On November 5, Kevin Hayes, the Constitution Party nominee for U.S. House in North Carolina’s Sixth District, received 103,053 votes, or 30.77%, in a two-race with a Republican.

This is the highest percentage for a minor party or independent candidate for U.S. House in North Carolina since 1900, when John E. Fowler, the Peoples’ Party nominee in the Third District, received 46.2%. That was also a two-way race.

Hayes received more votes, and a higher percentage of the vote, than any other Constitution Party nominee for U.S. House in the party’s history. The party’s previous percentage record for a U.S. House race had been 16.96% in a two-race in Alabama’s First District in 2010. The party’s best showing for U.S. House, as to the number of votes, had been Jaymn Germond’s 43,133 vote total in 2008 in Oregon’s Fourth District.

On November 5, Wendy Hewitt was re-elected to the Calimesa, California city council. The city is in Riverside County and has a population of 11,165. Three were to be elected to at-large seats, and five candidates ran. Hewitt is a registered Libertarian and a party activist. Thanks to Scott Lieberman for this news.

Libertarian nominees for U.S. Senate this year polled approximately 950,000 votes, although an exact count is several weeks away and it may be somewhat higher. This is surprising, because the party only had nominees on the ballot in 13 states, the fewest for U.S. Senate since 1990.

There are always 33 or 34 U.S. Senate seats up (not counting special elections). The most Libertarians who who were on the November ballot for U.S. Senate was 23, in 2000. Thanks to Greg Kaza for this news.