Green Party Watch

The Green Party has a feed posting election results as they find them, but we will try to assemble election results here as well.

Almost 40% for Josephine Okot in Portland School Board race
Two Green victories in Fairfax, CA, and a Green win in Federal Heights, Colorado!
Beryl Baker brought in 22 thousand votes running for Tucson City Council for 34%, a nice showing!

Arizona
Mary DeCamp, Tucson Mayor – 3,617 (4.77%) 3rd Place
Beryl Baker, Tucson City Council Ward 1 – 22,301 (34.04%) 2nd Place

California:

Larry Bragman, Fairfax Town Council – ELECTED - 1408 (43.88%) 1st Place
Ryan O’Neil, Fairfax Town Council – ELECTED - 1342 (41.82%) 2nd Place
Terry Baum, San Francisco Mayor – 1214 (0.86%) 11th Place (Unofficial, using Ranked Choice Voting, winner not yet determined)

Colorado:

Tanya Ishikawa, Federal Heights City Council – ELECTED - 206 (67.5%) 1st Place

Connecticut:

Ben Holden, Canton Selectman – 140 (3.1%) 7th Place
Dan Delventhal, Fairfield Constable – 791 (%) 9th of 9
Daphne Dixon, Fairfield Zoning Board of Appeals Alternate – 527 (%) 3rd of 3
David Bedell, New Canaan Constable
Hector Lopez, New Canaan Constable
Joan Sullivan, New London City Council – 1,014 (%) 12th of 16
Jessica Cartagena, New London City Council – 1,041 (%) 10th of 16
Ken Hansen, New London City Council – 752 (%) 15th of 16
Ronna Stuller, New London Board of Education – 1,175 (%) 11th of 17
Myrna Martinez, New London Board of Education – 1,184 (%) 10th of 17
Leif Smith, Redding Constable – ELECTED - 447 (8.6%) 6th of 6 for 6 seats
Mary Farrell, Stamford Constable – 1,120 (%) 9th of 11
Rolf Maurer, Stamford Constable – 817 (%) 10th of 11
Ruthann Johnson, Middletown Common Council – not elected

Florida:
Javier Del Sol, Lake Worth Mayor – not elected

Maine:

David Marshall, Portland Mayor – 1,516 (7.74%) 4th of 15 – IRV election, no official winner yet
John Eder, Portland Mayor – 271 (1.38%) 12th of 15 – IRV election, no official winner yet
Jack Safarik, Portland Water District – 4,351 (32.32%) – 2nd of 2
Josephine Okot, School Board at Large – 5,747 (39.68%) – 2nd of 2

Maryland:
Bill Barry, Baltimore City Council District 3 – 622 (16.81%) 2nd of 3
Douglas Armstrong, Baltimore City Council District 14 – 392 (10.31%) 2nd of 2
Christine Nagle, College Park City Council District 1 – 296 – Currently second out of 3 running for 2 seats. Absentee ballots not counted yet, and the margin is too close to call between all three candidates…

Massachusetts:
Rick Purcell, Holyoke City Council – 587 (34.87%) – 2nd of 2
Tim Beaudoin, Worcester City Council – not elected

Minnesota:
Devin Miller, St. Paul School Board – 4,900 (5.34%) 9th of 10
Johnny Howard, St. Paul City Council Ward 1 – 1,010 (28%) 2nd of 4
Jim Ivey, St. Paul City Council Ward 2 – 1,435 (27%) 2nd of 5 – IRV Election, no winner yet, and Jim Ivey has a LOT of second choice ballots!
Bee K. Xiong, St. Paul City Council Ward 6 – 1,397 (42%) 2nd of 2

New Jersey:
Michael Spector, New Jersey General Assembly, District 26 – 1,090 (2%) 5th of 5
Steven Welzer, New Jersey General Assembly, District 14 – 1,049 (1%) 5th of 5

New York:
Alex White, Rochester City Council South District – 601 (11.6%) 3rd of 3
Carol Omalyev, Smithville Town Board – 96 (13.73%) 4th of 5
Cecile Lawrence, Tioga County Legislature District 3 – 194 (35.66%) 2nd of 2
Cesar Malaga, Suffolk County Legislature District 14 – 264 (2.43%) 3rd of 3
Chris Edes, Monroe County Legislature District 24 – 453 (11.03%) 2nd of 2
Christine Shahin, Herkimer County Legislature District 17 – 252 (31.98%) 2nd of 2
Howie Hawkins, Syracuse Common Council – 1,072 (48.15%) 2nd of 2
Joe Duffy, Hornell Alderman – 51 (33.55%) 2nd of 2
Joe Gajdosz, Town of Evans Council – 356 (7.41%) 3rd of 3
John Roszman, Town of Evans Supervisor – 192 (4.35%) 3rd of 3
Mike Bernhard, Afton Town Board –
Robert Clemente, Utica Mayor – 211 (2.14%) 5th of 5
Roger McGill, Cheektowaga Town Council – 1,257 (2%) 7th of 7
Stacie Porr Edick, Preston Town Council –
Steve Greenfield, Ulster County Legislature District 10 –
Suzanne Montalalou, Erie County Legislature District 2 – 1,294 (12%) 2nd of 2
Vinessa Buckland, Chili Town Board – Fusion candidate/Democrat
Mary Adams, Rochester Commission of Schools – fusion candidate, Democrat. Elected, but technically not a Green.
Wallace Smith, Rochester Commission of Schools – 2,486 (3.65%)
Howard Eagle, Rochester Commission of Schools – 2,520 (3.7%)

This 2010 Summary was compiled and distributed by Brent McMillan, Executive Director of the Green Party (US).

Summary of Green Party Wins for 2010 (rev. 11/30/10)

Total candidates running: 339 (of which 300 ran on 11/2/10)

Wins for the year: 34 (of which 19 were on 11/2/10)

Win rate for the year: 10.1%

Partisan wins: 2 (both were new officeholders)

Incumbents re-elected: 26
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Upon request this is further breakdown of the top 19 State House (Assembly) Green Party returns, broken into those races where there were only two candidates on the ballot (13) and those where there were more than two (6). Included is the vote (percentage) totals for each of the candidates on the ballot. This is only evaluating those Green Party candidates that finished with over 15% of the vote in a race for State Assembly or State House.

Notable is that in the multi-candidate races, Greens finished ahead of the Republicans in four of those races, and was just a few percentage points behind the Republican in a fifth race. The candidate that came closest to winning was Fred Horch in Maine, who finished just 137 votes (3.7%) behind the top vote getter. The closest 2-way race was in Massachusetts where Mark Miller lost by 981 votes (10%).

Three (or more) candidate races:
State Representative District 66, ME
Alexander Cornell du Houx (D) 1,409 (38.08%)
K. Frederick Horch (G) 1,272 (34.38%)
Jonathan Crimmins (R) 1,019 (27.54%)

State Assembly District 77, WI
Brett Hulsey (D) 12,138 (49%)
Ben Manski (G) 7,761 (31%)
David Redick (R) 4,666 (19%)
David Olson (C) 372 (1%)

State Representative District 120, ME
Diane Russell (D) 1,686 (55.39%)
Anna Trevorrow (G) 945 (31.04%)
Thomas Elliman (R) 413 (13.57%)

State Representative District 115, ME
Stephen Lovejoy (D) 1,926 (53.69%)
Seth Berner (G) 1,002 (27.93%)
Chase Martin (R) 659 (18.37%)

State Representative District 194, PA
Pamela Delissio (D) 12,015 (61.4%)
Timothy Downey (R) 4,007 (20.5%)
Hugh Giordano (G) 3,547 (18.1%)

State Representative District 21, AZ
Tom Forese (R) 42,523 (42.45%)
J.D. Mesnard (R) 39,891 (39.83%)
Linda Macias (G) 17,181 (17.15%)

Two candidate races:

State Representative 3rd Berkshire District, MA
Christoper Speranzo (D) 5,440 (55%)
Mark Miller (G) 4,459 (45%)

State Representative District 39, IL
Toni Berrios (D) 10,299 (65.4%)
Jeremy Karpen (G) 5,446 (34.6%)

State Representative District 115, IL
Mike Bost (R) 21,643 (75.1%)
Charlie Howe (G) 7,178 (24.9%)

State Representative District 11, MT
Janna Taylor (R) 3,160 (74.69%)
Cheryl Wolfe (G) 1,052 (24.86%)

State Representative District 90, AR
David Branscum (R) 7,253 (75.18%)
Mark Swaney (D) 2,394 (24.82%)

State Assembly District 39, CA
Felipe Fuentes (D) 41,056 (78.4%)
Jack Lindblad (G) 11,322 (21.6%)

State Representative District 67, CT
Clark Chapin (R) 5,349 (79.66%)
Nicholas Payne (G) 1,366 (20.34%)

State Representative District 183, PA
Julie Harhart (R) 14,709 (80.9%)
Rex D’Agostino (G) 3,482 (19.1%)

House of Delegates District 11, WV
Bob Ashley (R) 3,262 (81%)
Mark Myers (M/G) 768 (19%)

State Assembly District 51, CA
Steven Bradford (D) 65,388 (81.8%)
Cynthia Santiago (G) 14,625 (18.2%)

State Representative 4th Berkshire District, MA
Smitty Pignatelli (D) 11,269 (82%)
Lee Scott Laugenour (G) 2,483 (18%)

State Representative District 105, IL
Shane Cultra (R) 25,886 (82.2%)
Vince LaMie (G) 5,603 (17.8%)

State Representative District 29, IL
Thaddeus Jones (D) 24,194 (82.9%)
Kenneth Williams (G) 4,993 (17.1%)

53 Green Party candidates appeared on the ballot this November, one more in Washington was on the ballot in the Primary, and 4 more ran write-in campaigns. Of the 54 ballot candidates, results ranged from 0.16% to 8.32%, from 157 votes to 17,545 votes. The average percentage of the vote of all 54 races was 2.21% from 225,000 votes.

This is a decline from 2008, when the Green Party’s 59 US House of Representatives brought in over 500,000 votes, averaging 3.47% of the total vote. 2008 was unique in that the Arkansas Green Party had three candidates for three House seats that were unopposed by one of the corporate parties, resulting in finishing with 64,000 votes (23.33%), 58,000 votes (21.52%) and 31,000 votes (13.76%). There were some other very strong finishes in 2008 by Carol Wolman in California, Titus North in Pennsylvania, and Jason Wallace in Illinois.

In fact the 2010 results more closely resemble 2006, another mid-term election, when the Green Party fielded 43 candidates, netted 253,000 votes, averaging 2.74%.

One of the better finishes in 2010 came in California from Ben Emery, who finished with 17,545 votes (7.25%). Emery raised over $10,000 in individual contributions and ran hundreds of commercials on television. With a fraction of the budget of his Democratic and Republican opponents Emery worked it to get the 17,000 votes that he finished with.

The other four stronger finishes were in Illinois, where the 11 Greens running for the US House averaged two points better (4.31%) than other Greens running for the House (2.21%), and slightly better than they did in 2008 (4.00%). Robert Burns running in Illinois’ 4th Congressional District made up of two slithering slices of Chicago’s western suburbs, finished with 6,656 votes, 8.32% of the vote in a lower turnout district. This result turned out to be the highest percentage of any Green running for US House in 2010. Congrats, Robert! Another good finish was in the neighboring 3rd Congressional District where Laurel Lambert Schmidt finished with 9,864 votes (6.03%). Both Schmidt and Burns were first time candidates who improved the Green Party’s results in suburban Chicago districts.

Sheldon Schafer in his second run for US House in the larger Western Illinois 18th Congressional District improved both his vote totals and percentage of the vote from 2008, finishing with 11,244 votes (5.09%) compared to 9,725 (3.17%) in 2008.

But special props go to Bill Scheurer, a first time candidate running in the 8th Congressional District. Although his results weren’t outstanding (6,449 votes, 3.31% of the vote), Bill wins the honorable “Nader Award” (something we just made up), given out to any candidate that can inspire the media to accuse them of “spoiling” a race. Here is Eric Zorn in his own words:

The way I look at the numbers, the only thing the Green Party may have accomplished in the 2010 elections in Illinois is to help a tea-party-backed candidate win a seat in Congress. Other than that, nothing.

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Bill Scheurer, seems to have drawn enough votes — about 6,500 — to hand a victory to tea party Republican Joe Walsh in the northwest suburban 8th District.

In fairness to the author, at least he sought and printed a reaction from Illinois Green Party chair Phil Huckelberry, who said: “Everyone in the party I’ve talked to can’t stand Melissa Bean and would never vote for her,” said Illinois Green Party chairman Phil Huckleberry when I asked him about this. “Any argument that says otherwise is silly.”

To view a Google Docs Spreadsheet of Green Party US House of Representatives Candidates and their election results click here. Note it also includes results from 2008 and 2006 but no further back than that.

Illinois Green Party candidate for Governor Rich Whitney led all Green Party gubernatorial candidates in 2010 in total votes and percentage of the total vote, with 99,625 votes, 2.70% of the vote.

Only three times in history have Green Party gubernatorial candidates exceeded 10% of the vote. The first was in 1994, when Roberto Mondragon, who finished with 10.4% of the vote in New Mexico. The other two were in 2006, when Pat LaMarche finished with 10% in Maine and Rich Whitney finished with 11% in Illinois. (See a spreadsheet of historical Green Party gubernatorial candidates here).

This year was definitely a downturn for Greens running for Governor.  In Illinois the votes for the Green Party candidate were 1/3 of the 2006 votes. In California the Greens got half what they did in 2006. Massachusetts went from 42K to 32K, Maryland went from 13K to 11K, Tennessee went from 2,700 to 1,800, Minnesota went from 10K to 6K, and Nevada went from 6K to 4K. However the Green vote went up in Ohio (from 38K to 56K), New York (42K to 58K), Michigan (20K to 21K), and Arkansas (12K to 14K), from which you can cast your own theories.

In the post election chatter, some have questioned why Greens bother to waste the resources to run for Governor when the odds are so stacked against them. In some states, ballot access and/or recognition as a political party is based on gubernatorial returns. In other states, it has no impact at all. I would argue that running a green party candidate for a high profile state-wide race has several benefits.

First, it has the potential to influence the dialogue by putting Green Solutions out front next to the partisan, safe, and centrist positions of the two corporate political parties. It forces Democrats to ask why their candidate isn’t supporting what the Green Party candidate is supporting.

Second, it has the potential to raise awareness of the Green Party statewide. It has been noted that many voters have not heard of the Green Party. If a good Green Party candidate in a high profile race actually gets some media and equal debate access, s/he has the potential to get the Green Party message in front of tens of thousands of voters, and some of them might like that message enough to join the party or even run for office themselves.

Third, it gives all the Greens out there someone to vote for. There were over 400,000 votes cast this year for Green Party candidates for Governor. Think about it this way. There are 400,000 voters in the United States that would prefer a Green Party Candidate running their state than a Democrat or a Republican. That’s a lot of people. If we don’t run candidates, those voters are going to have to hold their nose and vote for another party’s candidate. The Green Party owes it to those Greens in America to give them a candidate to vote for.

Finally, political parties run candidates. That is how they are defined. If the Green Party doesn’t run candidates, they aren’t a political party. We should personally thank all of the Green Party candidates who ran for office this year, they gave the voters something Green to vote for.

2010 Green Gubernatorial Results

• Rich Whitney (IL) – 99,625 (2.70%)
• Jim Lendall (AR) – 14,525 (1.88%)
• Dennis Spisak (OH) – 56,734 (1.51%)
• Morgan Reeves (SC) – 19,807 (1.51%)
• Jill Stein (MA) – 32,816 (1.43%)
• Howie Hawkins (NY) – 58,123 (1.37%)
• Laura Wells (CA) – 92,892 (1.22%)
• Harley Mikkelson (MI) – 21,312 (0.66%)
• Maria Allwine (MD) – 11,022 (0.64%)
• David Curtis (NV) – 4,437 (0.62%)
• Deb Shafto (TX) – 19,475 (0.39%)
• Farheen Hakim (MN) – 6,188 (0.29%)
• Howard Switzer (TN) – 1,886 (0.12%)

The eleven Green Party candidates on the ballot this year for US Senate netted a combined half million votes. The 510,000 votes is the highest combined total for Green Party Senate candidates since 2000, when Medea Benjamin won 326,000 votes for US Senate in California and Vance Hansen picked up over 100,000 in Arizona.

The 2010 results were clearly led by Tom Clements in South Carolina, whose 118,000 votes gave him 9.37% of the total. Clements had the most votes and the highest percent of the vote of all Green Party US Senate candidates in 2010.

LeAlan Jones was the second big finisher with 116,000 votes, 3.19% of the total. Interestingly, in 2008, Kathleen Cummings running for US Senate in Illinois finished with 115,621 votes for 2.56% of the total.

All (unofficial) results for 2010 Green Party US Senate candidates:

• Tom Clements (SC) – 118,952 (9.37%)
• LeAlan Jones (IL) – 116,685 (3.19%)
• Bob Kinsey (CO) – 36,323 (2.17%)
• Jim Brewer (HI) – 7,756 (2.10%)
• Jesse Johnson (WV) – 10,048 (1.91%)
• John Gray (AR) – 14,402 (1.87%)
• Jerry Joslyn (AZ) – 20,235 (1.43%)
• Duane Roberts (CA) – 93,178 (1.19%)
• Kenniss Henry (MD) – 19,324 (1.13%)
• Colia Clark (NY) – 39,536 (0.97%)
• Cecile Lawrence (NY) – 33,768 (0.83%)

Total: 510,207 votes (1.86%)

These are preliminary election results, subject to change.

For a spreadsheet that lists historical election results for Green Party US Senate candidates, click here. Much appreciation is shown toward Green Party Executive Director Brent McMillan, whose election database is my primary source for historical election information for Green Party candidates.

Green Party (US) release:

• Green Party beachhead in California: Greens take a majority of seats on Fairfax Town Council; see Preliminary Election Day results for Greens at http://www.gp.org/elections/2009-videos/november-results.html

• ‘Send a Green to Congress in 2010′: Greens will reach out to voters who are disappointed by Obama and Dems but haven’t forgotten eight years of GOP misrule under Bush

WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party made a strong showing in city council races across the US on Election Day, November 3, 2009.

Greens now make up a majority on the Fairfax Town Council in Marin County, California, where first-place finisher Pam Hartwell-Herrero joins incumbents Lew Tremaine and Larry Bragman. Fairfax becomes the fourth municipality in the US to have a Green majority, following Arcata and Sebastopol in California and New Paltz in New York.

A list of Election Day highlights follows below. For a comprehensive report on Green results for Election Day 2009, visit the Green Party’s web site (http://www.gp.org/elections/2009-videos/november-results.html). More results will be listed on the page as they come in.

“The strong showing of Green candidates in 2009, especially among municipal candidates where Greens won 35% of all such races entered, shows that voters believe that Greens not only have good ideas but can govern effectively. When voters are given a positive alternative to the status quo, they will vote for it.” said Green Party co-chair Mike Feinstein, a former Mayor and City Councilmember in Santa Monica, California. (35% is based on 47 Green victories out of 133 municipal races in 2009.)

The Green Party is now turning its attention to the 2010 election.

“Our slogan for the midterm election will be ‘Send a Green to Congress in 2010.’ The Green Party will reach out to voters who’ve been frustrated by the broken promises of change from the Obama White House and Democratic Congress but haven’t forgotten eight years of disastrous Republican misrule under George W. Bush. We’re reminding Americans that they have more than two choices on Election Day. A few Greens in Congress will change the whole dynamic of US politics, ending the narrow corporate-approved pro-war range of two-party ideas,” said Ron Hardy, chair of the Green Party’s Senatorial Campaign Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/gscc/index.shtml).

• ELECTION DAY HIGHLIGHTS
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Keep an eye open to this space for election results as we find them. If you have results to report, please put them into the comments.

Jim Harvey and Paul Perkovic ran for re-election to the Montara Water and Sanitary District, San Mateo County, CA. They were unopposed. Thanks to Brent McMillan for this news.

In Virginia, Josh Ruebner in a three way race for House of Delegates in the 47th District came in third in a three way race, with 810 votes with 21 of 22 precincts reporting for a 4.15% showing. In his race for Arlington County Board, John Reeder pulled 31.42% in a two way race with 13,663 votes. 51 of 52 precincts reporting.

In Ohio, with only a few precincts reporting, Anitra Brockman is pulling 2% of the vote in a 19 way race for 9 seats on the Cincinati City Council, with 2068 votes cast for her. Jason Happ has doubled that percentage, with a 4% showing so far in his race for School Board. 2491 people pulled the lever for him. In Mill Township Vaughn Stull is placing third, but only two of three precincts have reported. He sits at 109 votes out of a total of 690 so far. Meanwhile, in Struthers, GPW writer Dennis Spisak feels cautiously optimistic. With 48 precincts still to report, he is in third place in a four way race for three seats on the School Board. He’s currently 134 votes ahead of the fourth place candidate.

In Florida, Javier Del Sol won the under 12 vote. Sadly, he did not win enough votes from the over 18 crowd. Placing fourth in a field of six, Del Sol won 12.26%. No vote total has been found as yet.

Green Party National Political Director Brent McMillan sent Green Party Watch a full range of reports on election day results. GPW is grateful for the reports.

Bruce Samuels won his race for Oak Park (IL) Village Library Board. He finished first of five candidates for four seats with 3,747 votes or 21.51%. This is a four year term.

Bradley Kairis finished eleventh of eleven candidates for four seats for Elgin Township Trustee, Kane County, IL with 588 votes or 1.91%.

Dan Kairis finished third of three candidates for one seat for Elgin Township Supervisor, Kane County, IL with 631 votes or 8.19%.

Julie Schmitt finished ninth of eleven candidates for four seats for Elgin Township Trustee, Kane County, IL with 917 votes or 2.97%.

Dan Todd finished tenth of eleven candidates for four seats for Elgin Township Trustee, Kane County, IL with 716 votes or 2.32%.

Joshua Rodgers finished second of two candidates for Mayor of Robinson, Crawford County, IL with 221 votes or 17.82%.

Paul Jasinevicius finished second of two candidates for one seat for Rich Township Highway Commissioner, Cook County, IL with 2,015 votes or 23.76%.

Paul Jasinevicius finished seventh of nine candidates for four seats on the Rich 227 High School Board, Cook County, IL.

Mike Drennan finished third of three candidates for Evanston City Council Ward 9, Cook County, IL with 154 votes or 12.82%.

Valeria “Val” Densmore finished second of two candidates for one seat for Rich Township Clerk, Cook County, IL with 2,621 votes or 31.47%

Jesus Correa VII finished fourth of four candidates with 394 votes or 1.77% for Mayor of Rockford, IL. (Winnebago County)

Paula Bradshaw finished fifth of five candidates for four seats with 640 votes or 14.65%. She ran for Carbondale Township Trustee, Jackson County, IL.

Steve Alesch finished sixth of six candidates for four seats with 1,405 votes or 8.94%. Steve ran for Winfield Township Trustee, Dupage County, IL.

In a press release from GPUS today a number of victories on election day are applauded.

In Congressional races, GPUS recognizes Arkansas specifically for Rebekah Kennedy’s record 20.59% return in her U.S. Senate race, and Arkansas Green Deb McFarland’s 23.33% return running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Combined with Richard Carroll’s election to the Arkansas State Legislature…

Arkansas Greens showed the most dramatic electoral growth of any state Green Party.

Overall, Green Party candidates for the U.S. House brought in 568,791 votes in 2008 not including Malik Rahim’s Dec. 6 election, more than doubling the number of votes U.S. House candidates received in 2006 (252,550). Also recognized is the record number of candidates running in Illinois (54), and the success of the West Virginia Mountain Party in their first election cycle in affiliation with the Green Party. Jesse Johnson earned 4.5% of the vote in his run for Governor of West Virginia, the highest percent for an “alternative political party” candidate in West Virginia since the Socialists in 1912.

More…
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Green Party Political Director Brent McMillan is the guest on today’s Green Party Watch Radio. He will be discussing the election results of November 4th, the coming election in New Orleans, and other things as they come up.

Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are the Green Party candidates for President and Vice President.

They are on the ballot in 32 states, and are official write-in candidates in an additional 17 states.

We will post election results by state for McKinney and Clemente here when they come in.

Comments welcome, especially reports of or links to election results.

Last Update: 12:56 AM CST
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There are 7 Green Party candidates running for U.S. Senate and 69 Green Party candidates running for U.S. House of Representatives across the nation.

We will post election results for these races here as they come in.

Comments welcome, especially reports of, and links to, election results.

Last Update: Nov. 6, 2008
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There are many Green Party candidates on the ballot for local offices, from County Board, City Council, School Board, and others.

We will post election results for those races as we learn of them here.

Comments welcome, especially election results and updates for Green Party candidates for local offices.

We can assume that most media outlets won’t be covering Green Party results around the nation, that’s a given. However there are a number of ways on election night that Greens and green sympathizers can try to keep up with election results around the nation and chat with others about what is happening.

Of course your best bet is to stop by Green Party Watch over and over, where we will have several open thread posts for comments and several posts that we will try to keep updated throughout the evening with the latest (unofficial) results. I’m going to try not to drink too much so I can stay up late looking up obscure race results from State Election Board sites.

Meanwhile, Gregg Jocoy will be on Green Party Watch Radio (see link on the right side bar) from 7-9 p.m. EST and again 10 p.m. – midnight EST reporting results and hey, guess what? You can call in!

OnTheWilderside.com will be live blogging election night and invites folks over to party:

Hope you will join us here at onthewilderside.com on Tuesday, Nov 4th, starting at 8pm and ending at 12 midnight or when the Presidential results are announced, whichever comes first. We are going to have live blogging of “Alternative Election Night Coverage“. Kimberly Wilder will be at the helm. Ian Wilder will chime in after the local meeting he has to attend. Hope to gather e-mail comments from activist colleagues and bloggers, in addition to a scan of some of our favorite sources: Green Party Watch, Independent Political Report, Ballot Access News, Third Party Watch, News for Greens, Greens for Greens and just, plain old “Google News”. Since we will be on the ground, and armed with poll watching certificates, we will probably have local numbers and anecdotes to report.

Green Change is hosting an Election Night Blogging Party, with 20 featured races, places to comment and report results, post pictures, etc., and a sweet chat room (if you can find it) where you can cheer and curse with others.

Our election night party will also feature:
* A live chat room with Greens from around the world
* Breaking results from top Green races around the country
* Discussion of 2008 results as well as future strategy
* Pictures, videos, music and more

Sign up to join our online election night party

So don’t feel all alone on Election night – hook up with others and hope for some celebrations!

UPDATE: Another option for Election Night is from Secret Frequency, podcasts with Steve Kramer. I apologize for forgetting to mention this before!