Here is a link to incomplete election returns for Alaska. Measure 2, which would have created a top-four system in which ranked choice voting would be used in November (but not in the primary) appears to have lost. With 360 out of 441 precincts reporting, it has 43.2%.

The measure would have made it more difficult for parties to obtain or keep qualified status. Because parties would no longer have nominees for any partisan office except president, the vote test for parties wouldn’t exist any more. Instead the only method for parties to qualify would have been to have registered members equal to 3% of the last vote cast. Only the Alaskan Independence Party meets that standard.

Preston Nelson, Libertarian nominee for U.S. House in the Illinois 8th district, polled 29.1% in a two-way race against a Democrat. See the returns for all the Illinois U.S. House races here.

This is the highest percentage for a candidate for U.S. House in Illinois who was not the nominee of the Democratic or Republican Parties since 1914, when Progressive Party nominee Ira Copley was elected with 40.8% of the vote.

The 8th district is in the Chicago suburbs.

According to this story, the Working Families Party of New York polled 4.5% of the presidential vote, with at least 283,000 votes. Therefore it easily met the new vote test, which requires the higher of 2% of the state presidential total or 130,000 votes.