Ballot Access News: Taylor Haynes, write-in candidate for Governor of Wyoming, appears to have received write-ins equal to 8.5% of the total vote cast. He has requested that the state tally his write-ins, so we should get a precise figure in a few weeks. He is a well-known conservative rancher with strong ties to the [...]

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Posted by staff at Libertarian Party blog. The post there will be continually updated. I will try to post those updates here as well, but in the comment section below. -p Thanks again to everyone who either ran for office as a Libertarian, or voted Libertarian. We’ll be compiling results and working to try to [...]

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About fifty excited supporters gathered with Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate, Andrew Gray, and his running mate, Stacey Davis, to watch history made as Kansas gave birth to a third major political party. As the hours rolled by it became more obvious that the team would fall short of its goal of receiving 5% of the statewide [...]

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Poli-Tea: For now, an overview of some significant results from the 2010 elections: • Rhode Island has elected its first Independent governor, Lincoln Chafee!  • In Maine’s gubernatorial race, Independent candidate Eliot Cutler’s last minute surge was not enough to overcome the gap between himself and the Republican front-runner.  Cutler lost by under two percentage [...]

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Press release from the Florida Tea Party sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Tea Party looks to 2012 election STATEMENT BY THE TEA PARTY (TEA) As Chairman Fred O’Neal stated publicly several weeks ago that it would be a “victory just to have our Tea Party candidates on the ballot on November 2nd.” That being said, the Tea [...]

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Mary Starrett, the former Communications Director of the Constitution Party and the 2006 Constitution Party candidate for Governor of Oregon, lost her race for County Commissioner in Yamhill County. She and incumbent Mary Stern were completing a runoff–in the original elections, back in May, Starrett won a plurality by eight votes. May and November don’t [...]

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Lisa Murkowski is an incumbent Senator who, earlier this year, lost her primary election to the now-Republican nominee Joe Miller. However, Murkowski chose to press on towards re-election–briefly flirting with the Libertarian Party before deciding to run a write-in campaign. Write-ins have yet to be counted in the race, but they number around 40% of [...]

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Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: By Wayne Allyn Root of www.ROOTforAmerica.com Harry Reid won because: A) Casino bosses DESPERATELY need him in his position of power (U.S. Senate Majority Leader)…so much so that even many Republican casino CEO’s in Las Vegas conspired to get him a victory….and appeared in TV ads for him…and bussed [...]

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Ballot Access News: Lisa Murkowski seems well-positioned to win re-election as a write-in candidate. The Alaska Elections Division reports [..] as of 9 a.m. Alaska time on November 3, [..] write-in 41.00%; Miller 34.20%; McAdams 23.74%; [Libertarian] Haase .54%; the two independent candidates .52%. See also Uncovered Politics. If Murkowski prevails, as now seems likely, [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Despite having a number of promising campaigns for state legislature in various states, Greens fell short of victory in every race – a few by painfully close margins. However, one former Green running for state legislature as an independent in Maine did win. In Maine, Fred Horch of Brunswick [...]

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Kent Williams is one of the most powerful independent politicians in the United States, only ranking behind people like Mayor Bloomberg of New York City, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. He was formerly a Republican, but was stripped of his party affiliation by the state Republican executive committee because [...]

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While none of the major third parties in the United States currently have an elected state representative anywhere in the United States. However, there are a number of independent state legislators and state legislators who belong to the Vermont Progressive Party. Austin Cassidy reports that ten independent or minor party candidate won elections last night [...]

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From the Political Wire via TPID: “I see a looming giant on the horizon for 2012… you better try to get an interview with him because if he runs, it is not only a three way race, he’s going to blow the whole two party system apart.” — Ralph Nader, in an interview on the [...]

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From the Portland Press Herald, Eliot Cutler’s Statement on Concession via TPID: At noon today I will announce at a press conference here in Portland that I have spoken with Mayor Paul LePage and congratulated him on his victory. The results that are available to us this morning are unofficial and informal, but I believe [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Marin County, California District Attorney dropped charges against Laura Wells. See this story. Wells was the Green Party gubernatorial nominee. She was arrested for trespassing for attempting to use a valid ticket to sit in the audience at one of the Jerry Brown-Meg Whitman gubernatorial debates.

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The Independent American Party of Nevada is the state affiliate of the Constitution Party in Nevada. It has long been one of the most successful state parties for the Constitution Party. Yesterday they came up with a number of victories in county-wide partisan races. Cody Quirk reports, “the IAP elected John Lampros as White Pine [...]

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Richard Winger of Ballot Access News has created a partial, state-by-state rundown on whether various minor parties either gained, kept, or lost qualified status, as a result of votes cast on November 2, 2010.

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Ralph Davenport is a former representative from South Carolina’s 37th District who ran again this year to reclaim his old seat. He ran as a Constitution Party candidate, facing opposition from the incumbent Republican, a challenging Democrat, and a Working Families Party candidate. With roughly 1,600 votes out of 9,496 total votes cast, Davenport scored [...]

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From the Results Liveblog posted last night: Moderate Party candidate [for Governor] Ken Block pulled off a surprisingly strong showing of 6.5%. This gives his party ballot access. Also in Rhode Island, independent Lincoln Chafee’s lead held up and he is the Governor-elect. No other independents won for Governor, although Eliot Cutler came close in [...]

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Email from Steve Kubby: Dear Friends and Family, I lost the race for SLT City Council by just 104 votes. That’s right, we were just 104 votes away from victory. I should point out that I was defeated by a former mayor of South Lake Tahoe, a former newspaper editor of the Tahoe Tribune, and [...]

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