Ralph Nader , Green Party candidate, got 2.75% of the popular vote in 2000.
Third-party presidential candidates can receive federal funds if their party received at least five percent of the vote in the previous presidential election.
Third-party presidential candidates can receive federal funds if their party received at least five percent of the vote in the previous presidential election.
by election of the popular vote
Ross Perot was the Reform Party candidate in the 1996 presidential election.
That is an election held by a political party as part of the process of nominating a candidate to represent the party in the presidential election.
The highest percentage of popular votes was Theodore Roosevelt's Bull-Moose Party which won 27.4 percent of the popular vote in the 1912 Presidential election, and carried six states. This was the best showing of an independent party in history, and the only time such a party has carried more than one-third of the popular vote. .
President William Taft was the Republican Party candidate in the 1912 presidential election .
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election defeating Republican Party candidate John McCain. In the 2008 presidential election Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and John McCain received 173 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 69,297,997 and McCain 59,597,520.
Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama won the 2012 presidential election defeating Republic Party candidate Mitt Romney. In the 2012 presidential election Barack Obama received 332 electoral votes and Mitt Romney received 206 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Obama 65,446,032 and Romney 60,589,084.
The losing party is likely weakened, especially if the election is not close.
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