For the first time, a member of the Vermont Progressive Party has been elected to a statewide office. Party activist David Zuckerman won the Lieutenant Governor’s race. Here are the election returns. Vermont permits fusion, and the Democratic Party had also nominated him. In Vermont, when a candidate has the nomination of two parties, the ballot lists the party that the candidate is a member of first, followed by the name of the other party that also nominated him or her. Zuckerman was on the ballot as “Progressive, Democrat.”

To see the Lieutenant Governor returns, click the triangle in the box that says “Governor”. That will advance the page to the Lieutenant Governor race.

On November 8, the vote in Arizona’s U.S. House race, district one, was: Democrat Tom O’Halleran 111,768; Republican Paul Babeu 94,299; Green Party nominee Ray Parrish 12,480. In this race, which had no incumbent, Republicans spent money promoting the Green Party nominee, without consulting with him. The Republican-funded literature for Parrish said that the Democrat is too conservative.

This tactic didn’t work, because the Democratic margin in this district was not only substantial, it greatly exceeded the margin in the same district in 2014. Democrats also won this seat in 2014, but the margin was Democratic 97,391; Republican 87,723.

In the Alaska U.S. Senate race, Libertarian Party nominee Joe Miller placed second, with 29.6% of the vote. The Democratic nominee, Ray Metcalfe, polled 11.1%. This is the first time any Libertarian nominee for either house of Congress has ever outpolled a major party nominee. Some might disparage Miller’s showing by saying he isn’t a “real” Libertarian, but the party did choose to nominate him. Miller had been the Republican nominee in 2010 for the same seat.