THIRD PARTIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY

PARTY, Candidate, Election Year	Popular and Electoral Vote	Results of Election for the Party
ANTI-MASONIC PARTY, William Wirt, 1832	7.8 % popular vote 7 electoral votes	Supporters became faction within GOP
FREE SOIL PARTY, Martin Van Buren, 1848	10.1 % popular vote 0 electoral votes	Supporters became faction within GOP
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY, John Bell, 1860	12.6 % popular vote 39 electoral votes	Party dissolved
POPULIST PARTY, James Weaver, 1892	8.5 % popular vote 22 electoral votes	Supported Democratic ticket in 1896
PROGRESSIVE PARTY (Bull Moose), Teddy Roosevelt, 1912	27.4 % popular vote 88 electoral votes	Roosevelt supported GOP nominee in 1916
PROGRESSIVE PARTY, Robert La Follette,1924	16.6 % popular vote 13 electoral votes	LaFollette died in June 1925; party lacked serious candidate
DIXIECRATS / STATE’S RIGHTS, Strom Thurmond, 1948	2.4% popular vote 38 electoral votes	Democrats picked slate acceptable to South in 1952
PROGRESSIVE PARTY, Henry A. Wallace, 1948	2.4 % popular vote 0 electoral votes	Party dissolved
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY, George C. Wallace, 1968	13.5% popular vote 46 electoral votes	Party dissolved; Wallace ran in Democratic primaries in 1972 until he was injured in assassination attempt.
NATIONAL UNITY CAMPAIGN, John B. Anderson, 1980	6.6% popular vote 0 electoral votes	Anderson withdrew from elective politics and his organization faded
INDEPENDENT, H. Ross Perot, 1992	18.7 % popular vote 0 electoral votes	Formed new party (Reform) to take part in 1996 presidential elections.
REFORM PARTY, H. Ross Perot, 1996	8.5 % popular vote 0 electoral votes	Party began to splinter
REFORM PARTY, Patrick Buchanan, 2000	1% popular vote 0 electoral votes	Party dissolved (?)
GREEN PARTY, Ralph Nader, 2000	3% popular vote 0 electoral votes	Failed to qualify for federal funding in 2004.