The Working Families Party, appearing on the ballot in South Carolina this year for the first time, has nominated 5 candidates. They include two for US House of Representatives, 2 for the state legislature, and one for county commissioner in Charleston County. All five are also Democratic nominees. The state will tally the votes each receives under each party label.
Working Families Party candidates will thus appear on the ballot in three states this November: South Carolina, Connecticut and New York. Although the party is also ballot-qualified in Oregon and Delaware, it has no candidates in those two states.
The WFP will be on the ballot in Delaware without any candidates?
In Connecticut it looks like they will not have any of their own candidates either although they did endorse one Republican along with a number of Democrats.
Here we see the fusion strategy at work. give an extra ballot line to various candidates but offer voters no new choices. A realy democratic system would allow only one ballot line per candidate, and at least a half dozen distinct candidates to choose from. Using irv would make the election more competitive and more fair.