The average number of presidential candidates on ballots this year is six. There are 51 jurisdictions with electoral votes.
The two states that rely entirely on filing fees to regulate presidential ballot access in the general election have the most candidates: Colorado has 22 and Louisiana had 13.
Two states have ten presidential candidates: Iowa and Utah.
Two states have nine candidates: Minnesota and New Jersey.
Three states have eight candidates: Arkansas, Idaho, and New Mexico.
Five states have seven candidates: Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Seven states have six candidates: Alaska, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.
Eleven states have five candidates: California, Hawaii, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Fifteen jurisdictions have four candidates: Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, and Texas.
Four states have only three candidates: Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
E.C. gerrymander areas in ME and NE ???
Each Prez since 1832 has been de facto elected by about 30 repeat 30 percent of the votes in the E.C. gerrymander areas needed to be elected via the EVIL and INSANE 12th Amdt.
To pre-school MORON folks –spare me and this list ANY comments about the founding fathers and their EVIL rotted to the core gerrymander systems — H. Reps., Senate and E.C.
The USA Constitution is a LATE DARK AGE document regarding elections — i.e. the 3 OLIGARCHY gerrymander systems — which have produced the current EVIL mess– power mad Prezs, robot hacks in SCOTUS, gerrymander MORONS in the Congress, undeclared wars, national bankruptcy, destruction of cities, etc.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
New Jersey has nine candidates and Idaho has 8 candidates.
NJ sample ballot: http://sussexcountyclerk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-GE-Sample-Ballots-for-web.pdf
ID sample ballot: http://www.kcgov.us/elections/sample/2016_General/Legislative%20District%202.pdf
Thank you, Gladys Negrete! That is big help. I corrected the post.
Here’s some additional info: there are 31 presidential candidates listed on the 50 state ballots. Of those, 13 candidates are listed on the ballot of only one state, and 7 of THOSE are on the Colorado ballot. Of the remaining 18 candidates, 9 of them are on the ballots of two or three states, and the other 9 are on the ballots of seven or more states. So the most prominent 9 presidential candidates are, starting with the obvious, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, Rocky De La Fuente, Evan McMullin, Gloria La Riva, and Allyson Kennedy.
The 10th USA Parliament is a united coalition whose President and Vice President are not on a ballot because we are too small.
President: James Ogle [Republican]
Vice President: Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian]
http://usparliament.org/
States in the West tend to have more candidates than states in the East. Also, states with lots of electoral votes often have fewer candidates than the national average. In fact, out of the largest 11 states, which combined equal 270 electoral votes, only one of them has more than 6 candidates. And that state – New Jersey – contains the fewest electors (14) of the group.
I wonder how this year compares to other cycles.
The median of five is a more representative average, or perhaps the weighted mean as suggested by Clay, which would reflect the number of choices for the average voter.
I live in Missouri .I was hoping more Candidates would be on the ballot .Can someone tell me this why did the Socialist Workers Party closed down its Houston and Boston Branches .Was it because of no interest in the party .Or former supporters have gone elsewhere like the Green party.