The Pennsylvania Department of Elections says that as of January 20, 2012, there are 38,220 registered Libertarians in Pennsylvania. This is the highest number of registered Libertarians in Pennsylvania history, and is doubly surprising because the state removed the party as a choice on the voter registration formseveral years ago, because it had lost its status as a “political party.” Not only that, it didn’t even appear on the statewide ballot in 2010, because its statewide petition was challenged and the party then withdrew that petition to avoid court costs of $110,000. For the past few years, voters who want to register in the Libertarian Party have had to check the “other” box and write in “Libertarian.”
The number of registered Libertarians in past tallies in Pennsylvania has been (each date is of October): 1994 4,408; 1996 14,435; 1998 23,095; 2000 30,248; 2002 not available; 2004 34,003; 2006 36,070; 2008 36,509; 2010 38,035.
Any increase in registrations of other minor parties in PA? I’m thinking about the Greens and the Constitutionalists.
Libertarians are Constitutional.
#1, the other two parties that Pennsylvania keeps track of went down. I will have all the data for all states, for all parties, in the Feb. 1 2012 print edition of BAN.
Thanks, Richard! I look forward to getting it.
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We’re catching on, I’m telling ya!
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