Here is a news story about the Forward Party of New Mexico.
Also, here is a news story about the Horry County, South Carolina, election results for County Council. The Forward Party had three nominees in those races, but they didn’t win.
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Arkansas Libertarian gubernatorial nominee Colt Shelby carried Franklin County, his home county. The unofficial results are: Shelby 2,341 (45.73%); Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Republican, 2,117 (41.36%); Fred Love, Democrat, 661 (12.91%).
Franklin County is in northwest Arkansas and has a population of 17,000. Thanks to Zooey Hill for this news.
The Indianapolis Star has this story about the uncertainty over whether the Libertarian Party retained its spot on the ballot.
The Vermont Progressive Party elected one State Senator and six State House members. The Senator is Tanya Vyhovsky, in the Chittenden-Central District.
The six Representatives are: Adam Franz (Chittenden 14); Brian Cima (Chittenden 15); Trang Do and Jeffrey Peterson (Chittenden 16); Matt Gile (Chittenden 21); and Emery Mattheis (Orange-Washington-Addison).
All the winners were on the ballot as “Progressive/Democratic”. Vermont permits fusion, and the ballot lists the candidate’s membership with the first-named party, and then the name of any party that also nominated them.
In 2024 the Progressives had elected five members to the legislature.
Pa’ele Kiakoma, the Green Party nominee for State House, Hawaii 14th district, has been elected. He was in a 3-way race. The results: Green 2,991; Democratic 2,884; Republican 1,236. UPDATE: see this story.
This is the first time the Green Party has won a legislative seat since 2012, when Fred Smith was elected to an Arkansas legislative seat. It is also the first time any party other than the Democratic or Republican Parties has been elected to the Hawaii legislature. And that covers both the state legislature and the territorial legislature.
The 14th district is on Maui. The incumbent, Elle Cochran, had been elected in 2022 and 2024 as a Democrat, but she had switched to the Republican Party in early 2026 and had become the Republican nominee.
Here is a link to the election returns.
Here is a link to Kiakoma’s website.