October 3, 2026
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Posted at Ballot Access News
Preliminary election returns show that Jesse Johnson, Mountain Party nominee for West Virginia Governor, polled 4.5% of the vote. That is the highest percentage for a minor party candidate for Governor of West Virginia since 1912, when the Socialist Party polled 5.6%.
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Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch.
Unless I am mistaken, this is also the best result ever for any nationally organized party other than Democrats or Republicans which is still in existence.…
With 99 percent of the vote counted, the Libertarian ticket is closing in on 500,000 votes in Tuesday’s election. Tickets topping 100,000 votes:
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Dr. Joseph Buchman, who completed his campaign for the United States Congress in Utah’s First District on Tuesday (with 2.2 percent of the vote), will be a guest in the first hour of nationally broadcast Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.…
Posted at Delaware Libertarian
Since Allen Buckley’s 3.4% take in the Georgia Senatorial race kept either Saxby Chambliss or Jim Martin from scoring 50%, there will be a December run-off.
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Posted at Ballot Access News
Blog posts in the last two days have covered cases in which independent candidates were elected on November 4 to state legislatures in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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Posted at Ballot Access News
Rick Lass, Green Party nominee for Public Regulation Commissioner, polled 43.74% of the unofficial vote in his race. The returns on the Secretary of State’s unofficial webpage show Lass with 75,731 votes, and his Democratic opponent with 97,405 votes.
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By Chuck Baldwin
That Barack Obama trounced John McCain last Tuesday should have surprised no one. In fact, in this column, weeks ago, I stated emphatically that John McCain could no more beat Barack Obama than Bob Dole could beat Bill Clinton.
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From CommonDreams.org:
by Rob Richie
2008 was historic in terms of the election of the first African American to be president and the largest number of voters at the polls in our history.
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