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November 2011
Va. Libertarian sets new mark with 31.5%, statistically ties GOP across ballot
“On November 8, Virginia elected its legislature. Libertarian Party nominee Mike R. Kane, running in the 41st House seat in Fairfax County in a two-person race, polled 31.5% of the vote,” Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News reports. ” The incumbent Democrat, Eileen Filler-Corn, won the election.” That’s significant for two reasons. First, Kane’s 31.5 percent […]
Read moreEvery vote counts. Libertarian beats GOP incumbent by one vote.
Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News reports: “On November 8, 2011, the town of Henry, Indiana, held partisan elections for Town Council…For the third seat, two candidates were on the ballot, Libertarian Dennis Denney and Republican incumbent Rebecca Hammer. The final results show that Denney received 93 votes and Hammer received 92. Thanks to Rick Hasen […]
Read moreYou won! Now what?
If you were one of the Libertarian candidates who joined the growing ranks of hundreds of elected Libertarians, congratulations. Now you must be thinking, “what do I do now?” Four things lay a strong foundation to becoming a successful Libertarian official, and thus a successfully re-elected Libertarian candidate. 1) Constituent service comes first. While Libertarian […]
Read moreLibertarian election results
Libertarian National Committee staff report the following among the results of yesterday’s election in a handful of states. [November 9, 9:22 am ET] Libertarian Jerald Robertson won one of two seats on the Elmwood Place Village Council in Ohio. (All three candidates were write-ins.) [November 9, 9:15 am ET] Libertarian Joe Calfo was elected to […]
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