The New York Working Families Party has made fewer nominations for Congress and state legislature this year than ever since it first became a qualified party. It qualified as a party in November 1998.

This year it only made nominations in twelve U.S. House seats (the state has 26 seats). This is the fewest ever, in the years in which it was a qualified party. All its U.S. House nominations are for the Democratic Party’s nominee except in one seat, where it has its own nominee. However, in that case, the party leadership would rather have nominated the Democrat, but an outsider won the party’s primary.

The party made nominations for 27 U.S. House seats in 2008, when New York had 29 seats.

For the legislature, this year the party made a nomination in only 94 seats. New York has 213 seats up. The party was most active with legislative nominations in 2018 and 2010. In those years, it had 146 legislative nominations.

For Justice of the Supreme Court, the party only made four nominations, out of36 seats up this year.

Late on Friday, November 1, the Sixth Circuit issued a five-page order in Stein v LaRose, 24-3923. This is the case over whether votes for Jill Stein (who is on the ballot) should be counted. The Sixth Circuit agreed with the U.S. District Court that the case belongs in state court. Therefore, the order denies relief.

The judges are Richard Allen Griffin and Raymond A. Kethledge (Bush Jr. appointees), and Chad A. Readler (Trump).

On November 15, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Ayyadurai v New Jersey Democratic State Committee, 24-342. This is the case involving New Jersey ballot access for independent presidential candidate Shiva Ayyadurai. He had enough valid signatures and would have been on the ballot, except the Democratic Party challenged him on the basis that he was born in India.