The Huffington Post has this story about the Maine vote that passed an instant runoff system for congressional and state office elections. Thanks to Peter Gemma for the link.
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The latest Nevada voter registration data is here. The Secretary of State’s web page does not include the Green Party, but the ofice has said that there are now 4,306 registered Greens. The percentages are: Democratic 39.44%; Republican 33.37%; Independent American (Constitution) 4.32%; Libertarian .91%; Green .29%; independent and miscellaneous 21.66%.
In January 2016 the percentages had been: Democratic 39.15%; Republican 35.16%; Independent American 4.65%; Libertarian .81%; Green .19%; independent and miscellaneous 20.05%.
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.
San Francisco voters passed Proposition N with 52.6% of the vote. It amends the charter to let non-citizen adults living in San Francisco vote in school board elections, if they are parents or caregivers of children living in San Francisco.
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.