The Detroit Free Press has this useful graphic, showing when each state must certify its November 2020 election returns. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
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At the November 3, 2020 election, the Vermont Progressive Party elected nine legislators who are party members. They are two State Senators and seven Representatives. In 2018 the party had also elected two State Senators and seven Representatives.
The 2020 winners are: Senators Christopher Pearson and Anthony Pollina. Representatives are Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Brian Cima, Selene Colburn, Taylor Small, Tanya Vyhovsky, Mollie S. Burke, and Heather Surprenant.
At the November 3, 2020 election, Christopher Helali appeared on the Vermont ballot as a candidate for U.S. House. His ballot label was “Communist”. He polled .97% in a seven-person race, finishing fourth. He was the only minor party candidate in that race, but there were four independents.
The last time “Communist” had appeared on a U.S. ballot for any federal or state office had been 1996, when David S. Mirtz was on for New York Assembly, 80th district. He polled 1.29%.
Here is Helali’s campaign website, which says that he represents the “Party of Communists USA”. He didn’t need a petition to get on the Vermont 2020 ballot, because Vermont suspended all candidate petitions due to the health crisis for 2020.
Patricia Brigham, president of the Florida League of Women Voters, has this op-ed in the Sarasota Sentinel, explaining why the League originally supported the top-two initiative, and why and how it changed its mind. The piece says the League still favors letting independent voters vote in partisan primaries, but that there are other ways to achieve that goal.
Vox, an on-line news source with over 33,000,000 readers, has this article by Jane Coaston on the Libertarian Party’s showing in the 2020 presidential election. Thanks to Gene Berkman for the link.