On October 8, the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian candidates for U.S. Senate from Indiana debated each other. See this story.
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On October 8, New York State Senator Tony Avella, who had lost last month’s Democratic primary, said he will keep campaigning for the November election. He will be on the ballot as the nominee of the Independence Party and the Women’s Equality Party. See this story. Also in the race is a Republican, a Conservative, and the man who won the Democratic primary, John Liu.
This year, Alaska general election ballots show two entries for each candidate for partisan office. An initial after each candidate’s name tells how the candidate is registered. “U” means undeclared, and “N” means non-partisan.
To the right, if a candidate is a nominee of any party, that fact is noted. For candidates who are not nominees of any party, the word “petition” is present. For example, see this ballot.
For federal and state office in November 2018, there is only one candidate with the word “socialist” next to his or her name. She is Maia Dendinger, Socialist Party nominee, running for Maine state senate, 5th ditrict.
The Socialist Equality Party has a candidate for congress in Michigan, but because it didn’t do the statewide petition, its candidate must have “independent” as a ballot label. It also ran two candidates in California, but because of the top-two system, they are not on the November ballot. And even in the primary, they were forced to have the label “party preference: none.”
The Freedom Socialist Party had a candidate on the Washington primary ballot for U.S. Senate, but he also was not able to be on the November ballot.
The Socialist Alternative Party has in the recent past run candidates for the Washington legislature, but it did not do so this year.
Socialist Action tried to place a candidate on the Connecticut ballot, but its petition was a few hundred signatures short.
The Socialist Workers Party has nominated twenty candidates for federal or state office, but none of them is on the ballot.
In the November 2018 election, Democrats have a candidate in 87.9% of the legislative contests. This is a big increase for the Democratic Party. In 2016, it had candidates in 79.4% of the races. In 2014, it had 77.1%. In 2012, 78.9%.
The Republican Party also has more candidates for the legislature this year than in 2016. This year, Republican are in 79.2%. In 2016, 78.8%. In 2014, 79.6%. In 2012, 81.2%.
Only four state units of the major parties have candidates in fewer than half the districts: the Republican Parties of Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island; and the Democratic Party of Wyoming.
The Libertarians have 5.9% this year; 4.9% in 2016; 4.3% in 2014; and also 4.3% in 2012.
This year, there are independent candidates in 3.6% of the districts; in 2016, 3.9%.