W. James Antle III, Politics Editor for the Washington Examiner, has this story on Libertarian Party showings in the 2020 election, although he doesn’t mention the party’s having won a legislative election in Wyoming. Thanks to Gene Berkman for the link.
The Casper Star-Tribune has this article about Marshall A. Burt, the newly-elected Libertarian state representative from Wyoming’s 39th district. Burt was in a two-person race with a Democratic incumbent, Stan Blake. The 39th district is centered on Green River, a Wyoming city that had historically been a Democratic Party stronghold, but which is now overwhelmingly Republican. Yet, the Republicans didn’t run anyone in this race.
The story says the last Libertarian state legislative win was in 2002. This is not correct. The 2002 reference is to Neil Randall of Vermont, who had been elected as a Libertarian/Republican fusion candidate in 1998. After the 1998 election, Randall left the Libertarian Party. He did get re-elected in 2000 and 2002 but he was on the Vermont ballot only as a Republican. He left the Libertarian Party because he opposed same-sex marriage and the Libertarian Party supported legalizing same-sex marriage at the time and currently.
Thanks to Gene Berkman for the link.
This article confirms that the New York Conservative Party, like the New York Working Families Party, met the new requirement for a party to remain on the ballot. The Conservative Party apparently polled approximately 300,000 votes for President Trump.
On November 3, Colorado voters saw a statewide referendum on their ballots, asking if they want to keep the National Popular Vote Compact law in place. The legislature had passed it in 2019, and then the Republican Party had successfully placed a referendum on the ballot, to give the voters a chance to cancel the law. But the voters voted 52% – 48% to keep the National Popular Vote law.
This is the first time any state has held a popular vote on the National Popular Vote idea.
Both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats had elections on November 3. In special elections, there are no party nominees, and so for the short term, it was already obvious that there would be a run-off in January, because each major party had multiple candidates, so no one came close to 50% of the vote.
But the other seat, the regular term, is a standard election with party nominees. The Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian Parties had nominees on the November ballot. As more ballots have been counted in Georgia, it is apparent that no one got 50% in that race either. The Libertarian Party nominee is getting 2.4%, and although Republican incumbent David Perdue is leading, he is slightly under 50%.
It is somewhat likely that without the two Georgia Senate races decided until January, no one will know until January which party will hold control of the U.S. Senate.
