This article contains lists of official third party or independent candidates associated with the 2004 United States presidential election.
Third party is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two major parties, the Democratic Party and Republican Party. The term is used as innumerate shorthand for all such parties, or sometimes only the largest of them.
An independent candidate is one who runs for office with no formal party affiliation.
Candidates who received, or ran for, the presidential nomination of a political party other than that of the two major parties in the 2004 presidential election, as well those who ran as independents, are listed below.
Party nominees All candidates in the table below were on the ballot in multiple states. Those who were on the ballot in enough states to win a majority in the U.S. Electoral College are marked in bold. Candidates who were on the ballot in no more than one state are listed in the next section.
Presidential candidateRunning matePartyGene AmondsonLeroy PlettenProhibitionMichael BadnarikRichard CampagnaLibertarianWalt BrownMary Alice HerbertSocialistRóger CaleroArrin HawkinsSocialist WorkersDavid CobbPat LaMarcheGreenEarl F. DodgeHoward LydickProhibitionRalph NaderPeter CamejoIndependent, ReformJohn ParkerTeresa GutierrezWorkers WorldMichael PeroutkaChuck BaldwinConstitutionBill Van AukenJim LawrenceSocialist Equality
Ballot access The two major parties in the United States are the Democratic and the Republican parties, which are on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
The table below shows which third-party candidates were able to gain ballot access in each state. In some states, these candidates were on the ballot as independents, or on the ballot lines of different parties (for example, in Michigan the Socialist Party USA candidate received the Natural Law Party's ballot line.)
The Socialist Workers Party's official ticket could not be listed on the ballot in some states because Calero and Hawkins were both ineligible to be president, as Calero was not a native-born citizen and Hawkins was too young. In such states the party used their 2000 ticket of James Harris and Margaret Trowe (JH).
The Prohibition Party suffered a schism in 2003. Long-time presidential candidate Earl Dodge was the nominee of one faction, while Gene Amondson was the nominee of the other. Both factions were on the ballot in Colorado, with only Amondson on the ballot in Louisiana.
Candidates who had enough potential electoral votes to win the presidency Electoral VotesLibertarian (Badnarik)Green (Cobb)NaderConstitution (Peroutka)States5149 (50)25 (43)35 (48)34 (42)Electoral votes (EV)538527 (531)267 (479)278 (507)341 (430)Percent of EV100%97.9% (98.7%)49.6% (89%)51.7% (94.2%)63.3% (79.9%)Alabama9 (write-in) (write-in)Alaska3 (write-in)Arizona10 (write-in)(write-in)Arkansas6 California55 (write-in) Colorado9 Connecticut7 Delaware3 Florida27 Georgia15 (write-in)(write-in)(write-in)Hawaii4 Idaho4 (write-in)(write-in) Illinois21 (write-in)(write-in)(write-in)Indiana11 (write-in)(write-in)Iowa7 Kansas6 (write-in) Kentucky8 Louisiana9 Maine4 Maryland10 Massachusetts12 (write-in)Michigan17 Minnesota10 Mississippi6 Missouri11 (write-in) Montana3 Nebraska5 Nevada5 New Hampshire4(write-in)(write-in) (write-in)New Jersey15 New Mexico5 New York31 (write-in) North Carolina15 (write-in)(write-in)North Dakota3 Ohio20 (write-in) Oklahoma7Oregon7 (write-in) Pennsylvania21 (write-in) Rhode Island4 South Carolina8 South Dakota3 Tennessee11 (write-in) Texas34 (write-in)(write-in)(write-in)Utah5 (write-in) Vermont3 (write-in) (write-in)Virginia13 (write-in)(write-in) Washington11 West Virginia5 (write-in) Wisconsin10 (write-in)Wyoming3 (write-in) District of Columbia3 (write-in)
Other third-party candidates Electoral VotesProhibition (Amondson)Socialist (Brown)Socialist Workers (Calero)Workers World (Parker)Socialist Equality (Van Auken)States5128 (19)14 (17)3 (4)5 (8)EV5381898 (218)151 (247)18 (73)52 (93)Percent of EV100%3.3%18.2% (40.5%)28% (45.9%)3.3% (13.6%)9.6% (17.3%)Alabama9Alaska3Arizona10Arkansas6California55(write-in)(write-in)Colorado9(also Dodge) (JH) Connecticut7Delaware3 Florida27 (JH)Georgia15Hawaii4Idaho4(write-in)Illinois21(write-in)Indiana11(write-in)Iowa7(JH) Kansas6(write-in)(write-in)Kentucky8(write-in)Louisiana9 (JH)Maine4(write-in)Maryland10Massachusetts12Michigan17 Minnesota10(write-in) Mississippi6(JH)Missouri11Montana3(write-in)Nebraska5 Nevada5New Hampshire4New Jersey15 New Mexico5New York31 (write-in)North Carolina15(write-in)North Dakota3Ohio20(write-in)Oklahoma7Oregon7Pennsylvania21Rhode Island4 South Carolina8 South Dakota3Tennessee11(write-in)Texas34(write-in)Utah5(write-in)(JH)Vermont3 Virginia13(write-in)Washington11(JH) West Virginia5Wisconsin10 (JH)Wyoming3District of Columbia3(JH)
Other candidates The tickets below were on the ballot in no more than one state. Those who appeared on a single state's ballot are in bold, all others were write-in candidates. Those without party labels were independents. Some did not have vice-presidential candidates. A. J. Albritton (American Republican Party—Mississippi) Sterling Allan (Providential Party—Utah) Stanford E. "Andy" Andress/Irene M. Deasy (Colorado) Lawson M. Bone (Tennessee) Kenneth M. Bonnell (Mississippi) Robert A. Boyle II (Maryland) Harry Braun (Arizona) Theodis "Ted" Brown Sr. (Missouri) Michael Massa/Ned Stanley (Chaminade Party-Missouri) Fred Cook (Georgia) Eric J. Davis (Michigan) Robert DiGiulio (Children's Party—Vermont) Bob Dorn (Washington) Lonnie D. Frank (California) Ronald "John Galt Jr." Gascon (Pennsylvania) Jack Grimes (United Fascist Union—Pennsylvania) Michael Halpin (New York) Thomas Harens/Jennifer Ryan (Christian Freedom Party—Minnesota) Larry D. Hines (Texas) Georgia Hough (Georgia) Charles Jay/Marilyn Chambers (Personal Choice—Utah) Keith Judd (Massachusetts) Darren E. Karr (Party X—Oregon) Samuel Keegan (Rhode Island) John Joseph Kennedy (Georgia) Tom Laughlin Joseph Martyniuk Jr. (Illinois) David Mevis (Mississippi) Muadin (E-Democratic Party—Massachusetts) Leonard Peltier/Janice Jordan (Peace and Freedom—California) Jeffrey Peters (We the People Party—New Hampshire) Andrew M. Rotramel (Texas) Joseph "Average Joe" Schriner (Ohio) Dennis P. Slatton (United America Party—North Carolina) Dan Snow (Texas) Brian B. Springfield (Virginia) Diane Templin (American Party—California) Lawrence Rey Topham (Utah) Lemuel Tucker (Michigan) Da Vid (Light Party—California) Tom Wells (Family Values Party—Florida) A. J. Wildman (Virginia)
Although Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, they have held a straw poll for their presidential preferences since 1980. In 2004, the results were Bush 21,490 (64.1%), Kerry 11,781 (35.1%), Nader 196 (0.58%) and Badnarik 67 (0.2%).
Primary and convention candidates
Blake Ashby (Republican) Katherine Bateman (Democratic) Sheila Bilyeu (Green) Dick Bosa (Republican) Carol Moseley Braun (Democratic) Harry Braun (Democratic) John Buchanan (Republican) Michael Callis (Republican) Peter Camejo (Green) Willie Carter (Democratic) Jeanne Chebib (Democratic) Eric Chester (Socialist) Wesley Clark (Democratic) Randy Crow (Democratic) Howard Dean (Democratic) Jeffrey Diket (Libertarian) Gerry Dokka (Democratic) Don Doumakes (Socialist) John Edwards (Democratic) John A. Estrada (Democratic) Richard Gephardt (Democratic) Mildred Glover (Democratic) Paul Glover (Green) George Gostigian (Republican) Bob Graham (Democratic) Robert Haines (Republican) Vincent Hamm (Democratic) Mark Harnes (Republican) Mildred Howard (Republican) Caroline Killeen (Democratic) Dennis Kucinich (Democratic) Lyndon LaRouche (Democratic) Tom Laughlin (Republican) Randy Lee (Democratic) Joe Lieberman (Democratic) Robert Linnell (Democratic) Bill McGaughey (Democratic) Kent Mesplay (Green) Carol Miller (Green) Gary Nolan (Libertarian) Cornelius O'Connor (Republican) Edward O'Donnell (Democratic) Fern Penna (Democratic) Rubén Pérez (Libertarian) John Rigazio (Republican) Aaron Russo (Libertarian) Lorna Salzman (Green) Al Sharpton (Democratic) Vermin Supreme (Democratic) Leonard Talbow (Democratic) Jim Taylor. (Republican) Florence Walker (Democratic) Lisa Weltman (Socialist) Lucian Wojciechowski (Democratic) Bill Wyatt (Republican)
See also List of candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election 2004 Green National Convention 2004 Libertarian National Convention 2004 Reform National Convention
References
External links Ballot Access News Politics1—Presidency 2004