Connecticut is the only state that has registration by party which won’t release any state totals, except once in a two-year election cycle. Connecticut only releases registration totals by party in October of even-numbered years.
When the Connecticut Secretary of State released data for October 2022, for minor parties, an error was made and the totals for the minor parties were far below the true figures. But, because they were official, Ballot Access News used them in the chart in the December 1, 2022 issue. The erroneous figures were: Libertarian 97; Green 241; Constitution (Concerned Citizens) 44; Working Families 26; Independent Party 3,649; Socialist 151; Forward 8; Socialist Action 8; Socialism & Liberation 7; Socialist Workers 2.
The correct figures are: Griebel Frank for Ct. 8; Independent Party 30,947; Working Families 304; Libertarian 3,351; Green 1,251; other minor parties (not broken down) 156.
The Secretary of State released the new corrected figures on November 7, 2022, but BAN only recently learned about them, thanks to Jim Palmer.
The national totals for the two largest minor parties should have been published as: Libertarian 736,119; Green 235,130.
I did some number crunching about a year or two or so ago to get a good estimate of how many registered voters the Libertarian Party would have if every state had partisan voter registration. I think it was 19 states that have non-partisan voter registration. I took an average for each state that has partisan voter registration, as a percent of each state’s population, and I used that figure to multiply it by the population of each state with non-partisan voter registration, and then I added those figures up, and then I added it to the number of registered Libertarians in the states with partisan voter registration, along with the numbers from DC, which also g as partisan voter registrations. I came out with there being over 1 million registered Libertarians if every state had partisan voter registration.
That’s pretty cool, Andy.
Registration counts aren’t that important in Connecticut. As far as I know, a party can’t become ballot-qualified in CT by registration, only through petition. And the only way to stay on for the next election is to get votes. See BAN article: https://ballot-access.org/2022/11/12/connecticut-news-story-on-status-of-minor-parties/