Earlier this month, independent candidate Ammon Bundy polled 17.2% of the vote for Governor of Idaho. This is the strongest showing for someone running outside the major parties for Governor of Idaho since 1926, when the Progressive Party nominee, W. … Continue reading
The Deseret News has this lengthy story about the Forward Party. It is odd that the story says the Forward Party is trying to get on the ballot in Texas, because petitioning in Texas to put a new party on … Continue reading
My blog post that said the Libertarian Party won four partisan elections on November 8, 2022, was incomplete. There were also six partisan wins in Indiana. The only contested win was for Town Council of Ossian, a town of 3,300 … Continue reading
On November 8, U.S. District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers, a Bush Jr. appointee, struck down a Florida law making it a crime for a candidate for non-partisan office to “campaign” based on party affiliation. The plaintiff, a candidate for … Continue reading
Usually ranked choice voting boosts the vote for minor party candidates. That was true in Maine in both 2020 and 2022. But in Alaska in 2022, it didn’t seem to help minor parties. The only minor party candidate for a … Continue reading
