S. Marshall Wilson, a write-in candidate for Governor of West Virginia last month, polled 15,120 write-ins. He is West Virginia’s only independent legislator, although he did not run for re-election and will not be in the legislature in 2021.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
More importantly, he outpolled the ballot-qualified Mountain Party candidate by almost 4000 votes (almost a half percent), but the Secretary of State here refuses to acknowledge both his candidacy and all the other write-in votes cast throughout the state. For example, their vote total for governor is short by over 15,500 votes, thus the percentages listed are not accurate: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/WV/106210/web.264614/#/summary
It’s not the first time that the Mountain Party has been outpolled in a statewide race. In 2008, The Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin squeaked out 110 more votes than Cynthia McKinney for US President. The Mountain Party had just affiliated with the national Green Party that year: http://services.sos.wv.gov/apps/elections/results/results.aspx?year=2008&eid=4&county=Statewide