Research Can Be Fun

Here's something fun I found in my search for Communists who have won public office by election in the United States.  I don't know if it's true truth or just comment thread truth but I know the number for the Socialists is right (I checked again).

For the record, here are the break-downs of people in Congress but not representing one of the four major parties we've had (Federalist, Whig, Democrat, Republican). I don't know which of these might also represent socialist parties.

Adams Democrat - 1 (House)
American Laborite - 2 (House)
American Party - 40 (House)
Anti-Jacksonian - 44 (House)
Anti-Mason - 30 (House)
Conservative - 9 (8 House, 1 Senate)
Conservative Republican - 2 (House, Delegate)
Constitutional Unionist - 2 (House)
Democrat Farmer Labor - 3 (House)
Farmer Laborite - 13 (House)
Free Silver - 1 (House, Delegate)
Free Soil - 11 (5 House, 6 Senate)
Greenbacker - 12 (House)
Independent (unaffiliated) - 24 (20 House, 4 Senate)
Independent Democrat - 27 (26 House, 1 Senate)
Independent Radical - 1 (House)
Independent Republican - 15 (14 House, 1 Senate)
Independent Whig - 1 (House)
Jackson Democrat - 1 (House)
Jacksonian - A couple hundred, I'm not going to count them
Law and Order - 1 (House)
Liberal - 1 (House)
Liberal Republican - 9 (6 House, 3 Senate)
Non partisan - 1 (House)
Nullifier - 13 (10 House, 4 Senate; one was in both)
Oppostion - 14 (House)
Populist - 45 (39 House, 6 Senate)
Progressive - 23 (22 House, 1 Senate)
Progressive Republican - 3 (House)
Prohibitionist - 1 (House)
Readjustor - 7 (5 House, 2 Senate)
Silver Republican - 6 (4 House, 2 Senate)
Socialist - 2 (House)
State Rights Democrat - 2 (House)
Unconditional Unionist - 24 (18 House, 6 Senate)
Union Democrat - 2 (House)
Union Laborite - 2 (House)
Union Republican - 4 (House)
Unionist - 51 (40 House, 11 Senate)

It would seem, if this is correct,  even parties you've never heard of have had more success than the Communists.

I did, also, read that under an old system of electing them, there were two Communists voted to the New York City council, though I haven't been able to confirm that.  If that's true, it's not surprising that the Communists would just as soon not mention them.  I mean, if they mentioned them it would bring up the issue of how many Communists had never been elected to office.

Wouldn't you love to know if they got purged by their rivals or the party bosses, fearing a power grab by them.  That's the typical chain of events in the old CP, here and everywhere.