S. Marshall Wilson, a write-in candidate for Governor of West Virginia last month, polled 15,120 write-ins. He is West Virginia’s only independent legislator, although he did not run for re-election and will not be in the legislature in 2021.
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The national vote for each party, for the regularly-scheduled U.S. Senate elections of 2020, appears to be:
Republican 40,068,431
Democratic 38,103,518
Libertarian 1,454,128
Green 298,927
Willie Wilson Party 237,699
Legal Marijuana Now 190,154
Constitution 161,448
Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis 57,174
Alaskan Independence 16,806
Natural Law 13,093
Approval Voting 9,820
Unity 8,971
Independent of Delaware 7,833
Independent of Louisiana 7,811
When the same seats were up in 2014, the totals were: Republican 22,587,303; Democratic 19,607,152; Libertarian 885,400; Green 152,703; Constitution 100,596; Independence of Minnesota 47,530; Working Families 24,207; Reform 13,938; Unity 6,427; Dem-Rep 3,890.
Here are the national totals for each party, for U.S. House in 2020. These figures are not entirely final. There are no results yet for the New York 22nd district, and the Pennsylvania figures are not complete. Also there may well be errors, which will be double-checked soon. These totals do not include Delegate to the U.S. House from D.C.
Democratic: 76,972,291
Republican 72,469,158
Libertarian 1,093,908
Working Families 379,056
Conservative of NY 288,586
Green 90,110
Constitution 82,567
Legal Marijuana Now 80,440
Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis 79,674
Independence of NY 43,944
Working Class 36,115
Unity 23,401
Independent of Louisiana 18,522
Independent of Connecticut 16,738
United Utah 15,077
SAM 8,841
Independent of Delaware 6,682
Aloha Aina 6,444
Communist 3,432
Populist 2,431
Approval Voting 1,441
American Shopping 661
American Solidarity 75
Minnesota has four ballot-qualified parties: the two major parties, the Legal Marijuana Now Party, and the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party. Minnesota has eight U.S. House seats. In six districts, one or the other of the marijuana parties had a nominee. Treating the two parties as a single party, their nominees polled 6.86% of the vote in the districts in which they had candidates.
This is easily the best showing by any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, in U.S. House races around the country. All of the Minnesota districts had a Republican and a Democratic running as well. There were U.S. House districts around the nation in which a Libertarian Party nominee polled above 15%, but those were all districts with only one major party nominee.
Minnesota did not have any independent candidates on the ballot for U.S. House, nor any minor party nominees for U.S. House other than from the two marijuana parties. Minnesota has very stringent ballot access for office other than president. Also Minnesota doesn’t have the initiative process, so marijuana legalization advocates can’t work toward their goal using the initiative process.
Tim Alberta, chief correspondent for Politico, talked at length to twenty voters about who they voted for and why. Included in the twenty was a voter who voted for Don Blankenship, and one who voted for Kanye West. The Blankenship voter wanted to cast a vote for someone who wants to ban abortion but who is not a womanizer. The Kanye West voted that way because “he hates both parties.” See the entire piece here. Thanks to electoral-vote for the link.