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Dick Randolph, first Libertarian elected to a state legislature Marshall Burt, first Libertarian elected to a state legislature since the early 2000s. As of 2024, 22 Libertarians have held state-level office. However, only 10 were elected or re-elected as Libertarians.
In addition to the national Libertarian Party in the United States, 50 states operate a state Libertarian Party, plus one representing the District of Columbia. List of parties [ edit ]
As a term, libertarian or economic libertarian has the most colloquial acceptance to describe a member of the movement, with the latter term being based on both the ideology's primacy of economics and its distinction from libertarians of the New Left. [54] According to Ian Adams: "Ideologically, all US parties are liberal and always have been.
The most recent Libertarian candidate elected to a state legislature was Marshall Burt to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 2020. The party elected multiple legislators in New Hampshire during the 1990s as well as in Alaska during the 1980s. [104]
The other Libertarian candidates in state legislative races this year are Christian Scott Ehmling, who is running in House District 54 in the Artesia area, and Chris Luchini and Phillip Michael ...
Not all states allow the public to access voter registration data. Therefore, voter registration data should not be taken as the correct value and should be viewed as an underestimate. The abbreviations given come from state ballots used in the most recent elections. [1] Not all political parties have abbreviations.
In April 2020, Representative Justin Amash from Michigan's 3rd congressional district became the first Libertarian member of Congress, after switching from the Republican Party and spending time as an independent. However, Amash has never been elected as a Libertarian, and did not seek re-election in 2020. [92]
Liberal Party USA (formerly known as Association of Liberty State Parties) is a classical liberal political party in the United States that is affiliated with multiple state parties. In 2022, the state libertarian parties from Massachusetts and New Mexico disaffiliated from the national United States Libertarian Party and affiliated with one ...