Green Party Polls 5.6% in Pennsylvania Statewide Partisan Judicial Race

On November 7, Green Party nominee Jules Mermelstein polled 5.6% of the vote for Judge of the Superior Court, a partisan race. The unofficial vote tally for him in this low turnout election was 106,614 votes. He is the first Green Party nominee for statewide office in Pennsylvania who polled as much as 3%.

The ballot listed four Republicans, four Democrats, and Mermelstein. Not everyone calculates percentages the same way in a multi-winner race. My calculation for the denominator uses the total vote cast, divided by the number of seats, in order to approximate the number of voters who cast a ballot. The state election returns page here uses a different method, which indicates that no one running got as much as 20%, which is misleading.