The Vermont Progressive Party, the only party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties that always elects some state legislators, set a new record in November 2016 for State House races. It ran twenty candidates for State House, the most ever. The party’s vote total in State House races was also the highest ever, and it elected its member-nominees in seven races (this does not count candidates who were Democrats but who also got the Progressive nomination).

The number of voters who voted Progressive for state house, and the number of candidates the party ran for that office, is listed below. Vermont has many multi-member legislative districts. The compilation only includes the top vote-getter for the party in each of these districts; it doesn’t add in the votes for all the nominees because that would mean some voters were being counted twice.

1992 eight candidates, 7,389 votes
1994 six candidates, 3,337 votes
1996 four candidates, 3,937 votes
1998 five candidates, 2,565 votes
2000 ten candidates, 7,925 votes
2002 ten candidates, 4,287 votes
2004 eleven candidates, 12,039 votes
2006 seventeen candidates, 14,135 votes
2008 twelve candidates, 13,774 votes
2010 eleven candidates, 7,563 votes
2012 eleven candidates, 10,284 votes
2014 thirteen candidates, 8,321 votes
2016 twenty candidates, 18,954 votes