LNC Region 8

LNC Region 8 is a representative region of the Libertarian National Committee. State affiliate parties are grouped into regions, which are traditionally identified by a number. Since these groupings are set each time there is a national convention, although in many cases they do stay the same for a somewhat longer time, it is not necessarily the case that any particular state remains in the same region from term to term. Sometimes an individual state will be added or dropped, and occasionally a given number will get assigned to a completely different group of states. So "Region 8" is not really a permanent topic in its own right for most purposes, and most of the useful information about it can be found in the articles about the region that had that number during a particular term of the Libertarian National Committee.

In the past, Region 8 was set in the Bylaws as follows:

• 1979-1981 - North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota
• 1983-1985 - Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota,

Terms

Term	States	Representative	Alternate
1972	CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT
1972-1973		Paul Hodgson
1979-1981	North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota	Ben Olsen
1981-1983		Arnold Souba, Jr./Dale Hemming	Linda Taylor
region number not used during 2008-2010 term
region number not used during 2010-2012 term
region number not used during 2012-2014 term
2014-2016			Josh Katz
2016-2018	CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, VT	Patrick McKnight (c 2017) Justin O'Donnell (2018)	Larry Sharpe (c 2018) Alex Merced (2018)
2018-2020	CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VT	Justin O'Donnell (2018) Jim Rosenbeck (2018) Justin O'Donnell (2018—2020)	Jeff Lyons Pat Ford
2020-2022	CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VT	Tucker Coburn (2020—present)	Rich Bowen (2020—present)