This month, Wyoming State Representative Jim Rosco was re-elected as an independent. He had also been elected as an independent in 2018. Before that he had been a Democratic state representative. He lives in Teton County, in the northwest part of the state. In 2020 he got 52% of the vote against his Republican opponent.
In the November 3 election, New York Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright was re-elected in the 76th Assembly district, even though she was only on the ballot as the nominee of an unqualified party, the “Rise and Unite” Party. The initial election returns show her with 16,151 votes. Her only opponent received 9,734 votes on the Republican line and 3,429 on the Liberal line.
She would have preferred to be the Democratic Party nominee, but she was knocked off the Democratic primary ballot earlier this year.
This is the first time anyone has been elected to the New York legislature without the nomination of a qualified party since 1970. In 1970, incumbent John J. Walsh was re-elected even though he was only on the ballot as the nominee of the “Upper Manhattan Apartment Building Party.” Walsh had lost the Democratic primary and had then petitioned using the independent candidate procedure.
Four Libertarian Party nominees were elected to partisan office earlier this month: Wyoming State Representative; Kankakee County Commission, Illinois; Mancelona Township Trustee, Antrim County, Michigan; and Newellton Alderman, Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
For the Wyoming legislative race, Marshall Burt was in a two-person race against a Democrat. For the Louisiana Alderman race, Jackie Hankins defeated a Republican and an independent. In the Michigan race, there were two seats to be filled, and the candidates were one Libertarian (Donna Grundle-Kreig), one Republican, and one Democrat; the Democrat was the only candidate defeated. The Illinois Libertarian winner, Jacob Collins, had no opponents.
As of November 21, four U.S. House seats still aren’t decided, although Republicans are leading in all four. Without those four districts, the U.S. House has 222 Democrats and 209 Republicans.
In three of the four uncalled districts, only a Republican and a Democrat were on the ballot. Those three districts are California’s 21st, California’s 25th, and Iowa’s Second District.
In the other uncalled race, New York’s 22nd, the vote so far is 154,730 for the Republican; 154,430 for the Democrat; and 6,590 for the Libertarian.
Ballot Access News
November 2020 – Volume 36, Number 6
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