Humboldt County, California, gave Jill Stein her highest percentage of the vote of any county in the United States. She received 4.36% in that county, which is on California’s northern coast. Humboldt County was also Cynthia McKinney’s best county in California in 2008, and David Cobb’s best county in California in 2004. McKinney received 1.01% in Humboldt County, and Cobb received 1.26%.

Humboldt County was also the Green Party’s strongest county in the 2010 gubernatorial race, when Laura Wells received 4.01% in that county.

Just prior to the 2012 general election, 3.82% of Humboldt County’s registered voters were registered Greens. Within Humboldt County, the Green Party’s center of strength is Arcata, home to one of the California State University campuses. Within the city limits of Arcata in October 2012, 908 voters were registered Greens, out of a total of 12,540 voters in that city. The Green registration percentage in Arcata was 7.24%.

David Wasserman not only has been tracking the presidential vote totals, he also has been tracking the vote for U.S. House by party. See this chart, which shows the vote for each district by party. His chart shows that Democratic nominees for U.S. House received more popular votes than Republican nominees did, yet, as is well known, Republicans won more seats.

His chart lumps in votes received on minor party labels into the major party columns, in instances in which a congressional candidate is nominated by both a major party and a minor party. But if he separated out the minor party votes for fusion nominees, the chart would still show more popular votes for Democrats than for Republicans. The January 1, 2013 Ballot Access News paper edition will also have a chart showing the vote by party for U.S. House, by state, but the BAN chart will not merge the minor party vote into the major party columns in cases of fusion.

On December 14, West Virginia and California state elections officials finished tallying the votes, so now all results are in, except that Alaska, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming have not tallied any write-ins for any presidential candidates (although some of those states have tallied the total number of presidential write-ins). States that would have counted write-ins for any declared presidential candidates, but in which no such candidates filed successfully, are Missouri, North Dakota, and Tennessee. States that don’t permit write-ins for President are Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota.

The West Virginia returns for the candidates who were on the ballot are: Mitt Romney 417,655; President Obama 238,269; Gary Johnson 6,302; Jill Stein 4,406; Randall Terry 3,806 (independent). West Virginia write-ins will be released next week.

The California returns are: Obama 7,854,285; Romney 4,839,958; Johnson 143,221; Stein 85,638; Roseanne Barr 53,824 (Peace & Freedom); Thomas Hoefling 38,372 (America’s Independent Party); and these write-ins: Ron Paul 21,461; Rocky Anderson 992; Virgil Goode 503; Stewart Alexander 82 (Socialist); Jerry White 79 (Socialist Equality); James Harris 72 (Socialist Workers); Stephen Durham 54 (Freedom Socialist); Sheila “Samm” Tittle 6.

It appears the national returns are now: Obama 65,587,127; Romney 60,848,326; Johnson 1,273,667; Stein 466,877; Goode 121,823; Barr 67,318; Anderson 42,397; Hoefling 40,601. Check back here later for national totals for the other candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state.