Last month, Ray J. Writz, Constitution Party nominee for U.S. Senate from Idaho, polled 41,677 votes. This was 6.14%, and is the highest percentage of the vote for a non-major party candidate for U.S. Senate from Idaho since 1926.

Writz had to win a contested Constitution Party primary to gain the party’s nomination. Here is his web page. The other candidates in the general election were Republican incumbent Mike Crapo, who polled 449,017 votes; and Democrat Jerry Sturgill, who polled 188,249.

The 1926 candidate who did better than Writz was the Progressive Party nominee, H. F. Samuels, who received 29.60%. Samuels placed behind Republican Frank Gooding but ahead of Democrat John Nugent. There was no national Progressive Party in 1926, but there were several states that had strong Progressive Parties that year.

Washington, D.C., has partisan elections for city council at-large. The voters elect two, but no party is permitted to run more than one candidate. At last month’s election, the Green Party nominee, G. Lee Aikin, received 29,165 votes, whereas the Republican nominee received 28,823.

Here are the official returns, but they don’t include party labels. The Democrat is Robert White. The Libertarian is Matthew Klokel. David Grasso and John Cheeks were independent candidates. The Democrat and independent Grasso were elected.

Connecticut, uniquely, makes a determination as to whether a party retains ballot qualification on an office-by-office basis. Last month, the Green Party polled enough votes for U.S. Senate to be ballot-qualified for that office in 2018. That is the first time the Green Party ever achieved that for U.S. Senate.

Other parties that are ballot-qualified for U.S. Senate are Democratic, Republican, Working Families, and Libertarian.

The Green Party had only been on the Connecticut ballot for U.S. Senate twice, in 2006, when it only got .52%, and in 2016, when it got 1.05%. The law requires at least 1%.