Posted at Ballot Access News
At least five minor party legislative candidates were elected on November 4. The Progressive Party of Vermont re-elected David Zuckerman, Sandy Haas, Susan Davis, and Sarah Edwards.
In Arkansas, Green Party nominee Richard Carroll was elected. He was the only candidate listed on the ballot, but two Democratic write-in candidates ran against him. However, Carroll received 83.1% of the total vote cast.
On November 4, independent candidate Tim Madden was elected to the Massachusetts State House, in the Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket District (Massachusetts legislative seats don’t have seat numbers). No incumbent was running. There may be other independents elected to state legislatures around the country. One was also elected in Wisconsin.
The new Massachusetts House will consist of 160 members, but only 16 Republicans. Republicans had 19 members in the 2007 session.
I’ll check and see…
I believe several Libertarians were elected or re-elected, in NH and Vermont,with Republican labels too. I dunno though.
Post updated.
And what about the two other greens who were going to win?
Who were the other “2 to 4” Libertarians who were going to “win” state legislative races??? hahahahaha!
Wow, the Dems got over 15% of the vote as write-ins. Those are the kind of numbers a third party person gets when they’re in a two-party race.
Shameful.
Janine Hansen of the CP lost too, a 1.75:1 rate.
Pretty sad year for third parties all around.
http://www.lp.org/2008-general-election-results/all
Only made it through page one so far. At this point not seeing any that were likely to have been close – but it does not say if they were in two way, three-way, etc., races.
Looks like Bell lost 2:1
http://www.in.gov/apps/sos/election/general/general2008?page=district&countyID=-1&officeID=1&districtID=229&candidate=
The “3-5” libertarians: did any of them even come CLOSE? I doubt it. You optimists sicken me. It’s time to wake up to reality. You make a farce of yourself when you make ridiculous predictions like that.
That sounds right. Who were the others?
An Indiana guy… Rex Bell? I may have the wrong guy.
Did anyone ever name names as possibilities?
I was skeptical of that claim as well.
Where were these 3-5 libertarians?
You guys will never learn, will you?