Election law professor Derek Muller has this interesting essay on the December 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
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On November 7, Virginia held local partisan elections as well as elections for state office. In Bedford County, independent candidate Edgar Tuck defeated his Republican and Democratic opponents and won a seat on the Board of Supervisors. See this story.
On November 9, a New Mexico state district court judge ordered Santa Fe to either use Ranked Choice Voting in the March 2018 municipal election, or else show why it can’t do that. The city law requires ranked choice voting but the city has refused to implement it, saying it isn’t ready, even though the law has been on the books almost ten years. See this story. Thanks to Electionline for this news.
Fox and Hounds Daily, a California politics and government blog, has this article by me, showing that independent candidates around the U.S. are doing very well, but not in California.
On November 7, 2017, the Green Party won ten partisan elections: eight in Connecticut and two in Pennsylvania. The Connecticut wins were in Windham, New London, Willimantic, and Waterford. The Pennsylvania wins were both in Burks County.
In non-partisan races, Green Party members won four races in California, two in Colorado, one in Massachusetts, two in Minnesota, two in New Jersey