South Carolina has a U.S. Senate election this year, and has seven U.S. House districts. The only candidates on the ballot this year for either house of Congress, other than Republicans and Democrats. are Constitution Party nominees. The Constitution Party is running for U.S. Senate, and has three nominees for U.S. House.
On August 11, the New York Working Families Party nominated Joe Biden for president. This means he will be on the New York ballot twice, and voters can vote for him either as a Democrat or as a Working Families Party candidate.
In 2016, when the WFP nominated Hillary Clinton in New York, the party polled 139,840 votes for her, which was 1.83%.
The April 2020 new law on party status requires the greater of 130,000 votes, or 2%. So unless the new law is eventually declared unconstitutional, it is tough to predict whether the WFP can meet the new standard later this year.
On August 29, the New York Conservative Party chose President Donald J. Trump as its presidential nominee. This means he will be listed twice on the New York, and voters who want to vote for him can do so under the Republican label or the Conservative label. The convention was virtual.
In 2016, Trump was also the Conservative Party nominee. As a Conservative nominee got 291,947 votes, 3.81%.
On June 19, 2020, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed H7901. It lowers the number of signatures for all petitions (primary and general) for both houses of Congress, for 2020 only. This is old news but BAN had not previously reported it. The bill lowered U.S. Senate petitions from 1,000 to 500. It lowered U.S. House petitions from 500 to 250.
Despite the new lower requirements, for 2020 only, no Republican got on the ballot in U.S. House district one. No minor party candidates got on for any congressional race. Two independents for U.S. House in the First District did get on.
The New York Libertarian Party has thirteen nominees on the ballot for U.S. House. In the past, the party had never had more than three nominees for U.S. House on the ballot in New York. Of course, 2020 is the first time ever that the New York Libertarian Party has been a ballot-qualified party, so it is far easier for it to run candidates than in the past.
Of the thirteen, eleven are Libertarian Party members who are not also the nominees of any other party. Two of them are also Republican nominees. New York has 27 U.S. House districts.
