An independent candidate for partisan office must be nominated by filing a signed petition. (ballotpedia.org)
Also in 1988 the Libertarian Party elected a nominee to local partisan office in Lee County, and in 1994 the Patriot Party elected a County Commissioner in a partisan election in Greene County. (thirdpartypolitics.us)
The Working Families Party has elected people to municipal and county partisan office in New York and Connecticut, who were not the nominees of any other party. (thirdpartypolitics.us)