Sentences with phrase «minor party nominees»

North Dakota has not had any minor party nominees on the November ballot for state legislature since 1976.

In November 2010, under a partisan nominating system, California voters were able to choose between the following candidates for Congress: 53 Republicans, 51 Democrats, 39 minor party nominees, 3 independent candidates, and 14 declared write - in candidates, for a total of 160 candidates.

Gonzalez is one of three 2011 minor party nominees in special legislative elections who might actually win.

One of the advantages of minor parties in the U.S. is that they often serve as a training ground for aspiring young people who first run as minor party nominees.

If a minor party nominee does decide to qualify using the independent procedure, he or she is not permitted to have a ballot label other than «independent.»

Whenever there is a partisan election in which only one of the two major parties runs anyone, any minor party nominee on the ballot in that election typically polls at least 5 %.

This is the highest percentage for a minor party nominee for statewide office in Mississippi since the Peoples (Populist) Party showing in 1895.

Gary Johnson in 2012 was the first presidential candidate in U.S. history to be kept off the November ballot as a minor party nominee, on the grounds that his name had appeared on a major party presidential primary ballot.

The decision implies on page 17 that the precedent set in 1980 by John B. Anderson, who ran in Michigan's presidential primary and also ran as a minor party nominee, doesn't apply because Read more»

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Others are also in the hunt for potential minor party bids who could cut into the vote totals for Democratic and Republican nominees in a year in which polls show some of the electorate is grumpy with traditional politics.

If he fends off the challenge from Nixon, Cuomo could become the first Democratic nominee for governor to run without the Working Families Party's support since the minor party line was created in Party's support since the minor party line was created in party line was created in 1998.

Although minor party or independent candidates for Governor have been elected since the end of World War II in the midwest, the west, and the east, no one other than a Democrat or a Republican has been elected Governor in a southern state since 1916, when the Prohibition Party nominee for Florida Governor, Sidney J. Catts, was eleparty or independent candidates for Governor have been elected since the end of World War II in the midwest, the west, and the east, no one other than a Democrat or a Republican has been elected Governor in a southern state since 1916, when the Prohibition Party nominee for Florida Governor, Sidney J. Catts, was eleParty nominee for Florida Governor, Sidney J. Catts, was elected.

In 2010, no televised debates for the Nevada major party nominees for Governor or U.S. Senator included any minor party or independent candidates.

Both bills make it almost impossible for a new party, or an old minor party that doesn't have FEC recognition, to place a presidential nominee on the ballot.

But New Mexico forces qualified minor parties to submit separate petitions for each of their nominees.

The only other minor party that has had a gubernatorial nominee on the Virginia ballot in the last forty years was the Reform Party in the 1997 elecparty that has had a gubernatorial nominee on the Virginia ballot in the last forty years was the Reform Party in the 1997 elecParty in the 1997 election.

No party can list a nominee on the November ballot for legislature unless between 10 % and 15 % of all the voters in the primary choose a minor party primary ballot.

Nationally - organized minor parties, which are traditionally under - funded, nevertheless sometimes have enough funding to provide a significant boost to a single nominee, or a handful of nominees, for important office.

Minor party presidential candidates who qualified for the New Jersey ballot are the nominees of the American Third Position, Constitution, Green, Libertarian, Justice, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Socialist Workers parparty presidential candidates who qualified for the New Jersey ballot are the nominees of the American Third Position, Constitution, Green, Libertarian, Justice, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Socialist Workers parParty for Socialism and Liberation, and Socialist Workers parties.

North Dakota and Oklahoma are the only states that have not had any minor party legislative nominees on the ballot (with the party label) during the last four years.

While incumbent Democratic District Attorney Thomas Spota, who is retiring, had major and minor party cross-endorsements, including from the Conservatives, in his last three elections, Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, said it is the first time the Democratic nominee has ever received the party's endorsement in a contested district attorney race.

(New York is one of six states that permits «fusion voting,» or permitting votes cast for a candidate appearing on multiple ballot lines to be counted for that one candidate; thus, New York is home to several minor parties — the Independence Party on Row C, the Conservative Party on Row D, and the WFP on Row E — that «cross-endorse» major party nominees for offParty on Row C, the Conservative Party on Row D, and the WFP on Row E — that «cross-endorse» major party nominees for offParty on Row D, and the WFP on Row E — that «cross-endorse» major party nominees for offparty nominees for office).

ALBANY — Rob Astorino, the Republican nominee for governor, said Wednesday that he wants to debate Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, but only just the two of them, without a gaggle of minor - party candidates.

In 1977, Democratic Mayor James D. Griffin was elected as the nominee of two minor parties, the Conservative Party and the Right to Life Party, after he lost the Democratic primary for Mayor to then Deputy State Assembly Speaker Arthur Eve.

However, it turns out that the 2009 law that changed independent candidate petition deadlines from September to June also changed the deadlines for qualified minor parties to submit their nominees for the November ballot.

Over the years, many major party nominees have been elected to Congress who started out in electoral politics as members and candidates for a minor party.

The Socialist Workers Party is one of only two minor parties that has had a presidential nominee in every presidential election since the end of World War II.

Because the overwhelming majority of primary voters are not interested in choosing a minor party's primary ballot, and instead choose one of the major party primary ballots, the effect is that minor parties can never place nominees on the ballot for state legislature.

To be certified as the nominee of a minor or provisional party at a party's state convention, the candidate must submit an application for nomination to the Wyoming Secretary of State, along with the required filing fee (the filing fees are the same as those required of major party candidates).

He highlights what had already been reported, that in the November 2012 election, Mitt Romney carried independent voters by a margin of 50 % -45 %, with 5 % of independents voting for minor party presidential nominees.