Virginia holds elections for Governor and legislature on November 7, 2017. Statewide candidates running in the general election need 10,000 signatures. It appears the only statewide petitions being submitted for any statewide race this year are for the Libertarian nominee for Governor, Cliff Hyra. He has already collected approximately 16,000 signatures. Virginia allows petitioning groups to submit the petitions on a flow basis, so almost all of these signatures have already been submitted and checked. The petition deadline is Tuesday, June 13, at 7 p.m.

Assuming Hyra is on the ballot, this will be the first time any party, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, has been on the ballot for two Virginia gubernatorial elections in a row, since the period 1941-1953 when the Socialist Party was always on. Before 1970 the statewide non-presidential petition in Virginia was only 250 signatures.

The Libertarians will probably also have seven or so legislative nominees on the ballot. The Green Party will probably have four legislative candidates on the ballot.

Virginia is one of only two states that defines a qualified party as one that got 10% of the vote in a previous election; the other such state is New Jersey. The median vote test of the 50 states is 2%.

This article describes the Democratic Union Party, which won ten seats in the June 8 election in the United Kingdom, and which appears to suddenly enjoy great power.

New York city holds partisan primaries for city office on September 12, 2017. Petitioning for candidates to get on a primary ballot runs from June 6 through July 13.

The Independence Party leadership already chose its favored candidate for Mayor on January 5, 2017. That choice is Paul Massey, a Republican who also plans to run in the Republican primary.

The Conservative Party leadership chose its favored candidate for Mayor on May 17. That candidate is Nicole Malliotakis, who is also running in the Republican Party primary.

The Reform Party leadership chose Sal Albanese for Mayor, earlier this month. He is a Democrat who plans to run in the Democratic primary.

Richard “Bo” Dietl, another mayoral candidate, was recently blocked from running in the Republican primary because he is not an enrolled Republican. The last time he filled out a voter registration form, he accidentally checked the boxes for both the Democratic Party and the Independence Party. On June 8, the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, upheld the decision of the lower court that he is not an enrolled Republican. He had argued that because his new voter registration form was ambiguous, he should be considered to be a Republican because his previous registration form showed him to be a Republican. That case is Matter of Dietl v Board of Elections in the City of New York, 2017 NY Slip Op. 04573. Thanks to Richard Grayson for news about the Dietl lawsuit.