Press release: After a blowback spewed gas and toxic water in Clearfield, PA, plus serious incidents including deaths of oil and gas employees in West Virginia and Texas, nearly two months of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and years of mountain top removal, the Green Party of Pennsylvania says “enough already.” Still in [...]

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From a local FOX affiliate in South Carolina (video can be seen here): COLUMBIA (WACH) — It’s not just Republicans and Democrats seeking the governor’s office. Third party candidate Morgan Reeves says he’s gaining support. The retired NFL player and Irmo native is the Green Party candidate. Reeves tells WACH Fox News he’s disappointed with [...]

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The Florida Tea Party, the actual political party, not the movement, has been the subject of much debate over the last week. The controversy regarding the legitimacy or duplicity of the party and its candidates has been covered by many newspapers and popular political websites. The Buzz blog at the St. Petersburg Times reports on [...]

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Rob Hahn is one of the candidates running in the Independence Party of Minnesota’s primary for Governor. His running mate is Thomas Harens, who has a lot of third party connections. Hahn pitched his proposal for riverboat gambling in Minnesota yesterday. Hahn is one of five Independence Party candidates, including former public relations executive Tom [...]

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Peter Allen is the founder of the Independence Party of Florida and was a gubernatorial candidate until last Thursday when he abruptly dropped out. Apparently, Allen has reconsidered. Peter Allen, who pulled out of the gubernatorial race on Thursday, is back in the race. The founder of the Independence Party said this morning that he [...]

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Alex Snitker is the Libertarian Party of Florida’s candidate for U.S. Senate, as well as a former Marine. Yesterday Snitker crashed a press event that was held in Florida in which Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meeks, and Marco Rubio were all invited to address the media, but Snitker was not. His press release is excerpted below: [...]

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The Republican Party of Minnesota has filed a complaint against the Independence Party of Minnesota’s endorsed gubernatorial candidate, Tom Horner. This is not the first complaint they have made against Horner, a complaint to the state’s campaign finance board last week was rejected. the Republican Party of Minnesota is trying again: It filed a complaint [...]

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Florida, a state not exactly known for its vibrant multi-party system, is, for the first time, having a third party primary. The Libertarian Party has two candidates seeking to be the nominee in a race for State House. Richard Winger reports: Florida holds primaries this year on August 24. In the 33rd State House district, [...]

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a socialist party based mainly in urban population centers in the United States. In the past couple of years they have run candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles and New York City. It is probably the most active nationally organized socialist party in the United States. A new [...]

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Christine Smith ran for President in 2008 as a Libertarian Party candidate. Her attempt to secure the nomination of the Libertarian Party ultimately failed when she was eliminated in the 1st of six ballots. She is now running for State Representative in Colorado and had some harsh words for the national Libertarian Party regarding her [...]

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The Green Party of Arkansas today submitted 14,300 signatures today in an attempt to get their party on the ballot. 10,000 valid signatures are required in order to qualify a party for the ballot in Arkansas. If the petition is approved, that will be the third election year in a row in which the Green [...]

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Readers who have been around since the 2008 election may remember our occasional reporting on Daniel Imperato, who tried to attain the nominations of several nationally organized parties, including the Libertarian Party and Constitution Party. Now Publisher Emeritus Austin Cassidy reports that Imperato is running for Governor of Florida. Daniel Imperato has filed to run [...]

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That time has come again, readers. Independent Political Report is undoubtedly the number one resource for third party and independent candidate news. We have generated some 5800+ blog posts and 95,000 comments under 4400 different tags. We’ve also logged over 1.15 million+ unique visitors and just under 3.3 million page views. IPR has been linked [...]

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In a rumor that seems to have started at the Democratic blog MyDD, famous adman Bill Hillsman – who was one of the factors in Jesse Ventura’s third party victory in Minnesota and is said to be one of the best advertisers of all time – is said to be working for Rich Whitney’s Green [...]

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From Talking Points Memo: Around the day of the primary election last week in which Sharron Angle won the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Nevada, Tim Fasano, a third-party Senate candidate with the right-wing Independent American Party, says he began to get phone calls from Angle supporters warning him to get out of the race, [...]

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This article from the Daily Caller, a website run by self-described libertarian Tucker Carlson, reports that the number of Libertarian Party Congressional candidates in 2010 has risen by 35% over 2008. Robert Nowotny started out as a frustrated voter. “Occasionally I would be voting for more Republicans than Democrats. Other times it would be the [...]

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Forrest Claypool is an Independent candidate for Cook County Assessor in Cook County, Illinois, who is currently attempting to collect 25,000 valid signatures in order to get on the ballot. The Chicago Tribune published this editorial calling for people to sign Claypool’s petition. Come Election Day, voters need to make sure Democratic candidate Joseph Berrios [...]

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Mary Norwood is an Independent candidate for Chair of the Fulton County, Georgia, County Commission. Richard Winger has a post on a video by a local CBS affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia, about Norwood’s battle to gain ballot access as an Independent. Mary Norwood is an independent candidate for Chair of the Fulton County, Georgia, County [...]

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The Democratic Primary in Utah is an open primary in which any registered voter can vote for a candidate. According to this New York Times article, some people fear that voters who might otherwise not participate in the Democratic Party will vote for whomever they perceive to be the weakest candidate for the general election. [...]

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The Constitution Party has attracted a lot of attention lately, especially amongst liberal blogs who have, right or wrongly, connected the party with Rand Paul and Sharron Angle, the GOP nominees for Senate in Kentucky and Nevada respectively. One of the most popular articles concerning these connections is this one at Alternet by Adele Stan, [...]

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