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Chris Coughlin Chris Coughlin of the Georgia Libertarian Party won one of his two runoff elections yesterday, getting elected to an abbreviated term on the Johns Creek City Council. Mr. Coughlin obtained over 59% of the vote, easily defeating his opponent. He also received 47.4% in the election for the full term, falling short by […]

Allen Buckley Ted Metz The Georgia Libertarian Party now has two potential candidates for the 2016 US Senate race, as Ted Metz has announced that he will run for that seat, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Mr. Metz ran for Insurance Commissioner as a Libertarian in Georgia last year, getting over 86,000 votes in a […]

The 11/25/2015 episode of Libertarians Working For You hosted by Arvin Vohra is now available online, with guests Claire Ball, Illinois LP 2016 candidate for Comptroller, and Jason France, 2015 candidate for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education district 6. Click here to listen.

Chris Coughlin In a rare circumstance for any candidate, Chris Coughlin of the Georgia LP is on the ballot for two runoff elections, on the same day.   Mr. Coughlin is running for a full term on the Johns Creek City Council, as well as an abbreviated term to fill the current vacancy on the […]

Get paid $2.50 per signature, or please donate to help pay for signatures, or I’m sorry but we’ll have to shut this drive down permanently in about a week. Thuggish behavior by police and security in Oklahoma has prevented our petitioners from getting access to public places to collect signatures. Even the Oklahoma A.C.L.U. has been […]

On November 19, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed a notice of appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court, over whether the ballot access laws recently written by the state legislature violate the Ohio Constitution. The Ohio Constitution states that all recognized parties must nominate by primary, yet the ballot access laws written in 2013 state that […]

Melinda Bradley Mitchell LP Indiana has filed for a recount for the Newburgh Town Council campaign of Libertarian Melinda Bradley Mitchell. She is only six votes behind the front-runner in her November 3 race. The state party raised $3,245 from 33 donors in 10 days to cover the cost.

Phil Anderson Phil Anderson, chair of the Dane County, Wisconsin Libertarian Party, has declared his candidacy for the US Senate seat in Wisconsin in 2016 as a Libertarian. Mr. Anderson ran for the state assembly 47th district last year as a Libertarian, and garnered 18% of the vote in a two-way race against a Democrat. “I […]

Today’s episode (11/18/2015) of Libertarians Working For You hosted by Arvin Vohra on last week’s elections is now available online, with guests Sean Haugh, 2016 Libertarian Party candidate for the US Senate in North Carolina, and Jordan Hansen, 2016 Libertarian Party candidate for the state assembly in the 54th district in Wisconsin. Click here to listen.

Forbes Magazine points out that two former presidential candidates, Gov. Gary Johnson, who ran for the Republican nomination, and Sen. Mike Gravel, who ran for the Democratic nomination, both of whom later sought the Libertarian nomination for president, called for ending the marijuana prohibition long before Bernie Sanders’s recent conversion on this issue.   Every […]

Below are the vote totals of Libertarian candidates who ran in the fall of 2015, offering hundreds of thousands of Americans an alternative to Big Government.  Note that in some local races, multiple candidates were on the ballot; voters were permitted to select more than one candidate; and/or more than one candidate was elected. Want to be part of […]