Randy Stufflebeam, Constitution Party nominee for Illinois Governor, received 19,020 write-ins on November 7. This is the highest number of write-ins ever received by any minor party or independent candidate for any office in Illinois history.
The previous Illinois record number of write-in votes for any minor party or independent candidate was set in 2004, when Ralph Nader got 3,559 write-ins. Before that, the record has been the American Party’s 1972 presidential candidate, Congressman John G. Schmitz. He had received 2,471 write-ins in Illinois.
The Illinois Libertarian Party gubernatorial write-in candidate this year, Mark McCoy, received 476 write-ins. The Socialist Workers Party write-in candidate for Governor did not file as a declared write-in, so no one knows how many he received.
That’s actually not bad.
In Illinois, Ralph Nader got 3,571 write-in votes for President in 2004 I believe. Thanks for this info, I was curious if that was the record in IL.
Wow. That is AMAZING.
That is fantastic. It proves that when things get difficult for people they won’t hesitate to pick up and pencil in a write-in name. This should be a good omen for third political parties to run in 2008.
It’s a crying shame that Illinois makes it so hard for small parties to get on the ballot, necessitating these write-in campaigns.
Just one more example of how the two major parties have rigged the rules in their own favor.
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