The Unity Party of America is a centrist political party founded on November 4, 2004 which has a membership in 33 states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin) listed on its website. The party has been recognized in the state of Colorado since July 2008 as a Qualified Political Organization, and became recognized as a direct result of the petition of Unity Party Congressional candidate Bill Hammons onto the 2008 General Election ballot with 899 valid signatures. As a QPO, the Unity Party was designated on the Colorado voter registration form as a voter affiliation option, and 179 voters had affiliated with the Unity Party as of October 22, 2008, an increase of 92% over the party's voter registration numbers just three weeks before. 407 Colorado voters had affiliated with the Unity Party as of June 1, 2011, before the party was removed from state voter registration form as a result of its failure to place a candidate on the general election ballot in the 2010 election cycle.
In June 2010, the Unity Party of Utah launched the first state Unity Party website, unityutah.com, and announced its intention to petition, as a party, onto Utah's 2012 ballot. On April 27, 2011, Jim Pirtle of Colorado Springs declared as the Unity Party's first and only candidate of the 2012 election cycle, for Colorado's 5th Congressional District. He received 22,738 votes, or 7.41%. However, he appeared on the ballot as a Libertarian.
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