At last week’s election, the only states in which one of the presidential candidates got less than 50% of the total vote were Michigan and Wisconsin. And even in those two states, the margin between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was greater than the vote for any single minor party or independent candidate.
The two states that used Ranked Choice Voting this year gave significantly higher vote percentages to minor party presidential candidates, relative to the states that didn’t use RCV.
Jill Stein’s highest percentage was in Maine, one of the states that used RCV.
Cornel West’s second-best and third-best percentages came in the two RCV states, Maine and Alaska. His best percentage was in Vermont.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s third-best state was Alaska, one of the RCV states. He wasn’t on in Maine, the other RCV state. His best states were Montana and South Dakota.
Chase Oliver’s fourth-best and fifth-best states were the two RCV states. The only states in which he did better than the RCV states were North Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah. In North Dakota and Wyoming he was the only alternative on the ballot to the two major party nominees.
Randall Terry’s best state was Alaska, one of the RCV states.
Peter Sonski’s best state was Alaska, one of the RCV states. He was the American Solidarity Party nominee.
Claudia De la Cruz, of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, wasn’t on either of the two RCV states. Her best state was Vermont, although California is very close and the California votes aren’t all counted.
Shiva Ayyadurai’s best state was his home state of Massachusetts.
The Socialist Workers Party’s best state was Vermont.
The Utah State Elections office has finished the write-in tally for declared presidential write-ins. The only two such candidates who were on the ballot in any state this year are Peter Sonski of the American Solidarity Party, and independent Jay Bowman.
Sonski received 428. In 2020 his party had polled 368 write-ins in Utah.
Jay Bowman (who was only on the Tennessee ballot) received 57 write-ins in Utah.
The Texas Secretary of State has these write-in total for the declared presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state:
Peter Sonski, American Solidarity: 3,514. In 2020 this party had received 2,785 write-ins for president in Texas.
Claudia De la Cruz, Socialism & Liberation: 2,161. In 2020 this party had received 350 write-ins for president in Texas.
Cornel West, 1,688.
Shiva Ayyadurai, 421.
The Kentucky State Board of Elections has tallied the write-ins for the declared write-in presidential candidates. There are two parties that had write-in status in both 2020 and 2024 in Kentucky.
The American Solidarity Party write-in total for president in 2020 was 408; this year it is 610.
The Party for Socialism & Liberation 2020 total was 98; this year it is 389.
