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The American Independent Party (AIP) is an American political party that was established in 1967.
Party Ballot access [10] Ideology Year founded Political position Membership [b] Presidential vote (2024) [3] American Independent Party: California Paleoconservatism [26]: 1967
This is a list detailing the electoral history of the American Independent and American Parties, sorted by year.While initially a single party, a schism occurred between factions that sought either to expand the party's influence beyond into the North, and those that sought to concentrate largely within the Deep South.
When George Wallace ran for President in 1968, it was not as a Democrat – which he had done in the 1964 Democratic primaries and would again in the 1972 Democratic primaries – but as a candidate of the American Independent Party. The American Independent Party was formed by Wallace, [1] whose pro-segregation policies as governor had been ...
If this continues, we may return to a two-party system by default: Democrats and Independents, with Republicans reduced to a regional oddity, like George Wallace’s American Independent Party or ...
Wallace went on to win 46 votes in the United States Electoral College; as of 2023, he was the last minor party candidate to win electoral votes in a U.S. presidential election. [12] [c] After the 1968 election, Shearer continued to lead the American Independent Party and was its candidate for Governor of California in 1970. [14]
If the nation’s political independents somehow formed a party, polls suggest, they could dominate American politics. Two-fifths of Americans identified as independent in 2022, far more than ...
The last third-party presidential candidate to win Electoral College votes was George Wallace, who ran on the American Independent Party ticket in 1968. Show comments. Advertisement.