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Opinion: A third-party candidate could get enough votes to tilt an election but it's unlikely.
A new focus group of Georgia voters who are seriously considering a third-party candidate this fall reveals how some of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump's onetime supporters ...
Disgruntled voters have long been lectured by politicians, pundits and even aliens on “The Simpsons” that to vote for a third-party candidate is to throw your vote away — or, even worse, to ...
[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]
A two-party system is most common under plurality voting.Voters typically cast one vote per race. Maurice Duverger argued there were two main mechanisms by which plurality voting systems lead to fewer major parties: (i) small parties are disincentivized to form because they have great difficulty winning seats or representation, and (ii) voters are wary of voting for a smaller party whose ...
Third-party candidates for president frequently garner no Electoral College votes, but can siphon off total votes from the front runners in order to call attention to their causes. Vote-swapping agreements allow third-party candidates to get of the popular vote, while the major-party candidate gets more of the Electoral College vote.
Louisiana political scientist Pearson Cross noted that third-parties have achieved minimal success in American politics. Is a vote for a third-party candidate a throwaway vote in a presidential ...
This was also the first election since 2000 that the Green Party finished third nationwide, and the first since 2008 that the Libertarian Party failed to. Withdrawn independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 757,371 votes (0.49%). Kennedy's 1.96% in Montana was the highest statewide vote share of any third-party candidate.