On November 5, Wendy Hewitt was re-elected to the Calimesa, California city council. The city is in Riverside County and has a population of 11,165. Three were to be elected to at-large seats, and five candidates ran. Hewitt is a registered Libertarian and a party activist. Thanks to Scott Lieberman for this news.
On November 5, Arizona voters defeated two ballot measures that would have curtailed the statewide initiative process. Measure 134 would have required a significant number of signatures in each of the 30 state legislative districts. Currently there is no distribution requirement for initiative petitions.
Measure 136 would have permitted the state courts to decide that a proposed initiative is illegal or unconstitutional, before voters had voted on it. Currently if an initiative gets enough valid signatures, it goes on the ballot, and only if it passes can anyone sue to show that the measure is unconstitutional or illegal.
Libertarian nominees for U.S. Senate this year polled approximately 950,000 votes, although an exact count is several weeks away and it may be somewhat higher. This is surprising, because the party only had nominees on the ballot in 13 states, the fewest for U.S. Senate since 1990.
There are always 33 or 34 U.S. Senate seats up (not counting special elections). The most Libertarians who who were on the November ballot for U.S. Senate was 23, in 2000. Thanks to Greg Kaza for this news.
At the November 5 election, Aaron Starr, a long-time leader of the California Libertarian Party, was elected to the Oxnard City Council. Oxnard has a population of 198,488. It has six city council districts.
All city elections in California are non-partisan, with no party labels, but Starr is well-known in Oxnard as a Libertarian Party member.
For the first time, Puerto Rico voters voted for President in the general election this week. The ballot only listed Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The tentative results: Harris 709,902; Trump 256,505.
Puerto Rico also voted for the seventh time on what its political status should be. Statehood won a majority, with 57% of the vote. The other choices were independence and independence in association with the United States.
Puerto Rico also elected a Governor, and Jenniffer Gonzalez, the pro-statehood candidate, appears to have won. Thanks to Darryl Perry for this news.
