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Opinion: A third-party candidate could get enough votes to tilt an election but it's unlikely.
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 ...
Since it’s not likely a third-party candidate could win the presidency — it has never happened in the U.S. — some say that third-party votes are “throwaways” or “wasted.”
The efficiency gap is the difference in the two party's wasted votes, divided by the total number of votes. All votes for a losing candidate are wasted . To win a district, 51 votes are needed, so the excess votes for the winner are wasted votes. Efficiency gap = = % in favor of Party A.
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 Withdrawn independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.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.
[3] [4] 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. [5]
In 2016, 6% of all voters cast votes for third-party candidates, a dynamic that helped to lower the share of the vote Trump needed to win in key battleground states.
In the 1993 Polish election, the wasted vote reached 34.4 percent. The use of electoral thresholds, set at 5% for party lists and 8% for coalitions, resulted in some parties not being eligible for representation. In the Russian parliamentary elections in 1995, more than 45 percent of party votes were wasted, due to the 5 percent electoral ...