Mississippi elects all its state offices in the odd years before presidential election years. The state elects eight statewide state officers this year. Filing for party primaries closed on March 1. The Democrats are only running candidates for five of the eight statewide offices, but the Reform Party is running candidates for seven.
The Reform Party candidates for statewide office are: Governor Shawn O’Hara, Lieutenant Governor Tracella Hill, Secretary of State John Pannell, Auditor Ashley Norwood, Treasurer Shawn O’Hara, Insurance Commissioner Barbara Washer, Agriculture Commissioner Cathy Toole. The only statewide office with no Reform Party candidate is Attorney General.
Filing for state legislative seats ends on June 1. The filing deadline is later for legislative candidates this year because redistricting has not been carried out. Thanks to Steve Rankin for this news. None of the other parties filed any candidates for statewide office, other than the Republican Party, of course.
There will be Democratic primary contests for only two statewide offices, governor and state treasurer. This assumes that the Democrats certify Shawn O’Hara for treasurer. He has also qualified as a Reform Party candidate for governor and treasurer.
The Republicans have candidates for all eight statewide offices. The only incumbent Democrat is the attorney general, who’s seeking reelection.
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So which other parties are ballot qualified? And does not filing effect those parties.
Mississippi says any party can be qualified if it shows that it has an organization. Therefore, a party doesn’t need to poll any certain number of votes in order to be ballot-qualified. Parties that are qualified, but which aren’t running any statewide nominees this year, are Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Independence, and possibly Natural Law. There is still time for any of these parties to run candidates for the legislature, and the Constitution Party already has one candidate for State Senate this year.
How many of the southern ex-Donkey one party regimes are now Elephant one party regimes ???
P.R. and App.V.
Richard:
You imply in post #5 that there is a Mississippi Independence Party though it might not have candidates in the 2011 Mississippi elections. I thought this was the old or original name for the Reform Party? Is it (the Mississippi Independence Party) still recognized by the Mississippi SOS’s office?
Mississippi’s qualified minor parties are Constitution, Libertarian, Green, America First, Natural Law, and Reform.
To my knowledge, there is no Independence Party, unless it has recently qualified.
There is still time for any of these parties to run candidates for the legislature, and the Constitution Party already has one candidate for State Senate this year.
= Just one CP candidate?! Man, it sure sounds like Leslie Riley has done one hell of a crappy job as Chairman!
#9: There may also be time for additional candidates to qualify for some county offices, since the NAACP has filed suits against the March 1 deadline in 12 counties.
Leslie Riley, the 2007 CP nominee for agriculture commissioner, has spent a great deal of time spearheading the pro-life initiative which will appear on the November ballot.
There will also be November initiatives for voter ID and to limit the state’s eminent domain power.
Leslie Riley, the 2007 CP nominee for agriculture commissioner, has spent a great deal of time spearheading the pro-life initiative which will appear on the November ballot.
= Then why is the Mississippi CP running ONLY ONE candidate this year? They had a bunch of people running back in 07′, so what the f**k happened? What did Leslie do?