Socialist Alternative (United States) (SAlt) has fielded electoral candidates for local and state offices.
Only one SAlt member has ever won election: Kshama Sawant.
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]
Socialist Alternative has never run a congressional candidate.
Year | Candidate | Office | Area | District | Votes | % | Result | Notes | Ref |
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2014 | Jessica Spear | State Representative | Washington | 43-2 | 8,606 | 17.7% | Lost | ran as Socialist Alternative candidate | [2] [3] [4] |
2012 | Kshama Sawant | State Representative | Washington | 43-2 | 20,425 | 29.4% | Lost | ran as Socialist Alternative candidate | [5] |
Year | Candidate | Office | Area | District | Votes | % | Result | Notes | Ref |
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2021 | Kshama Sawant | City Council | Seattle | 3 | 20,656 | 50.4% | Won | non-partisan recall election, joined Democratic Socialists of America in February [6] | [7] |
2019 | Kshama Sawant | City Council | Seattle | 3 | 22,263 | 52.1% | Won | non-partisan election | [8] |
2017 | Ginger Jentzen | City Council | Minneapolis | 3 | 3,844 | 44.2% | Lost | ran as Socialist Alternative candidate, ranked choice election | [9] [10] |
2015 | Kshama Sawant | City Council | Seattle | 3 | 17,170 | 56.1% | Won | non-partisan election | [11] |
2013 | Kshama Sawant | City Council | Seattle | 2 | 93,682 | 50.9% | Won | non-partisan election | [12] |
2013 | Seamus Whelan | City Council | Boston | At-Large | 3,118 | 2.6% | Lost | non-partisan, plurality at-large election | [13] [14] |
2013 | Ty Moore | City Council | Minneapolis | 9 | 1,758 | 46.9% | Lost | ran as Green Party candidate, ranked choice election | [15] [16] |
2007 | Matt Geary | City Council | Boston | At-Large | 3,025 | 6.5% | Lost | non-partisan, plurality at-large election | [17] [18] |
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