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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 […]

2014-10-23 Texas (multiple) Rebecca Paddock 7% (U.S. Senate) Kathie Glass 6% (Governor) Robert D. Butler 9% (Lt. Governor) Jamie Balagia 8% (Attorney General) Ben Sanders 11% (Comptroller) Justin Knight 10% (Land Commissioner) David “Rocky” Palmquist 9% (Agriculture Commissioner) Mark Miller 10% (Railroad Commissioner) University of Texas/Texas Tribune Link 2014-10-19 Texas (Governor) Kathie Glass <1% KHOU […]

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 […]

Leo Dymowski Leo Dymowski, the Maryland Libertarian Party’s candidate for Attorney General in next week’s general election, has been getting unprecedented coverage in the state for a non-establishment party candidate this year. Dymowski has been written up in the Baltimore Sun, the Daily Record, and earlier this week on Maryland Reporter, the main state political website. He […]

Gigi Bowman Libertarians won a long-fought ballot access victory in court on Friday over incumbent New York state Sen. Carl Marcellino (R-5th District). Marcellino and several of his staffers sought to have their sole opponent on the ballot — Libertarain Gigi Bowman — removed from the ballot by filing a challenge to her qualifying petition. […]

“The story of Election 2014 will be how Libertarians (and some Independents) are now and will continue to be a deciding factor in statewide elections despite the constant roadblocks. No longer polling at 1-2%, the jump to the 6-8% range looks to rewrite the political playbook that campaign workers have used for generations. “The Republican […]

Arvin Vohra, vice chair of the Libertarian National Committee and candidate for congress in Maryland’s 4th district, was interviewed by Nick Gillespie on Reason TV. “When you give [Democrats and Republicans] your vote, you’re telling them ‘Go ahead, keep on doing what you’re doing,’” Vohra explained. “And when you vote for the Libertarian candidate you […]

Lucas Overby Lucas Overby, the Florida Libertarian Party candidate for the U.S. House 13th congressional district in next week’s general election, has been endorsed by the former independent challenger, Eduardo Jany. Jany had to withdraw from the race for personal reasons back in May, leaving a two-way race with Overby and Republican David Jolly. Jany […]