Libertarian Election Results
As another election season is winding down, he are some final election results of interest to Libertarians:
- Bill Peirce is finishing up 3rd place with about 1.8% (+/- 67,000 votes). Our last Gubernatorial candidate received 39,114 votes.
- Tom Brinkman, one of the most Libertarian members of the Ohio state house won re-election by a 9% margin
- Michael Jason Vasko received 6.36% of the vote for Fulton County Commissioner.
- State issue 2 will pass. This will raise Ohio's minimum wage and essentially open up every worker's employment records to an 'interested party'.
- State issue 5 passed, issue 4 failed. Issue 5 bans smoking in almost every place open to the public. Issue 4 would have exempted many bars, resturants, bowling alleys, and smoke shops.
- In Kentucky, Brian Houillion received about 5% of the vote in a 3 way race for the US House
- In Indiana, Mike Cole won 4% of the vote for his bid for Secretary of State. A modest vote total, but that allows the LPIN to retain ballot access.
- Rex Bell failed in his attempt for the Indiana house. A poll in the last week of the election showed him in a dead heat with the Republican.
Visit www.LP.org and www.LPO.org for a complete rundown of Libertarian election results.
posted by CincinnatiLibertarian at 12:21 AM
3 Comments:
Were there enough votes to get the party on the next ballot ?
Typically, he would have needed 5% of the vote to accomplish that. But in this case, that wouldn't have mattered for two reasons.
1) Peirce was on the ballot as an independent. The state of Ohio would not recognize him as a Libertarian, so the only way for him to run would be without a party banner (although he clearly campaigned as a Libertarian)
2) This past summer, a Federal court ruled Ohio's ballot access laws to be unfair and unconstitutional and that the law should be thrown out. However, a new law has not replaced it, yet. So for the moment, there is no standard for ballot access. That will change shortly, I am sure.
Some of us libertarian Republicans have heard of Tom Brinkman, and understood that he attended an LPO Convention a few years back. Just how libertarian is he?
I've been listing him on my List of Elected Libertarians at www.mainstreamlibertarian.com
If there are other libertarian-leaning Republican legislators please let us know about them.
Thanks!
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