Ballot Access News is only aware of eleven instances at which minor parties won partisan elections on November 7, 2006. If anyone knows of any not mentioned below, please comment. The known instances for state office are six Vermont Progressives … Continue reading
In 2008, an independent presidential candidate in Texas will need 74,108 signatures. But a new party will need 43,939 signatures. Completion of a new party petition will enable that party to nominate someone for every partisan office in the state. … Continue reading
The United States has had popular elections for U.S. Senate starting in 1914. In the entire history of these elections, there had never been a U.S. Senate election in which the combined Democratic-Republican Party vote for U.S. Senate had fallen … Continue reading
In the opinion of Ballot Access News, a model state ballot access for minor parties would closely resemble the laws in place in Colorado, Delaware and Louisiana. Ballot-qualified status for a minor party should be based on whether it has … Continue reading
This week, 33 U.S. Senate seats were up for election. Republicans won only 9 of them. This is the smallest number of seats that either major party has won in any election year since 1964, when the Republicans won only … Continue reading
