While neither candidate did exceptionally well, both Libertarian David Nolan (pictured) and Constitution Party candidate Scott Bradley posted very respectable showing in their U.S. Senate races. In Arizona, with John McCain easily winning re-election, Nolan polled just short of 5% of the vote statewide. With […]

New York Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman had suspended his campaign before the election, but that didn’t stop people from voting for him. In fact, Hoffman polled about 3 times the margin of victory for Democratic Congressman Bill Owens. Hoffman’s 9,500 votes or 6% is […]

Write-in votes are currently leading in the Alaska Senate race for the seat held by Lisa Murkowski. Most media is reporting this as Murkowski leading, but there are more than 100 qualified write-in candidates running in this race. All we know for sure is that […]

Former Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson narrowly lost a race for Wisconsin State Senate, running as a Republican. With almost all votes counted, Thompson trails incumbent Democrat Kathleen Vinehout by about 300 votes. For those who don’t remember, Thompson is the brother of former Wisconsin […]

In the race for Suffolk County Family Court judge, with 85% of the votes reporting, it appears that a candidate of the NY Conservative Party will win. Bernard Cheng is leading a Democrat and a Republican. Here are the numbers we have so far, according […]

Independent Eliot Cutler appears to have come up a bit short in the race for governor of Maine.  With more than 90% of the votes counted, Cutler has fallen behind Republican Paul LePage by about 6,000 votes or 1%.  Since the interior counties seem to […]

In Ohio’s 99th district, independent Tammy Roesch captured well over the margin of victory in an extremely tight race. Based on her campaign website, Roesch sounds like a tea party-style candidate, so it would be safe to assume that she cost the Republican, Casey Kozlowski, […]

Despite a strong final debate performance, independent Jana Kemp is pulling only about 6% of the vote statewide in early returns. Kemp is a former one-term state legislator who has traveled the state, speaking to various groups in support of her campaign for governor. She […]

Libertarian-turned-Republican Ed Thompson is trailing incumbent State Senator Kathleen Vinehout by about 200 votes with 92% of precints reporting. With 144 of 156 precincts fully reported, Thompson has 27,672 votes to Vinehout’s 27,894 votes. For those who don’t remember, Thompson is the brother of former Wisconsin governor […]

After taking a big early lead in Maine’s gubernatorial race, Eliot Cutler has fallen behind Republican Paul LePage by about 1,500 votes with 67% of the state reporting. It seems that LePage’s strongest showings were in the rural interior counties of the state, which take […]