On February 1, the California Secretary of State released new registration data. The new tally is as of January 22, 2008, the deadline for the February 5 presidential primary.
Comparing the new percentages for each political party to the last tally (the last tally was as of December 7, 2007), all political parties declined, except for the Democratic and American Independent (Constitution) Parties.
The new percentages are: Democratic 42.95%, Republican 33.28%, American Independent 2.09%, Green .81%, Libertarian .51%, Peace & Freedom .36%, Reform .17%, independents and other parties 19.82%
The old percentages were: Democratic 42.66%, Republican 33.55%, American Independent 2.07%, Green .86%, Libertarian .53%, Peace & Freedom .37%, Reform .19%, independents and other parties 19.77%.
The Reform Party is not ballot-qualified, but since it has asked the Secretary of State to tally its registrants, the figures for it are known.
The March 1, 2008 paper edition of Ballot Access News will carry registration data for all the states that have registration by party. This will be the first new data for the whole nation since BAN’s January 1, 2007 issue.
While the dems & AIP are the only ones that gained in percentage of the whole, it looks like only the Greens, Libertarians & Reforms saw a decline in total registered.
Dem:
Dec 7 – 6,598,773
Jan 22 – 6,749,406
Rep:
Dec 7 – 5,190,179
Jan 22 – 5,229,425
AIP:
Dec 7 – 320,435
Jan 22 – 328,261
GP:
Dec 7 – 132,501
Jan 22 – 127,042
LP:
Dec 7 – 81,906
Jan 22 – 80,435
PFP:
Dec 7 – 57,013
Jan 22 – 57,182
Others (incl. Reform? NLP?):
Dec 7 – 97,601
Jan 22 – 97,838
Ref:
Dec 7 – 29,477
Jan 22 – 26,899
Ind/Decline:
Dec 7 – 2,990,143
Jan 22 – 3,043,164
Glad to see that the Democratic Party is doing well. I’m a bit dissapointed that the Green, Libertarian, and Reform Parties are shrinking though.
The Reform Party of California has only itself to blame. Back in 2004, Don Lake, Richard Winger, and myself had (all independently) suggested that the Reform Party take over the empty shell of the Natural Law Party (which had ballot access at the time). I guess that suggestion was too logical.