At the November 2024 election, twenty-four individuals are on the ballot for President in at least one state. That is down from 2020, when there were thirty-six, a historic record. The reason there were so many in 2020 is that Vermont let anyone on by request, and Colorado allowed anyone on who paid $1,000. Neither of those states have those policies any longer.
North Carolina law says a party gains or retains qualified status if its presidential nominee was on the ballot in at least 35 states. The party label doesn’t matter. Jill Stein will be on the ballot in 36 states in November 2024, so the party is now on the ballot for 2026 and 2028.
Parties also retain if they poll 2% for either President or Governor. Both offices are up in presidential years.
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had not withdrawn, his party, the We the People Party, would also have qualified. However, he withdrew his name from North Carolina and eighteen other states, so he is only on in 31 states (plus D.C., but D.C. doesn’t count for purposes of the North Carolina law). If he had not withdrawn, he would have been on in 49 states plus D.C. Only New York would have kept him off.
The Nevada law on party retention is: (1) either the party must hold 1% of the registration; or (2) it must poll for any of its nominees a number of votes that equals 1% of the total vote cast in the state for US House.
There is no Democratic nominee this year in the U.S. House, second district, the northern Nevada district. Therefore, the Libertarian nominee in that district is overwhelmingly likely to poll enough votes to keep the party on the ballot. Because Nevada has four districts, the Libertarian nominee needs approximately 4% of the vote in his race, because that is approximately 1% of the entire state’s vote for US House.
The Libertarian Party also has statewide candidates for President and U.S. Senate, but it not a safe bet that either will poll as much as 1%. In 2022, the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate only polled .64%.
Libertarian registration in Nevada, as of September 1, was only .81%. The other ballot-qualified third party, the Constitution Party affiliate which is called the Independent American Party, doesn’t need to worry about the vote test because its registration is 4.46%.
Massachusetts has nine U.S. House seats. In seven of them, no Republican is on the ballot. Here is the candidate list.
Massachusetts has the most severe ballot access law for primary candidates, for U.S. House, in the nation. The law requires 2,000 signatures, and only party members and independent voters can sign.
It is common for Republicans to fail to run in many Massachusetts elections for U.S. House, but 2024 is the first time in history that the Republican Party only has two nominees for U.S. House in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts prints candidates’ names on the general election in alphabetical order. This year, the order for president is: Shiva Ayyadurai, Claudia De la Cruz, Kamala Harris, Chase Oliver, Jill Stein, and Donald Trump.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would have been on the ballot, but he withdrew.
