List of United States major third party presidential tickets (1789–1860)

This is a list of major third party tickets for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.

Criteria

The candidates are listed here based on three criteria:

They received electoral votes.
They received at least 1% of the popular vote. (1824 or later)
They ran for one of the three modern major third parties: the Constitution Party, the Green Party, and the Libertarian Party.

1789–1800

Note: In elections held before 1804 and the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, the President was the person who won the most electoral votes, while the Vice President was the second-place finisher. This list lists any candidate who received electoral votes but was not in first or second place.

1789

There were, as yet, no third party tickets, as the party system had yet to emerge at this early date. The original system in which each elector voted for two people for the presidency was unanimous for George Washington and a scattering for people whom the electors wished to elect Vice President.

1792

As the beginnings of partisanship began in the United States in the second election, there was unanimous agreement among Anti-Federalists (Republicans, as those who would eventually become Democrats were then called) that President Washington should receive a second term, but that Vice President John Adams was obnoxious and disliked and should be opposed. Thus, many supported New York Governor George Clinton as an opposition vice presidential candidate.

As there were as yet no "faithless" electors, several voted for others to oppose a second term for the VP.

1796

The first contested election for the presidency had several electors scattered their second votes in order to prevent a tie in the electoral college and throw the election into the House of Representatives.

This was the first and only time that the Vice President would fulfill the original constitution's original mandate as leader of the opposition.

1800

In order to prevent a tie and send the election into the House of Representatives, both parties agreed that one of their electors would vote for a third candidate. However, the elector what was supposed to do this on the Democratic-Republican side had forgotten to do so, forcing a contingent election.

1804–20

1808

All candidates were Democratic-Republican.

1808		Vote totals (EV)
James Madison^[1] State: Virginia Born: March 16, 1751, Port Conway, Virginia Died: June 28, 1836, Orange, Virginia Alma mater: Princeton University Career: United States Secretary of State (1801–09); Constitutional Convention (1787); Continental Congress (1781–83); United States House of Representatives (1789–97)	John Langdon State: New Hampshire Born: June 26, 1741, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Died: September 18, 1819, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Alma mater: None Career: United States Senate (1789–1801) (President pro tempore 1789, 1792–93); Governor of New Hampshire (1785–86, 1788–89, 1805–09)	9
George Clinton^[2] State: New York Born: July 26, 1739, Little Britain, New York Died: April 20, 1812, Washington, DC Alma mater: None Career: Vice President of the United States (1805–12); Governor of New York (1777–95, 1801–04)	James Madison^[1] State: Virginia Born: March 16, 1751, Port Conway, Virginia Died: June 28, 1836, Orange, Virginia Alma mater: Princeton University Career: United States Secretary of State (1801–09); Constitutional Convention (1787); Continental Congress (1781–83); United States House of Representatives (1789–97)	3
	James Monroe State: Virginia Born: April 28, 1758, Monroe Hall, Virginia Died: July 4, 1831, New York, New York Alma mater: College of William and Mary Career: United States Minister to France (1794–96); United States Minister to the United Kingdom (1803–08); Continental Congress (1783–86); United States Senate (1790–94); Governor of Virginia (1799–1802)	3

1816

No formal Federalist nomination for vice president had been made, and it is not clear whether any of the several Federalists who received electoral votes for Vice President, ran as a candidate for the office.

1820

All candidates were Democratic-Republican. President Monroe was reelected unopposed. While urban legend states that a faithless elector voted to deny him the honor of a unanimous election, previously given only to George Washington, several electors who objected to Vice President Daniel Tompkins voted for others instead.

Vice Presidential Nominee		Vote totals (EV)
Richard Stockton State: New Jersey Born: April 17, 1764, Princeton, New Jersey Died: March 7, 1828, Princeton, New Jersey Alma mater: Princeton University Career: United States Senate (1796–99)		8
Daniel Rodney State: Delaware Born: September 10, 1764, Lewes, Delaware Died: September 2, 1846, Lewes, Delaware Alma mater: None Career: Governor of Delaware (1814–17)		1
Robert Goodloe Harper State: Maryland Born: January 1765, Fredericksburg, Virginia Died: January 14, 1825, Baltimore, Maryland Alma mater: Princeton University Career: United States Senate (1816); United States House of Representatives (1795–1801); South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–95)		1
Richard Rush State: Pennsylvania Born: August 29, 1780, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: July 30, 1859, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Alma mater: Princeton University Career: United States Minister to the United Kingdom (1817–25); United States Attorney General (1814–17)		1

1824–52

1824

This election took place while the Democratic-Republican party was in the active process of splitting up, leaving three candidates as the unofficial nominees, while a fourth, William Crawford, who was nominated by the official congressional caucus, was felled by a stroke and received few votes.

Thus there were no third party candidates.

1832

Presidential Nominee	1832		Vice Presidential Nominee	Popular vote total	Electoral vote total	Party
	John Floyd State: Virginia Born: April 24, 1783, Floyd's Station, Virginia Died: August 17, 1837, Sweet Springs, Virginia Alma mater: None Career: United States House of Representatives (1817–29), Governor of Virginia (1830–34), Virginia House of Delegates (1814–15)	Henry Lee State: Massachusetts Born: February 4, 1782 Died: February 6, 1867 Alma mater: None Career: None		0	11 (3.8%)^[3]	Nullifier Party
	William Wirt State: Virginia Born: November 8, 1772, Bladensburg, Maryland Died: February 18, 1834, Washington, D.C. Alma mater: None Career: United States Attorney General (1817–29)	Amos Ellmaker State: Pennsylvania Born: February 2, 1787, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Died: November 28, 1851, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Alma mater: Princeton University Career: Pennsylvania General Assembly (1813–14)		99,817 (7.78%)	7 (2.4%)	Anti-Masonic Party

1836

Note: All candidates were Whigs.

1836		Popular vote total	Electoral vote total
Hugh Lawson White State: Tennessee Born: October 30, 1773, Iredell County, North Carolina Died: April 10, 1840, Knoxville, Tennessee Alma mater: None Career: United States Senate (1825–40)	John Tyler State: Virginia Born: March 29, 1790, Charles City County, Virginia Died: January 18, 1862, Richmond, Virginia Alma mater: College of William and Mary Career: United States Senate (1827–36), United States House of Representatives (1816–21), Governor of Virginia (1825–27)	146,107 (9.72%)	26 (8.8%)
Willie Person Mangum State: North Carolina Born: May 10, 1792, Durham County, North Carolina Died: September 7, 1861, Durham County, North Carolina Alma mater: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Career: United States Senate (1831–36), United States House of Representatives (1823–26)		0	11 (3.7%)^[3]
Daniel Webster State: Massachusetts Born: January 18, 1782, Salisbury, New Hampshire Died: October 24, 1852, Marshfield, Massachusetts Alma mater: Dartmouth College Career: United States Senate (1827–41), United States House of Representatives (1813–17, 1823–27)	Francis Granger State: New York Born: December 1, 1792, Suffield, Connecticut Died: August 31, 1868, Canandaigua, New York Alma mater: Yale College Career: United States House of Representatives (1835–37)	41,201 (2.74%)	14 (4.8%)

1844

Presidential Nominee	1844		Vice Presidential Nominee	Popular vote total	Electoral vote total	Party
	James G. Birney State: Michigan Born: February 4, 1792, Danville, Kentucky Died: November 24, 1857, Perth Amboy, New Jersey Alma mater: Princeton University Career: Kentucky House of Representatives (1816–18)	Thomas Morris State: Ohio Born: January 3, 1776, Berks County, Pennsylvania Died: December 7, 1844, Bethel, Ohio Alma mater: None Career: United States Senate (1833–39)		62,054 (2.3%)	0	Liberty Party

1848

Presidential Nominee	1848		Vice Presidential Nominee	Popular vote total	Electoral vote total	Party
	Martin Van Buren Born: December 5, 1782, Kinderhook, New York Died: July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York State: New York Alma mater: None Career: President of the United States (1837–41), Vice President of the United States (1833–37), United States Minister to the United Kingdom (1831–32), United States Secretary of State (1829–31), United States Senate (1821–28), Governor of New York (1829), Attorney General of New York (1815–19)	Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Born: August 18, 1807, Boston, Massachusetts Died: November 21, 1886, Boston, Massachusetts State: Massachusetts Alma mater: Harvard University Career: Massachusetts State Senate (1844–45), Massachusetts House of Representatives (1841)		291,475 (10.13%)	0	Free Soil Party

1852

Presidential Nominee	1852		Vice Presidential Nominee	Popular vote total	Electoral vote total	Party
	John P. Hale Born: March 31, 1806, Rochester, New Hampshire Died: November 19, 1873, Dover, New Hampshire State: New Hampshire Alma mater: Bowdoin College Career: United States Senate (1847–53)	George Washington Julian Born: May 5, 1817, Centerville, Indiana Died: July 7, 1899, Irvington, Indiana State: Indiana Alma mater: None Career: United States House of Representatives (1849–51)		155,799 (4.93%)	0	Free Soil Party

1856–1860

Note: 1856 was the first year that the Republican party nominated a candidate for President of the United States, beginning the current two-party structure of Republicans and Democrats that has been dominant in presidential politics since.

1856

Fillmore was the second of three former presidents to run as a third party candidate for re-election.

Presidential Nominee	1856		Vice Presidential Nominee	Popular vote total	Electoral vote total	Party
	Millard Fillmore Born: January 7, 1800, Summerhill, New York Died: March 8, 1874, Buffalo, New York State: New York Alma mater: None Career: President of the United States (1850–53), Vice President of the United States (1849–50), United States House of Representatives (1833–35, 1837–43), Comptroller of New York (1848–49)	Andrew Jackson Donelson Born: August 25, 1799, Nashville, Tennessee Died: June 26, 1871, Memphis, Tennessee State: Tennessee Alma mater: United States Military Academy Career: United States Ambassador to Texas (1844–45)		872,703 (21.54%)	8 (2.7%)	American Party

1860

Presidential Nominee	1860		Vice Presidential Nominee	Popular vote total	Electoral vote total	Party
	John Bell Born: February 18, 1796, Nashville, Tennessee Died: September 10, 1869, Dickson County, Tennessee State: Tennessee Alma mater: Cumberland College Career: United States Senate (1847–59), United States Secretary of War (1841), United States House of Representatives (1827–41)	Edward Everett Born: April 11, 1794, Dorchester, Massachusetts Died: January 15, 1865, Boston, Massachusetts State: Massachusetts Alma mater: Harvard College Career: United States Senate (1853–54), United States Secretary of State (1852–53), United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1841–45), Governor of Massachusetts (1836–40), United States House of Representatives (1825–35)		589,581 (13%)	39 (11.8%)	Constitutional Union

Notes

1 2 Madison was the party's official Presidential candidate.
↑ Clinton was the party's official Vice Presidential candidate.
1 2 The electors from South Carolina were not elected by popular vote.

References

Leip, Dave (2012). "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Retrieved 2014-03-22.

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[madison-1] 1 2 Madison was the party's official Presidential candidate.

[2] Clinton was the party's official Vice Presidential candidate.

[sc-3] 1 2 The electors from South Carolina were not elected by popular vote.

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