Did a third party ever win a Presidential election in the US?

Answer 1

Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) of the Whig Party was the last third party candidate to be elected president.

See also this convenient Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidents_by_political_affiliation

Answer 2

No. In 1860, there were four parties that got some electoral votes, but the winner was from the new Republican party, only about 6 years old, but somewhat of a replacement for the defunct major Whig party. In 1912, the third party candidate finished second but lost.

Answer 3

Most if not all political parties can be thought of as a "third" party when they are getting organized for the first time. The title "third party" implies the existence of two other established dominant and popular political parties. But that was not the case in the 1820s when John Quincy Adams became the first National Republican Party President and Andrew Jackson became the first Democratic Party President. It would also be difficult to argue that the Whig Party and the Republican Party were third parties when William Henry Harrison in 1840 and Abraham Lincoln in 1860 respectively became the first President representing each of those parties, since such a large part of the Whig party membership had been members of the dissolved National Republican Party, and likewise the Republican Party consisted largely of members of the defunct Whig Party. So, to make a long story... oops, too late for that. Anyway, I would say

no, no third party candidate has won a U. S. Presidential election.

The closest that came to being true was when in 1864 Abraham Lincoln, who had been elected in 1860 as a Republican, ran under the banner of the National Union Party. George McClellan was the Democratic Party candidate, and John C. Frémont, who had been the first Republican Party Presidential Nominee eight years earlier, again was the candidate of the Republican Party (or at least a rebel minority within the party). As it turned out, Frémont ended up withdrawing from the election and backing Lincoln.

In every presidential election since then, the winner has always been either a Democrat or a Republican. In fact, it has been a hundred years since a third party candidate came in second place: In the presidential election of 1912, the Progressive Party candidate, former President Theodore Roosevelt, received more electoral votes than the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President William Howard Taft. Both were defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Answer 4

Yes. Patrick Stewart aside, every president so far has been a third party nominee.

Answer 5

Closest one was Ross Perot in 92. I believe it was 19% of the votes.

Answer 6

BLack people

Answer 7

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