On December 7, the Riverside County (California) finished the official vote count for the November 6, 2018 election. Libertarian Party member Jeff Hewitt, as expected, won for County Supervisor in the 5th district. Riverside County, like almost all California counties, only has five supervisors. The county has a population of 2,423,000 people, the eleventh largest county in the nation. The election is non-partisan, but Hewitt’s Libertarian Party membership was well-known.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
NO primaries.
PR in ALL legislative bodies.
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/
CA stats due today 7 Dec 2018
CA SOS report likely late today or early next week.
Riverside is the 10th most populous county.
Wikipedia says it is the eleventh most populous county, but you could be right. Do you know the names of the nine counties that have greater population? Do you ever participate in writing or editing wikipedia articles? You would be a useful contributor.
Counties are *arms* of the *state* — mainly law enforcement — NOT independent empires
county sheriffs, prosecutors and courts — from ye old DARK AGE England.
Now added state/county roads and welfare stuff.
https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2018-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf
ALL ZEROES.
Final stats shortly – vacation for hotttt vote scanners- which survived ballot counts.
I used the Wikipedia Top 100 Counties and estimates for 2014. Since you used a current estimate of population, I thought, the ranking should be based on that. I just checked the Census Bureau estimates for 2017. Riverside is estimated to have surpassed Queens, NY in 2014.
Top 10 are
Los Angeles, CA
Cook, IL
Harris, TX
Maricopa, AZ
San Diego, CA
Orange, CA
Miami-Dade,FL
Kings, NY
Dallas, TX
Riverside, CA
I do edit Wikipedia articles if I see an error, or perhaps a formatting problem.
I once thought about doing an article explaining the Jenness result in Arizona 1972. There is footnote now that is limited completeness. If the footnote were expanded it would be very long and need its own references.
How about edit the gerrymander and PR wikis —-
1/2 or less x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL
Party Members = Total Members x Party Votes / Total Members
Unless the LPCa changes its leadership, they will never see a win like this again. Those that brought it will not bring it again.
CORRECTION —
1/2 or less VOTES x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL
All right! One of the few pieces of good news for the Libertarian Party to come out of the 2018 election.
Non partisan means the LP did not win. They act like they won the Presidency.
Richard:
Since the demise of the Populist Party of the late 19th Century, do you know of any small party candidate winning a seat representing more people, irregardless of the office being partisan or not?
I understand that the office is officially non-partisan, as are all county and city/town elections in California, but it is still a big accomplishment for a Libertarian to have gotten elected to this office.
A lot of officially non-partisan races are non-partisan in name only and everyone knows who belongs to what party. Nick Sarwark was in a non-partisan race for Phoenix Mayor, but everyone knew he was a Libertarian and his opponents were a Republican and 2 Democrats. Laura Ebke’s state senate race was officially non-partisan, but everyone knew she was affiliated with the Libertarian Party and her opponent was a Republican.
Barry Goldwzter got his start in politics as part of a non-partisan reform of the Phoenix city council and mayorality.
NO such thing as a nonpartisan in legis body elections.
One more screwed up *reform* by *progressive* folks before WW I.
PR and AppV