Poland held a parliamentary election on October 15. In the lower house, the Sejm, seventeen parties won at least one seat. Almost all parties that won a seat are in alliance with certain other parties. Here is the wikipedia article about the election.
One of the parties that won a few seats is the Confederation of the Polish Crown, which wants to restore the monarchy.
On October 17, a Marist/NPR Poll was released for the presidential general election, listing President Biden, former President Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. See it here. It shows Kennedy at 16%.
Filing has closed for the Nevada presidential primaries. Only the Democratic and Republican Parties have presidential primaries in Nevada.
There are thirteen Democrats and seven Republicans. Here is the list.
The seven Republicans are John A. Castro, Heath Fulkerson, Nikki Haley, Donald Kjornes, Mike Pence, Tim Scott, and Hirsh Singh. Many prominent Republicans who are seeking the Republican nomination did not file for the Nevada Republican primary. This is because the primary does not actually choose any delegates. Furthermore, Nevada Republican Party rules say that anyone who files in the Republican presidential primary is not eligible to compete in the Nevada Republican caucus, which does elect delegates.
The primaries are on February 6; the Republican caucus is February 8. It seems likely that a great proportion of the Republican presidential primary voters will vote for “None of the Above”, because write-ins are not allowed and Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and other high-profile names will be missing from the Republican primary ballot.
Louisiana elected its state officers on October 14. Here is a link to the election returns.
The lone Libertarian legislative candidate, Heide Alejandro-Smith, polled 9% in a three-person race, in the 90th House district.
The independent legislative candidate who did the best is Russ Wise in the 57th House district. He polled 16% in a field of eight candidates, placing third. There were also independent candidates in the 45th, 68th, and 85th House districts.
The Independent Party had two House candidates, in the 19th and 30th districts; and two State Senate candidates, in the 22nd and 37th districts. It also had gubernatorial and Lieutenant-gubernatorial candidates.
The state’s election returns show independent candidates with this designation: “(OTH)”. Independent Party candidates are labeled “INDEPENDENT.”
The Green Party is qualified in Louisiana, but it had no candidates for state office.
A Harvard University project named The Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project has software that can randomly draw thousands of district maps within a state to ascertain the effects of gerrymandering on election results.
It found that no matter how the US House districts are drawn in Massachusetts, the US House delegation will include zero or one Republican.
However, its analysis of Florida showed that US House district gerrymandering boosted from 16 Republicans (on average) in the 28 member delegation to the actual number of 20 Republicans elected in 2022.
Here is an article on this project, and thanks to electionlawblog.org for tipping us off on this!
