California Democrats Face Slight Possibility of Losing U.S. House Race in Sixth District Due to Top-Two System

Here are the results so far in California’s U.S. House race, Sixth District. Currently the top two candidates are the incumbent, Kevin Kiley, who has been a Republican but who is now an independent; and the sole Republican in the race, Michael Stansfield. The other five primary candidates are all Democrats.

Because California is very slow to count votes, and because generally as more votes are counted, Democrats do better than they had been doing initially, there is considerable doubt that these results will remain unchanged. UPDATE: the vote count as of Saturday, June 6, now shows that Michael Stansfield is no longer in second place; Democrat Richard Pan is now in second place.

Two of the Three Independent Petitions are Challenged in Illinois Fourth U.S. House District

As reported earlier, three independent candidates for U.S. House in the Illinois Fourth District filed petitions last month to be on the November ballot. The requirement is 10,816 signatures. The challenge period closed on June 2. No one challenged the petition of Chris Getty. The other two were challenged. Mayra Macias had submitted 19,570 signatures, and Byron Sigcho Lopez had submitted 22,788.

Montana is the Only State That Held a Primary on June 2 for Any Minor Party

Five states held partisan primaries one June 2, but only Montana held a primary for a party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties (also, California held a top-two primary that had some minor party candidates running, but no party had nominees).

Here is a link to the Montana primary results, which includes the Libertarian Party’s U.S. Senate primary. Kyle Austin narrowly defeated Tom Jandron.

Here is a story from last month about the Libertarian Senate contest.