Kanye West was on the ballot in twelve states last month, but none of them were populous, so only 14.15% of the voters saw his name on their ballot.  In the states in which he was on the ballot, he polled .30% of the vote.

In the east, he was only on in Vermont, where he got .35%.

In the midwest, he was on in Iowa, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.  His vote in those three states was .26%.

In the south, he was on in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.  In those five states he got .30%.

In the west, he was on in Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.  In those three states he got .34%.  His best state in the nation was Utah, where he got .48%.  His best county in Utah was San Juan, with .65%.

He only got as much as 1% in one county in the U.S., Houston County in Tennessee, where he got 1.03%.  Houston County is in northwest Tennessee, is predominantly white, and was quite loyal to the Democratic Party until the last decade, but now it is strongly Republican.

Other counties in which he got at least .70% of the vote are, in order:

Chester County, Tennessee, .94%; Lincoln Co., Tn., .94%; Coffee County, Tn., .90%; Davidson Co., Tn., .84%; Hempstead Co., Ark., .84%; Lafayette Co., Ark., .82%; McNairy Co., Tn., .82%; Lafayette Co., Ark., .82%; Weakley Co., Tn., .81%; Decatur Co., Tn., .80%; Crittenden Co., Ark., .78%; Tunica Co., Miss., .76%; Lincoln Co., Ida., .72%; Dallas Co., Ark., .72%; Moore Co., Tn., .71%; Sevier Co., Tn., .71%; and Phillips Co., Ark., .70%.

Last month, the Maine Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, Lisa Savage, polled 4.95%.  That was the highest showing for U.S. Senate in Maine for any party, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, in history.  U.S. Senate elections have only existed in the U.S. starting in 1914.

The showing for Lisa Savage shows the power of having ranked choice voting, for boosting minor party vote showings.

On December 22, California’s Governor chose Assemblymember Shirley Weber to be the new Secretary of State.  California has a vacancy in that position because the Governor appointed former Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be the new U.S. Senator from California.

Weber is a Democrat from San Diego.  In legislative hearings that discussed the California top-two system, Assemblywoman Weber has criticized that system because it almost invariably prevents minor party members from running for Congress and partisan state office in the general election.  She is a warm-hearted person, and a former chair of the Assembly Elections Committee, and is well-informed about election laws.