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Perot won 19.743 million popular votes in 1992 which was the highest total ever for a third party candidate. However, as a percentage, he won only 18.9% ,whereas in 1912, third party candidate Theodore Roosevelt won 27.4% of the popular vote with some 4 million votes for him.

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Ross Perot received 19.7 million votes (18.9%) in 1992, the most raw popular votes by any third party candidate. However, third party candidate, Theodore Roosevelt won a larger percentage (27.4 %) of the popular vote in 1912, than did Perot in 1992.

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