While the votes cast in the November 3 election are still being counted, the results of the campaign have already begun to take shape. The below article, published by The Spark, discusses the outcome for the party and for the working class.
Working Class Party once again gave a voice to all those people who understand that the working class needs its own political organization, that we cannot even begin to dig ourselves out of the profound hole we are in until we organize ourselves politically. The fact that this party was on the ballot throughout the whole states of Michigan and Maryland, and in one congressional district in Illinois, let all those workers who understand this basic political fact express themselves.
Working Class Party scores ran between just less than a thousand in several small districts in Michigan, to almost six thousand in several districts, to just over one hundred thousand in several state-wide districts in Michigan, to nearly six thousand in Illinois, to as much as forty thousand state-wide in Maryland. All told, this means that at least 170,000 people, maybe quite a bit more, voted for Working Class Party in the three states. The total is probably much higher. But there is no way, given the way the ballot is organized, to add up all the scores of all the different candidates, 20 in Michigan, four in Maryland, two in Illinois. And these are only the counts that have been reported as of five days after the election. Nowhere is the vote complete. And in many places throughout Michigan, the vote count is only about three quarters done. More exact figures will come in another week or two.
In Michigan, as in Illinois, Working Class Party scores were lower than in previous campaigns. Whatever else was happening, it is clear that Working Class Party campaigns were somewhat obscured by the mania-driven campaign which focused on getting rid of Trump, as though the problems we face could be eliminated just by throwing one corrupt, ego-driven, racist and misogynist politician out of office.
Working Class Party was not the only one impacted by the Dump-Trump campaign. In Michigan there are four other minor parties, and they too saw reduced scores. In fact, standings relative to each other remain the same. Working Class Party candidates in almost all the districts where they ran came in ahead of the Libertarian Party, Green Party, U.S. Taxpayer Party or Natural Law Party candidates who happened to be on the ballot.
But for us, the issue is not a competition between Working Class Party and the four other minor parties. The important thing is that someone has made the effort to break out of this two-party system in which all of us are trapped.
This is not a very big step, but it at least has let a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand workers who voted for Working Class Party break free of the moral restraints that keep us from realizing the real force our class will have when we do begin to organize politically. This is the main point that Working Class Party made in the 2026 campaign.