Thomas J. Kelly, founder of the British Reformed Sectarian Party of Florida, ran for Florida State House earlier this month, and polled 33.0% of the vote in a two-person race. His only opponent was Republican Dean Cannon. The unofficial vote totals are: Cannon 38,454; Kelly 18,957. The district is centered in Winter Park, near Orlando. See this article (scroll down a bit). According to the article, Cannon spent $500,000 on his re-election campaign.

When this same seat was up in 2004, Cannon had polled 57.1% of the vote against his only opponent, a Democrat.

The British Reformed Sectarian Party was formed to protest a court decision issued in 2003, that upheld the ability of the Florida major parties to require loyalty oaths to run in their primaries. The 11th circuit panel that upheld the oaths consisted of Judges Susan Black, Paul Roney, and Walter Stapleton. Kelly, who had lost the lawsuit, was so irritated with these three judges, he resolved to form a political party and call it the Black, Roney, Stapleton Party. However, he thought better of it, and called it by three words whose first letters match the first initials of the surnames of each of these three judges.

The only other minor party candidate in a 2008 Florida 2-way state legislative race was Constitution Party nominee Louis Tart. Running for the State Senate, 1st district, against a Democrat, Tart polled 18.8%.