Libertarian Party of Kentucky

Libertarian Party of Kentucky
Libertarian Party of Kentucky
Chairman	Ken Moellman
Founded	1971
Ideology	Libertarianism
National affiliation	Libertarian Party (United States)
Colors	a shade of Blue; Yellow
Website
	www.lpky.org

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky is the Kentucky affiliate of the Libertarian Party. The state chair is Dave Capano.

Background

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky, referred to as "LPKY", is the official state affiliate of the Libertarian Party (United States). The purpose of the Party is to promote libertarianism and elect candidates to office. The Kentucky affiliate has existed since 1974, and is the third-largest political party in Kentucky. Since the Kentucky Secretary of State's office officially began asking county clerks to track the number of Libertarian voter registrations in 2006, via 31 KAR 4:150, 4,980 people have successfully registered as of November, 2015.^[1]

The Libertarian Party is considered, under Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 118.015,^[2] to be a political group. Political groups are those whose candidate for president received less than 2% of the popular vote in the state of Kentucky in the last general election. There is no other mechanism for a political group to become a "political organization", the second tier which grants that party ballot access. An unpublished 2008 Kentucky Court of Appeals case stated that Libertarians and all third parties are treated as Independents, as no other mechanism would exist for those groups to have their candidates placed on the ballot.^{[citation needed]} Both Independents and political groups do not have automatic ballot access, meaning they must collect signatures on a petition for candidates that wish to run for office. Kentucky's ballot access rules require a different minimum number of signatures based on the office being sought, ranging between 25 and 5,000.

Prior to 2006, most Libertarian candidates for office received about 2% of the vote in any three-way race. After 2006, some Libertarian candidates have been able to reach 5% of the vote. In 2014, the first Libertarian candidates reached over 10% in a partisan race with at least two other opponents.

State Executive Committee

LPKY Website - Contacts Page

Chairman—David Capano
Vice Chairman—Bryan Short
Secretary—Cyrus Eckenberg
Treasurer—James Bozman
At-Large Representative—Mark Gailey
At-Large Representative—John Will Allender
At-Large Representative—Daniel Hull
1st District—David Watson
2nd District—Joseph Redmon
3rd District—Chris Roberts
4th District—John Will Allender
5th District—Krystal Freeman
6th District—Micki Bowling

Partisan elections - Candidates

Candidates for partisan offices that wish to run as a Libertarian are nominated at a nomination convention, held in conjunction with the annual state party convention. A vote of the delegates at the convention determines who the candidate will be. All candidates must also defeat NOTA (None of the Above) in order to obtain the ability to run as a Libertarian. The LPKY State Party Executive Committee can vote to add additional candidates after the convention.

Past candidates

2015 partisan election results

No candidates due to signature requirements.

2014 partisan election results

US Senate: David Patterson, 44,240 votes (3.08%)
Boone County Judge/Executive: J. Kyle Sweeney, 6,766 (21.99%)
Boone Co Commissioner #1: Josh Brotherton, 6,632 (22.37%)
Boone Co Commissioner #2: Cristi Kendrick, 3,656 (11.24%) - three-way race
Boone Co Commissioner #3: James Bozman, 5,986 (20.31%)
Hardin Co Constable #5: Joseph Redmon, 316 (12.86%) - three-way race
Kenton Co Clerk: Chris Robinson, 6,673 (16.29%)
Marshall Co Magistrate #2: Tracey Roberts, (100%) - unopposed
Montgomery Co Magistrate #3: Shannon Denniston, (100%) - unopposed
Warren Co Constable #2: Chris Dillingham, 561 (38.61%) - listed on ballot incorrectly

2013 partisan election results

No regularly-scheduled elections in Kentucky in 2013.

2012 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2012

President: Gary Johnson, 17,062 votes (0.95%) - five-way race
US House, 2nd District: Craig Astor, 4,914 votes (1.74%) - four-way race
Hillview City Council: Harlen Compton, 632 votes (9th of 9)

2011 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2011

Kentucky State Treasurer Ken Moellman, 37,261 votes (4.62%) - three-way race

2010 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2010

US House, 3rd District: Ed Martin, 2,029 votes (0.79%) - four-way race
KY House, 32nd District: Matthew Linker, 492 votes (2.79%) - three-way race
KY House, 43rd District: George Conrad Dick, 1,867 votes (17.73%) - two-way race
Boone County Magistrate, 1st District: Eric Cranley
Jefferson County Constable, 2nd District: Thomas Yoder

2009 partisan election results (special)

2009 Special Election Results

KY Senate, 18th District: Guy E. Gibbons, Jr. (party endorsed Independent), 953 votes (5.3%) - three-way race

2008 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2008

President: Bob Barr, 5,989 votes (0.3%)
US House, 3rd District: Edward Martin, removed from the ballot by court order
KY House, 81st District: J. Lance Combs, 2,754 votes (18.5%) - two way race

2007 partisan election results

Kentucky state Executive Branch elections. No candidates due to signature requirements.

2006 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2006

US House, 3rd District: Donna Walker Mancini, 2,139 votes (0.9%) - four-way race
US House, 4th District: Brian Houillion, 10,100 votes (4.9%) - three-way race
US House, 6th District: Paul Ard, 27,015 votes (14.5%) - two-way race