It is likely that the Libertarian Party will have at least one nominee for a federal or state office on the ballot in all fifty states in November 2018, for the first time in a midterm year.
In a few states, the party has no one on the ballot for statewide office. But in all those states, it will have at least one legislative or U.S. House candidate on the ballot. Those states are Alabama, where a Libertarian has qualified for a seat in the state house; California, where the party has a few candidates on the ballot for Assembly; Florida, where the party’s gubernatorial nominee withdrew for health reasons but where the party will have a few legislative candidates; Kentucky, where there are no statewide races up but where the party will have a few candidates for U.S. House; Maine, where the party has a state house candidate; Mississippi, where the only statewide race is U.S. Senate, and the party did not contest that, but it does have some candidates for U.S. House; and Washington, where the party has a few legislative candidates.
It is not yet determined whether the Louisiana, Rhode Island and Vermont Libertarian Parties will have any candidates for statewide office, but they will have some legislative candidates. The only statewide office up in Louisiana is a special election for Secretary of State.
In order for the prediction in this post to come true, it is necessary that the party’s statewide petitions succeed in Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. It is likely that each of these petitions will succeed.
The word “Libertarian” will be on the ballot for all the party’s candidates, except in Tennessee, where the Libertarians will have the label “independent.”
In 2014, there were no Libertarians on the ballot for any federal or state office in Alabama, Maine, or New Mexico. Ever since the U.S. has had 50 states, starting in 1959, there has never before been any third party that had a candidate for federal or state office in the ballot in all 50 states in a midterm year.
Separate and UNEQUAL ballot access laws in how many States for partisan offices ???
ALL – except the top 2 primary States ???
Go Libs! Woo Hoo!
The Libertarian Party, Google and others, do not want you to know about the United Coalition. But this is a unity phenomena that’s sweeping the world and it’s called pure proportional representation (PPR).
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Richard:
Has the this same situation ever occurred in a Presidential year?
A test for the BAN super-data base —
Any other third party have Fed/State candidates in ALL States in midterm years since official ballots in 1890 ???
Which states didn’t have any LP candidates in 1998 and 2002?
Steve, in 1998, there were no Libertarians on the ballot for partisan office in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, North Dakota, or Oklahoma.
For 2002, Arkansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia.
Deemer, the Libertarian party had its presidential nominee on the ballot in all states in 1980, 1992, 1996, and 2016.
Demo Rep, no, unless possibly the Peoples Party did in 1894. It’s tough to know that because there are so many states in which the state legislative election returns aren’t available that far back.
But the Progressive Party didn’t have candidates in all states in 1914, and the Socialist Party never got on the North Carolina government-printed ballots until 1932. North Carolina is ambiguous because it was legal to distribute private ballots even during the time when the state had government-printed ballots. So Socialists, who couldn’t get on the government ballot, could still campaign and get votes using private ballots, but it kept their vote low.
Richard Winger Thank you not just for this but fir your dedication over so long. I will not give the number as it depresses me.