For First Time in Michigan History, a Third Party has a Contested Gubernatorial Primary

On August 7, 2018, Michigan holds primaries for the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian Parties. The Libertarian primary ballot will list two candidates for Governor, Bill Gelineau and John Tatar. Any registered voter will be able to choose to vote in the Libertarian part of the primary ballot (the ballot has all three parties on it, but voters must confine their voting to just one party’s portion).

This is the first time that any party other than the Democratic or Republican Parties has had a contested gubernatorial primary in Michigan. Michigan has been holding primaries since 1910. Although all qualified parties nominated by primary before 1931, no previous third party happened to have a contested primary for Governor.

Since 1931, only minor parties that had polled an unusually high vote have been entitled to their own primary. They are American Independent Party in 1970, Anderson Coalition Party in 1982, the Tisch Independent Citizens Party in 1988 and 1992, the Reform Party in 1998, and the Libertarian Party in 2018.


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For First Time in Michigan History, a Third Party has a Contested Gubernatorial Primary — 11 Comments

  1. Wouldn’t voters have been able to vote a Libertarian primary ballot even if there were no contested offices?

  2. Us men with the national United Coalition are putting our opposite gender before our own name in a 50/50 partnership with the fairer of the two genders.

    Because of the unifying psychology of pure proportional representation (PPR) our team is beyond pluralistic political entities who choose two males because when people work together we’re able to consciously set the fairest policies and to reject the losing strategy of business as usual and unfair treatment in elections.

    The Michigan and California Libertarian Parties both feature two males for Governor.

    Fortunately in California, all the State-wide elective offices do have female candidates who are fewer than males in all the races, and only Attorney General race in California does not feature female candidates.

    We ask female voters to reciprocate and pick the males first when they vote, also alternating genders consecutively there after, and should 2/3rds of the voters alternate between genders then we are guaranteed to elect 50% male and 50% female under Top Two.

    Check out the nomination totals to date of the Unity Platform California which our team is preparing:

    http://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-3-totals.php

  3. JR – YES, as in most States-

    Write-in space for each office-position on ballot.

  4. In 2008 the United Coalition lobbied for “A female/Nott for President” and in 2012 we ran males on many women’s tickets but we were blocked from posting on BAN in 2012.

    In 2012 our team won the only State primary allowing Ls on the ballot before their national with 52.7% but the LP party bosses blocked our campaign from their national site and from speaking at their convention despite our successes they weren’t interested in our victory.

  5. Miss Joy Waymire [Anarchist] for President in 2012, Charlene Nightingale [Constitution] for CA Gov in 2010, Tina Cook [Independent] for President in 2012, Roseanne Barr [Green Tea] for President, etc. are a few females that we worked with across party lines and many males too.

    We have always been united under pure proportional representation but the party bosses have fought viciously in every way possible to discredit our team as they opposed the unity in favor of single winners only.

  6. The past twelve years the Libertarian Party had run only males for President and Vice President who were picked in single-winner districts.

    No political party can attain gender balance across party lines (and independents) without pure proportional representation (PPR) but the United Coalition has been doing this for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine despite the vicious treatment from all the party bosses who think they alone have all the answers.

    http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html

  7. In 2012 I ran for President/Vice President with more candidates because of the dynamic nature of pure proportional representation (PPR) and the way consecutive numerals alternating between genders bring a dynamic not known by pluralist party bosses. Tiffany Briscoe [Boston Tea] was another candidate who joined our team.

    The Boston Tea “chair”, like all pluralist-driven political parties, showed great disrespect to our team.

    Few candidates remain with the original party once they learn about how pluralist-driven party boss psychology treats the party’s official candidates, who struggled deeply in ways never known to them to be a candidate, then only to be treated with vile behavior.

    If I had the time to write the story here about the odds she overcame to have the party chair apply the same unfair treatment you would see why pluralist-driven party bosses have no respect for our team.

  8. Oklahoma will have a Libertarian gubernatorial primary on June 26th. This will be only the second alternative party primary in state history, the only other one being a Prohibition primary in 1938.

  9. How many of the minor parties in 1888-1932 [so-called *Progressive Era] had primaries ???

    – before the New Dark Age took over in 1933 and since — esp the DARK AGE 2016 gerrymander election.

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