Libertarian Party Gubernatorial Election Results

2010-2019

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Alabama	Loretta Lynn Nall 4 0.00%
Alaska	Billy Toien 2,682 1.05%				Carolyn Clift 8,985 3.21%				William Toien 5,402 1.91%
Arizona	Barry Hess 38,722 2.24%				Barry Hess 57,337 3.80%
Arkansas					Frank Gilbert 16,319 1.92%				Mark West 25,885 2.90%
California	Dale Ogden 150,895 1.49%
Colorado	Jaimes Brown 13,365 0.75%				Matthew Hess 39,590 1.94%				Scott Helker 69,519 2.75%
Connecticut									Rodney Hanscomb 6,086 0.43%
Delaware			Jesse McVay 3,668 0.92%				Sean Goward 4,577 1.07%
Florida					Adrian Wyllie 223,356 3.75%
Georgia	John H Monds 103,194 4.01%				Andrew Hunt 60,185 2.36%				Ted Metz 37,235 0.95%
Hawaii					Jeff Davis 6,395 1.75%
Idaho	Ted Dunlap 5,867 1.30%				John Bujak 17,884 4.07%				Bev Boeck 6,551 1.08%
Illinois	Lex Green 34,681 0.93%				Chad Grimm 121,534 3.35%				Kash Jackson 109,518 2.41%
Indiana			Rupert Boneham 101,868 4.00%				Rex Bell 87,025 3.20%
Iowa	Eric Cooper 14,398 1.28%				Lee Hieb 20,321 1.80%				Jake Porter 21,426 1.61%
Kansas	Andrew P Gray 22,460 2.68%				Keen Umbehr 35,206 4.05%				Jeff Caldwell 20,020 1.90%
Kentucky										John Hicks
Louisiana		Scott Lewis 12,528 1.22%
Maine
Maryland	Susan J Gaztanaga 14,137 0.76%				Shawn Quinn 25,382 1.46%				Shawn Quinn 13,241 0.57%
Massachusetts
Michigan	Kenneth Proctor 22,390 0.69%				Mary Buzuma 35,723 1.13%				Bill Gelineau 56,606 1.33%
Minnesota					Chris Holbrook 18,082 0.92%				Josh Welter 26,735 1.03%
Mississippi
Missouri			Jim Higgins 73,509 2.69%				Cisse Spragins 41,154 1.47%
Montana			Ron Vandevender 18,160 3.76%				Ted Dunlap 17,312 3.40%
Nebraska					Mark Elworth 19,001 3.52%
Nevada	Arthur Forrest Lampitt 4,672 0.65%								Jared Lord 8,640 0.89%
New Hampshire	John J Babiarz 10,089 2.21%		John J Babiarz 19,251 2.77%				Max Abramson 31,243 4.31%		Jilletta Jarvis 8,197 1.43%
New Jersey				Kenneth R Kaplan 12,155 0.57%				Peter Rorhman 10,531 0.49%
New Mexico
New York	Warren Redlich 48,359 1.04%				Michael McDermott 16,769 0.44%				Larry Sharpe 95,033 1.56%%
North Carolina			Barbara Howe 94,652 2.12%				Lon Cecil 102,977 2.19%
North Dakota			Roland Riemers (I) 2,616 0.82%				Marty Riske 13,230 3.90%
Ohio	Ken Matesz 92,116 2.39%								Travis Irvine 79,985 1.81%
Oklahoma					Richard Prawdzienski (I) 9,125 1.11%				Chris Powell 40,833 3.44%
Oregon	Wes Wagner 19,048 1.31%				Paul Grad 21,903 1.49%		James Foster 45,191 2.32%		Nick Chen 28,927 1.55%
Pennsylvania									Ken Krawchuk 49,229 0.98%
Rhode Island
South Carolina					Steve French 15,438 1.24%
South Dakota									Kurt Evans 4,848 1.43%
Tennessee					Daniel Lewis 8,321 0.61%				14 Candidates 19,185 0.86%
Texas	Kathie Glass 109,211 2.19%				Kathie Glass 66,543 1.41%				Mark Jay Tippetts 140,632 1.69%
Utah	W. Andrew McCullough 12,871 2.00%		Ken Larsen 22,611 2.25%				Brian Kamerath 34,827 3.10%
Vermont					Dan Feliciano 8,428 4.38%
Virginia				Robert Sarvis 146,084 6.52%				Cliff Hyra 27,987 1.07%
Washington
West Virginia			David Moran 8,909 1.34%				David Moran 15,354 2.15%
Wisconsin	No Candidate 6,790 0.31%				Robert Burke 18,720 0.78%				Phillip Anderson 20,225 0.76%
Wyoming	Mike Wheeler 5,362 2.81%				Dee Cozzens 4,040 2.41%				Lawrence Struempf 3,010 1.48%
	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
	No Known Candidate	Write In	Kept Off Ballot	No Election	Information Pending

2000-2009

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Alabama			John Sophocleus 23,272 1.70%				Loretta Lynn Nall 259 0.02%
Alaska			Billy Toien 1,109 0.48%				Billy Toien 682 0.29%
Arizona			Barry Hess 20,356 1.66%				Barry Hess 30,268 1.97%
Arkansas			Oscar Stilley 35 0.00%
California			Gary David Copeland 161,203 2.16%	Ned Roscoe 2,250 0.03% Ken Hamidi 1,948 0.02% John J "Jack" Hickey 1,689 0.02%			Art Olivier 114,329 1.32%
Colorado			Ralph Shnelva 20,547 1.45%				Dawn Winkler-Kinateder 23,323 1.50%
Connecticut
Delaware					Frank Infante 1,450 0.40%
Florida			John Wayne Smith 172 0.00%				John Wayne Smith (I) 15,987 0.33%
Georgia			Garrett Hayes 47,122 2.33%				Garrett Hayes 81,412 3.84%
Hawaii			Tracy Ryan 1,364 0.36%				Ozell Daniel 1,850 0.54%
Idaho			Daniel Adams 8,187 1.99%				Ted Dunlap 7,241 1.61%
Illinois			Cal Skinner 73,794 2.09%				Mark McCoy 476 0.01%
Indiana	Andrew Horning 38,458 1.76%				Kenn Gividen 31,664 1.29%				Andrew Horning 57,376 2.12%
Iowa			Clyde Cleveland 13,098 1.28%				Kevin Litten 5,735 0.54%
Kansas			Dennis Hawver 8,097 0.97%				Carl Kramer 8,896 1.05%
Kentucky
Louisiana				Edward Mangin 6,745 0.50%				T. Lee Horne, III 2,648 0.20%
Maine
Maryland			Spear Lancaster 11,546 0.68%
Massachusetts			Carla Howell 23,044 1.05%
Michigan							Greg Creswell 23,524 0.62%
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri	John Swenson 11,274 0.48%				John Swenson 24,378 0.90%				Andrew Finkenstadt 31,850 1.11%
Montana	Stan Jones 7,926 1.93%				Stan Jones 7,424 1.66%				Stan Jones 9,796 2.01%
Nebraska
Nevada			Dick Geyer 8,104 1.61%
New Hampshire	John J Babiarz 6,446 1.14%		John J Babiarz 13,028 2.94%				Richard Kahn 323 0.08%		Susan Newell 14,987 2.19%
New Jersey		Mark Edgerton 4,684 0.21%				Jeffrey Pawlowski 15,417 0.55%				Kenneth Kaplan 4,830 0.20%
New Mexico
New York			Scott Jeffrey 5,013 0.11%				John Clifton 14,736 0.33%
North Carolina	Barbara Howe 42,674 1.45%				Barbara Howe 52,513 1.51%				Michael Munger 121,584 2.85%
North Dakota					Roland Riemers 4,193 1.35%
Ohio							Bill Peirce 71,473 1.78%
Oklahoma
Oregon			Tom Cox 57,760 4.58%				Richard Morley 16,798 1.22%
Pennsylvania			Ken Krawchuk 40,923 1.14%
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota			Nathan Barton 1,983 0.59%				Tom Gerber 3,282 0.98%
Tennessee			Ray Ledford (I) 1,589 0.10%
Texas			Jeff Daiell 66,720 1.47%				James Werner 26,749 0.61%
Utah									Dell Schanze 24,820 2.62%
Vermont	Hardy Machia 785 0.27%		Joel Williams 938 0.41%		Hardy Machia 2,263 0.73%
Virginia		Bill Redpath 14,497 0.77%
Washington	Steve LePage 47,819 1.94%				Ruth Bennett 63,465 2.26%
West Virginia	Bob Myers 5,548 0.86%				Simon McClure 114 0.02%
Wisconsin			Ed Thompson 185,455 10.45%
Wyoming			Dave Dawson 3,924 2.12%
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
	No Known Candidate	Write In	Kept Off Ballot	No Election	Information Pending

1990-1999

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona	Ed Yetman 316 0.03%				John Buttrick 35,222 3.12%				Katherine Gallant 27,150 2.67%
Arkansas
California	Dennis Thompson 145,628 1.89%				Richard Rider 149,281 1.72%				Steve W Kubby 73,845 0.88%
Colorado	David Aitken 18,930 1.87%								Sandra Johnson 22,150 1.68%
Connecticut					Robert Loomis 29 0.00%				Ned Vare 5,637 0.56%
Delaware			Richard Cohen 3,165 1.14%
Florida
Georgia	Carole Ann Rand 37,367 2.58%								Jack Cashin 61,531 3.43%
Hawaii	Triaka-Don Smith 2,885 0.85%								George Peabody 4,398 1.08%
Idaho
Illinois					David L Kelley 52,388 1.69%
Indiana							Steve Dillon 35,805 1.70%
Iowa					Carl E Olsen 2,772 0.28%
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland	Carol Thies 134 0.01%
Massachusetts					Dean Cook 14,698 0.66%				Dean Cook 32,184 1.69%
Michigan
Minnesota					Eric Arthur Olson 15,467 0.90%				Frank Germann 1,932 0.09%
Mississippi
Missouri			Joan Dow 66 0.00%				Mark Oglesby 51,432 2.40%
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada	James Frye 8,059 2.51%				Denis Shotly 3,978 1.05%				Terry Savage 7,307 1.69%
New Hampshire	Miriam Luce 14,348 4.86%		Miriam Luce 20,663 4.00%		Steve Winter 13,709 4.40%		Robert Kingsbury 5,974 1.20%		Ken Blevens 8,655 2.71%
New Jersey				Kenneth Kaplan 7,935 0.32%				Murray Sabrin 114,172 4.72%
New Mexico	Joseph Knight 788 0.19%
New York	W Gary Johnson 24,611 0.61%				Robert Schulz 9,506 0.18%				Christopher Garvey 4,722 0.10%
North Carolina			Scott McLaughlin 104,983 4.05%				Scott Yost 17,559 0.68%
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon	Fred Oerther 14,583 1.31%				Danford Vander Ploeg 20,183 1.65%				Richard Burke 20,200 1.81%
Pennsylvania					Patrick Fallon 33,602 0.94%				Ken Krawchuk 33,591 1.11%
Rhode Island
South Carolina									Timothy Moultrie 14,894 1.39%
South Dakota					Nathan Barton 12,825 4.12%				Bob Newland 4,389 1.69%
Tennessee
Texas	Jeff Daiell 129,128 3.33%				Keary Ehlers 28,320 0.64%				Lester Turlington 20,711 0.55%
Utah
Vermont	David Atkinson 2,777 1.31%						Neil Randall 2,916 1.15%		Amy Berkey 2,141 0.98%
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia							Wallace Johnson 16,171 2.57%
Wisconsin					David Harmon 11,639 0.74%				Jim Mueller 11,071 0.63%
Wyoming					Seaghan Uibreaslain 2,227 1.11%				Dave Dawson 6,899 3.94%
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
	No Known Candidate	Write In	Kept Off Ballot	No Election	Information Pending

1980-1989

	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Alabama			Henry Klingler 7,671 0.68%
Alaska			Dick Randolph 29,067 14.91%				Mary Jane O'Brannon 1,050 0.58%
Arizona			Sam Steiger 36,649 5.05%
Arkansas
California			Dan Dougherty 81,076 1.03%				Joseph Fuhrig 52,628 0.71%
Colorado			Paul Grant 19,349 2.02%
Connecticut			Walter Gengarelly 7,839 0.72%
Delaware	Lawrence Levy 1,815 0.81%
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois			Bea Armstrong 24,417 0.66%				Gary Shilts 15,646 0.50%
Indiana					James Ridenour 7,114 0.32%
Iowa			Marcia Farrington 3,307 0.32%
Kansas			James Ward 7,595 1.00%
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine			Vern Warren (I) 2,650 0.58%
Maryland
Massachusetts			Rebecca Shipman 17,918 0.87%
Michigan			Dick Jacobs 15,603 0.51%
Minnesota			Franklin Haws 6,323 0.35%				Joseph Rohner 3,852 0.27%
Mississippi
Missouri									Mike Roberts 21,467 1.03%
Montana					Larry Dodge 12,322 3.25%				William Dee Morris 7,104 1.94%
Nebraska
Nevada			Dan Becan 4,621 1.93%				Louis Tomburello 2,555 0.98%
New Hampshire	James Pinnaird 1,318 0.34%								Howard Wilson 2,216 0.50%
New Jersey		Jack Moyers 2,377 0.10%				Virginia Flynn 4,710 0.24%				Daniel Karlan 11,878 0.53%
New Mexico
New York			John Northrup 16,913 0.32%
North Carolina	Robert Emory 9,951 0.54%				H. Fritz Prochnaw 4,610 0.21%
North Dakota
Ohio			Phyllis Goetz 39,114 1.17%				Thomas Brown 803 0.03%
Oklahoma
Oregon			Paul Cleveland 27,394 2.63%
Pennsylvania			Richard Fuerle 10,252 0.28%
Rhode Island
South Carolina							William Griffin 4,211 0.56%
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas			David Hutzelman 19,143 0.60%				Theresa Doyle 42,496 1.23%
Utah									Kitty Burton 1,661 0.26%
Vermont			John Buttolph 801 0.47%		William Wicker 1,904 0.81%
Virginia										James Turney 108 0.01%
Washington
West Virginia	Jack Kelley 3,047 0.41%
Wisconsin			Larry Smiley 9,734 0.62%
Wyoming
	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
	No Known Candidate	Write In	Kept Off Ballot	No Election	Information Pending

1972-1979

	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona							V. Gene Lewter 10,421 1.93%
Arkansas
California			John Hospers 1,950 0.03%				Ed Clark (I) 377,960 5.46%
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia			J. Ralph Campton 4 0.00%
Hawaii							Gregory Reeser 1,059 0.38%
Idaho
Illinois					F. Joseph McCaffrey 7,552 0.16%		Georgia Shields 11,420 0.36%
Indiana
Iowa							John Ball 3,947 0.47%
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota			Richard Kleinow 2,115 0.17%				Robin Miller 3,689 0.23%
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada							John Grayson 1,487 0.77%
New Hampshire							Mabel Everett 1,217 0.45%
New Jersey		John Goodson 3,071 0.15%				Frank Primich 5,674 0.27%
New Mexico
New York			Jerome Tuccille 10,503 0.20%				Gary Greenberg 18,990 0.40%
North Carolina					Arlan Andrews 4,764 0.29%
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island					Stewart Engel 601 0.15%
South Carolina							Philip Dematteis 223 0.04%
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas							Alan Vogel 98 0.00%
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington					Maurice Willey 4,133 0.27%
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
	No Known Candidate	Write In	Kept Off Ballot	No Election	Information Pending

Statistics

Year	Number Of Candidates	Number Of Elections	Percent Of Contested Elections	Total Votes	Percentage From Contested Elections
2018	37 (14 in TN)	36	67%	896,968	1.50%
2014	24	36	67%	874,587	2.02%
2010	21 (Incl. No Candidate in WI)	37	57%	731,313	1.51%
2006	19	36	53%	447,343	0.99%
2002	26	36	72%	798,383	1.63%
1998	19	36	53%	363,407	1.05%
1994	16	36	44%	405,846	1.12%
1990	13	36	36%	399,552	1.74%
1986	8	36	22%	123,241	0.63%
1982	21	36	58%	387,436	0.89%
1978	11	36	31%	430,511	2.00%
1974	4	35	11%	14,572	0.11%

Year	Number Of Candidates	Number Of Elections	Percent Of Contested Elections	Total Votes	Percentage From Contested Elections
2016	10	12	83%	392,890	2.45%
2012	9	12	75%	345,244	2.59%
2008	6	11	55%	260,413	2.18%
2004	9	11	82%	187,464	1.37%
2000	8	11	73%	160,930	1.36%
1996	6	11	55%	129,857	1.58%
1992	4	12	33%	128,877	2.25%
1988	4	12	33%	32,448	0.92%
1984	4	13	31%	25,950	0.52%
1980	4	13	31%	16,131	0.50%
1976	4	14	29%	17,050	0.21%
1972	0	18	0%	0	0.00%

Year	Number Of Candidates	Number Of Elections	Percent Of Contested Elections	Total Votes	Percentage From Contested Elections
2015	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
2011	1	3	33%	12,528	1.22%
2007	1	3	33%	2,648	0.20%
2003	4 (3 in CA)	4	50%	12,632	0.13%
1999	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
1995	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
1991	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
1987	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
1983	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
1979	0	3	0%	0	0.00%
1975	0	3	0%	0	0.00%

Year	Number Of Candidates	Number Of Elections	Percent Of Contested Elections	Total Votes	Percentage From Contested Elections
2017	2	2	100%	38,518	0.81%
2013	2	2	100%	158,239	3.63%
2009	1	2	50%	4,830	0.20%
2005	1	2	50%	15,417	0.55%
2001	2	2	100%	19,181	0.47%
1997	1	2	50%	114,172	4.72%
1993	1	2	50%	7,935	0.32%
1989	2	2	100%	11,986	0.30%
1985	1	2	50%	4,710	0.24%
1981	1	2	50%	2,377	0.10%
1977	1	2	50%	5,674	0.27%
1973	1	2	50%	3,071	0.15%

Best Results

Year	State	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
1982	Alaska	Dick Randolph	29,067	14.91%
2002	Wisconsin	Ed Thompson	185,455	10.45%
2013	Virginia	Robert Sarvis	146,084	6.52%
1978	California	Ed Clark	377,960	5.46%
1982	Arizona	Sam Steiger	36,649	5.05%