The Working Families Party polled 4.49% of the New York presidential vote this year. That is more than double the party’s previous best showing for president in New York, which had been 2.09%, which it received in both 2004 and 2008. Its 2016 percentage for president in New York had only been 1.83%.

The party also did well for U.S. House in New York, although the results for U.S. House aren’t final because the state still hasn’t certified the vote for any candidate in the 22nd district, because it is too close to call and there are unresolved counting issues. But setting aside the 22nd, the percentage for the Working Families Party nominees for U.S. House (almost all of whom were also Democratic nominees) was 5.67% in the districts in which the party had nominees. It had nominees in 20 of the 27 districts. That was the party’s second best showing for U.S. House in its history; the only better year for U.S. House had been 2014, when it was 6.12% in the districts in which it had nominees.

On December 3, the New York Board of Elections released the official vote totals. See them here.

The only declared write-in presidential candidates who polled as much as 100 write-ins were Kanye West 1,897; Brian Carroll 805; Gloria La Riva 376; and Jade Simmons 155.

On Saturday, December 5, the Eleventh Circuit agreed with a U.S. District Court that a lawsuit filed to overturn the Georgia election returns should be dismissed. Wood v Raffensperger, 20-14418. Here is the 20-page opinion. The case was filed by Georgia attorney L. Lin Wood, in his capacity as a voter and also as a donor to the Trump campaign. He has received attention recently for asserting that the vote-counting machines in Georgia are deliberately programmed to injure Republicans, and he has advocated that Republicans boycott the January 2021 Georgia U.S. Senate run-offs. Thanks to Howard Bashman for the link.