The Green Papers has compiled this list of U.S. House candidates and how many votes each received. It also has the totals for all political parties.
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According to this story, the Kansas Republican Party is in the process of removing any party officers who signed the petition for independent gubernatorial candidate Dennis Pyle.
Ryan Williamson has this op-ed in the Orange County Register about the California top-two system. He says that California’s legislature has become more polarized under top-two than it was in the past, and that California’s legislature is more polarized than Congress.
He also suggests that California replace it with a top-five system. He doesn’t explore other alternatives, such as the Louisiana system in which there is no primary; or restoring party nominations combined with ranked choice voting. His op-ed is marred by his misuse of the term “blanket primary”. “Blanket primary” is defined in political science textbooks as the system California and Washington used in the past. All candidates ran on a single primary ballot, but the top vote-getter from each party then ran in the general election. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
With 90% of the votes counted, CNN calculates that Republicans have received 52,179,411 votes for U.S. House, and Democrats have received 47,504,278. See this article. If one scrolls down below the Oregon section, one finds the national totals. CNN does not have any data for minor party or independent candidates for U.S. House. Also the CNN figures includes the votes cast for major party nominees on minor party lines, in New York and Connecticut.
CNN updates the numbers constantly. Thanks to Mark Scarberry for the link.
John Seiler here writes in the Orange County Register that the California Republican Party ought to sponsor an initiative to eliminate the top-two system.