The Nevada Libertarian Party retained its qualified status because it ran Jesse Walsh for County Commission, Clark County, Seat B. That is a partisan office.

The law says the vote test for qualified status is 1% (for any partisan nominee, not just statewide nominees) of the total statewide vote for U.S. House.

Walsh was in a two-person race with a Democrat and polled 47,275, 37.14% of the total for that race. The vote test requires at least 12,393 votes for any party nominee.

Without the County Commission race, the Libertarian Party would have gone off the ballot, because its other highest vote-getter, for U.S. House, 2nd district, only polled 12,166. And the Party’s registration is below 1% of the total. It is .81%.