Here is a list of Iowa candidates for federal and state office. The Libertarian Party and the New Independent Party of Iowa have candidates on the ballot for most of the statewide offices, and the Libertarian Party also has six legislative candidates. The Green Party has one legislative candidate.

The New Independent Party of Iowa is a new party, with a platform somewhat similar to the Reform Party’s platform. Here is the New Independent Party of Iowa’s web page. Thanks to Nathan Hetzel for the links.

Iowa has no ballot-qualified parties, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. A group only attains qualified status after it has polled 2% for President or Governor. The Green Party had qualified party status 2000-2002, and the Reform Party had it 1996-1998. Otherwise Iowa hasn’t had any ballot-qualified parties, other than the Democrats and Republicans, during the last 40 years.

UPDATE: see this commentary by John Deeth, on the New Independent Party of Iowa.

On August 12, the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office determined that the Libertarian Party U.S. Senate petition in Kentucky has enough valid signatures. This is the first time any unqualified party has completed a U.S. Senate petition in Kentucky since 1978, when the American Party petitioned for U.S. Senate.

The Reform Party had a U.S. Senate nominee in 1998, another midterm year, but the Reform Party didn’t need to complete a petition for that race, because it had polled over 2% of the vote for President in 1996, so was automatically on the ballot for all partisan office in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

On August 15, the Meigs County, Ohio, Board of Elections certified Mick Davenport as an independent candidate for County Commissioner. See this story. Davenport was chair of the county Democratic Party until last year, and served as a Democratic member of the Commission for the period 1998-2010.