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.

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.

This news story says Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson is pondering whether to appeal the decision of a U.S. District Court that struck down the Arkansas ballot access requirement for new and minor parties.