treasurer and attorney general in 2014, as no Republicans actually filed for those seats. It happened locally too with a few county offices.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Minnesota uses conventions to endorse a candidate but a primary is still held.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

South Carolina offers parties the choice of a primary or a convention.  Up until now, only the Democratic and Republican Parties had chosen to use primaries, but a local third party, the American Party appears to be using primaries this year as well.  (Note, presidential selection is different, and a party only gets State funding of a presidential primary if they got 5% or more of the vote last time.)

[Zioneer]

I'm curious about states that use conventions (or any other non-primary system) to nominte candidates. Afaik, Utah used to be convention only (if one candidate got 60% of the vote or more), but a newish law requires an alternate means of appearing on the ballot. Colorado also seems to use conventions to select a few candidates to appear on the primary ballot. Are there any other examples?

A side note about Utah; the Utah GOP are fighting an internal civil war over it. The party officers are chosen by delegates, so to please said delegates, they've sued the state, governor, legislature (all controlled by Republicans), and anyone they can. They have threatened to refuse the right of signature-gathering candidates to be listed as a Republican on the ballot, they've toyed with altering their by-laws to automatically endorse a candidate who goes convention only over a candidate who uses signatures, they nearly topped the governor who signed the new election legislation into law...

The funny thing is, depending on who you ask, their antics could disqualify dozens of Republican candidates, could disqualify them as a qualified political party, could do all sorts of things. Frankly, if they got what they wanted, some ultra-Republican districts could have ended up without a Republican on the ballot.