on July 31, a New Jersey state appeals court removed Lana Leguia from the ballot.  She is the Libertarian nominee for U.S. House, 7th district.  She only has enough valid signatures of the ones collected by out-of-state circulators are included.  Although the New Jersey law banning out-of-state circulators was struck down in 2021, that case concerned petitions for primary candidates, not general election candidates.  The Secretary of State had put Leguia on the ballot but the State Court of Appeals ruling says the Secretary of State didn’t have the authority to set aside the circulator ban for general election petitions.  See this story.  The decision is stayed so that Leguia has time to appeal to the State Supreme Court.

Here is the 2026 list of candidates for West Virginia federal and state offices.  The only minor party nominees for Congress are both from the Constitution Party:  S. Marshall Wilson for U.S. Senate, and Belinda Fox-Spencer for US House, First District.  The Libertarian and Mountain Parties are also ballot-qualified, but they didn’t run anyone this year for congress.

There are no statewide state offices up this year in West Virginia.

On July 31, Illinois independent U.S. House candidate Byron Sigcho-Lopez filed a federal lawsuit against the Illinois ballot access laws that pertain to minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House.  The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Franklin Valderrama, a Trump appointee.

Here is the Complaint.