List of United States major third-party and independent presidential tickets

This is a list of major third party and independent tickets for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.

Criteria

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The presidential candidates are listed here based on three criteria:

List of tickets

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Election Candidate[2][3] Vote[2][3] Running mate
Candidate Party Office[b] Home
state[c]
PV% EV%
1832 William Wirt   Anti-Masonic   Fmr. Attorney General MD 7.8% 2.4% Amos Ellmaker
John Floyd   Nullifier   Governor VA 0% 3.8% Henry Lee
1844 James G. Birney   Liberty   Fmr. state legislator MI 2.3% 0% Thomas Morris
1848 Martin Van Buren   Free Soil   Fmr. President NY 10.1% 0% Charles F. Adams Sr.
1852 John P. Hale   Senator NH 4.9% 0% George W. Julian
1856 Millard Fillmore[d]   American   Fmr. President NY 21.5% 2.7% Andrew J. Donelson
1860 John C. Breckinridge[e]   Southern Democratic   Vice President KY 18.2% 23.8% Joseph Lane
John Bell   Constitutional Union   Fmr. Senator TN 12.6% 12.9% Edward Everett
1880 James B. Weaver   Greenback   Representative IA 3.4% 0% Barzillai J. Chambers
1884 John St. John   Prohibition   Fmr. Governor KS 1.5% 0% William Daniel
Benjamin Butler   Greenback   Fmr. Governor MA 1.3% 0% Absolom M. West
1888 Clinton B. Fisk   Prohibition   General NJ 2.2% 0% John A. Brooks
Alson Streeter   Union Labor   State legislator IL 1.3% 0% Charles E. Cunningham
1892 James B. Weaver   Populist   Fmr. Representative IA 8.5% 5% James G. Field
John Bidwell   Prohibition   Fmr. Representative CA 2.2% 0% James B. Cranfill
1900 John G. Woolley   Attorney IL 1.5% 0% Henry B. Metcalf
1904 Eugene V. Debs   Socialist   Fmr. state legislator IN 3.0% 0% Ben Hanford
Silas C. Swallow   Prohibition   Minister PA 1.9% 0% George W. Carroll
1908 Eugene V. Debs   Socialist   Fmr. state legislator IN 2.8% 0% Ben Hanford
Eugene W. Chafin   Prohibition   Attorney IL 1.7% 0% Aaron S. Watkins
1912 Theodore Roosevelt   Progressive[f]   Fmr. President NY 27.4% 16.6% Hiram Johnson
Eugene V. Debs   Socialist   Fmr. state legislator IN 6.0% 0% Emil Seidel
Eugene W. Chafin   Prohibition   Attorney IL 1.7% 0% Aaron S. Watkins
1916 Allan L. Benson   Socialist   Journalist NY 3.2% 0% George R. Kirkpatrick
Frank Hanly   Prohibition   Fmr. Governor IN 1.2% 0% Ira Landrith
1920 Eugene V. Debs   Socialist   Fmr. state legislator IN 3.4% 0% Seymour Stedman
1924 Robert La Follette   Progressive[f]   Senator WI 16.6% 2.4% Burton K. Wheeler
1932 Norman Thomas   Socialist   Minister NY 2.2% 0% James H. Maurer
1936 William Lemke   Union   Representative NY 1.9% 0% Thomas C. O'Brien
1948 Strom Thurmond   States' Rights   Governor SC 2.4% 7.3% Fielding L. Wright
Henry A. Wallace   Progressive[f]   Fmr. Vice President IA 2.4% 0% Glen H. Taylor
1968 George Wallace   American Independent   Fmr. Governor AL 13.5% 8.6% Curtis LeMay
1972 John G. Schmitz   Representative CA 1.4% 0% Thomas J. Anderson
1980 John B. Anderson   Independent   Representative IL 6.6% 0% Patrick Lucey
Ed Clark   Libertarian   Attorney CA 1.1% 0% David Koch
1992 Ross Perot   Independent   Businessman TX 18.9% 0% James Stockdale
1996 Reform   8.4% 0% Pat Choate
2000 Ralph Nader   Green   Attorney CT 2.7% 0% Winona LaDuke
2016 Gary Johnson   Libertarian   Fmr. Governor NM 3.3% 0% William Weld
Jill Stein   Green   Physician MA 1.1% 0% Ajamu Baraka
2020 Jo Jorgensen   Libertarian   Professor SC 1.2% 0% Spike Cohen

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Third parties did not emerge prior to the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment, but several individuals without a clear partisan affiliation won electoral votes between 1789 and 1796. See list of people who received an electoral vote in the United States Electoral College.
  2. ^ The most recent elective office, or senior appointive position, held by the candidate when the presidential election was held. If the candidate had never held an elective office or senior appointive position at the time of the election, then their profession is listed.
  3. ^ State of primary residence.
  4. ^ After the collapse of the Whig Party in the mid-1850s, the Republican Party and the American Party emerged as the major challengers to the Democratic Party. By 1856, neither the Republican nor the American Party had truly supplanted the Whig Party as the second major political party in the United States.[4] Nonetheless, the American Party is frequently described as a third party.[5][6][7] In 1856, the American Party, along with a rump convention of Whigs, nominated a presidential ticket led by former President Millard Fillmore.[8] After the 1856 election, the Republican Party firmly established itself as one of the two major parties alongside the Democratic Party, while the American Party collapsed.[9]
  5. ^ The Democratic Party fractured along sectional lines in 1860 and held multiple national conventions. The Northern Democrats nominated Stephen A. Douglas and the Southern Democrats nominated Vice President John C. Breckinridge.[10][11] Many sources include Breckinridge as a third party candidate,[12][3][13] but other sources do not.[14][2]
  6. ^ a b c Though the Progressive Party of 1912, the Progressive Party of 1924, and the Progressive Party of 1948 shared names and an affiliation with the progressive movement, they were three distinct political parties.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Blake, Aaron (April 27, 2016). "Why are there only two parties in American politics?". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "United States Presidential Election Results". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  4. ^ McPherson (1988), pp. 140–144, 153–154
  5. ^ Cooper, William. "James Buchanan: Campaigns and Elections". Miller Center. University of Virginia. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Boissoneault, Lorraine (January 26, 2017). "How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics". Smithsonian. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  7. ^ Hicks (1933), p. 10
  8. ^ Holt (2010), pp. 91–94
  9. ^ Gienapp (1985), p. 547
  10. ^ Smith (1975), pp. 106–113
  11. ^ VandeCreek, Drew E. "Campaign of 1860". Northern Illinois University Libraries. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  12. ^ Patch, B. W. (1936). "Third Party Movements in American Politics". CQPress. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  13. ^ Rosenstone et al. (2018), pp. 59–63
  14. ^ Hicks (1933), pp. 3–28
  15. ^ Rosenstone et al. (2018), p. 93

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