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This article lists third party and independent candidates, also jointly known as minor candidates, associated with the 2024 United States presidential election. "Third party" is a term commonly used in the United States in reference to political parties other than the Democratic and Republican parties.
[4] [5] No third-party candidate has won the presidency since the Republican Party became the second major party in 1856. Since then a third-party candidate won states in five elections: 1892, 1912, 1924, 1948, and 1968. 1992 was the last time a third-party candidate won over 5% of the vote and placed second in any state. [6]
National results for third-party or independent presidential candidates that won between 1% and 5% of the popular vote (1788–present) State results where a third-party or independent presidential candidate won above 5% of the popular vote (1832–present)
Candidate selection: Usually, the third-party candidate comes first and a movement grows around them, to the extent they can build one. No Labels is working things the opposite way, building the ...
No independent or third-party candidate has won an electoral vote in more than half a century, never mind the 270 needed to claim the presidency, but Messina said Biden and his team still need to ...
Democrats and Republicans dominate the U.S. two-party political system, but independent candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other third-party challengers could have a major impact in this ...
This is a list of notable performances of third party and independent candidates in elections to the United States Senate.. It is rare for candidates, other than those of the six parties which have succeeded as major parties (Federalist Party, Democratic-Republican Party, National Republican Party, Democratic Party, Whig Party, Republican Party), to take large shares of the vote in elections.
Sometimes independent means no party registration, and sometimes we refer to third party candidates as independent. They are not the same, though as a practical matter neither third party ...