[Lnc-business] Green Party - 2012 Election Summary

[Scott L.]

I could not find an equivalent summary for the 2014 elections, but 2012 is
recent enough to still be relevant.

 

 

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http://www.greenpartywatch.org/category/local-elections/page/4/

 

 

"2012 Green Party Election Wrap-up by the numbers

1/6/2013

by Brent McMillan

313 green party candidates ran for election in 2012. By comparison 308 green
party candidates ran for election in 2008, 437 green party candidates ran
for election in 2004 and 282 green party candidates ran for election in
2000, the presidential election years.

Three out of four offices that greens ran for in 2012 were partisan, by my
count, 235.

45 greens were elected to office in 2012, 14% of those who ran. Of those
Greens won 50% of the non-partisan offices that they ran for and only 3% of
the partisan.

Twenty of the 45, less that half, were incumbents seeking re-election.

 

Six of the wins were partisan:

    Alvin Clay was elected to Mississippi County Justice of the Peace,
District 6, AR.

                              Kade Holliday was elected to Craighead County
Clerk, AR.

                       Fred Smith was elected to State Representative
District 50, AR.

               Roger Watkins was elected to Craighead County Constable
District 6, AR.

        Art Goodtimes was re-elected to San Miquel County Commissioner
District 3, CO.

Korine Elizabeth Bachleda was re-elected to Newberg Township Clerk in Cass
County, MI."

 

 

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Note that the Green Party candidates were 17 times more likely to win if
they were in a non-partisan election than if they were in a partisan
election.

 

Also note that their partisan wins were at the municipal level except for
one State Representative (who had previously served in that position as a
Democrat), and 2 County level positions.

 

 

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell potential donors that the Libertarian
Party elected over a hundred Libertarians to office in 2016, and that our
success rate in non-partisan elections was 20% or 30%, or even 40%? 

 

Does anyone really think that bragging about increases from 3% to 5% in
State House races is really going to convince libertarians to show up at
County Libertarian Party Meetings or show up at State LP Conventions?

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

 

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