The Green vote was the biggest vote for an independent
left gubernatorial ticket since the Socialist candidates of 1918 and 1920, who received 5.7 and 5.6 percent respectively.
Not exact matches
Bysiewicz's departure from the
gubernatorial field — which had swelled to include more than two dozen contenders —
leaves both major parties without a woman at the top of the
ticket.
Green Party
gubernatorial ticket in New York in the November 4 elections — headed by
left - wing activistHowie Hawkins for governor and International Socialist Organization activist Brian Jones for lieutenant governor — scored a large rise in the Green vote.
Hawkins, an upstate New York UPS worker who has known Sanders since handing out leaflets for the Vermonter's 1972
gubernatorial campaign on the Liberty Union Party
ticket, calls Sanders» bid to move the Democrats to the
left a «fool's errand.»