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Might want to consider moving the primary results to a different page. It could get confusing as primary results from the candidates who advanced to the general are included. [[User:AJPEG|AJPEG]] ([[User talk:AJPEG|talk]]) 20:30, 23 February 2018 (CST) | Might want to consider moving the primary results to a different page. It could get confusing as primary results from the candidates who advanced to the general are included. [[User:AJPEG|AJPEG]] ([[User talk:AJPEG|talk]]) 20:30, 23 February 2018 (CST) | ||
The Primary results listed on this page are just for the cases, from 2012 and later, where the Libertarian did NOT advance to the General Election. Which is almost all of the cases where a Libertarian ran for one of these offices in those years. (And the few who did advance are already listed in the normal way.) The reason they are here is because, under this system, the Primary was the last (and only) chance that the Libertarian was presented to the voters of the district in question. Under this system, it was all the voters of the district who had a chance to vote or not vote Libertarian in the Primary, just like in a General Election. Of course it's not exactly the same as a General Election, since there will usually have been a larger number of candidates overall, so they are marked differently. But as a test of how large a portion of the voting population is willing to "Vote Libertarian", it's similar -- and it's the best we've got for those districts in those years. A new page for all the Primary results would be fine, if somebody wants to do that. And on such a page I would expect all the Libertarians who ran in the Primary to be listed, whether they advanced to the General Election or not (but perhaps with some notation indicating which ones did). [[User:JWD3|JWD3]] ([[User talk:JWD3|talk]]) 22:40, 23 February 2018 (CST) | |||