Re: [LPC ExCom Discuss] Fwd: 2026 LNC Convention Delegate Numbers

[June Genis]

I note that the national bylaws still allow delegates to be allocated based on people not resident in their state (10.3.1). Since people who become life members in one state and who have moved to a new state do not have the option of being counted by national in their old state this is a bit inconsistent. Perhaps it's time to change this.

I do not have an address for Rachel to send this to her as well.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 9:39 PM 'Loren Dean' via LPCalifornia-ExCom-Discuss <lpcalifornia-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

From national, regarding region percentages. 

Loren

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From: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>
Date: Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Subject: 2026 LNC Convention Delegate Numbers
To: LP Secretary <secr...@lp.org>

Hello State Chairs,

The tabulation of BSM and 2024 Presidential votes for calculating the delegate allotments for each state has finished. To find your state's 2026 delegate allocation and membership numbers for regional formation, please visit  2026_Delegate_Allocations.

he Libertarian National Committee Policy Manual provides the following:

 

11.11 – Party Records

 

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2) Delegate Allocation Based on Presidential Votes 

 

The Secretary shall distribute to each affiliate party the presidential vote totals that the Secretary proposes to use for purposes of delegate allocation for national conventions as provided for in the Bylaws, no later than the last day of April in the year following a presidential election. If any Party member seeks a modification of the vote totals proposed by the Secretary, the member shall file with the Secretary a written request to modify the totals along with any documentation supporting the request no later than the last day of May of the same year. The Secretary shall review all such requests to modify the presidential vote totals and distribute a final allocation of delegates based on presidential vote totals no later than the last day of July of the same year.

 

Tennese previously submitted notifications for 3 write-in ballots and were used to adjust their vote total from 0 to 3. We used the following data:

 

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf

 

 

 

Bylaws Article 10

 

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3. Affiliate Party Delegate Entitlements: Each affiliate party shall be entitled to send delegates to each regular convention on the following basis: 

 

1. One delegate for each 0.14 percent, or fraction thereof, of the total Party sustaining membership in that affiliate; provided that at least one such delegate must be a resident of that State or District. 

 

2. One delegate for each 0.35 percent, or fraction thereof, of the votes cast nationwide for the Libertarian Party candidate in the most recent presidential election, cast in that affiliate's state. If a state conducts its presidential election via Ranked-Choice or Instant Runoff Voting, the ballots for the Libertarian candidate as tabulated in the first round of ballot counting will be used for this purpose.

 

4. Delegate Allocation: 

 

1. In order to be counted for delegate allocation, sustaining membership applications must be sent to the National Headquarters by either the individual member or the affiliate party and received or postmarked no later than the last day of the seventh month prior to the regular convention.

 

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That last day for the calculation based on sustaining memberships was 10/31/2025. 

In Liberty,

Evan

Evan McMahon Secretary, Libertarian National Committee ‪(317) 455-6986  |  evan.m...@lp.org

 

 

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[Mike Van Roy]

I don't disagree but, like the convention calendar, this is an issue that LNC needs to sort out. Our rules should reflect what makes sense for us - especially since they can change their rules at any time. 

That said we should instruct our LNC delegates to push for consistency at the LNC level.

Are there any state affiliates that require their members be residents of that state?

Mike

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[June Genis]

Actually most now don't allow out of state members. A major exception is Hawaii which is a problem child in general. CA (I think) counts state life members who live out of state state as members, at least for the purpose of state conventiobs, but national doesn't recognize them as such as their database just uses local addresses to determine what state to count them in.

[Mimi Robson]

National membership has nothing to do with state membership; they are two different memberships.  So states can still allow out of state members within the state and then elect them as delegates to the national convention, but those members are still members nationally in whatever state they live in.

As far as Life Members, it's the same thing.  Being a life member of National doesn't make someone a life member of a state.  It's two different memberships (meaning you have to pay each entity).  I know of several people that are life members of multiple states, but as far as National is concerned is that they are a National life member in whatever state they live in.  Keep in mind, people that don't live in the country aren't a member counted toward any state for delegate allocation or region formation.

Mimi

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[Joe Dehn]

On 2025-12-02 08:16, June Genis wrote:

I note that the national bylaws still allow delegates to be allocated based on people not resident in their state (10.3.1). Since people who become life members in one state and who have moved to a new state do not have the option of being counted by national in their old state this is a bit inconsistent. Perhaps it's time to change this.

 

 

I think you are misreading the national bylaws.  The phrase in 10.3.1 "at least one such delegate must be a resident of that State or District" has nothing to do with allocation.  It is acknowledging that states may want to send individuals who are not residents of that state to represent them (as we still sometimes do, in the case of state life members who have moved out of state), but says that the entire delegation cannot consist of such people.

 

Delegate allocation, the number of delegates that a state may send, is based on the addresses, in the national database, of people who qualify as "sustaining" national members.

The two sets of people are only loosely related -- they could even, in theory, be completely disjoint, since a state could send as their one delegate required to be a resident of that state somebody who is not a national sustaining member.