Sentences with phrase «winning ballot status»
Poloncarz winning ballot status on the WEP line comes as the fledgling party faces a host of legal challenges.
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Today, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Senior Judge James Gardner Colins is expected to rule on the Republican Party's final attempt to nullify the Libertarian Party's hard - won ballot status for 2012.
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A political party is granted automatic ballot status — the right to field a candidate in any race in the state without circulating petitions — if its gubernatorial candidate wins more than 50,000 votes in a general election.
If the party fails to win at least 50,000 votes for its gubernatorial contenders on its ballot line, it will both its line and its official status — and basically all but cease to exist.
The room was receptive to a proposal that the WFP run someone else for governor on Row D — a gamble, given the fact that the party risks losing its hard - won ballot placement if its candidate doesn't perform well, and could lose its ballot status altogether if the candidate fails to win at least 50,000 votes.
After Rockland County Democrats scored a victory late last week by re-affirming ballot status for the county's Women's Equality Party candidates, Onondaga County Republicans on Monday scored a win in court, knocking some 20 candidates from the ballot line.
Mr. Hawkins ran for governor in 2010 and was able to win more than 50,000 votes, securing ballot status for the Green Party in this year's race.
Running Democrats — including Peter Vallone, Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer, and Barack Obama — the party has since easily won up to three times the required 50,000 votes to keep its ballot status.
Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins announced late last night that his 2014 fundraising has already surpassed the entire amount he raised for his 2012 bid, which garnered more than 50,000 votes and won his party automatic ballot status for four years.
The party had qualified for the ballot in Utah and Mississippi, and has since won affiliate status in New Mexico and Oregon.