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Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, there have been 52 unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States. [a] Additionally, since 1796, eight third party or independent candidates have won at least ten percent of the popular or electoral vote, but all failed to win the presidency.
Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote, the winner is determined through a contingent election held in the United States House of Representatives; this situation has occurred ...
The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the two major parties have nominated vice presidential candidates in most presidential elections. [1] Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1789, there have been 59 unsuccessful major party candidates for Vice President of the United States.
"One unsuccessful major party candidate, DeWitt Clinton, served as the de facto Federalist nominee in the 1812 presidential election even though he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. Clinton lost the 1812 election to incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison.[3]
Contrast that with 2012, when unsuccessful presidential candidates, including Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and businessman Herman Cain, each received a turn at the mic.
Gabbard ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in the Democratic primary in 2020. ... “Donald Trump has a long, nearly ten-year record as a presidential candidate, president, and now a ...
Burgum has taken a classic route of parlaying an unsuccessful presidential campaign into a spot in the vice presidential derby. In some ways, he’s similar to Pence, who was a deeply conservative ...
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 [1] at the time of their candidacy. Independent ...