California elects an Insurance Commissioner in a partisan election. Only six candidates are on the June ballot: three Democrats, one Republican, one Peace & Freedom Party member, and one independent candidate. UPDATE: the Republican, Peter Kuo, failed to qualify, so there are only five candidates.
The Peace & Freedom Party member is Nathalie Hrizi. The three Democrats are Asif Mahmood, State Senator Ricardo Lara, and Paul Song. The independent is Steve Poizner, who held the position 2006-2010, when he was a Republican.
It is very likely that Hrizi will poll over 2% of the June vote. If she does, that will keep the Peace & Freedom Party on the ballot for four years, even if the party’s registration dips below .33% of the state total. At the last registration tally, as of January 2018, PFP was .40%.
How are you determining which candidates have filed?
I saw a news story about one of the Democrats, and it named the six candidates who have filed.
Nonpartisan elections for all exec/judic offices.
The United Coalition of Candidates (UCC) heard that three friends are running for California Secretary of State;
Member of California Super-state Parliament (MSP) Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian], MSP CY Weber [Peace and Freedom] and Mike Feinstein [Green].
The United Coalition is trying to communicate with them, MSP Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian] had been elected to the UCC, but we have not spoken to her about 2018. The UCC did work with her over years past dating back to 2014, 2010, 2006 and likely before then.
Nominations for our five USA Super-State Elections of 2018 end on March 31st.
http://www.usparliament.org/ss11.php
If there were 2 PFP candidates running and each got 1% would the state look at the total for the party or just the higher of the 2 when determining primary election ballot access?
The vote for two candidates for the same party may be added together, for purposes of satisfying the law on remaining ballot-qualified. The law says if a party objects to adding them together, they won’t be added together, but obviously no party in its right mind would object.