On November 4, 2025, Virginia elects all 100 members of the House of Deletates. There are 99 Democrats, 84 Republicans, three independents, 2 Libertarians, and 2 Forward Party nominees on the ballot. This is the first year the Forward Party has had any nominees on the ballot for Virginia state office.
Two years ago, when the same seats were up, there were 85 Democrats, 80 Republicans, three independents, and two Libertarians.
On September 8, North Carolina Political Science and Economics Professor Michael C. Munger and other individuals and groups filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S.Supreme Court in Trump v V.O.S. Selections, 25-250. See it here. Munger was the 2008 Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of North Carolina, and he polled the needed 2% of the vote to give the party ongoing ballot status for the first time. He has also been a Libertarian nominee for North Carolina legislature as recently as 2022.
Trump v V.O.S. Selections is the high-profile case over whether the president can determine tariffs without an act of congress. So far the only other amicus is filed by twelve states, on the side of V.O.S. The case will be argued in the first week of November 2025. UPDATE: the Court has consolidated this case with Learning Resources v Trump, 24-1287, a case that had been filed in June 2025 in the U.S. Supreme Court on the same subject.
Independent candidate for Mayor of New York city Jim Walden will sue the City Board of Elections if the Board doesn’t remove his name from the ballot, according to this news story.
On September 8, the Missouri House gave tentative approval to HJR3, the bill to require constitutional initiatives to pass in all eight U.S. House districts. See this story.
On September 8, the Forward Party, and the organization Open Primaries, filed this amicus in the U.S. Supreme Court in Polelle v Byrd, 25-147. This is the lawsuit filed by a Florida independent voter who argues that the U.S. Constitution does not permit closed partisan primaries.
