West Virginia’s only ballot-qualified party, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, is the Mountain Party. On May 9, it announced its nominees for public office this November. They include the party’s first nominee for U.S. Senate (the party has been on the ballot starting in 2000), Jesse Johnson. He will be the first minor party or independent candidate on the ballot for U.S. Senate from West Virginia since 2000, when a Libertarian ran for U.S. Senate.