Only One Minor Party Candidate Files in Maine Primaries for Federal or State Office

The Maine Green Party and the Maine Libertarian Party are both qualified, and each is entitled to its own primary. Filing for the June 2026 primaries has now closed. Only one Green Party member filed to run in the Green Party primary for any federal or state office, John Baldwin for state rep, 87th district. No Libertarian Party member filed to run in the Libertarian primary for any federal or state office.

Maine makes it very difficult for members of small qualified parties to get onto their own party’s primary ballot. The number of signatures for primary ballot access is just as high for qualified minor parties as it is for the two major parties.

North Carolina Forward Party Will Apply its Petition for Party Status for 2027-2028

The North Carolina Forward Party has been petitioning for party status. It is half-way and has decided to apply its existing signatures to a future election year, because it won’t be finished in time to qualify for the 2026 election. The Constitution Party of North Carolina had already made a similar decision. Therefore, the only parties that will be on in North Carolina in 2026 are Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green.

Kentucky Libertarian Party Will Try to Place U.S. House Nominee on Ballot in Kentucky’s Fourth District

The Kentucky Libertarian Party will try to place a nominee for U.S. House, 4th district, on the November ballot. The nominee, Jeremy Todd, needs 400 valid signatures by June 2. The 4th district is the district that Thomas Massie represents, but Massie lost the Republican primary earlier this month.

The Kentucky petition deadline for Congress, for minor party and independent candidates, had been the second Tuesday in August, until the 2018 session of the legislature moved the deadline to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June.

No minor party nominee for U.S. House has been on the ballot in Kentucky since 2022, when the Pirate Party placed Ethan Keith Osborne on the ballot. He also ran in the 4th district, and polled 10,111 votes. Even though he was the Pirate Party nominee, he chose the ballot label “independent.” No Libertarian has been on the ballot for U.S. House in Kentucky since 2020.

New Florida Registration Data

Here are the number of registered Florida voters in each party as of May 12, 2026: Republican 5,533,168; Democratic 4,027,949; Independent Party 315,225; Conservative 41,339; Libertarian 34,594; America First 19,777; Constitution 18,383; Boricua 17,311; Green 9,533; Coalition with a Purpose 8,605; America Solidarity 7,982; Ecology 4,189; Party for Socialism and Liberation 2,258; Forward 1,909; Jeffersonian 106; MGTOW 61; We the People 12. The number of independent voters is 3,317,918. The total is 13,360,319.

The totals in August 2025 were: Republican 5,509,381; Democratic 4,192,734; Independent Party 292,607; Conservative 41,375; Libertarian 35,052; America First 1,150; Constitution 19,210; Boricua 12,881; Green 9,413; Coalition with a Purpose 5,128; American Solidarity 6,543; Ecology 3,564; Party for Socialism and Liberation 2,170; Forward 1,043; Jeffersonian 45; MGTOW 29; Reform 224. The number of independent voters was 3,438,207. Total was 13,570,756.

The party with the most impressive growth was America First. Parties that had more registrants in May 2026 than they had in August 2025 are Republican, the Independent Party, America First, Boricua, Green, Coalition with a Purpose, American Solidarity, Ecology, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Forward, Jeffersonian, and MGTOW. The Reform Party is no longer ballot-qualified. The only party that exists now, but not in 2025, is We the People.

MGTOW stands for “Men Going Their Own Way”, an anti-feminist party.