On July 13, the California Secretary of State released the official tally for the June 5, 2018 primary. In three U.S. House races and nine Assembly races, a write-in candidate placed second and will appear on the November ballot. Naturally, these were all races with only one candidate whose name had been printed on the ballot. See the summary pages here.

The three U.S. House races were the 13th, 19th, and 32nd districts. Republican write-ins placed second in the latter two districts, and a Green placed second in the 13th district.

For Assembly, Republicans placed second via write-ins in these districts: 7, 20, 27, 61, and 64. Libertarians placed second with write-ins in these districts: 4, 21, 51, and 69. The 4th district race is easily the most dramatic, because there were three write-ins. The Libertarian got 132, the Republican got 130, and the Green got 128.

The full Statement of Votes (which has the vote by county for every office) is here.

The Florida Democratic Party sued the Secretary of State earlier this year, over the law that says the party that won the last gubernatorial election will always have its nominees listed first on general election ballots. Jacobson v Detzner, n.d., 4:18v-262. On July 12, the U.S. District Court set forth some deadlines for the case. Discovery will not be complete until November 8, 2018, so it is obvious that the case won’t be settled until after this year’s election is over.

Geoffrey Skelley has this article listing all the U.S. Senate general election candidates who got at least 35%, yet who were not Democratic nor Republican nominees. There are only fourteen, if races in which one major party did not run anyone are excluded. Of the fourteen, the third party or independent candidate won eleven times.

The article has a slight error. It says that James Buckley was a registered member of the Conservative Party of New York when he was elected as the Conservative nominee in 1970. Actually he was always a Republican registrant. Thanks to Ken Bush for the link.