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National results for third-party or independent presidential candidates that won between 1% and 5% of the popular vote (1788–present) State results where a third-party or independent presidential candidate won above 5% of the popular vote (1832–present)
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 ...
Elections with notable third party electoral performances (1900–present) [8] State Gubernatorial elections Senate elections Total elections Threshold reached Threshold candidates Third party victory Threshold reached Threshold candidates Third party victory Threshold reached Threshold candidates Third party victory Alabama 5 6 0
Though none of America's third parties have won a presidential election, they have nonetheless had a large impact on the country's politics A brief history of third parties in the US Skip to main ...
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. Third parties are most often encountered in presidential nominations. Third party vote splitting exceeded a president's margin of victory in three elections: 1844, 2000, and 2016.
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration. [10] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on ...
The following list indicates lifetime electoral votes received across multiple elections in which the candidate was the nominee of a political party or was otherwise on a presidential ballot. Note that the counting for Electoral College votes for this purpose is complicated by the fact that in the earliest elections, the Electoral College did ...
The Third Party System was a period in the history of political parties in the United States from the 1850s until the 1890s, which featured profound developments in issues of American nationalism, modernization, and race.