Independent American Party of Nevada

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Independent American Party of Nevada
Chairman Janine Hansen
Founded1967;58 years ago (1967)
Headquarters186 Ryndon Unit 12,
Elko, Nevada 89801
Ideology American nationalism
Social conservatism
Paleoconservatism
Political position Far-right
National affiliation Constitution Party
Colors  Purple (de facto)
Website
http://www.iapn.org

The Independent American Party of Nevada (IAPN) is a right-wing American political party and the Nevada affiliate of the Constitution Party. The party was founded in 1967 and affiliated with the Constitution Party after its forming in 1999. [1] It was one of four Constitution state parties that did not change their names to "Constitution Party". [2]

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History

IAPN's high water mark was the 1974 Nevada gubernatorial election where IAPN's candidate, wealthy silver speculator James R. Houston, split the Republican vote and got 15.52% of the electorate, or 26,285 votes. [3] [4]

1990s

The Nevada IAPN achieved some electoral success in the 1990s with the election of Chuck Horne as the mayor of Mesquite in a nonpartisan race. [5]

2010s

In the 2010 elections, three Independent American Party candidates were elected to local offices and one was re-elected. [6] Several IAPN candidates also performed well in various state and legislative elections, including the election for Nevada State Assembly, District 33, where Janine Hansen won 30.81% of the vote and placed second in a three-way race. [7] The IAP candidate for State Attorney General, Joel Hansen, also secured 7.81% of the vote.

At the close of registration in October 2010, the Independent American Party had a total number of 62,724 registered voters in the Party. [8]

On October 25, 2013, the party membership experienced a small split with some members staying with the Independent American Party of Nevada and others forming a new Constitution Party of Nevada. [9]

The party has a stronghold around Elko where the party often runs a full slate of candidates that see more success then compared with other parts of the state. There, state chairman Janine Hansen ran for the Nevada Senate for District 19. [10] There he got 27% of the vote. [11] Since 2012 the 19th District has been contested solely between the Republican and American Independent Party.

The party gained notoriety when Cliven Bundy, of Bundy standoff fame, came out as a registered member of the party, and spoke at a series of party events in 2018. Namely, Bundy was the keynote speaker of the party's convention on February 23, 2018, in Sparks. Prior to the convention 4.5% of registered voters in Nevada were registered with the Independent American Party. [12] At the convention Bundy was hailed as a hero against federal "corruption and tyranny" by the party's chairman[ who? ] and spoke at length about his armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management. [13] [14]

2020s

The party also consistently competes for Nevada's 2nd congressional district and in 2020 the election was a three-way race with the Republicans, Democrats and the American Independent Party, with Janine Hansen running as the IAPN's candidate and getting 2.7% of the vote. [15]

In the 2022 Reno mayoral election, the IAPN nominated Joaquin Roces, a National Alliance on Mental Illness employee with no prior political experience who ran on a platform of increasing homeless outreach, expanding funding to the fire-department, slashing casino subsidies, and expanding renewable energy in the city. [16] He got 627 votes, or 1.35% of the electorate, in distant 8th place. [17]

Candidates

Presidential ticket

YearNomineeVotes
1968 George Wallace 20,432 (13.25%)
1976 Lester Maddox 1,497 (0.74%)
1992 Howard Phillips 677 (0.13%)
1996 Howard Phillips 1,732 (0.37%)
2000 Howard Phillips 621 (0.10%)
2004 Michael Peroutka 1,152 (0.14%)
2008 Chuck Baldwin 3,194 (0.33%)
2012 Virgil Goode 3,240 (0.32%)
2016 Darrell Castle 5,268 (0.46%)
2020 Don Blankenship 3,138 (0.22%)
2024 Joel Skousen 2,754 (0.19%)

Gubernatorial

YearNomineeVotes
1970 Daniel Hansen5,415 (3.68%)
1974 James Ray Houston26,285 (15.52%)
1978 Thomas F. Jefferson3,282 (1.71%)
1994 Daniel Hansen10,012 (2.64%)
1998 Chuck Horne7,509 (1.73%)
2002 David Holmgren7,047 (1.40%)
2006 Christopher Hansen20,019 (3.44%)
2010 Floyd Fitzgibbons5,049 (0.70%)
2014 David Lory VanDerBeek14,536 (2.66%)
2018 Russell Best10,076 (1.04%)
2022 Ed Bridges9,918 (0.97%)

Chairmen

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