NEWS ARTICLES

The nation’s third largest party continues to make bigger footprints in multiple statewide races. From Smart Politics on November 24, 2020: Smart Politics recently profiled the record-setting performances Libertarians and other third party candidates had this cycle...

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From JonathanTurley.org on November 25, 2020: The Third Circuit has issued an opinion that has received little attention over the right to bear arms, but it should. The decision in Folajtar v. The Attorney General of the United States may be one of the most perfectly...

From LP News | Vol. 50, Issue 3 | Quarter 3, 2020 By Chris Clemence • LPHQ Stewardship Associate The Libertarian Party of Texas bore witness to profound change this convention season. After a 103-day delay, the state convention moved 500 miles across the state to host...

From Ballot Access News on November 23, 2020: William J. Hunt, Libertarian nominee for Rhode Island State House, district 68, polled 40.53% earlier this month. The vote was 2,995 for Hunt and 4,394 for his Democratic opponent. Hunt has good name recognition in the...

The Party Bylaws require draft convention minutes to be posted to the Party website prior to presentation for approval by the LNC as follows: ARTICLE 10: CONVENTIONS 9. The Convention Secretary shall produce draft convention minutes within 60 days of the adjournment...

Marshall Burt was elected to the Wyoming house 39th district seat, defeating Democrat incumbent Stan Blake 1,696 to 1,420. This is only the fifth time in Libertarian Party history a candidate running only on the LP label has been elected to a state legislature, and...

★ Starred = Winner Note: These results are neither certified as final nor official. We apologize for any typographical, transpositional or mathematical errors that are nearly inevitable in a list of more than 500 races. Alabama Frank Dillman, Macon Co. Comm. Chair,...

The Libertarian Party did not have a good night for ballot access this election, as it is now on the ballot in 30 states plus DC for the 2022 election. The LP was on in 37 states plus DC after the 2016 election, and 31 states plus DC after 2018. Significantly, the...

Welcome to the Libertarian Party Live Blog of election 2020.  We will be posting election updates as we know them here, so keep coming back for more news. November 04, 2020 12:00pm (EST): In Kansas, James Doyle has been elected to the Belleville City Council. 11:15am...

From the Casper Star-Tribune on October 24, 2020: Wyoming, like the rest of the country, has a two-party problem. Despite the libertarian streak running through the state’s strong, conservative tradition, Wyoming has never elected a third-party candidate to the...

Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen was interviewed by Neil Cavuto on the Your World show on the Fox  News channel on October 22, 2020: The current political system is designed to squelch truly independent voices, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo...

Indiana Libertarian Party candidate for Governor Donald Rainwater, who has been polling as high as 24%, participated in a debate with incumbent Republican Eric Holcomb and Democratic challenger Woody Myers, held by the Indiana Debate Commission and broadcast on...

From the Capital Journal in Pierre, South Dakota, on October 5, 2020: "First-term U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., faces a challenge from Libertarian Party candidate Randy 'Uriah' Luallin in the Nov. 3 general election. "No Democrat filed for the position this year....

Thomas Quiter, candidate for the New York assembly in district 52 in a one-on-one race with the Republican incumbent, was recently interviewed by the Binghamton, New York ABC television affiliate WIVT, channel 34: A new candidate has thrown his hat into the ring for a...

From the St. George News on October 13, 2020: J. Robert Latham, the Libertarian Party candidate for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District, recently spoke with St. George News to discuss various issues, including the proposed Northern Corridor and stimulus packages in the...

Ricky Lee Harrington, the Libertarian Party US Senate candidate candidate in Arkansas, is now polling 38% in his two-way race against Republican incumbent Tom Cotton, with 13% undecided, according to a poll done by American Research Group. Click here to read the...

Libertarian National Committee representative and Riverside County, California Supervisor Jeff Hewitt had the following opinion piece on last week's presidential debate printed in two of southern California's largest daily newspapers, the Press-Enterprise and Orange...

The Des Moines Register, the largest newspaper in Iowa, published the following opinion piece by Mike Connor, the chair of the Iowa Libertarian Party, on October 6, 2020: The mainstream media may not publicize it often, but America is fed up. Of course, this comes as...

The Chicago Tribune, the most widely read daily newspaper in Chicago and which has the sixth highest daily circulation in the country, endorsed Illinois Libertarian Party candidate for the 78th state house race Joshua Flynn on October 7, 2020: Rep. Camille Lilly, an...

From InsideSources.com on September 29, 2020: The Libertarian candidate for governor of Indiana had 24 percent support in an early September poll of likely voters and is about to give the sitting Republican governor, Eric Holcomb, a run for his money. But who is he?...

From the Casper Star-Tribune on September 24, 2020: A group of high-profile Fremont County Republicans are backing a Libertarian over their own party’s candidate in the race for Riverton’s House District 55 — an eyebrow-raising development in a year that has split the...

The Rapid City Journal, the largest newspaper in western South Dakota, on September 22, 2020 published the an article featuring Libertarian Party of South Dakota chair and candidate Gideon Oakes: Two candidates are vying for the District 30 state Senate race on the...

The following letter-to-the-editor by Hannah Tomboulides, Director at-large for the Brevard County, Florida Libertarian Party, was published in USA Today, the country's largest circulation daily newspaper, on September 17, 2020: I keep hearing I’m wasting my vote for...

From Ballot Access News on September 15, 2020: On September 11, Bill Redpath, Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. House, Illinois Sixth District, won his ballot access lawsuit in state trial court. Bixler v Illinois State Board of Elections, Sangamon Co., 20 MR 775....

Erika Kolenich, the West Virginia Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, was interviewed by the Daily Athenaeum on August 26, 2020: Erika Kolenich is the candidate for governor of the Libertarian Party in West Virginia. Kolenich stopped in and talked about the...

From the Austin American-Statesman on September 6, 2020: The Texas Supreme Court rejected a GOP attempt to remove 44 Libertarian candidates from the November ballot, saying the Republicans waited too long to challenge their opponents’ eligibility. A long list of...

From the Salt Lake Tribune on September 2, 2020: As satire on how stinky he says politics has become, the current Libertarian Party nominee for vice president, Jeremy “Spike” Cohen, had run earlier this year with a candidate named Vermin Supreme — who wears a boot as...