From http://www.lp.org/2008-general-election-results/all Bob Mills Maine Biddeford City Council 301 votes 79.0% reelected Bruce Reichert Florida Collier County Soil & Water Board Seat 1 ran unopposed J. Adam Mitchell Florida Collier County Soil & Water Board Seat 4 ran unopposed Scott McPherson Florida New Port Richey Mayor won May primary Howard Horowitz Florida Palm Beach Soil [...]

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posted by Green Party political director Brent McMillan in a comment at Ballot Access News Wins for the Green Party, what we know so far: Arkansas Richard Carroll was elected to Arkansas State Legislature, District 34. California Bruce Delgado was elected to Mayor of Marina City, Monterey County, CA (pop. 25,000) Ross Mirkarimi was re-elected [...]

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LP.org has a table showing how well the Barr ticket did in each of the 45 states where he was on the ballot. They break down as follows: Indiana 1.1% Texas, Utah, Georgia 0.7% (Of the top four states, Utah was the only one to have an alternative candidate besides Barr on the ballot for [...]

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Ballot Access News reports As a result of the recent election, the Oklahoma and Tennessee legislatures, for the first time ever, are under Republican control in both houses. During the last fifteen years, legislatures in both states have considered bills to ease ballot access for minor and new parties. In each case, the bills were [...]

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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%. The Mountain Party is affiliated with the Green [...]

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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. I know it beats the Libertarians best showing ever of 18% (MA, 2002). Readers can correct me in the comments if [...]

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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: Obama-Biden: 64,931,747 McCain-Palin: 57,097,942 Nader-Gonzalez: 671,395 Barr-Root: 496,435 Baldwin-Castle: 178,776 McKinney-Clemente: 145,443

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