At the November 8 election, Alaska Independence Party member Tyler Ivanoff received 48.17% of the vote in a two-person race. His opponent, Neal Foster, is a Democrat and the incumbent. See this story about the race. It reveals that when Ivanoff filed for office, he intended to file as an independent candidate, but mistakenly registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, so his label was AIP.
The California Secretary of State’s website shows how many ballots are still uncounted. See this link. As of the weekend of November 19-20, there are still 1,033,000 uncounted ballots.
The December 1 2022 printed Ballot Access News will be published a little later than normal, so as to be as comprehensive as possible for its election returns coverage.
At the November 8, 2022 election, Nevada voters passed Question Three, the top-five initiative, with 52.5% of the vote. It does not go into effect unless the voters pass it again in November 2024.
If it had been in effect in 2022, it is almost certain that no minor party candidates would have been on the November ballot for either Governor or U.S. Senator. At the 2022 primaries, there were ten major party candidates for Governor, and twelve for U.S. Senator. Based on what has happened in California 2012-2022, and Washington 2008-2022, the only choices for those two offices in November 2022 would have been five major party members for each office.
Four Libertarian Party nominees were elected or re-elected to partisan office on November 8, 2022. All four were unopposed.
Thomas Laehn was re-elected as County Attorney of Greene County, Iowa. When he was elected as a Libertarian in 2018 he was the first Libertarian to win a partisan election in Iowa.
Shannon Denniston and David Harryman were elected as Justices of the Peace in Montgomery County, Kentucky.
Lex Hannan was elected Justice of the Peace in Boone County, Kentucky.
On November 18, a Georgia state trial court ruled that the law banning early voting on Saturdays following Holidays does not apply to runoff elections. Therefore, Georgia voters can vote on Saturday, November 26. See this story. The Secretary of State will appeal.
