On November 2, Shonta Browdy, the Working Families Party incumbent on the Hartford, Connecticut, Board of Education, was re-elected. She was not simultaneously a Democratic Party nominee. See this story.
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Earlier this year, Nebraska changed its law so that a party petition no longer has infinite time to circulate. A petition to recognize a new party can now only start the day after a general election. Therefore, it must be completed within the period between elections. That is still a considerable amount of time. The bill, LB 285, was signed into law by Governor Pete Ricketts on May 26, 2021. The bill had many other election law provisions as well.
New York city elected a mayor on November 2, 2021. This news story has the percentage (but not the vote total) for each candidate. It shows that the Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee, Catherine Rojas, placed third, with 2.48%. Although the results aren’t final, if that holds up, her percentage is the highest share of the vote for New York city Mayor, for a party with “Socialist” or “Socialism” in its name, since 1933.
The SAM Party nominee for First Selectman of Newtown, Connecticut, was elected on November 2. “First selectman” is somewhat analogous to Mayor. The party’s nominee, Dan Rosenthal, was the incumbent. He had been previously elected as a Democrat, but he won this year as the SAM nominee. He was unopposed. Newtown has a population of 28,000 and is in Fairfield County.
The SAM Party is a centrist party that first ran candidates in 2018.
Virginia is the only state in which either major party ever chooses gubernatorial or U.S. Senate nominees by convention, and in recent decades only the Republican Party has chosen to use conventions. In this Vox article, senior politics correspondent Andrew Prokop suggests that the Virginia Republican Party was wise to have used a convention in 2021 for its gubernatorial nominee selection process. He says someone chosen in a Virginia Republican primary (which would have been an open primary) probably would have been a less effective nominee. Thanks to FairVote for the link. The Republican convention used ranked choice voting.