List of Socialist Alternative election results

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Socialist Alternative (United States) (SAlt) has fielded electoral candidates for local and state offices.

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Only one SAlt member has ever won election: Kshama Sawant.

Presidential elections

Socialist Alternative has never run a presidential candidate. In 2020, SAlt endorsed Green Party US and Socialist Party USA candidate Howie Hawkins for the 2020 general election as a protest vote against the two major parties of the United States. [1]

Congressional elections

Socialist Alternative has never run a congressional candidate.

State elections

YearCandidateOfficeAreaDistrictVotes %ResultNotesRef
2014 Jessica Spear State Representative Washington 43-28,606
17.7%
Lostran as Socialist Alternative candidate [2] [3] [4]
2012 Kshama Sawant State Representative Washington 43-220,425
29.4%
Lostran as Socialist Alternative candidate [5]

Local elections

YearCandidateOfficeAreaDistrictVotes %ResultNotesRef
2021 Kshama Sawant City Council Seattle 320,656
50.4%
Won non-partisan recall election, joined Democratic Socialists of America in February [6] [7]
2019 Kshama Sawant City Council Seattle 322,263
52.1%
Won non-partisan election [8]
2017 Ginger Jentzen City Council Minneapolis 33,844
44.2%
Lostran as Socialist Alternative candidate, ranked choice election [9] [10]
2015 Kshama Sawant City Council Seattle 317,170
56.1%
Won non-partisan election [11]
2013 Kshama Sawant City Council Seattle 293,682
50.9%
Won non-partisan election [12]
2013 Seamus Whelan City Council Boston At-Large3,118
2.6%
Lost non-partisan, plurality at-large election [13] [14]
2013 Ty Moore City Council Minneapolis 91,758
46.9%
Lostran as Green Party candidate, ranked choice election [15] [16]
2007 Matt Geary City Council Boston At-Large3,025
6.5%
Lost non-partisan, plurality at-large election [17] [18]

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References

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  9. "Ginger Jentzen announces run for Minneapolis Council seat under Socialist Alternative banner". Minneapolis Post. January 26, 2017. Archived from the original on January 29, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
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