Emailed to IPR: New Martinsville, WV, September 9, 2011 – Raymond V. Davis III is an Independent who is running for the US House of Representatives. His campaign platform is focused on methods to help create jobs in West Virginia. Mr. Davis believes the way to create full employment is to build up existing small [...]

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From a media release by the Collett campaign: Candidate Steve Collett Uses California’s Legalization Momentum to Draw California Voters to his Campaign. On Saturday, Steve Collett announced his candidacy for Jane Harman’s vacated seat for the 36th US Congressional District. Bruce’s Beach was used as a backdrop for the would be Representative to announce his [...]

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From Roll Call via Third Party and Independent Daily: New York state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin was chosen Monday to be the GOP’s representative in the special election to replace Rep. Chris Lee (R) in the Empire State’s 26th district. The nomination of the establishment favorite, while celebrated by local Republican officials Monday night, drew an [...]

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by Thomas Hill BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – Since I signed on as the campaign manager of the Lee Wrights for President Exploratory Committee I’ve taken some heat from some of my radical and anarchist friends in the libertarian movement, people I love and respect, for getting involved in electoral politics. Some of them have [...]

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Lubbock Left, a blog hosted but not edited by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Social conservatives and libertarians don’t get along. Here’s a FOX News opinion piece about the recent CPAC Conference illustrating that point. (To my friends on the right: yes, I occasionally read FOX News, holding my nose the whole time.) Social conservatives can’t stand [...]

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UPDATE: In the comments, Gene Berkman pointed out that the Daily Paul story was actually from 2008. I relied on my intermediate source, and while I did go back to the original source and read it, I did not notice the date. My apologies. If anyone has any 2012 information about Ron Paul giving a [...]

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Ballot Access News: Here is the text of HR 453, the bill introduced on January 26 by North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler to require the states to use bipartisan redistricting commissions to draw boundaries for U.S. House boundaries. The bill has a special procedure for Nebraska, which has a nonpartisan state legislature. At the close [...]

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Ballot Access News: Connecticut Senator Andrew Maynard (D-Stonington) has introduced Proposed Bill 778, which cuts the number of signatures for statewide and U.S. House candidates, in the general election, down to 1,000 signatures. Current law requires 7,500 signatures for statewide candidates, and signatures equal to 1% for U.S. House candidates, which is always close to [...]

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TPID: From the Oklahoma Pirate Party: The Pirate Party of Oklahoma would like to take this opportunity to thank the candidates that have received our endorsements and congratulate them for standing up for democracy in Oklahoma. It takes courage to become involved in the political process, and these candidates endured hardships and time away from [...]

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Lauri Apple in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly: The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a full slate of candidates this year, with a guy named Lex Green at the top of the ballot. A “Green” Libertarian? Confusing! No wonder they didn’t meet the five percent threshold required to more easily get on the ballot in [...]

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By Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: 53 Green Party candidates appeared on the ballot this November, one more in Washington was on the ballot in the Primary, and 4 more ran write-in campaigns. Of the 54 ballot candidates, results ranged from 0.16% to 8.32%, from 157 votes to 17,545 votes. The average percentage of [...]

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Press release from the Wrights for President exploratory committee emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: BURNET, Texas (Nov. 9) – The most significant impact of the 2010 elections is neither a mandate for the Republican Party, nor a rejection of the Obama Administration, but in the continued growth of the Libertarian vote at the local, state and national [...]

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by Gary Odom National Field Director at constitutionparty.com   2010 Election   Brings Victories and Near Misses; Highlights Progress And Reveals Challenges As The Constitution Party Looks To The Future     Congratulations To Nevada…Again!    In 2006, the Independent American Party, the Constitution Party’s state affiliate in Nevada elected two of its candidates to office.  This year it doubled up and elected four:three [...]

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Ballot Access News: In 2010, two very old political parties that had never appeared on the ballot in a partisan election finally decided to enter a partisan race. The Labor Party placed Brett Bursey on the South Carolina ballot for state representative, 69th district. He ran against a Democrat and a Republican and polled 442 [...]

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Ballot Access News: Last week, Rebecca Williamson, Socialist Workers Party nominee for U.S. House in Iowa’s 3rd district, polled 2.61% of the vote. The 3rd district includes Des Moines. That is the highest percentage that any party with “Socialist” in its name has received for U.S. House in Iowa since 1918. Williamson had a Democratic [...]

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Libertarian Party HQ Monday Message: Dear Friend of Liberty, First of all I want to thank our over 800 candidates again for taking the time to run for office. Now that we’ve all had a little time to catch our breaths after election day, we’re working to compile and analyze the results of our efforts. [...]

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Posted by staff at LP blog: These are preliminary results for Libertarians running for Governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House. Vote counts and percentages are not final, but percentages probably will not change much. This list does not include several Libertarians who had to run as write-in candidates (their votes have not been counted yet). [...]

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Ballot Access News: Preliminary election returns show these national totals for each party, in the November 2010 election, for the office at the top of the ballot. “Office at the top of the ballot” means Governor. If a state had no gubernatorial election, it means U.S. Senate. For the four states that had neither a [...]

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Liberty Point: Libertarian candidates consider election defeats a learning experience, prepare for the next election. Although the results of the 2010 election were a disappointment for North Carolina’s Libertarian candidates because they were not elected, several consider it a very good learning experience and preparation for future campaigns. Dr. Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. [...]

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From Jake Towne via Third Party and Independent Daily: From the not-yet-100%-official results from the state elections board, 15,241 votes were cast in favor of freedom in the district yesterday, for about 8% of the total. I suppose the bad news (and sorry to be blunt) is this means 92% of the votes were cast [...]

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