The results in California’s Peace and Freedom Party primary as of February 8 at 6:44 pm PT, with 100% of precincts reporting:
Ralph Nader (Green Party): 40.0 percent
Gloria La Riva (PFP and Party for Socialism and Liberation): 21.4 percent
Cynthia McKinney (Green Party): 21.0 percent
John Crockford (PFP): 5.5 percent
Brian P. Moore (Socialist Party): 5.3 percent
Stewart Alexander (PFP and Socialist Party): 5.2 percent
Stanley Hetz: 1.6 percent
The Peace and Freedom Party is a ballot-qualified, multi-tendency, socialist party in California. By “multi-tendency” is meant that a number of other socialist parties and groups participate in PFP, including the Socialist Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and others.
In an unusual development, two of the candidates in this year’s PFP primary election, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, were also candidates in the Green Party’s primary in California and other states. In California’s Green Party primary, Nader won about 61 percent of the vote to McKinney’s 26 percent.
Nader, the most widely recognized candidate running, finished first in nearly all counties in the PFP primary. In Los Angeles County, the largest by far with nearly a third of the state’s population, Nader received 33.1 percent of the vote, La Riva received 27.2 percent and McKinney received 23.2 percent.
Under PFP rules, the presidential primary election is not binding. The actual selection of the party’s candidates for president and vice president will take place at its biannual convention this summer.
Click here to view the results on the California Secretary of State website.
