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*the Libertarian Party (LP) is a Libertarian political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and the abolition of the welfare state*
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It is the third largest political party in the United States.
The LP was conceived at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado in 1971 and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The founding of the party was prompted in part due to concerns about the Nixon administration, the Vietnam War, conscription, and the end of the gold standard.
The party generally promotes a classical liberal platform, in contrast to the Democrats’ modern liberalism and progressivism and the Republicans’ conservatism.
Gary Johnson, the party’s presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016, states that the LP is more culturally liberal than Democrats, but more fiscally conservative than Republicans.
(current fiscal policy positions include lowering taxes, abolishing the IRS, decreasing the national debt, allowing people to opt out of Social Security, and eliminating the ‘welfare state’, in part by utilizing private charities)
(current cultural policy positions include ending the prohibition of illegal drugs, supporting same-sex marriage, ending capital punishment, and supporting gun ownership rights)
(many libertarians believe in lowering the drinking age to 18)
There are 411,250 voters registered as Libertarian in the 27 states that report Libertarian registration statistics and Washington, D.C.
By that count, as well as popular vote in elections and number of candidates run per election, the LP is the country’s third largest nationally organized party.
(the LP was the party under which the first electoral vote was cast for a woman, Tonie Nathan, for Vice President in a United States presidential election, due to a faithless elector)
(though the party has never won a seat in the United States Congress, it has seen electoral success in the context of state legislatures and other local offices)
(3 Libertarians were elected to the Alaska House of Representatives between 1978 and 1984 and another four to the New Hampshire General Court in 1992)
Neil Randall, a Libertarian, won the election to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1998 and was re-elected until 2002, which marked the last time to date a Libertarian was elected to a state legislature.
Rhode Island State Representative Daniel P. Gordon was expelled from the Republicans and joined the Libertarian Party in 2011.
(in January 2016, the Libertarians tied their 1992 peak of four legislators when four state legislators from four different states left the Republican Party to join the Libertarian Party: Nevada Assemblyman John Moore in January, Nebraska Senator Laura Ebke, and New Hampshire Representative Max Abramson in May, and Utah Senator Mark B. Madsen in July)
(in the 2016 election cycle, Madsen and Abramson did not run for re-election to their respective offices, while Moore lost his race after the Libertarian Party officially censured him over his support of taxpayer stadium funding)
(Ebke was not up for re-election in 2016
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(new hampshire representative ‘caleb dyer’ changed party affiliation to the ‘libertarian party’ from the ‘republican party’ in ‘february 2017’)
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