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Shawn Quinn and Lorenzo Gaztanaga For the first time in its history, the Maryland Libertarian Party met the vote test to retain ballot access. It was also the first time in 44 years that any challenge party in the state was able to retain ballot access. Gubernatorial candidate Shawn Quinn and candidate for lieutenant governor […]

Roland Riemers For the first time in party history, the North Dakota Libertarian Party has met the vote test to attain ballot access. In a non-presidential general election, the candidate for attorney general or secretary of state must get at least 5 percent of the vote for automatic ballot access. Roland Riemers, the LPND candidate […]

In 2014, there were 22 states with Libertarian candidates on the ballot for U.S. Senate. Six candidates got at least 3%. The average Libertarian percentage was 2.3%. Candidate State Votes (unofficial) Percentage (unofficial) Mark Fish AK 8,358 3.7% Nathan LaFrance AR 17,103 2.0% Gaylon Kent CO 50,089 2.6% Amanda Swafford GA 48,918 1.9% Michael Kokoski […]

In 2014, there were 24 states with Libertarian candidates on the ballot for governor. Eight candidates got at least 3 percent. The average Libertarian percentage was 2.2 percent. Candidate State Votes (unofficial) Percentage (unofficial) Carolyn Clift AK 6,745 3.0% Frank Gilbert AR 16,220 1.9% Barry Hess AZ 44,760 3.8% Matthew Hess CO 37,322 1.9% Adrian […]

Oregon’s Measure 90 ballot initiative, that would have elminated party primaries and effectively ended Libertarian participation in general elections, was trounced at the polls on November 4:  No votes: 905,570 (68.2%) Yes votes: 422,237 (31.8%) The Libertarian Party of Oregon issued the following press release on its defeat: Oregonians sent a strong message of support for strong third […]

Libertarian candidates may have decided the winner in at least six federal and governor races, despite record-shattering spending levels in support of the Democratic and Republican candidates. Each race where a Libertarian threatens to affect the outcome of an election puts pressure on the old parties to move in a Libertarian direction by reducing government’s […]

Gigi Bowman As reported here, Republican incumbent Carl Marcellino tried once again to knock his Libertarian opponent Gigi Bowman off the ballot by filing a frivolous appeal. The good news; he lost!   Be sure to tell your friends in Suffolk and Nassau Counties on Long Island to vote for Libertarian Georgina (“Gigi”) Bowman.   […]

Ken Krawchuk Long-time Pennsylvania Libertarian candidate and activist Ken Krawchuk will be running for governor on Tuesday as a write-in. Henry Haller is the candidate for lieutenant governor. Pennsylvania has some of the worst ballot access laws in the country. Only parties with at least 15 percent of the registered voters qualify as a major […]

Amanda Swafford Amanda Swafford will be participating in a debate for the Georgia U.S. Senate candidates this morning at 11 a.m. Click here to watch. More coverage on recent Libertarian candidate debates: Frank Gilbert in the Arkansas gubernatorial debate. Click here, then select the governor link to view. Debbie Standiford in the Arkansas debate for […]

Libertarian Jeremy Walters won 47 percent of the vote for state house in South Carolina’s 26th district in 2012, coming within inches of being elected to the highest-level office that the Libertarian Party has achieved in its history. Winning a legislative seat in South Carolina would be especially noteworthy, given that the state is anything […]

Nicholas Sarwark National LP Chair Reason Magazine published a column by Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the national Libertarian Party online: “Why should libertarians vote for the Libertarian Party? The short answer is that ‘libertarian’ is right there in the name. If that’s good enough for you, thank you for your vote for our candidates, you can stop […]

Several major newspapers in West Virginia, led by the flagship Wheeling Intelligencer, ran a prominent editorial on Oct. 25 heaping praise on the ideas advanced by the campaign of Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate John Buckley. The headline of the editorial in the Intelligencer is, “Libertarian Ideas Merit Discussion.” In the Martinsburg Journal News, the […]