August 17, 2026
Your Premier Source on Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
By way of Green Party Watch:
MAINE GREENS CONGRATULATE CANDIDATES FOR RUNNING STRONG CAMPAIGNS, STRENGTHEN THE CALL FOR ELECTORAL REFORM
Maine Green Independent Party Candidates who ran for the office of state house and state senate ran strong campaigns, often finishing a close second in the race Tuesday night.…
From the Boston Herald via TPID:
Republican Charlie Baker, in his first public comments since Election Day, blamed Treasurer Tim Cahill and fizzling GOP enthusiasm for his defeat in an e-mail to supporters in which he also expressed sadness for failing to deliver a victory.…
Posted by John Jay Myers on facebook. Myers ran as a Libertarian against Pete Sessions (R) in TX-32.
Official release:
“Thank you to all donors and volunteers!…
Chelene Nightingale was on the ballot for Governor as the candidate of the American Independent Party in California. H/T James Ogle for transmitting this post-election message from Ms.…
Sent to [email protected]:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ATLANTA – The 2010 election did not result in any newly-elected Libertarians, however the Libertarian Party of Georgia is happy with the results.…
Thomas Sipos writes at Libertarian Peacenik:
Third parties often fantasize that their vote totals are the tip of the iceberg. That for every vote they receive, there’s a large pool of Silent Supporters who would vote for them, but that these Silent Supporters don’t want to waste their vote on a third party that can’t win.…
Ballot Access News (excerpt):
The District of Columbia defines a party as a group that polled as much as 7,500 votes in the last election, for the offices that do count.
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The Long Island daily newspaper, Newsday, has the following editorial published on-line, and in the Sunday print version of the paper:
(excerpt from) Newsday
Box Score
110%
That’s the increase in votes cast for non-major party candidates in this year’s New York gubernatorial election, compared with 2006.
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Bob Barr in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
For the past year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its parent, the Department of Homeland Security, along with Members of Congress from both parties and the Obama Administration, have been demanding Americans give up our basic civil liberties and our fundamental right to privacy, by submitting to a full-body scan — amounting to a virtual strip search – simply because we need to fly on a commercial airliner.…