Article at BAllot Access News:
Based on official election returns in 47 states and D.C., and unofficial returns in California, Ohio, and Tennessee, the combined minor party and independent candidate vote for U.S. House last month amounted to 3.13% of the total vote cast for U.S. House. That is higher than the “other” vote for U.S. House had been in 2006 and 2004, but not as high as it had been in 2002 and 2000.
The “other” vote for U.S. House in 2000 was 4.17%, the highest it had been since 1938. In 2002 it declined to 3.58%, and in 2004 it declined again, to 2.75%. It declined a third time in 2006, to 2.49%.
The November 2008 U.S. House vote is: Democrats 53.90%; Republicans 42.96%; Libertarians .89%; independent candidates .80%; Greens .49%; Working Families .24%; Constitution .15%; other parties .55%. These figures could change slightly by the time all the official returns are known.