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Carolyn “Care” Clift Due to the outcome of the governor’s race on November 4 in which Libertarian Carolyn “Care” Clift and her lieutenant governor running mate Andrew C. Lee received 3.2% of the vote, the Libertarian Party will see two of its members appointed to the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC), the group that oversees […]

Chad Perry Louisiana Libertarian Chad Perry was elected Justice of the Peace in ward seven in Saturday’s runoff election. Mr. Perry received 630 votes for 51.8%. The election was a partisan race. This makes four Lousiana LP candidates that were elected to office this year. Mr. Perry was in the runoff election as nobody in his race […]

The below letter was sent on December 4, 2014 from a coalition which included the Libertarian Party to U.S. House Representatives Boehner and Pelosi.    The Honorable John Boehner, Speaker of the House                                 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader    U.S. […]

Libertarian National Committee Political Director Carla Howell asserted on Press TV that recent discussion about the resignation of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ignores the broader issue, which is that the U.S. military needs to get out and stay out of the Middle East.   “Secretaries of Defense have been turning over about as frequently […]

The Wyoming Libertarian Party has attained major party status for the second time in its history. To attain or retain major party status, a candidate running for Governor, Secretary of State, or the US House of Representatives must get at least 10%. Kit Carson, the LPWY candidate for Secretary of State, got 10.7% in a 3-way […]

Karl Tagenhorst The Indiana Libertarian Party retained ballot access for the sixth time in a row, going back to 1994, as secretary of state candidate Karl Tagenhorst received 3.4 percent in this month’s general election. The secretary of state candidate needs to get at least 2 percent for a party to retain ballot access in […]

Dan Reale Richard Lion Two Connecticut LP candidates, Dan Reale and Richard Lion, retained ballot access for a U.S. House seat and for a state House seat because of the votes they received in their respective races. In Connecticut, a political party is recognized if it has at least 20 percent of the registered political […]

Tracey Ryan The Hawaii Libertarian Party met the vote test for the first time in its history, and have retained ballot access through 2016. In Hawaii, if all of a political party’s candidates running for the state Senate get at least 4 percent of the cumulative vote, or if all of the party’s candidates running […]

The Libertarian Party is seeking an editor and technology developer who shares our love of liberty and hopes to help the Libertarian Party succeed as a vehicle for implementing libertarian ideas. The position will be based at the Libertarian National Committee’s headquarters in Alexandria, Va. The best candidates should have a range of skills, including: […]

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 […]