New Hampshire Poll for Governor, U.S. Senator

Data for Progress has released this New Hampshire poll for the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. For Governor, the poll oddly includes Kelly Halldorson, but not Karlyn Borysenko. Both are Libertarians who are on the ballot with the “Libertarian” label. The poll shows 4% for Halldorson.

For U.S. Senate, where the only Libertarian on the ballot is Jeremy Kauffman, he has 3%.

New Hampshire defines a qualified party as a group that polls 4% for either Governor or U.S. Senator.

Democrats Have No Nominee in More State Legislative Elections than any Election Since 2004

The Democratic Party has fewer candidates on the November ballot this year for state legislature than any election since 2004. Nebraska is excluded from this calculation, because it has non-partisan elections for State Legislature. For California and Washington, the top-two states, districts with two Democrats on the November ballot are counted just once.

Ballot Access News has been keeping track of the number of legislative candidates from each party starting in 2002. More detail will be in the November 1 print edition of B.A.N.

Idaho Constitution Party Has More Nominees for Federal and State Office Than Ever Before

The Idaho Constitution Party has been continuously on the ballot starting in 1996, although in its first few years on the ballot, its name was the U.S. Taxpayers Party. In 2020 it has more nominees for federal and state office than it has ever had before. It has nominees for U.S. Senate, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Controller, six State Senate seats, and four State House seats.

It has more nominees on the ballot than any Idaho minor party since 2002, when the Idaho Libertarian Party had 36 nominees for federal and state office.