Now that all states have reported their official vote totals, it is possible to calculate the vote for each nationally-organized party’s vote for the office at the top of the ballot for November 2014. Top-of-ballot office is defined to mean Governor. If a state didn’t have a gubernatorial election, it is U.S. Senate. For the five states that had neither office up, it is the office actually at the top of the ballot: U.S. House in North Dakota and Washington, Attorney General for Utah, Secretary of State for Indiana, Auditor for Missouri. The calculation also includes the Mayoral vote for Washington, D.C.

Republican: 40,936,511, down 5.9% from the party’s 2010 total of 43,507,666.

Democratic: 36,888,617, down 10.1% from the party’s 2010 total of 41,043,721.

Libertarian: 1,471,172, up 44.9% from the party’s 2010 total of 1,015,009.

Green: 416,383, down 18.1% from the party’s 2010 total of 508,041.

The 2014 Libertarian total is the second highest number of votes ever for a minor party, for a midterm year top-of-the-ballot races. The highest was the 1914 Progressive Party’s total of 1,489,151. The third highest is now the Reform Party’s 1998 total, which was 1,407,005.

The chief reason the Green total declined between 2010 and 2014 is that in 2010, the Green Party was on the ballot for Governor of California, and it polled 129,231 votes. In 2014 the California top-two system kept all minor party candidates off the ballot for Governor.