Working Class Party Has Best Showing in its History

The Working Class Party received more votes by far in 2024 than ever before. It has been running in partisan elections in a few states starting in 2016. It abstains from statewide races (except for Michigan statewide educational elections, and one run for Maryland Governor), and generally concentrates on U.S. House races and a smaller number of legislative races.

It has only run candidates in California, Illinois, Maryland, and especially Michigan.

In 2024, it polled 123,788 votes for U.S. House, even though it only had 9 candidates. In California, it was lucky enough to run Juan Rey in a district in which no Republican filed to be on the ballot, the 37th district. In the top-two primary, the only candidates on the ballot were two Democrats, one Peace & Freedom candidate, and the Working Class candidate. The Working Class candidate placed second in the primary and polled 44,450 votes in the two-person general election.

In Michigan in 2024, where the party has been running U.S. House candidates starting in 2016, it polled its highest U.S. House vote ever, 68,634 votes. It ran seven candidates. All seven districts also had a Democrat and a Republican in the race.

In Illinois in 2024, it ran one candidate who polled 10,704 votes in a race with both a Democrat and a Republican. Edward Hershey polled 5.19%, just enough to give the party qualified status in that one district, the Fourth District.

The party also polled its highest vote total ever for a statewide Michigan educational post. Mary Anne Hering polled 234,584 votes for State Board of Education, a higher vote total than any other minor party received in 2024 in any of the educational elections.

The party was qualified in Maryland in 2022, but did not poll enough votes to stay on, and was not on the ballot in 2024.


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Working Class Party Has Best Showing in its History — 8 Comments

  1. wcp – one more commie nation / fraction

    fascists love it — divide and conquer commies

    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  2. THEN WHO/WHAT IS RIGHT WING ??? —

    ONLY TRUMP AND HIS GANGSTERS ???

    WHEN WILL TRUMP AND GANG START KILLING COMMIE DONKEYS – IN PUBLIC ???

    SEE 1934 HITLER – PURGE OF NAZI GANGSTERS
    SEE 1936 STALIN – PURGE OF COMMIE GANGSTERS

    WHAT KILLER HAD THE FIRST ***SHOW TRIAL*** ???

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