The American Solidarity Party has been putting most of its resources into presidential campaigns, for the last three presidential elections. To the extent that it runs for other offices, they are usually offices like Congress and Governor.
But in April 2025, the party is running a full slate of candidates for the Lombard, Illinois library board. The elections are non-partisan and are held April 1. Lombard is in DuPage County, a suburban county near Chicago.
The Massachusetts Secretary of State has released the write-in tally for the declared presidential write-in candidates. Peter Sonski of the American Solidarity Party received 280 votes. In 2020 the party did not have write-in status in Massachusetts.
Cornel West received 243 write-in votes. Thanks to Tony Roza for this news.
LEAST VOTER CHOICE FOR U.S. HOUSE SINCE 1990
AND LEAST CHOICE FOR LEGISLATIVE RACES SINCE AT LEAST 1986
At the November 5, 2024 election, voters nationwide will see fewer candidates for U.S. House on their ballots than at any time since 1990.
The situation is even worse for state legislative races. There are fewer candidates for legislature on the ballot than at any time since 1986, and possibly even before that. Data on the number of legislative candidates for years before 1988 is not readily available.
The reason for fewer candidates for both types of office is that there are fewer minor party and independent candidates. The number of Democratic and Republican candidates this year is fairly ordinary. For U.S. House, this year there are 419 seats with a Republican, and 416 seats with a Democrat. There are 436 seats, counting Delegate from the District of Columbia. Each of the major parties always contests at least 380 seats.
The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, will hear In re Tom Malinowski on Tuesday, December 10, in Trenton. The case had been filed in 2023, had been transferred to the Appellate Division, and had been dormant ever since. The plaintiffs are challenging the ban on two parties jointly nominating the same candidate. Mercer County, A-3542-21T2.
The Georgia Secretary of State has released write-in totals for the declared write-in candidates. See them here.
For president, the only candidates who had write-in status, and who were on the ballot in at least one state, were Peter Sonski of the American Solidarity Party, independent candidate Shiva Ayyadurai, and independent Jay Bowman. Sonski got 730 write-ins, Ayyadurai got 37, and Bowman got 30.
In 2020, the American Solidarity Party presidential candidate had received 701 write-ins in Georgia.
Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West were not able to be declared write-in candidates, because by the time they were disqualified, it was too late to file as a declared write-in. They were both on the ballot but signs at the polling places announced that their votes won’t be counted.
For U.S. House, 11th district, write-in candidate Tracy Verhoeven got 10,226 write-ins, which was about 2.5% of the total. She had been endorsed by the Democratic Party after the party’s primary had been won by a candidate who did not support Democratic Party stances on issues. Thanks to Kyle Bennett for the link.
