When North Carolina voters mark their ballots for the upcoming presidential primary, they will have 27 choices.

Earlier this week, the North Carolina State Board of Elections approved the list of names that will be included as presidential candidates on ballots for the March 15 primary in the state — 12 Republicans, 11 Libertarians and four Democrats. The names of two Republicans who suspended their campaigns will not be on the ballots.

“We don’t have any information on whether or not this is a record. It is certainly not a problem for printing ballots,” wrote Jackie Hyland, public information officer for the State Board of Elections, in an email.

According to abstracts (as far back as 1972) at the Beaufort County Board of Elections, the next-highest number of names on presidential ballots in North Carolina was 13 in 1988. There were seven Democrats and six Republicans on the1988 ballots, according to Kellie Harris Hopkins, elections director for Beaufort County. In 2004, there were 12 names — 11 Democrats and one Republican — on the ballots. There were 11 names on the ballots in 2012 and1980, according to Hopkins.

Republicans who made the ballot this year are Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum and Donald Trump. The Libertarian candidates are Marc Allan Feldman, John David Hale, Cecil Ince, Gary Johnson, Steven Elliott Kerbel, Darryl W. Perry, Austin Petersen, Derrick Michael Reid, Jack B. Robinson Jr., Rhett Rosenquest Smith and Barbara Joy Waymire. The four Democrats on the ballots are Hillary Clinton, Rocky De La Fuente, Martin J. O’Malley and Bernie Sanders. De La Fuente was added to the Democratic list because he garnered at least 10,000 signatures of registered Democratic Party members, an option to get on the ballots.

Depending on which ballot a voter selects, that voter will choose from the four Democrats, 11 Libertarians or 12 Republicans. Each political party had until last month to submit a list of candidates, according to state law. The lists must comprise candidates whose candidacies are “generally advocated and recognized in the news media” across the nation or in North Carolina, according to state law.

North Carolina law allows the State Board of Elections to place on a ballot a presidential candidate seeking his or her party’s nomination. Also, a candidate may submit a petition that contains at least 10,000 signatures of his or her party’s registered members in order to have his or her name included on the primary ballot. An independent candidate seeking to be placed on a ballot for a general election must submit a petition containing signatures equaling at least 2 percent of the total votes cast for governor in the last general election. A write-in candidate must submit a declaration of candidacy and a petition containing at least 500 signatures of qualified voters.

June 9 is the deadline for an independent candidate to file and be included on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election. In North Carolina, a general election is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

Absentee voting by mail for statewide primaries begins Jan. 25. The deadline to register to vote in the March 15 statewide primaries is Feb. 19.