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This was the first conducted statewide opinion poll of the 2016 election where a third-party candidate has placed first. Had McMullin won Utah, he would have become the first nationally nonpartisan candidate since George Washington to win a state in 224 years since Washington's reelection in 1792 , [ b ] and ultimately the first nonpartisan ...
This article contains lists of official third-party and independent candidates associated with the 2012 United States presidential election. "Third party" is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two major parties, the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 2016; Primaries. Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016; Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016; General election polling. Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2016; Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential ...
Johnson received nearly 4.5 million votes (3.3% of the total vote), which is the most for a third-party presidential candidate since 1996 and the highest national vote share for a Libertarian candidate in history. After the 2016 presidential election, Johnson said he would not run for president again. [14]
On December 19, he participated in the "Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum", at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College and "glitterbombed" fellow candidate Randall Terry. [34] He was a candidate in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, and received 1.4% of the votes on January 3, 2012. [35]
Retrospectively, the key was turned false if a single third party candidate won 5% or more of the national popular vote or there was a significant split in the incumbent party: for example, in 1948, Henry A. Wallace and Strom Thurmond both split from the Democrats and ran notable insurgent campaigns, turning the key false for President Harry S ...
Third party vote splitting exceeded a president's margin of victory in three elections: 1844, 2000, and 2016. 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.
U.S. presidential election, 2016: Candidate: Jill Stein Former member of the Lexington Town Meeting from the 2nd district (2005–2011) Ajamu Baraka Human rights activist Howie Hawkins (Minnesota) [1] Affiliation: Green Party: Status: Announced: June 22, 2015 Presumptive nominee: June 15, 2016 [2] Official nominee: August 6, 2016 [3] Lost ...