This is old news that Ballot Access News had previously missed. On November 4, 2014, an independent candidate was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Merrimack County district 10, which includes Hopkinton and part of Concord. The independent winner is David Luneau.
See this story about the campaign. The district elects three representatives. Luneau came in third with 2,293, and was elected along with two of the three Democratic nominees. Thanks to Darryl Perry for the information.
The December 1, 2014 Ballot Access News print issue said that fourteen independent candidates had been elected to state legislatures on November 4, 2014, but that should have said fifteen were elected.
Under Top Two in California, I believe we’re going to start seeing more Independents and third parties elected as the United Coalition starts gaining traction.
That’s because Top Two guarantees that three candidates can attain 33.33% of the total votes, and the first two to break that threshold with one vote (33.33% plus one vote) is guaranteed to win.
So any candidate from any party can be part of a three-way choice which will offer an opportunity for voters to escape the two-party system should they wish.
When independents, third parties and major parties candidates start acting to unite with more voters then that candidate will have an equal chance to break the tie.
As more names enter the race, the threshold gets lowered more and more. United Coalition candidate Ron Gold [Republican] for Attorney General for example, won the Top Two primary in 2014 with 12.3%.
The 9th USA Parliament has been uniting people for twenty consecutive years under pure American proportional representation (PR) and it works fine:
http://www.usparliament.org/