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Third-party and independent members of the United States Congress are generally rare. Although the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated U.S. politics in a two-party system since 1856, some independents and members of other political parties have also been elected to the House of Representatives or Senate, or changed their party affiliation during their term.
List of third-party and independent performances in United States Senate elections; List of third-party and independent performances in United States House elections; List of third-party and independent performances in United States state legislative elections; List of third-party and independent performances in Alaska state legislative elections
Merged into: Workers Party of the United States: 1933 1934 Workers Party of the United States: Trotskyism [112] Merged into: Socialist Party of America: 1934 1938 Union Party: Distributism [113] 1935 1936 America First Party (1943) Isolationism [114] 1944 1947 American Vegetarian Party: 1947 1967 States' Rights Democratic Party: Dixiecrats ...
This is a list of notable performances of third-party and independent candidates in elections to the United States House of Representatives.. 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 ...
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.
This time period corresponds to the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Party Systems of the United States. For the purposes of counting partisan divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives, "Independent Democrats", "Independent Republicans", and other members loosely affiliated with the two main parties have been included in the "Democrat" and ...
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 ...
Third party, or minor party, is a term used in the United States' two-party system for political parties other than the Republican and Democratic parties. The winner take all system for presidential elections and the single-seat plurality voting system for Congressional elections have over time helped establish the two-party system.