Wyoming law says parties that poll 2% for certain offices are ballot-qualified by nominate by convention. But if they poll 10%, they nominate by primary. Both the Constitution and Libertarian Parties polled over 10% for Secretary of State of Wyoming, so each will have a primary in 2016. No Democrat ran for Secretary of State. Here is a link to Wyoming Secretary of State election returns.

In the governor’s race in Wyoming, the “other” vote was 13.3%: independent candidate Don Wills got 5.81%; write-in candidate Taylor Hearns got 5.09%; and the Libertarian nominee got 2.39%.

The Green Party and the Libertarian Party each have regained qualified status in Wisconsin, based on their showings for Treasurer. See this story. Parties need 1% for any statewide race for recognition. The only statewide Constitution Party nominee, Andrew Zuelke, also running for Treasurer, has 1% of the vote, according to the story. There are no election returns on the state’s elections office web page, so it will be some time before it is known if the Constitution Party nominee polled enough votes. The newspaper story rounds off, of course, so we can’t know if Zuelke polled slightly under, or slightly over, 1%.

The Libertarian Party and the Green Party went off the Wisconsin ballot after the 2010 election, when neither received as much as 1% for any statewide race.

On November 4, 2014, the Hawaii Libertarian Party’s nominees for State Senate, together, polled 7,862. The party had five nominees, and there were eleven districts voting for State Senate. The law passed in 1999 provided for the first time that a party could meet the vote test if it did well enough for its legislative candidates, and requires all of the party’s nominees for State Senate to poll 4% of the total cast for State Senate. That means the party needed 5,572 votes in 2014 for its State Senate candidates, a requirement which it exceeded.

The law also permits a party to pass the vote test if it polled 10% for a statewide office, or 4% of all the votes cast for State House, or 2% of all the votes cast for both houses of the legislature combined. A 1980 Attorney General ruling says that blank votes should be excluded from the denominator, when these percentages are calculated.

The Independent Party polled over 10% for Governor, so it also passed the vote test. The Green Party was not required to meet the vote test because the law also gives automatic status, for ten years, to any party that appeared on the ballot in at least three elections in a row. The Green Party is currently in its ten years of automatic status. Here is a link to the State Elections Office web page, showing 2014 election returns.