Frank Lara, a Peace & Freedom Party member, has apparently been elected to the South San Francisco School Board. He defeated an incumbent who had been on the board since 2018.
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The Forward Party has probably won its first legislative election. Emily Buss, who had been appointed to her seat, is ahead by 232 votes for State Senate, Eleventh District.
She became a State Senator when the incumbent Senator last year switched his registration from Republican to Forward, and then resigned. Under Utah law, that gave the Forward Party the power to appoint a successor, and the Forward Party chose Buss.
The Maryland Green Party polled 2.1% for Governor. This is the first time the party has met the 1% vote test in a midterm year. Four times before it had been on for Governor but polled under 1%.
The Indiana Libertarian Party needs 2% of the vote for Secretary of State to remain on the ballot. As of 4:30 p.m. eastern time, it has 38,554 votes, but 2% equals 38,775. The vote is 97.8% complete.
The Lincoln Party has 3.6% and will be a qualified party for the next four years.
According to this story, Arizona Democrats will hold a majority in each house of the legislature next year. The Democrats also retained the Governorship.
Democrats in the Arizona legislature were united against the 2015 law that made it extremely difficult for Libertarians to get on their own primary ballot. Democrats disliked the law so much, they have put it to a referendum, and it was temporarily repealed. But the Republican-majority simply passed it again. The Libertarian Party tried to get federal courts to invalidate the law, but did not succeed.
It seems plausible that now that Democrats will be in the majority, they may restore the old law that made it possible for Libertarians to easily run for partisan office.
The existing law is very peculiar because it only applied to the Libertarian Party, not the Green Party nor the No Labels Party in years 2024-2026. But it will apply to the No Labels Party in 2028. The Green Party has gone off the ballot because it didn’t poll as much as 5% for Governor, nor does it have registration of .667%.