This story relates that voters in Maui County, Hawaii, passed a county initiative to temporarily ban genetically altered crops, even though proponents were outspent by a ratio of 87 to one. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
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This Washington Post story describes Bob Healey, who got 22% of the vote for Rhode Island governor even though he only spent $35. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Arizona has never elected an independent candidate to statewide office, to Congress, or to the state legislature, in all the years since it has been a state. But on November 4, an independent candidate for Justice of the Peace (a partisan office) was elected in Seligman. See this story.
This Washington Post story seems to say that Republican nominees for U.S. House received approximately 5,500,000 more votes than Democratic nominees did, although one must study the graph to learn that number. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Aaron Hamlin has this essay about the 2014 election and approval voting. It is on the web page electology.org, a page set up to advocate for approval voting.