Three minor parties are running candidates for U.S. House in Washington state. They are the Cascade Party, which has candidates in the 3rd and 4th districts; the Socialist Workers Party, in the 9th district; and the Union Party, which has one in the 10th district.
Here is the website of the Cascade Party. The state chair is Krist Novoselic.
Here is the website of the Union Party.
For the legislature, the only minor party candidates are one from the Cascade Party and three Libertarians.
This year, there will be seven minor party candidates for U.S. House on the Florida general election ballot. That is the most in Florida since 1912. There will be three Libertarians, two from the Independent Party, one Forward Party member, and one from the MGTOW Party (that stands for Men Going Their Own Way). Here is the Secretary of State’s list of candidates.
The is the first time the Forward Party and the MGTOW Party have ever appeared on the Florida ballot for any federal or state office. It is also the first time that any party, other than Republican, Democratic, or Libertarian, has had a candidate on the general election ballot for U.S. House since 2010, when the Tea Party and the Whig Party had candidates.
This is also the most Libertarians on the ballot for U.S. House in Florida. There had been two in each of these years: 2022, 2016, and 2014. There had been one in 2024, 2012, and 2000.
Ballot access was easier in Florida this year than it usually is. The law makes ballot access easier in years following a redistricting, and Florida engaged in redistricting this year. The petition in lieu of filing fee is easier in such years.
In 1912 there were four Socialists, four Progressives, and two Prohibitionists.
Florida has not held a primary for statewide office for any party other than the Republican and Democratic Parties since 2016, when there was a Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate between Paul Stanton and Augustus Invictus. This year there will be a contested Independent Party primary for Governor. The two candidates are Reginald Byron and Michael J. Brown. Neither one seems to have a campaign website.
Technically, all qualified parties in Florida nominate by primary. But when only one candidate files, no primary is actually held and the person who filed is deemed nominated. Filing fees are so high in Florida that there aren’t many people who file to run in a minor party primary.
Before 2007, parties with registration below 5% of the state total did not have primaries; they nominated by convention. The law changed with HB 537.
No party in Florida history, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, has ever had registration as high as 5% of the state total.
On May 24, the Libertarian Party national convention, meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, elected Evan McMahon as the new national party chair. He has been the state chair of the Indiana Libertarian Party.
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.
