List of Movements/Political Parties/United States of America/Candidates

Losing Tickets

Major Party Losses

• Thomas Jefferson/ Aaron Burr ( Democratic-Republican Party, 1796)
• John Adams/ Charles C. Pinckney ( Federalist Party, 1800)
• Charles C. Pinckney/ Rufus King ( Federalist Party, 1804 & 1808)
• DeWitt Clinton/ Jared Ingersoll ( Federalist Party, 1812)
• Rufus King/ John E. Howard ( Federalist Party, 1816)
• Andrew Jackson/ John C Calhoun ( Democratic-Republican Party, 1824)
• William Crawford/ Nathaniel Macon ( Democratic-Republican Party, 1824)
• Henry Clay/ Nathan Sanford ( Democratic-Republican Party, 1824)
• John Quincy Adams/ Richard Rush ( National Republican Party, 1828)
• Henry Clay/ John Sergeant ( National Republican Party, 1832)
• William Henry Harrison/ Francis Granger ( Whig Party, 1836)
• Hugh White/ John Tyler ( Whig Party, 1836)
• Daniel Webster/ Francis Granger ( Whig Party, 1836)
• Willie P. Mangum/ John Tyler ( Whig Party, 1836)
• Martin Van Buren ( Democratic Party, 1840)
• Henry Clay/ Theodore Frelinghuysen ( Whig Party, 1844)
• Lewis Cass/ William Butler ( Democratic Party, 1848)
• Winfield Scott/ William A. Graham ( Whig Party, 1852)
• John C. Frémont/ William L. Dayton ( Republican Party, 1856)
• John C. Breckinridge/ Joseph Lane ( Southern Democratic Party, 1860)
• Stephen A. Douglas/ Herschel V. Johnson ( Northern Democratic Party, 1860)
• George B. McClellan/ George H. Pendleton ( Democratic Party, 1864)
• Horatio Seymour/ Francis Preston Blair Jr. ( Democratic Party, 1868)
• Horace Greeley/ Benjamin G. Brown ( Democratic Party/ Liberal Republican Party, 1872)
• Samuel J. Tilden/ Thomas A. Hendricks ( Democratic Party, 1876)
• Winfield S. Hancock/ William H. English ( Democratic Party, 1880)
• James G. Blaine/ John A. Logan ( Republican Party, 1884)
• Grover Cleveland/ Allen G. Thurman ( Democratic Party, 1888)
• Benjamin Harrison/ Whitelaw Reid ( Republican Party, 1892)
• William Jennings Bryan/ Arthur Sewell ( Democratic Party, 1896)
• William Jennings Bryan/ Adlai Stevenson I ( Democratic Party, 1900)
• Alton B. Parker/ Henry G. Davis ( Democratic Party, 1904)
• William Jennings Bryan/ John W. Kern ( Democratic Party, 1908)
• William Howard Taft/ Nicholas Butler ( Republican Party, 1912)
• Charles Evans Hughes/ Charles W. Fairbanks ( Republican Party, 1916)
• James M. Cox/ Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Democratic Party, 1920)
• John W. Davis/ Charles W. Bryan ( Democratic Party, 1924)
• Al Smith/ Joseph Taylor Robinson ( Democratic Party, 1928)
• Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis ( Republican Party, 1932)
• Alf Landon/ Frank Knox ( Republican Party, 1936)
• Wendell Willkie/ Charles L. McNary ( Republican Party, 1940)
• Thomas E. Dewey/ John W. Bricker ( Republican Party, 1944)
• Thomas E. Dewey/ Earl Warren ( Republican Party, 1948)
• Adlai Stevenson II/ John Sparkman ( Democratic Party, 1952)
• Adlai Stevenson II/ Estes Kefauver ( Democratic Party, 1956)
• Richard Nixon/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ( Republican Party, 1960)
• Barry Goldwater/ William E. Miller ( Republican Party, 1964)
• Hubert Humphrey/ Edmund Muskie ( Democratic Party, 1968)
• George McGovern/ Sargent Shriver ( Democratic Party, 1972)
• Gerald Ford/ Bob Dole ( Republican Party, 1976)
• Jimmy Carter/ Walter Mondale ( Democratic Party, 1980)
• Walter Mondale/ Geraldine Ferraro ( Democratic Party, 1984)
• Michael Dukakis/ Lloyd Bentsen ( Democratic Party, 1988)
• George H.W. Bush/ Dan Quayle ( Republican Party, 1992)
• Bob Dole/ Jack Kemp ( Republican Party, 1996)
• Al Gore/ Joe Lieberman ( Democratic Party, 2000)
• John Kerry/ John Edwards ( Democratic Party, 2004)
• John McCain/ Sarah Palin ( Republican Party, 2008)
• Mitt Romney/ Paul Ryan ( Republican Party, 2012)
• Hillary Clinton/ Tim Kaine ( Democratic Party, 2016)
• Donald Trump/ Mike Pence ( Republican Party, 2020)
• Kamala Harris/ Tim Walz ( Democratic Party, 2024)

Notable Third Party Losses

• Martin Van Buren/ Charles F. Adams ( Free Soil Party, 1848)
• John Bell/ Edward Everett ( Constitutional Union Party, 1860)
• James B. Weaver/ James G. Field ( Populist Party, 1892)
• Theodore Roosevelt/ Hiram Johnson ( Progressive Party, 1912)
• Eugene V. Debs/ Emil Seidel ( Socialist Party of America, 1912)
• Robert M. La Follette/ Burton K. Wheeler ( Progressive Party, 1924)
• Strom Thurmond/ Fielding Wright ( Dixiecrats, 1948)
• George Wallace/ Curtis LeMay (American Independent Party, 1968)
• Gus Hall/Jarvis Tyner ( Communist Party USA, 1972 and 1976)
• Gus Hall/Angela Davis ( Communist Party USA, 1980 and 1984)
• John B. Anderson/ Patrick Lucey (Independent, 1980)
• Ross Perot/ James Stockdale (Independent, 1992)
• Ross Perot/ Pat Choate ( Reform Party, 1996)
• Ralph Nader/ Winona LaDuke ( Green Party, 2000)
• Pat Buchanan/ Ezola Foster ( Reform Party, 2000)
• Gary Johnson/ Bill Weld ( Libertarian Party, 2016)
• Jill Stein/ Ajamu Baraka ( Green Party, 2016)
• Evan McMullin/ Mindy Finn (Independent, 2016)
• Jo Jorgensen/ Spike Cohen ( Libertarian Party, 2020)
• Howie Hawkins/ Angela Nicole Walker ( Green Party, 2020)
• Kanye West/ Michelle Tidball (Birthday Party, 2020)
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr./ Nicole Shanahan (Independent, 2024)

Presidental Candidates

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Democratic Party

• Kamala Harris
• Joe Biden
• Marianne Williamson
• Jason Palmer
• Dean Phillips
• Joe Exotic
• Terrisa Bukovinac
• Jerome Segal

Republican Party

• Donald Trump
• Nikki Haley
• Asa Hutchinson
• Ron DeSantis
• Vivek Ramaswamy
• Doug Burgum
• Chris Christie
• Larry Elder
• Will Hurd
• Mike Pence
• Tim Scott
• E. W. Jackson
• Perry Johnson
• Steve Laffey
• Susan Buchser Lochocki
• Corey Stapleton

Libertarian Party

• Chase Oliver
• Jacob Hornberger
• Joshua Rodriguez
• Joshua Smith
• Keenan Dunham
• Lars Mapstead
• Michael Rectenwald
• Mike ter Maat

Green Party

• Jill Stein
• Jasmine Sherman
• Randy Toler
• Emanuel Pastreich

American Solidarity Party

• Peter Sonski

Prohibition Party

• Michael Wood

Party for Socialism and Liberation

• Claudia de la Cruz

Independent Candidates

• Shiva Ayyadurai
• Joseph "Afroman" Foreman
• Cornel West
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Taylor Marshall

Democratic Party

• Joe Biden
• Bernie Sanders
• Elizabeth Warren
• Michael Bloomberg
• Pete Buttigieg
• Amy Klobuchar
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Tom Steyer
• Andrew Yang
• Michael Bennet
• John Delaney
• Cory Booker
• Marianne Williamson
• Julian Castro
• Kamala Harris
• Steve Bullock
• Joe Sestak
• Wayne Messam
• Beto O'Rourke
• Tim Ryan
• Bill de Blasio
• File:Gillibrand.png Kirsten Gillibrand
• Seth Moulton
• Jay Inslee
• John Hickenlooper
• Mike Gravel
• Eric Swalwell
• Richard Ojeda

Republican Party

• Donald Trump
• Bill Weld
• Rocky De La Fuente
• Joe Walsh
• Mark Sanford

Libertarian Party

• Jo Jorgensen
• Vermin Supreme
• Adam Kokesh
• Kenneth Blevins
• Lincoln Chafee
• Kim Ruff
• Zoltan Istvan

Green Party

• Howie Hawkins
• David Rolde
• Kent Mesplay
• Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry
• Susan Buchser Lochocki

Independent Candidates

• Brock Pierce
• Joe McHugh
• Kanye West
• Mark Charles

Democratic Party

• Hillary Clinton
• Bernie Sanders
• Martin O'Malley
• Lincoln Chafee
• Jim Webb
• Lawrence Lessig

Republican Party

• Donald Trump
• Ted Cruz
• Marco Rubio
• John Kasich
• Ben Carson
• Jeb Bush
• Rand Paul
• Mike Huckabee
• Carly Fiorina
• Chris Christie
• Jim Gilmore
• Rick Santorum
• George Pataki
• Lindsey Graham
• Bobby Jindal
• Scott Walker
• Rick Perry

Libertarian Party

• Gary Johnson
• John McAfee
• Austin Petersen

Green Party

• Jill Stein
• Kent Mesplay
• Darryl Cherney
• Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry

Democratic Party

• Barack Obama

Republican Party

• Mitt Romney
• Rick Santorum
• Ron Paul
• Newt Gingrich
• Fred Karger
• Buddy Roemer
• Rick Perry
• Jon Huntsman Jr.
• Michele Bachmann
• Herman Cain
• Gary Johnson

Democratic Party

• Barack Obama
• Hillary Clinton
• John Edwards
• Joe Biden
• Bill Richardson
• Evan Bayh
• Chris Dodd
• Mike Gravel
• Dennis Kucinich
• Tom Vilsack

Republican Party

• John McCain
• Mitt Romney
• Mike Huckabee
• Ron Paul
• Fred Thompson
• Alan Keyes
• Duncan Hunter
• Rudy Giuliani
• Sam Brownback
• John H. Cox
• Jim Gilmore
• Tom Tancredo
• Tommy Thompson

Democratic Party

• John Kerry
• Howard Dean
• John Edwards
• Wesley Clark
• Al Sharpton
• Dennis Kucinich
• Joe Lieberman
• Carol Moseley Braun
• Dick Gephardt
• Bob Graham

Republican Party

• George W. Bush

Republican Party

• George W. Bush
• John McCain
• Alan Keyes
• Steve Forbes
• Gary Bauer
• Orrin Hatch
• Lamar Alexander
• Pat Buchanan
• Herman Cain
• Elizabeth Dole
• John Kasich
• Dan Quayle
• Bob Smith

Democratic Party

• Al Gore
• Bill Bradley

Reform Party

• Pat Buchanan
• Donald Trump
• John Hagelin

Democratic Party

• Bill Clinton

Republican Party

• Bob Dole
• Pat Buchanan
• Steve Forbes
• Lamar Alexander
• Morry "The Grizz" Taylor
• Richard Lugar
• Phil Gramm
• Bob Dornan
• Alan Keyes
• Arlen Specter
• Pete Wilson

Reform Party

• Ross Perot
• Richard Lamm

Democratic Party

• Bill Clinton
• Jerry Brown
• Paul Tsongas
• Tom Harkin
• Bob Kerrey
• Douglas Wilder

Republican Party

• George H.W. Bush
• Pat Buchanan
• David Duke

Independent Canidates

• Ross Perot

Republican Party

• George H.W. Bush
• Bob Dole
• Pat Robertson
• Jack Kemp
• Pete Du Pont
• Alexander Haig
• Paul Laxalt
• Donald Rumsfeld

Democratic Party

• Michael Dukakis
• Jesse Jackson
• Al Gore
• Paul Simon
• Dick Gephardt
• Gary Hart
• David Duke
• James Traficant
• Pat Schroeder
• Joe Biden

Republican Party

• Ronald Reagan

Democratic Party

• Walter Mondale
• Gary Hart
• Jesse Jackson
• John Glenn
• George McGovern
• Reubin Askew
• Fritz Hollings
• Alan Cranston

Republican Party

• Ronald Reagan
• George H.W. Bush
• John B. Anderson
• Phil Crane
• Ben Fernandez
• Bob Dole
• John Connally
• Howard Baker
• Larry Pressler
• Lowell Weicker

Democratic Party

• Jimmy Carter
• Ted Kennedy
• Jerry Brown

Democratic Party

• Jimmy Carter
• Mo Udall
• Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson
• Jerry Brown
• George Wallace
• Frank Church
• Sargent Shriver
• Fred Harris
• Milton Shapp
• Birch Bayh
• Lloyd Bentsen
• Terry Sanford
• Hubert Humphrey

Republican Party

• Gerald Ford
• Ronald Reagan

Republican Party

• Richard Nixon
• John Ashbrook
• Pete McCloskey

Democratic Party

• George McGovern
• Hubert Humphrey
• George Wallace
• Edmund Muskie
• Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson
• Wilbur Mills
• Shirley Chisholm
• Terry Sanford
• John Lindsay
• Eugene McCarthy
• Sam Yorty
• Vance Hartke
• Patsy Mink
• Fred Harris

Democratic Party

• Hubert Humphrey
• Eugene McCarthy
• George McGovern
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson

Republican Party

• Richard Nixon
• Ronald Reagan
• Nelson Rockefeller
• George W. Romney

Youth International Party

• Pigasus

Democratic Party

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• George Wallace

Republican Party

• Barry Goldwater
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
• William Scranton
• Margaret Chase Smith
• Harold Stassen

Democratic Party

• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Hubert Humphrey
• Adlai Stevenson II
• Stuart Symington
• Robert B. Meyner
• Wayne Morse

Republican Party

• Richard Nixon
• Nelson Rockefeller

Republican Party

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John W. Bricker
• William Knowland

Democratic Party

• Adlai Stevenson II
• Estes Kefauver
• W. Averell Harriman

Republican Party

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Robert A. Taft
• Earl Warren
• Harold Stassen
• Douglas MacArthur

Democratic Party

• Estes Kefauver
• Adlai Stevenson II
• Richard Russell Jr.
• W. Averell Harriman
• Robert S. Kerr
• Alben W. Barkley

Democratic Party

• Harry S. Truman
• Richard Russell Jr.
• Claude Pepper

Republican Party

• Thomas E. Dewey
• Harold Stassen
• Robert A. Taft
• Douglas MacArthur
• Leverett Saltonstall
• Arthur Vandenberg
• Earl Warren
• Joseph W. Martin

Democratic Party

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Joseph T. Ferguson
• Harry F. Byrd

Republican Party

• Thomas E. Dewey
• John W. Bricker
• Earl Warren
• Harold Stassen
• Douglas MacArthur
• Wendell Willkie

Democratic Party

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• John Nance Garner
• James Farley

Republican Party

• Wendell Willkie
• Thomas E. Dewey
• Robert A. Taft
• Arthur Vandenberg
• Styles Bridges
• Herbert Hoover
• Arthur James
• Frank Gannett

Democratic Party

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Henry Skillman Breckinridge

Republican Party

• Alf Landon
• William Borah
• Frank Knox

Democratic Party

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Al Smith
• John Nance Garner
• William H. Murray
• Albert Ritchie
• Newton D. Baker

Republican Party

• Herbert Hoover
• Joseph I. France
• George W. Norris
• Jacob S. Coxey Sr.

Republican Party

• Herbert Hoover
• Charles Curtis
• Frank Orren Lowden
• James Eli Watson
• George W. Norris

Democratic Party

• Al Smith
• Cordell Hull
• James A. Reed
• Thomas J. Walsh

Republican Party

• Calvin Coolidge
• Robert M. La Follette
• Hiram Johnson

Democratic Party

• John W. Davis
• William Gibbs McAdoo
• Al Smith
• Oscar Underwood

Republican Party

• Warren G. Harding
• Leonard Wood
• Frank Orren Lowden
• Hiram Johnson
• Miles Poindexter
• Herbert Hoover

Democratic Party

• James M. Cox
• A. Mitchell Palmer
• William Gibbs McAdoo
• James Watson Gerard
• Robert Latham Owen
• Edward I. Edwards

Democratic Party

• Woodrow Wilson

Republican Party

• Charles Evans Hughes
• John W. Weeks
• Elihu Root
• Albert B. Cummins
• Theodore E. Burton
• Charles W. Fairbanks
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Robert M. La Follette

Democratic Party

• Woodrow Wilson
• Champ Clark
• Judson Harmon
• Oscar Underwood
• Simeon E. Baldwin

Republican Party

• William Howard Taft
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Robert M. La Follette
• Albert B. Cummins

Republican Party

• William Howard Taft
• Philander C. Knox
• Charles Evans Hughes
• Joseph G. Cannon
• Charles W. Fairbanks
• Robert M. La Follette
• Joseph B. Foraker

Democratic Party

• William Jennings Bryan
• George Gray
• John A. Johnson

Republican Party

• Theodore Roosevelt

Democratic Party

• Alton B. Parker
• William Randolph Hearst
• Francis Cockrell
• Richard Olney
• Edward C. Wall
• George Gray
• Nelson A. Miles

Republican Party

• William McKinley

Democratic Party

• William Jennings Bryan

Republican Party

• William McKinley
• Thomas B. Reed
• Matthew S. Quay
• Levi P. Morton
• William B. Allison

Democratic Party

• William Jennings Bryan
• Richard P. Bland
• Robert E. Pattinson
• Joseph Blackburn
• Horace Boies
• John R. McLean
• Claude Matthews
• Sylvester Pennoyer

Democratic Party

• Grover Cleveland
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• Horace Boies
• Arthur P. Gorman
• Adlai Stevenson I
• John G. Carlisle

Republican Party

• Benjamin Harrison
• James G. Blaine
• William McKinley

Republican Party

• Benjamin Harrison
• John Sherman
• Russell A. Alger
• Walter Q. Gresham
• James G. Blaine
• William McKinley

Democratic Party

• Grover Cleveland

Democratic Party

• Grover Cleveland
• Thomas F. Bayard
• Thomas A. Hendricks
• Allen G. Thurman
• Samuel J. Randall
• Joseph E. McDonald
• John G. Carlisle
• George Hoadly

Republican Party

• James G. Blaine
• Chester A. Arthur
• George F. Edmunds
• John A. Logan

Republican Party

• James A. Garfield
• Ulysses S. Grant
• James G. Blaine
• John Sherman

Democratic Party

• Winfield S. Hancock
• Thomas F. Bayard
• Samuel J. Randall

Republican Party

• Rutherford B. Hayes
• James G. Blaine
• Benjamin Bristow
• Oliver P. Morton
• Roscoe Conkling
• John F. Hartranft
• Marshall Jewell

Democratic Party

• Samuel J. Tilden
• Thomas A. Hendricks
• Winfield S. Hancock
• William Allen
• Thomas F. Bayard
• Joel Parker

Republican Party

• Ulysses S. Grant

Democratic Party

• Horace Greeley
• Jeremiah S. Black
• James A. Bayard
• William S. Groesbeck

Republican Party

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Salmon P. Chase
• Benjamin Wade

Democratic Party

• Horatio Seymour
• George H. Pendleton
• Thomas A. Hendricks
• Winfield S. Hancock
• Andrew Johnson
• Sanford E. Church
• Asa Packer
• James E. English
• Joel Parker
• James R. Doolittle
• Stephen J. Field
• Francis P. Blair Jr.
• Salmon P. Chase
• John T. Hoffman

National Union Party

• Abraham Lincoln

Democratic Party

• George B. McClellan
• Thomas H. Seymour

Republican Party

• Abraham Lincoln
• William H. Seward
• Simon Cameron
• Salmon P. Chase
• Edward Bates

Democratic Party

• Stephen A. Douglas
• John C. Breckinridge
• James Guthrie
• Robert M. T. Hunter
• Joseph Lane
• Daniel S. Dickinson
• Andrew Johnson

Democratic Party

• James Buchanan
• Franklin Pierce
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Lewis Cass

Republican Party

• John C. Frémont
• John McLean
• Charles Sumner
• Nathaniel P. Banks
• William H. Seward
• Salmon P. Chase