The Arizona No Labels Party lawsuit over whether it may change its name is moving ahead. See this story.
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Jennifer Brunner, the only Democrat on the Ohio Supreme Court, was reelected last week. Ironically, she had lost her lawsuit last month to remove the word “Democrat” from the ballot next to her name. She had filed the lawsuit in federal court in 2023.
Also last week, the Democratic nominee for another of the seats on the State Supreme Court won her election, defeating an incumbent Republican justice.
Here is a news story about the Indiana Libertarian Party and its uncertain ongoing qualified status.
Tara McCoy, the Constitution Party nominee for West Virginia House, 93rd district, polled 43.0% in a two-person race against a Republican. This is the highest percentage for a Constitution Party nominee for a partisan state office since 2006, when Rick Jore was elected to the Montana House.
It is also the highest percentage for a minor party nominee for federal or state partisan office in West Virginia since 1906, when a Prohibition Party nominee was elected to the State House.
At last week’s election, it appears that at least twelve independent candidates were elected to state legislatures. This does not count the write-in candidate elected in Tennessee, because he is a Democrat, even though he wasn’t the Democratic nominee.
The two 2026 independents elected to State Senates are: David Wolk in Vermont’s Rutland County district, and Bryce Edgmon in Alaska’s district S.
The ten 2026 independents elected to State Houses are: Alaska: Rebecca Himschoot (2nd) and Alyse Galvin (14th); Maine, Shawn Saindon (44th), Clinton Collamore (45th), and Sharon Frost (58th); Massachusetts: Susannah Whipps (2nd Franklin County district); Rhode Island, Allan Fung (15th); South Dakota, Evangeline Poor Bear (27th); and Utah, Patrick Belmont (3rd) and Sergio Sotelo (38th).
In 2024, twelve independents were elected to state legislatures.