We include the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian party share of the popular vote in Presidential election years in our State Data Lab website.
Looking at the last five Presidential election years, here’s the Libertarian share of the popular vote, on average, across the 50 states:
Growing like a weed.
Was 2016 an anomaly, driven by the success (relatively speaking) of the candidate, Gary Johnson? Or is something more fundamental going on?
Should be fun to watch.
Parenthetically, just noting here that looking things over in State Data Lab, states with a higher Libertarian share of popular vote tend to be in better shape financially, looking at Truth in Accounting’s Taxpayer Burden measure.