Ballot Status Update:
LaRouche filed in 19 out of 36 target states
January 14, 2023

With the filing of 4,878 petition signatures in Illinois yesterday--the state where LaRouche candidates won the Democratic primary elections for Governor and Lt. Governor in 1986--Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has now filed for the Democratic primary ballots in 19 states (and the District of Columbia, where the primary occurred Jan. 13).

During the week of Jan. 5-9, LaRouche filed petitions to qualify for the Democratic presidential primary ballot in Mississippi, Nebraska and Wisconsin. By Jan. 16, LaRouche will be filed in two more states for a total of 21, or two-thirds of the 34-36 “target states” in which he expects to be on the ballot. LaRouche is now certified for the ballot in 14 of those states: Maryland, Ohio, California, Missouri, New Hampshire, Delaware, Tennessee, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Arizona, Virginia, Texas, and Washington, D.C.

LaRouche is filed, but not yet certified, in New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Illinois. In two states, Utah and South Carolina, which hold primaries run entirely by the Democratic Party (rather than the state), LaRouche was excluded from the ballot, on the basis of Democratic National Committee (DNC) “rules” designed to bar him from the party, and to try to fend off his increasing influence in the party.

However, candidate LaRouche intends to file delegate slates and fight for delegates in every state, including those in which the DNC has declared him “persona non grata.”

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