Bill Walker, independent candidate for Governor of Alaska, has 47.83% of the vote, whereas the Republican nominee, incumbent Sean Parnell, has 46.42% of the vote. The Libertarian nominee, Carolyn Clift, has 3.00%; the Constitution Party nominee, J. R. Myers, has 2.47%. However, only 45% of the ballots have been counted. The Democrats have no gubernatorial nominee.

If Walker wins, he will be the only independent or minor party candidate for statewide office to have been elected in the November 4, 2014 election. Here is a link to the Alaska Division of Elections web page.

If the final tally shows the Libertarian gubernatorial nominee below 3%, the party will need to increase its registration to 3% of the number of votes cast in the election, in order to remain ballot-qualified. It appears the Constitution Party failed in its attempt to poll 3% for Governor and to thereby become a ballot-qualified party. The Constitution Party is also doing a voter registration drive, but has much further to go than the Libertarians do. The November 2014 registration tally shows 7,182 Libertarian registrants, but 212 Constitution Party registrants.

Oregon’s Proposition 90 Top-Two measure is losing with 68.2% voting NO and 31.8% voting YES. Here is a link to the election returns at the Oregon Secretary of State’s web page. To see the statewide ballot questions, scroll down to the bottom.

On November 2, the Democratic nominee for U.S. House, Oklahoma 2nd district, was killed in an auto accident. See this story. This makes at least three congressional candidates in the November 2014 election to die, after the ballots had been printed but before election day. As previously reported, the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, and a Green Party nominee for U.S. House in Tennessee, also died in the last few weeks, after ballots had been printed.