"...None of these involved the typical 1 or maybe 2 percent you ordinarily expect a Lib to garner: Looking at the three-way vote, all but one were over 3 percent, and three took 6 percent or more, with a high of 6.5 percent in the Montana Senate race. These definitely seem like unusually high figures.

"So what's going on here? ...a growing proportion of conservative-leaning voters too disgusted with the GOP to pull the Republican lever, but who won't vote for Democrats either, are choosing a third option and going Libertarian instead."

John Inks and Brian Holtz were reelected to office in California on Tuesday.

John Inks was reelected to the Mountain View, CA City Council with 18,807 votes and 18.9%. He finished first in a 6-way race, and will be serving another 4-year term.

Brian Holtz was reelected to the Purissima Hills, CA Water District for another 4-year term. He finished 1st in a 4-way race, garnering 1,688 votes for 32.3%.

There are currently 153 elected Libertarian in the U.S.

Several Libertarian campaigns for U.S. House had a high impact this election.

Dan Fishman in the Massachusetts Sixth Congressional District won 16,668 votes, over four times more than the 3,650-vote margin of victory between Republican Richard Tisei (175,953 votes) and Democrat incumbent John Tierney (179,603 votes).

7 Libertarian candidates received one million votes or more in the 2012 General Election:

Gov. Gary Johnson for President - with Judge Jim Gray for VP: 1,191,420 votes

Mark W. Bennett (TX) Court of Criminal Appeals: 1,326,526 votes

William Bryan Strange (TX) Court of Criminal Appeals: 1,313,746 votes

RS Roberto Koelsch (TX) Texas Supreme Court: 1,280,886 votes

Jaime O. Perez (TX) Railroad Commissioner: 1,122,792 votes

David Staples (GA) Public Service Commission, District 5: 1,082,481 votes

Below are the General Election results for the 2012 Libertarian US Senate candidates. In light of the overwhelming volume of free media granted the Democrats and Republicans in these races, coupled with the media and others excluding Libertarian candidates from some or all of the debates, these are exceptionally good results:

Hate Mail from Republican Partisans Floods Libertarian Inbox

As this Washington Post article predicted, Libertarian Andrew Horning was the "Nader" of the 2012 U.S.

Bruce Majors, the Libertarian Party candidate for Delegate to the US House of Representatives, won ballot access for the LP in Washington D.C. for the first time in the party's history.

Majors won 14,259 votes, nearly double the 7,500 needed for ballot access. He finished second behind entrenched incumbent Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, and easily surpassed a Statehood Green Party candidate.

Here are the results for the Libertarian Party candidates for Governor:

Rupert Boneham (IN) 4.0%

Ron Vandevender (MT) 3.7%

John Babiarz (NH) 2.9%

Jim Higgins (MO) 2.7%

Ken Larson (UT) 2.2%

Barbara Howe (NC) 2.1% *

David Moran (WV) 1.3% *

Roland Riemers (ND) 0.8%