CNN has compiled a list of all third party candidates and their totals.
With 97% of the precincts reporting, here is the list for candidates in multiple states (the CNN link includes candidates running in single states). There are still millions of absentee and provisional votes to be counted, along with the normal votes from 4% of the precincts.
Nader: 653,392
Barr: 487,266
Baldwin: 174,096
McKinney: 142,093
Keyes: 34,533
Paul: 19,583
SWP 9,529
La Riva: 7,513
B. Moore: 6,378
Duncan: 3,672
Jay: 2,307
Polachek: 1,212
Warmboldt: 766
McEnulty: 740
Stevens: 683
Amondson: 631
Boss: 602
Weill: 470
Phillies: 465
Allen: 277
Lyttle: 97
“La Rova”
Suspect you mean La Riva. 🙂
Once again, the one million vote goal for the LP is still unbroken.
While the LP would have done several times better if Ron Paul had decided to become the nominee, this election has convinced me that the LP needs to focus on lower level races to have any relevancy. In other words, let’s just run one statewide candidate once in a while to gain ballot access, and mostly run for local office and a few state legislature positions. Some democrats told me on election day we ought to build from the bottom up if we want to gain relevancy, and I agree, I mean just look at what the Vermont Progressive Party has done. I think there are too many inflated egos in the LP (hence the runs for higher office) and an obsession with gaining automatic ballot access (which is justified, but the number of times we try to achieve it is overkill). In VA for instance, 4 years ago we almost won the Virginia Beach mayoral election in a three way, partisan race. My good friend Matt Beato almost won a City Council seat in Williamsburg and ought to get it a year and a half from now if he decides to run again. Also I have plans to try to convince a couple of independent Chesterfield County Supervisors (in a partisan Board) to come over to the LP. This is some of the basic common sense party building we need to do. On the presidential level, I wouldn’t be upset if the LP got behind a solid generic third party candidate next time around (perhaps from the Modern Whigs???) Let’s stop bickering over how many Ayn Rand books our nominees should have read and focus on running like hell on the local level! If you can’t get at least one volunteer at half the precincts on election day, that probably shows you’re running for too high an office – we just don’t have the resources.
Many Libertarians would like to claim that they are logical in addition to being principled. If this was the case, they would indeed be running for local office. The facts show that when Libertarians run for local office, they stand a good chance of winning. Those Libertarians that do win can often stay in for a long time, if they so wish.
Once all the write-in votes are counted, I’m guessing that Chuck Baldwin will be at about 200,000 votes. He is currently at 180,780.