June 13, 2026
Your Premier Source on Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
Compiled from Ballot Access News:
Indiana Libertarian 2010 Legislative Candidate Set Record Going Back at Least 85 Years
On November 2, 2010, Rex Bell, Libertarian nominee for Indiana State House, district 54, polled 20.78% of the vote in a race with both a Democrat and a Republican.…
[Posted by Paulie]
The Maryland Green Party submitted 14,842 signatures and the Maryland Libertarian Party submitted 13,787 signatures towards a requirement of 10,000 valid signatures. The deadline for submitting additional signatures has been extended to March 7:
The Maryland petition deadline for a party that wishes to obtain, or regain, its qualified status is not until August 2012.
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In a massive defeat for ballot access for minor parties, on November 16 the First Circuit ruled that the Constitution permits the states to let qualified parties make a substitute nomination, but does not require that the state extend the same ability to non-qualified parties.…
In the aftermath of the November 2010 election, 35 states plus the District of Columbia have at least one ballot-qualified party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties.…
Ballot Access News reports:
Thanks very much to Morgan Daybell for helping me find instances at which independent legislators were elected or re-elected last week. It appears that independents were elected to state legislators in 2010 in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont.
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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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Preliminary election returns show these national totals for each party, in the November 2010 election, for the office at the top of the ballot.
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From the Lone Star Report via TPID:
It’s true that Texas Democrats did not file a candidate in the race for Comptroller, leaving only Republican incumbent Susan Combs versus two third-party candidates.
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Austin Cassidy reports at Uncovered Politics that the New York Taxpayers Party will probably not qualify for a ballot line:
In New York, which allows fusion, it seems that finding statewide results broken down by party is nearly impossible.
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