The Colorado Secretary of State has released the list of presidential candidates who are not the nominees of any of Colorado’s five qualified parties. Here is the list. There are 18 names on the list. Each of the five qualified parties will also have a nominee, so that makes 23.
The greatest number of presidential candidates on the general election ballot in the past was 16, in Colorado in 2012 and also in 2008. Colorado requires no petition for president in the general election, just a fee of $1,000. There have been many presidential primary ballots in the U.S. with more than 16 names on a single ballot, especially in New Hampshire.
The Secretary of State had previously released a list on August 5. Between August 5 and August 10, six candidates filed. Those eight who filed in the last five days are: Rocky De La Fuente, Tom Hoefling (America’s Party), Gloria La Riva (Socialism & Liberation), Bradford Lyttle (Nonviolent Resistance/Pacifist), Michael Maturen (American Solidarity), Emidio Soltysik (Socialist Party), Mike Smith, and of course Evan McMullin (whose ballot label will be “unaffilated”).
This post originally said 21 candidates would be on, but it has been re-written because two more were added.
I don’t have a problem with this. Let’s have fifty candidates. Or one hundred. Why not?
I think actually it’s supposed to be 22 since the Libertarians should be listed but seems not to be on the site now.
I was only counting the candidates who filed using the independent procedure. That is 16, plus the 5 qualified parties. The five qualified parties are Constitution, Green, Libertarian, Democratic, and Republican.
Bradford Lyttle is running again? I think he’s run many times in a row if I remember correctly although he doesn’t seem to be to serious about ballot access or running a serious campaign. He’s usually just a write in so to be on in 1 state at least is better than nothing.
The Socialist Party USA ticket has been added.
I think this list will be updated again. I know of at least one other candidate that was looking for electors, and I see another candidate was added to the list.
Will Clinton or Trump each get even 25 percent of the votes in rocky CO ???
Demo Rep Easily. In the rosiest of outlooks for the minor parties Johnson, the Libertarian, will 8 to 15 % Stein, the Green will get 4 to 9 %, the Constitution Party guy will get 1%, and the cumulative total for the bottom 18 won’t surpass 2%. That leaves 74% of the vote to be split between Clinton and Trump.
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Not seeing Gary Johnson on the list. Did the Libertarians miss the filing deadline?????
No Brian, the LP has a different filing deadline.
Ok good to know. Also saw that Darrell Castle wasn’t listed.
Yes, the five qualified parties in Colorado (Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution) have until September to file. Not sure about the Unity Party, I had heard somewhere that they are now ballot qualified in Colorado and plan to field a presidential ticket.
I misread the list at first. I didn’t realize that they have the on-ballot candidates and write-in candidates listed together, with a Y in the “Write In” column to distinguish them from each other.
What happened to Michael Deaks? He isn’t listed on the CO election board website any more.