Three California Minor Parties Will Have One Legislative Candidate on November Ballot

The Green, Libertarian, and Peace & Freedom Parties will each have one member on the November 2026 ballot for state legislature.

Libertarian William Brown filed to have his name on the primary ballot for State Senate, 12th district, in the San Joaquin Valley. Two Republicans also filed. Brown placed second, with 23.9%. See the returns here.

Peace & Freedom Party member Kevin Akin filed as a write-in candidate in the 63rd Assembly district, in Riverside County. Only one person was on the ballot, and Akin was the only declared write-in candidate. He polled 113 write-in votes. Even one write-in would have been enough for him to place second.

Green Party member Victor Hernandez filed to be on the primary ballot in the 59th Assembly district in northern Orange County. No one else filed to be on the primary except the incumbent Republican. Hernandez polled 30.4%. See the returns here.

There are four Assembly districts in which only one person filed to be on the primary ballot, and no one filed as a declared write-in. So if minor party members had filed as a declared write-in in any of those districts, such candidates could have appeared on the November ballot.

California Democrats Face Slight Possibility of Losing U.S. House Race in Sixth District Due to Top-Two System

Here are the results so far in California’s U.S. House race, Sixth District. Currently the top two candidates are the incumbent, Kevin Kiley, who has been a Republican but who is now an independent; and the sole Republican in the race, Michael Stansfield. The other five primary candidates are all Democrats.

Because California is very slow to count votes, and because generally as more votes are counted, Democrats do better than they had been doing initially, there is considerable doubt that these results will remain unchanged.

Two of the Three Independent Petitions are Challenged in Illinois Fourth U.S. House District

As reported earlier, three independent candidates for U.S. House in the Illinois Fourth District filed petitions last month to be on the November ballot. The requirement is 10,816 signatures. The challenge period closed on June 2. No one challenged the petition of Chris Getty. The other two were challenged. Mayra Macias had submitted 19,570 signatures, and Byron Sigcho Lopez had submitted 22,788.