Four Republican members of congress have filed this amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Utah Republican Party v Cox, 18-450. The brief depends on political science research and has an interesting history of how political parties in the U.S. have nominated, all throughout history. The two U.S. Senators are Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas. The two U.S. House members are Paul Labrador of Idaho and Rob Bishop of Utah.
On November 15, the Wyoming Secretary of State released the official election returns. See them here. Libertarian State House nominee Bethany Baldes, in the 55th district, polled 49.2% of the vote in a two-person race. The Republican incumbent, David Miller, won with 50.8%.
Wyoming has not elected any third party nominee to the legislature since 1900, when a Populist won a State Senate seat.
Wyoming did elect an independent to the State House, in the 22nd district. This is the first time an independent had been elected to the Wyoming state house since 1976. Here is a story about Jim Roscoe, who is a former Democrat.
On November 15, Maine finished the Ranked Choice second round of counting in the U.S. House, 2nd district, race. Democrat Jared Golden won the election, defeating incumbent Republican Bruce Poliquin. The first choice votes favored Poliquin, but after the voters who had voted for one of the two independent candidates had their second or third choices counted, the results changed. Over 7% of the voters had given the independent candidates their first choice vote.
Last week, nine candidates who were members of the Progressive Party of Vermont, and whose ballot label showed they were Progressive Party members, were elected. This is the same number the party elected in 2016.
The two winners in the State Senate are incumbents Christopher Pearson and Anthony Pollina.
The house winners are: Brian Cina, Selene Colburn, Diana Gonzalez, Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, Mollie S. Burke, Zacariah Ralph, and Sandy Haas.
Vermont permits fusion. When a party is the nominee of two parties, the candidate’s party of membership is listed first, followed by the name of any other party that also nominated that candidate. Some, but not all, of the elected Progressives also had the nomination of the Democratic Party.
On November 6, thirteen independent candidates were elected to state legislatures. They are:
Alaska: Daniel Ortiz
Maine: Walter Riseman, Jeff Evangelos, William Pluecker, Norman Higgins, Kent Ackley
Massachusetts: Susannah Whipps
Vermont: Terry Norris, Barbara Murphy, Benjamin Jickling, Laura Sibilia, and Kelly Pajala
Wyoming: Jim Roscoe
All of these were elected to the lower house, not the State Senate.
