On November 4, 2014, the Hawaii Libertarian Party’s nominees for State Senate, together, polled 7,862. The party had five nominees, and there were eleven districts voting for State Senate. The law passed in 1999 provided for the first time that a party could meet the vote test if it did well enough for its legislative candidates, and requires all of the party’s nominees for State Senate to poll 4% of the total cast for State Senate. That means the party needed 5,572 votes in 2014 for its State Senate candidates, a requirement which it exceeded.

The law also permits a party to pass the vote test if it polled 10% for a statewide office, or 4% of all the votes cast for State House, or 2% of all the votes cast for both houses of the legislature combined. A 1980 Attorney General ruling says that blank votes should be excluded from the denominator, when these percentages are calculated.

The Independent Party polled over 10% for Governor, so it also passed the vote test. The Green Party was not required to meet the vote test because the law also gives automatic status, for ten years, to any party that appeared on the ballot in at least three elections in a row. The Green Party is currently in its ten years of automatic status. Here is a link to the State Elections Office web page, showing 2014 election returns.