Missy Reilly Smith with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa.)

Last night wasn’t what you would call a stellar evening for the D.C. Republican Party. Beyond not winning any of the races they claimed to be competitive in, the local branch of the GOP had one of its best showings with a candidate it didn’t even support.

Yesterday, the local GOP’s top results came from Nelson Rimensnyder, who picked up over 10,000 votes in his run for Shadow Representative, and Missy Reilly Smith, who claimed just short of 7,500 votes in her quixotic and offensive campaign for D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. The party’s main hopefuls — candidates in wards 1, 3, 5, and 6 — all lost, despite a strong push from The Washington Post’s editorial page for Ward 3 challenger Dave Hedgepeth. (He did pull in 34 percent of the vote, though, more than Republican Theresa Conroy did in 2006.) The party also chose not to run a candidate in the race for Mayor.

Once results were finalized early this morning, things got interesting. Word stated leaking out that since none of the D.C. GOP’s candidates had received 7,500 votes, the party would be bumped from the list of “major” political parties — which includes the Democratic Party and the Statehood Green Party — and instead join the ranks of the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Party, the Love Party, the Cocktail Party and the Theocratic Party on the city’s long and illustrious list of “minor” political parties.