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Part of a series highlighting significant stories from the 2012 election Jeremy Walters,2012 candidate for SC House Libertarian Jeremy Walters was in the unique position of being the only partisan candidate on the ballot for a state House seat. On a small budget, he ran a spirited race but fell short of winning by just […]

Part of a series highlighting significant stories from the 2012 election Mike Fellows, Montana LP Chair In the 2012 election, Mike Fellows of Montana became the first Libertarian in national LP history to crack the 40 percent barrier in a partisan statewide race. He won 185,419 votes, or 43 percent, and carried 27 of the […]

Final results for all 2012 electoral races including a Libertarian Party candidate are now available on our website. Click here to see a full table of vote totals and percentages for LP candidates and their opponents.

Warren SeverinArizona LP State Chair In a major strategic victory for the Libertarian Party, Arizona voters soundly rejected the state’s Prop 121 initiative, which would have excluded all but the top two vote-getters of the primary elections from the general election. Similar initiatives that passed in prior election years in Washington, Louisiana, and California have […]

Thanks to the efforts of the Libertarian Party of Kansas, gun owners who were prohibited by their local governments from openly carrying firearms are now free to open carry in their cities. Two years ago, the Kansas LP began its efforts to bring restrictive city laws into compliance with state law allowing the open carry […]

Perhaps no topic has been more debated in recent weeks than gun control. When tragedy strikes vulnerable children, anti-gun advocates see it as an excuse to violate individual liberty, pushing for new firearms bans in a foolhardy quest for illusory safety. The Libertarian Party has always stood for the individual right to keep and bear […]

A special election for state senate on Jan. 8 in Georgia brings another opportunity to give voters a choice for much less government. Libertarian candidate James Camp will face off in District 30 against Republican Mike Dugan in a two-way race. Incumbent Bill Hamrick had resigned from the senate in September to accept a judicial […]

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”  — James Madison by R. Lee Wrights, Vice Chair, National Libertarian Party Beware the person who says to you, "You don’t need a gun." That kind of person will […]

No more residency requirement for D.C. ballot petition circulators? asks Washington Post article by Mike DeBonnis.