On October 9, Donna Charles ended her campaign for Governor of Virginia. See this story. She had petitioned to be on the ballot, but did not have the needed 10,000 valid signatures. But she had been campaigning as a write-in, and a poll last month had showed her at 3%.
WHYY, the public broadcasting affiliate in Philadelphia, and which covers southern New Jersey, has this lengthy story about the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Governor of New Jersey.
So far mainstream media has not covered the Socialist Workers Party nominee for Governor of New Jersey, but perhaps there will be such stories in the next few weeks. There are only four candidates on the ballot for the November 4,, 2025 election.
This Daily News article shows the New York City sample ballot for Mayor. New York state has one of the worst ballot formats of any state. It is a party column ballot. The only other states that still use party column ballots are New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. All other states long ago switched to office group format, in which all the candidates for a particular office are listed clearly together.
On Saturday, October 11, the Texas Republican Party decided not to bar any candidates from its 2026 primary ballot. See this story.
The Iowa Libertarian Party elected its nominee Thomas Laehn to be the Greene County Attorney in 2018. He was re-elected as a Libertarian in 2022. Now he is running as a Libertarian for U.S. Senate in 2026. See this story.
