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 The presidential candidates are listed here based on three criteria: They were not members of one of the six major parties in U.S. history: the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican Party, the National Republican Party, the Whig Party, the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party at the time of their candidacy. Independent candidates are included. They either received at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector, or they received at least one percent of the national popular vote in an election held after the national popular vote began to be recorded in 1824. They ran after the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804.
List of tickets
ElectionCandidateVoteRunning mateCandidatePartyOfficeHomestate1832William WirtAnti-Masonic Fmr. Attorney General 7.8%Amos EllmakerJohn FloydNullifier Governor 0%Henry Lee1844James G. BirneyLiberty Fmr. state legislator 2.3%Thomas Morris1848Martin Van BurenFree Soil Fmr. President 10.1%Charles F. Adams Sr.1852John P. Hale Senator 4.9%George W. Julian1856Millard FillmoreAmerican Fmr. President 21.5%Andrew J. Donelson1860John C. BreckinridgeSouthern Democratic Vice President 18.2%Joseph LaneJohn BellConstitutional Union Fmr. Senator 12.6%Edward Everett1880James B. WeaverGreenback Representative 3.4%Barzillai J. Chambers1884John St. JohnProhibition Fmr. Governor 1.5%William DanielBenjamin ButlerGreenback Fmr. Governor 1.3%Absolom M. West1888Clinton B. FiskProhibition General 2.2%John A. BrooksAlson StreeterUnion Labor State legislator 1.3%Charles E. Cunningham1892James B. WeaverPopulist Fmr. Representative 8.5%James G. FieldJohn BidwellProhibition Fmr. Representative 2.2%James B. Cranfill1900John G. WoolleyAttorney 1.5%Henry B. Metcalf1904Eugene V. DebsSocialist Fmr. state legislator 3.0%Ben HanfordSilas C. SwallowProhibition Minister 1.9%George W. Carroll1908Eugene V. DebsSocialist Fmr. state legislator 2.8%Ben HanfordEugene W. ChafinProhibition Attorney 1.7%Aaron S. Watkins1912Theodore RooseveltProgressive Fmr. President 27.4%Hiram JohnsonEugene V. DebsSocialist Fmr. state legislator 6.0%Emil SeidelEugene W. ChafinProhibition Attorney 1.7%Aaron S. Watkins1916Allan L. BensonSocialist Journalist 3.2%George R. KirkpatrickFrank HanlyProhibition Fmr. Governor 1.2%Ira Landrith1920Eugene V. DebsSocialist Fmr. state legislator 3.4%Seymour Stedman1924Robert La FolletteProgressive Senator16.6%Burton K. Wheeler1932Norman ThomasSocialist Minister 2.2%James H. Maurer1936William LemkeUnion Representative 1.9%Thomas C. O'Brien1948Strom ThurmondStates' Rights Governor 2.4%Fielding L. WrightHenry A. WallaceProgressive Fmr. Vice President 2.4%Glen H. Taylor1968George WallaceAmerican Independent Fmr. Governor 13.5%Curtis LeMay1972John G. SchmitzRepresentative 1.4%Thomas J. Anderson1980John B. AndersonIndependent Representative 6.6%Patrick LuceyEd ClarkLibertarian Attorney 1.1%David Koch1992Ross PerotIndependent Businessman 18.9%James Stockdale1996Reform 8.4%Pat Choate2000Ralph NaderGreen Attorney 2.7%Winona LaDuke2016Gary JohnsonLibertarian Fmr. Governor 3.3%William WeldJill SteinGreen Physician 1.1%Ajamu Baraka2020Jo JorgensenLibertarian Professor 1.2%Spike Cohen
See also List of people who received an electoral vote in the United States Electoral College List of unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States
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