List of third party performances in United states elections - wikipedia List of third party performances in United states elections See also : List of third party performances in United States presidential elections This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. This is a list of third party performances in United States elections. In the United States it is rare for third party and independent candidates, other than those of the six parties which have succeeded as major parties ( Federalist Party, Democratic - Republican Party, National Republican Party, Democratic Party, Whig Party, Republican Party ), to take large shares of the vote in elections. In the 58 presidential elections since 1788, third party or independent candidates have won at least 5.0 % of the vote or garnered electoral votes 12 times ( 21 % ) ; this does not count George Washington, who was elected as an independent in 1788 -- 1789 and 1792, but who largely supported Federalist policies and was supported by Federalists. Occasionally, a third party becomes one of the two major parties through a presidential election ( the last time it happened was in 1856, when the Republicans supplanted the Whigs, who had withered and endorsed the ticket of the American Party ) : such an election is called a realigning election, as it causes a realignment in the party system ; according to scholars, there have been six party systems so far. Only once one of the two major parties came third in an election, but that did not cause a realignment ( in 1912 the Progressive Party surpassed the Republicans, but the party quickly disappeared and the Republicans re-gained their major party status ). The last third party candidate to win one or more states was George Wallace of the American Independent Party in 1968, while the most recent third party candidate to win more than 5.0 % of the vote was Ross Perot, who ran as an independent and as the standard - bearer of the Reform Party in 1992 and 1996, respectively. In the 302 gubernatorial elections since 1990, third party or independent candidates have won at least 5.0 % of the vote 49 times ( 16 % ), while six candidates have won election ( 2 % ). The most recent third party or independent governor to win was Alaska 's Bill Walker, a Republican turned independent, in 2014. In the 380 Senate elections since 1990, third party or independent candidates have won at least 5.0 % of the vote 32 times ( 8 % ) ; two of those candidates ( 0.5 % ) have won, both in 2012 ( Bernie Sanders and Angus King, who both decided to caucus with the Democrats ; Sanders received Democratic support during his 2006 and 2012 electoral campaigns ). In 6 of the 32 races, one or the other of the major parties failed to nominate any candidate, allowing third - party candidates to perform better than usual. Contents 1 Statistics 2 Presidential elections 3 Gubernatorial elections 4 Senate elections 4.1 Senate elections ( By Legislature ) 5 Mayoral elections 6 House elections 7 Minor elections 8 See also 9 References Statistics Main article : Third party officeholders in the United States Note : Prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913, most states did not hold direct elections to the Senate. Legend : 1st 2nd 3rd Elections with Notable Third Party Electoral Performances ( 1900 -- Present ) Gubernatorial Elections Senate Elections Total Elections State Threshold Reached Threshold Candidates Third Party Victory Threshold Reached Threshold Candidates Third Party Victory Threshold Reached Threshold Candidates Third Party Victory Alabama 5 6 0 0 9 10 0 Alaska 9 10 5 5 14 15 Arizona 5 5 0 7 11 0 12 16 0 Arkansas 10 11 0 5 5 15 16 California 8 10 9 11 0 17 21 Colorado 6 0 5 0 8 11 0 Connecticut 7 9 11 13 Delaware 0 0 0 Florida 0 6 6 Georgia 0 0 6 6 0 Hawaii 0 0 5 5 0 Idaho 13 16 0 5 0 17 21 0 Illinois 5 0 0 6 7 0 Indiana 0 0 5 6 0 Iowa 0 0 0 Kansas 6 7 0 5 6 0 11 13 0 Kentucky 0 0 0 0 0 Louisiana 0 0 5 5 0 Maine 12 17 16 21 Maryland 0 0 0 Massachusetts 10 10 0 0 14 14 0 Michigan 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 21 25 5 18 21 5 39 46 10 Mississippi 0 0 6 6 0 Missouri 0 0 0 Nebraska 10 10 13 13 Nevada 6 7 7 8 0 13 15 New Hampshire 0 0 5 5 0 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 New Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 New York 11 12 0 8 8 19 20 North Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 North Dakota 7 8 9 11 16 19 Ohio 0 0 6 8 0 Oklahoma 7 7 0 0 10 10 0 Oregon 6 7 9 14 0 15 20 Pennsylvania 0 5 0 7 8 0 Rhode Island 7 9 0 0 8 10 0 South Carolina 0 0 0 South Dakota 7 9 0 5 7 0 12 16 0 Tennessee 7 8 0 0 11 12 0 Texas 9 12 0 0 10 13 0 Utah 6 7 0 0 9 10 0 Vermont 10 10 0 13 13 Virginia 0 14 18 18 22 Washington 7 8 0 5 6 0 12 14 0 West Virginia 0 0 0 0 0 Wisconsin 18 21 12 15 30 36 5 Wyoming 0 0 0 Total 280 322 21 196 228 19 476 550 40 Presidential elections Main article : List of third party performances in United States presidential elections Gubernatorial elections Listed below are gubernatorial elections since the 1820s in which a third party or independent candidate won or were reasonably close to receiving 5.0 % of the vote. Winners are shown in bold. Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1820 's -- 1850 ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1823 Vermont Independent Dudley Chase 1,088 8.11 / 100 2nd 1824 Vermont Independent Joel Doolittle 1,962 12.48 / 100 2nd 1826 Vermont Independent Joel Doolittle 3,157 22.30 / 100 2nd 1827 Vermont Independent Joel Doolittle 1,951 12.13 / 100 2nd 1828 New York Anti-Masonic Solomon Southwick 33,345 12.06 / 100 3rd 1829 Georgia Democratic - Troup George Rockingham Gilmer 24,204 69.31 / 100 1st Democratic - Clark Joel Crawford 10,718 30.69 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic Joseph Ritner 51,776 39.83 / 100 2nd Vermont Anti-Masonic Heman Allen 7,346 28.59 / 100 2nd 1830 Vermont Anti-Masonic William A. Palmer 10,923 35.56 / 100 2nd 1831 Connecticut Anti-Masonic Zalmon Storrs 4,778 25.62 / 100 2nd Georgia Union Wilson Lumpkin 27,305 51.35 / 100 1st Democratic - Troup George Rockingham Gilmer 25,867 48.65 / 100 2nd Indiana Independent Milton Stapp 6,984 13.56 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Anti-Masonic Samuel Lathrop 13,357 25.01 / 100 2nd Vermont Anti-Masonic William A. Palmer 15,258 44.00 / 100 1st 1832 Massachusetts Anti-Masonic Samuel Lathrop 14,755 22.97 / 100 3rd Ohio Anti-Masonic Darius Lyman 63,185 46.99 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic Joseph Ritner 88,165 49.12 / 100 2nd Rhode Island ( General ) Anti-Masonic William Sprague III 610 10.82 / 100 3rd Rhode Island ( 1st Runoff ) 698 10.03 / 100 3rd Rhode Island ( 2nd Runoff ) 792 13.52 / 100 3rd Rhode Island ( 3rd Runoff ) 967 14.33 / 100 3rd Rhode Island ( 4th Runoff ) 832 13.80 / 100 3rd Vermont Anti-Masonic William A. Palmer 20,565 46.40 / 100 1st 1833 Connecticut Anti-Masonic Zalmon Storrs 3,250 14.87 / 100 3rd Georgia Unionist Democratic Wilson Lumpkin 30,861 51.93 / 100 1st Nullifier Independent Joel Crawford 28,670 48.07 / 100 2nd Maine Independent Democrat Samuel E. Smith 3,024 6.13 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Anti-Masonic John Quincy Adams 18,274 29.14 / 100 2nd Workingmen 's Samuel L. Allen 3,459 5.52 / 100 4th Vermont Anti-Masonic William A. Palmer 20,565 52.86 / 100 1st 1834 Connecticut Anti-Masonic Zalmon Storrs 2,398 6.49 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Anti-Masonic John Bailey 10,160 13.48 / 100 3rd Vermont Anti-Masonic William A. Palmer 17,131 45.37 / 100 1st 1835 Georgia Union William Schley 31,197 52.11 / 100 1st Southern Rights Charles Dougherty 28,670 47.89 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic Joseph Ritner 94,023 46.92 / 100 1st Independent Democrat George Wolf 65,804 32.83 / 100 2nd Tennessee Anti-Van Buren Democrat Newton Cannon 41,862 50.41 / 100 1st Independent West H. Humphreys 7,999 9.63 / 100 3rd 1836 Missouri Independent William Henry Ashley 13,057 47.70 / 100 2nd New Hampshire Independent George Sullivan 2,230 7.27 / 100 3rd 1837 Alabama Anti-Van Buren Democrat Samuel W. Oliver 20,152 45.21 / 100 2nd Georgia Southern Rights George Rockingham Gilmer 34,179 50.56 / 100 1st Union William Schley 33,417 49.44 / 100 2nd Mississippi Southern Rights Whig J.B. Morgan 9,896 35.54 / 100 2nd Southern Rights Whig John A. Grimball 4,974 17.86 / 100 3rd 1838 Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic Joseph Ritner 122,325 48.90 / 100 2nd 1839 Georgia Union Charles James McDonald 34,634 51.42 / 100 1st Southern Rights Charles Dougherty 32,727 48.58 / 100 2nd Rhode Island Abolition Tristam Burges 457 7.40 / 100 3rd 1841 Alabama Independent Whig James W. McLung 21,219 43.13 / 100 2nd Vermont Liberty Titus Hutchinson 3,039 6.34 / 100 3rd 1842 Maine Liberty James Appleton 4,080 5.68 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Liberty Samuel Sewall 6,382 5.41 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Independent Democrat John H. White 5,869 12.20 / 100 3rd Liberty Daniel Holt 2,812 5.85 / 100 4th 1843 Maine Liberty James Appleton 6,746 10.58 / 100 3rd Calhoun Democrat Edward Kavanagh 3,221 5.05 / 100 4th Massachusetts Liberty Samuel Sewall 8,901 7.34 / 100 3rd Michigan Liberty James G. Birney 2,776 7.11 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Conservative John H. White 5,597 12.53 / 100 3rd Liberty Daniel Holt 3,392 7.59 / 100 4th Rhode Island Law and Order James Fenner 9,107 55.18 / 100 1st Vermont Liberty Charles K. Williams 5,618 10.24 / 100 3rd 1844 Arkansas Independent Richard C. Byrd 2,514 13.50 / 100 3rd Maine Liberty James Appleton 6,245 6.65 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Liberty Samuel Sewall 9,635 7.18 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Liberty Daniel Holt 5,767 11.84 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Law and Order James Fenner 5,560 96.39 / 100 1st Vermont Liberty William R. Shafter 5,618 10.24 / 100 3rd 1845 Alabama Independent Democrat Joshua L. Martin 30,261 53.55 / 100 1st Maine Liberty Samuel Fessenden 5,867 8.70 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Liberty Samuel Sewall 8,316 7.85 / 100 3rd American Henry Shaw 8,089 7.64 / 100 4th Michigan Liberty James G. Birney 3,065 7.76 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Liberty Daniel Holt 5,786 12.64 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Liberation Party Charles Jackson 8,007 50.48 / 100 1st Law and Order James Fenner 7,795 49.14 / 100 2nd Vermont Liberty William R. Shafter 6,534 13.54 / 100 3rd 1846 Illinois Liberty Richard Eels 5,154 5.11 / 100 3rd Maine Liberty Samuel Fessenden 9,398 12.42 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Liberty Samuel Sewall 9,997 9.81 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Free Soil Nathaniel S. Berry 10,403 18.76 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Law and Order Byron Diman 7,477 49.77 / 100 1st Vermont Free Soil Lawrence Brainerd 7,118 14.62 / 100 3rd 1847 Maine Liberty Samuel Fessenden 7,352 11.26 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Liberty Samuel Sewall 9,193 8.72 / 100 3rd Michigan Liberty Chester Gurney 2,585 5.59 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Free Soil Nathaniel S. Berry 8,531 14.10 / 100 3rd Vermont Free Soil Lawrence Brainerd 6,926 14.41 / 100 3rd 1848 Illinois Free Soil Charles V. Dyer 4,692 6.00 / 100 3rd Maine Liberty Samuel Fessenden 11,484 14.27 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Free Soil Stephen C. Phillips 36,011 29.03 / 100 2nd New York Free Soil John Adams Dix 122,811 26.70 / 100 2nd Vermont Free Soil Oscar Lovell Shafter 14,931 29.62 / 100 2nd 1849 Connecticut Free Soil John Milton Niles 3,520 6.25 / 100 3rd Maine Free Soil George F. Talbot 7,987 10.83 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Free Soil Stephen C. Phillips 25,247 23.06 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Free Soil Nathaniel S. Berry 7,045 12.57 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Free Soil Edward Harris 458 5.32 / 100 3rd Vermont Free Soil Horatio Needham 23,250 43.98 / 100 2nd Wisconsin Free Soil Warren Chase 3,761 11.85 / 100 3rd 1850 Maine Free Soil George F. Talbot 7,267 9.01 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Free Soil Stephen C. Phillips 27,636 22.77 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Free Soil Nathaniel S. Berry 6,472 11.60 / 100 3rd Ohio Free Soil Edward Smith 13,747 5.13 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Free Soil Edward Harris 773 16.89 / 100 2nd Vermont Free Soil Lucius Benedict Peck 18,856 39.69 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1851 -- 1880 ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1851 Georgia Union Howell Cobb 57,417 59.66 / 100 1st Southern Rights Charles James McDonald 38,824 40.34 / 100 2nd Massachusetts Free Soil John G. Palfrey 28,560 20.85 / 100 3rd Mississippi Union Henry S. Foote 29,358 50.87 / 100 1st Southern Rights Jefferson Davis 28,359 49.14 / 100 2nd New Hampshire Free Soil John Atwood 12,049 20.73 / 100 3rd Ohio Free Soil Samuel Lewis 16,918 6.00 / 100 3rd Vermont Free Soil Timothy P. Redfield 14,950 33.71 / 100 2nd 1852 Illinois Free Soil D.A. Knowlton 9,024 5.85 / 100 3rd Maine Anti-Maine Law Anson G. Chandler 21,774 22.99 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Free Soil Horace Mann 36,740 26.54 / 100 3rd Michigan Free Soil Isaac P. Christiancy 6,350 7.58 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Free Soil John Atwood 9,683 15.78 / 100 3rd Vermont Free Soil Lawrence Brainerd 9,446 19.60 / 100 3rd 1853 Alabama Unionist Democratic Alvis Q. Nicks 5,763 12.37 / 100 3rd Connecticut Free Soil Francis Gillette 8,926 14.78 / 100 3rd Georgia Southern Rights Herschel Vespasian Johnson 47,638 50.27 / 100 1st Union Charles J. Jenkins 47,128 49.73 / 100 2nd Maine Anti-Maine Law Anson Morrill 11,027 13.19 / 100 3rd Free Soil Ezekial Holmes 8,996 10.76 / 100 4th Massachusetts Free Soil Henry Wilson 29,020 22.51 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Free Soil John H. White 7,997 14.14 / 100 3rd Ohio Free Soil Samuel Lewis 50,346 17.74 / 100 3rd Vermont Free Soil Lawrence Brainerd 8,291 17.49 / 100 3rd 1854 Connecticut Temperance Charles Chapman 10,672 17.49 / 100 3rd Delaware American Peter F. Causey 6,941 52.64 / 100 1st Maine American Anson Morrill 44,565 49.17 / 100 1st Massachusetts American Henry Gardner 81,503 62.58 / 100 1st Free Soil Henry Wilson 6,483 4.98 / 100 4th New Hampshire Free Soil Jared Perkins 11,080 19.13 / 100 3rd New York American Daniel Ullman 122,282 26.05 / 100 3rd Hard - Shell Greene C. Bronson 33,850 7.21 / 100 4th 1855 Alabama American George D. Shortridge 32,086 42.21 / 100 2nd California American J. Neely Johnson 51,157 52.53 / 100 1st Connecticut American William T. Minor 28,080 43.51 / 100 1st Georgia American Garnett Andrews 43,358 41.76 / 100 2nd Temperance B.H. Overby 6,331 6.10 / 100 3rd Kentucky American Charles S. Morehead 69,816 51.63 / 100 1st Louisiana American Charles Derbigny 19,755 46.26 / 100 2nd Massachusetts American Henry Gardner 51,497 37.73 / 100 1st Mississippi American Charles D. Fontaine 27,579 45.78 / 100 2nd New Hampshire American Ralph Metcalf 32,779 50.71 / 100 1st Ohio American Allen Trimble 24,276 8.04 / 100 3rd Texas American D.C. Dickson 18,968 40.93 / 100 2nd Vermont American James M. Slade 3,631 8.33 / 100 3rd Virginia American Thomas Flournoy 73,354 46.83 / 100 2nd 1856 Arkansas American James Yell 15,249 35.58 / 100 2nd Connecticut American William T. Minor 26,008 38.99 / 100 2nd Florida American David S. Walker 5,894 48.68 / 100 2nd Illinois American Buckner Stith Morris 19,088 8.04 / 100 3rd Indiana People 's Oliver P. Morton 112,039 48.71 / 100 2nd Massachusetts Fillmore American George W. Gordon 10,385 6.62 / 100 3rd Missouri American Robert C. Ewing 40,589 35.23 / 100 2nd Benton Democrat Thomas Hart Benton 27,618 23.97 / 100 3rd New Hampshire American Ralph Metcalf 32,119 48.15 / 100 1st New York American Erastus Brooks 130,870 22.04 / 100 3rd North Carolina American John Adams Gilmer 44,970 43.80 / 100 2nd 1857 California American George Washington Bowie 19,481 20.80 / 100 3rd Georgia American Benjamin Harvey Hill 46,889 44.86 / 100 2nd Maryland American Thomas Holliday Hicks 47,141 54.93 / 100 1st Massachusetts American Henry Gardner 37,596 28.81 / 100 2nd Mississippi American Edward M. Yerger 14,095 33.99 / 100 2nd Missouri American James S. Rollins 47,641 49.83 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania American Isaac Hazlehurst 28,168 7.76 / 100 3rd Tennessee American Robert H. Hatton 59,807 45.56 / 100 2nd Texas American Sam Houston 23,628 42.06 / 100 2nd 1858 Massachusetts American Amos Adams Lawrence 12,084 10.13 / 100 3rd New York American Lorenzo Burrows 61,137 11.22 / 100 3rd North Carolina Independent Democrat Duncan K. McRae 40,036 41.50 / 100 2nd 1859 Alabama Southern Rights Democratic William F. Samford 19,745 27.22 / 100 2nd California Lecompton Democrat Milton Latham 61,352 59.70 / 100 1st Kentucky Opposition Joshua Fry Bell 67,283 46.90 / 100 2nd Louisiana American Thomas J. Wells 15,587 37.98 / 100 2nd Massachusetts American George N. Briggs 14,365 13.20 / 100 3rd Mississippi Independent Harvey W. Walter 10,308 22.98 / 100 2nd Tennessee Opposition John H. Netherland 68,040 47.21 / 100 2nd Texas Independent Sam Houston 36,227 56.79 / 100 1st Virginia Opposition William L. Goggin 71,592 48.11 / 100 2nd 1860 Arkansas Independent Democrat Henry Massey Rector 32,048 52.52 / 100 1st Delaware People 's James S. Buckmaster 7,554 49.33 / 100 2nd Massachusetts Constitutional Union Amos Adams Lawrence 23,816 14.04 / 100 3rd Missouri Constitutional Union Sample Orr 66,583 41.99 / 100 2nd Breckinridge Democrat Hancock Lee Jackson 11,415 7.20 / 100 3rd 1861 California Breckinridge Democrat John R. McConnell 32,751 27.35 / 100 2nd Maine Opposition Democrat John W. Dana 19,383 19.77 / 100 3rd Vermont Union People 's Andrew Tracy 5,722 13.37 / 100 2nd 1862 Massachusetts People 's Charles Devens 54,167 39.91 / 100 2nd 1863 New Hampshire Union Walter Harriman 4,372 6.56 / 100 3rd 1864 Louisiana Independent J.Q. Fellows 2,720 25.36 / 100 2nd Radical Republican Benjamin Flanders 1,847 17.22 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Independent Republican Amos C. Barstow 1,339 7.64 / 100 3rd 1865 Alabama Whig Robert M. Patton 20,611 45.21 / 100 1st Union William Russell Smith 8,557 18.77 / 100 3rd Louisiana Independent Henry Watkins Allen 6,297 21.84 / 100 2nd North Carolina Conservative Jonathan Worth 32,549 55.49 / 100 1st South Carolina Independent James Lawrence Orr 9,771 51.75 / 100 1st Independent Wade Hampton III 9,109 48.25 / 100 2nd 1866 North Carolina Conservative Jonathan Worth 34,250 75.87 / 100 1st 1867 Kentucky Conservative William B. Kinkead 13,167 9.59 / 100 3rd Tennessee Conservative Emerson Etheridge 22,440 23.15 / 100 2nd 1868 Florida Radical Republican Samuel Walker 2,251 9.22 / 100 3rd Louisiana White Republican James Taliaferro 38,118 37.23 / 100 2nd North Carolina Conservative Thomas Samuel Ashe 73,600 44.28 / 100 2nd 1869 Maine Temperance Nathan Griffith Hichborn 5,028 5.28 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Labor Reform Edwin M. Chamberlain 13,567 9.80 / 100 3rd Mississippi Conservative Louis Dent 38,097 33.34 / 100 2nd Tennessee Radical Republican William Brickly Stokes 55,036 31.38 / 100 2nd Virginia Conservative Gilbert Carlton Walker 119,535 54.15 / 100 1st Radical Republican Henry H. Wells 101,204 45.85 / 100 2nd 1870 Massachusetts Labor Reform Wendell Phillips 21,946 14.59 / 100 3rd Missouri Liberal Republican Benjamin Gratz Brown 104,374 62.27 / 100 1st New Hampshire Labor Reform Samuel Flint 7,369 10.76 / 100 3rd 1871 Massachusetts Labor Reform Edwin M. Chamberlain 6,848 5.01 / 100 3rd 1872 Alabama Liberal Republican T. Hendon 81,371 47.52 / 100 2nd Arkansas Liberal Republican Joseph Brooks 38,909 48.20 / 100 2nd Florida Liberal Republican William D. Bloxham 16,004 47.62 / 100 2nd Georgia Liberal Republican James Milton Smith 104,539 69.23 / 100 1st Illinois Liberal Republican Gustav Koerner 197,084 45.10 / 100 2nd Kansas Liberal Republican Thaddeus H. Walker 34,698 34.22 / 100 2nd Massachusetts Liberal Republican Francis W. Bird 59,626 30.77 / 100 2nd Michigan Liberal Republican Austin Blair 80,598 36.27 / 100 2nd North Carolina Conservative Augustus Summerfield Merrimon 96,731 49.51 / 100 2nd South Carolina Independent Republican Reuben Tomlinson 36,553 34.36 / 100 2nd Tennessee Liberal Republican John C. Brown 97,689 53.74 / 100 1st West Virginia People 's Independent John J. Jacob 42,888 51.55 / 100 1st 1873 Iowa Anti-Monopoly Jacob G. Vale 82,556 43.61 / 100 2nd Mississippi Independent James L. Alcorn 52,857 41.89 / 100 2nd 1874 Connecticut Temperance Henry D. Smith 4,960 5.40 / 100 3rd Nebraska Greenback Party J.F. Gardner 4,159 11.55 / 100 3rd Oregon Independent Thomas F. Campbell 6,532 25.71 / 100 3rd South Carolina Independent Republican John T. Green 68,818 46.12 / 100 2nd 1875 California Independent John Bidwell 29,752 24.20 / 100 3rd Iowa Anti-Monopoly Shepherd Leffler 93,270 42.61 / 100 2nd Massachusetts Temperance John I. Baker 9,124 5.27 / 100 3rd Rhode Island National Republican Rowland Hazard, II 8,368 37.56 / 100 2nd 1876 Kansas Independent Reform J. Hudson 6,020 4.94 / 100 3rd Nebraska Greenback Party J.F. Gardner 3,022 5.79 / 100 3rd Rhode Island National Republican Albert C. Howard 6,733 35.37 / 100 2nd Tennessee Independent Dorsey B. Thomas 73,695 35.09 / 100 2nd 1877 Iowa Greenback Party Daniel P. Stubbs 34,316 13.97 / 100 3rd Maine Greenback Party Henry C. Munson 5,291 5.18 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Prohibition Robert C. Pitman 16,354 8.87 / 100 3rd Wisconsin Greenback Party Edward P. Allis 26,216 14.72 / 100 3rd 1878 Colorado Greenback Party R.G. Buckingham 2,783 9.72 / 100 3rd Connecticut Greenback Party Charles Atwater 8,314 7.94 / 100 3rd Delaware Greenback Party K. Stewart 2,835 20.90 / 100 2nd Kansas Greenback Party David P. Mitchell 27,057 19.57 / 100 3rd Maine Greenback Party Joseph L. Smith 41,371 32.79 / 100 2nd Michigan Greenback Party Henry S. Smith 73,313 25.93 / 100 3rd Nebraska Greenback Party Levi G. Todd 9,484 18.16 / 100 3rd New Hampshire Greenback Party Warren G. Brown 6,507 8.57 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania Greenback Party Samuel R. Mason 81,758 11.65 / 100 3rd Tennessee Greenback Party R.M. Edwards 15,470 10.47 / 100 3rd Texas Greenback Party William H. Hamman 55,002 23.20 / 100 2nd 1879 California Workingmen 's William F. White 44,482 27.76 / 100 3rd Iowa Greenback Party Daniel Campbell 45,674 15.65 / 100 3rd Kentucky Greenback Party Charles W. Cook 18,954 8.38 / 100 3rd Maine Greenback Party Joseph L. Smith 47,987 34.68 / 100 2nd New York Jeffersonian John Kelly 77,566 8.65 / 100 3rd Wisconsin Greenback Party Reuben May 12,996 6.88 / 100 3rd 1880 Alabama Greenback Party James Madison Pickens 42,363 23.90 / 100 2nd Arkansas Greenback Party W. Parks 31,424 27.18 / 100 2nd Georgia Independent Democrat Thomas M. Norwood 63,631 35.07 / 100 2nd Kansas Greenback Party H.P. Vrooman 19,481 9.80 / 100 3rd Maine Fusion Harris M. Plaisted 73,713 49.48 / 100 1st Michigan Greenback Party David Woodman 31,085 8.90 / 100 3rd Missouri Greenback Party Luman A. Brown 36,340 9.14 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Independent Republican Albert C. Howard 5,047 22.13 / 100 3rd Tennessee Debt - Paying Democrat William B. Bate 79,081 32.38 / 100 2nd Low Tax Democrat William B. Bate 57,568 23.57 / 100 3rd Texas Greenback Party William H. Hamman 33,721 12.76 / 100 3rd West Virginia Greenback Party N.B. French 13,027 10.96 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1881 -- 1908 ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1881 Iowa Greenback Party D.M. Clark 28,112 11.96 / 100 3rd Mississippi Fusion Benjamin King 51,994 40.37 / 100 2nd Virginia Readjuster William E. Cameron 113,464 52.97 / 100 1st Wisconsin Prohibition Theodore D. Kanouse 13,225 7.70 / 100 3rd 1882 Arkansas Greenback Party Rufus King Garland Jr. 10,142 6.89 / 100 3rd Georgia Independent Democrat Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell 44,893 29.43 / 100 2nd Kansas Greenback Party Charles L. Robinson 20,933 11.67 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Fusion Benjamin Butler 133,946 52.27 / 100 1st Michigan Fusion Josiah Begole 154,269 49.42 / 100 1st Nebraska Greenback Party E.P. Ingersoll 16,991 19.08 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania Independent Republican John Stewart 43,743 5.88 / 100 3rd South Carolina Greenback Party J.H. McLane 17,319 20.50 / 100 2nd Tennessee Low Tax Democrat William B. Bate 120,091 52.73 / 100 1st Texas Fusion George W. Jones 102,501 40.41 / 100 2nd 1883 Iowa Greenback Party James B. Weaver 23,089 7.06 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Fusion Benjamin Butler 150,228 48.10 / 100 2nd 1884 Massachusetts Greenback Party Matthew J. McCafferty 24,363 8.01 / 100 3rd Michigan Fusion Josiah Begole 186,887 46.68 / 100 2nd Prohibition David Preston 22,207 5.55 / 100 3rd Texas Greenback Party George W. Jones 88,450 27.11 / 100 2nd 1885 Rhode Island Prohibition Gordon H. Slade 1,206 5.37 / 100 3rd 1886 Arkansas Agricultural Wheel Charles E. Cunningham 19,169 11.70 / 100 3rd California Independent C.C. O'Donnell 12,227 6.25 / 100 3rd Delaware Temperance Reform John H. Hoffecker 7,835 35.75 / 100 2nd Michigan Fusion George L. Yaple 174,042 45.69 / 100 2nd Prohibition Samuel Dickie 25,179 6.61 / 100 3rd Nebraska Prohibition H.W. Hardy 8,198 5.92 / 100 3rd New Jersey Prohibition Clinton B. Fisk 19,808 8.55 / 100 3rd Oregon Prohibition J. Houston 2,727 4.97 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Prohibition Gordon H. Slade 2,585 9.60 / 100 3rd Texas Prohibition E.L. Dahoney 19,186 6.12 / 100 3rd Wisconsin People 's John Cochrane 21,467 7.50 / 100 3rd 1887 Rhode Island Prohibition Thomas H. Peabody 1,895 5.39 / 100 3rd 1888 Arkansas Union Labor C.M. Norwood 84,223 45.91 / 100 2nd Kansas Union Labor P.P. Elder 35,847 10.84 / 100 3rd Michigan Fusion Wellington R. Burt 216,450 45.59 / 100 2nd Minnesota Prohibition Hugh G. Harrison 17,026 6.51 / 100 3rd Texas Fusion Marion Martin 98,447 28.23 / 100 2nd 1889 Massachusetts Prohibition Joseph Blackmer 15,108 5.74 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Law Enforcement James Chace 3,596 8.34 / 100 3rd 1890 Arkansas Union Labor N.B. Fizer 85,181 44.49 / 100 2nd Colorado Union Labor John G. Coy 5,199 6.23 / 100 3rd Kansas People 's John F. Willits 106,945 36.31 / 100 2nd Michigan Prohibition Azariah S. Partridge 28,681 7.21 / 100 3rd Minnesota Alliance Sidney W. Owen 58,513 24.29 / 100 3rd Nebraska People 's Independent J.H. Powers 70,187 32.78 / 100 2nd North Dakota Alliance Walter Muir 4,821 13.22 / 100 3rd South Carolina Independent Democrat A.C. Haskell 14,828 20.04 / 100 2nd South Dakota Independent H.L. Loucks 24,591 31.71 / 100 2nd Tennessee Prohibition D. Kelley 11,082 5.52 / 100 3rd 1891 Kentucky People 's S.B. Erwin 25,631 8.86 / 100 3rd 1892 Alabama Independent Democrat R.F. Kolb 115,732 47.58 / 100 2nd Arkansas People 's J.P. Carnahan 31,116 19.92 / 100 3rd Colorado People 's Davis Hanson Waite 43,342 46.68 / 100 1st Florida People 's Alonzo P. Baskin 8,379 20.57 / 100 2nd Georgia People 's W. Peck 68,093 33.28 / 100 2nd Idaho People 's Abraham J. Crook 4,865 24.23 / 100 3rd Kansas People 's Lorenzo D. Lewelling 162,507 50.04 / 100 1st Louisiana Anti-Lottery Democrat Murphy J. Foster 79,407 44.54 / 100 1st Independent Republican John E. Breaux 12,409 6.96 / 100 4th People 's R.H. Tannehill 9,792 5.49 / 100 5th Minnesota People 's Ignatius L. Donnelly 39,862 15.58 / 100 3rd Missouri People 's Leverett Leonard 37,262 6.89 / 100 3rd Nebraska People 's Independent Charles Van Wyck 68,617 34.75 / 100 2nd Montana People 's William Kennedy 7,794 17.64 / 100 3rd North Carolina People 's Wyatt P. Exum 47,747 17.04 / 100 3rd North Dakota People 's Eli C.D. Shortridge 18,995 52.43 / 100 1st South Dakota Independent A.L. Van Osdel 22,323 31.71 / 100 2nd Tennessee People 's John P. Buchanan 31,515 11.95 / 100 3rd Texas Independent Democrat George Clark 133,395 47.58 / 100 2nd People 's Thomas L. Nugent 108,483 24.91 / 100 3rd Washington People 's Cyrus W. Young 23,750 26.41 / 100 3rd 1893 Iowa People 's J.M. Joseph 23,980 5.77 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Prohibition Henry B. Metcalf 3,265 6.93 / 100 3rd Virginia People 's Edmund R. Cocke 79,653 37.09 / 100 2nd 1894 Alabama People 's R.F. Kolb 83,292 42.90 / 100 2nd Arkansas People 's D.E. Barker 24,181 19.10 / 100 3rd California People 's J.V. Webster 51,304 18.03 / 100 3rd Colorado People 's Davis Hanson Waite 73,894 41.06 / 100 2nd Georgia People 's J.K. Hines 96,990 44.44 / 100 2nd Idaho People 's James W. Ballantine 7,121 28.96 / 100 2nd Kansas People 's Lorenzo D. Lewelling 118,329 39.41 / 100 2nd Maine People 's Luther C. Bateman 5,328 4.94 / 100 3rd Michigan People 's Alva W. Nichols 30,012 7.20 / 100 3rd Minnesota People 's Sidney M. Owen 87,890 29.67 / 100 2nd Nebraska Fusion Silas A. Holcomb 97,825 47.97 / 100 1st Nevada Silver John Edward Jones 5,223 49.87 / 100 1st People 's George Peckham 711 6.79 / 100 3rd North Dakota People 's Elmer D. Wallace 9,354 21.99 / 100 2nd Oregon People 's Nathan Pierce 26,125 29.99 / 100 2nd South Carolina People 's Sampson Pope 17,278 30.43 / 100 2nd South Dakota People 's Isaac Howe 27,568 35.46 / 100 2nd Tennessee People 's A.L. Mims 23,092 11.00 / 100 3rd Texas People 's Thomas L. Nugent 152,731 36.13 / 100 2nd Wisconsin People 's D. Frank Powell 25,604 6.82 / 100 3rd Wyoming People 's Lewis C. Tidball 2,176 11.28 / 100 3rd 1895 Iowa People 's Sylvester B. Crane 32,189 8.02 / 100 3rd Mississippi People 's Frank Burkett 18,167 27.93 / 100 2nd Ohio People 's Jacob S. Coxey Sr. 52,675 6.29 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Prohibition Smith Quimby 2,624 5.95 / 100 3rd Utah People 's Henry W. Lawrence 2,051 4.95 / 100 3rd 1896 Alabama People 's Albert Taylor Goodwyn 89,290 40.99 / 100 2nd Arkansas People 's A.W. Files 13,980 9.86 / 100 3rd Colorado People 's M.S. Bailey 71,808 37.98 / 100 2nd Delaware Union Republican John H. Hoffecker 11,014 31.35 / 100 2nd Florida People 's W.A. Wicks 5,370 13.15 / 100 3rd Georgia People 's Seaborn Wright 85,981 41.10 / 100 2nd Idaho Fusion Frank Steunenberg 22,096 76.79 / 100 1st Kansas People 's John W. Leedy 167,941 50.55 / 100 1st Louisiana Fusion John N. Pharr 87,698 42.99 / 100 2nd Michigan Democratic People 's Union Silver Charles Robert Sligh 221,022 40.35 / 100 2nd Minnesota Democratic People 's John Lind 162,254 48.10 / 100 2nd Montana People 's Robert Burns Smith 36,688 70.99 / 100 1st Nebraska Fusion Silas A. Holcomb 116,415 53.46 / 100 1st North Carolina People 's William A. Guthrie 30,943 9.35 / 100 3rd North Dakota People 's Robert B. Richardson 20,690 44.39 / 100 2nd Rhode Island Prohibition Thomas H. Peabody 2,950 5.84 / 100 3rd South Carolina Lily - White Republican Sampson Pope 4,432 6.65 / 100 2nd South Dakota People 's Andrew E. Lee 41,177 49.75 / 100 1st Texas People 's Jerome C. Kearby 238,325 44.18 / 100 2nd Washington Fusion John Rankin Rogers 50,849 55.55 / 100 1st 1897 Rhode Island Prohibition Thomas H. Peabody 2,096 5.01 / 100 3rd 1898 Alabama People 's Gilbert B. Dean 50,052 30.32 / 100 2nd Arkansas People 's W.S. Morgan 8,332 7.45 / 100 3rd Colorado Fusion Charles S. Thomas 93,966 62.89 / 100 1st Georgia People 's J. Hogan 51,191 30.25 / 100 2nd Idaho Fusion Frank Steunenberg 19,407 48.83 / 100 1st People 's James H. Henderson 5,371 13.51 / 100 3rd Kansas People 's John W. Leedy 134,158 46.55 / 100 2nd Massachusetts National Democratic William Everett 13,879 5.14 / 100 3rd Michigan Democratic People 's Union Silver Justin Rice Whiting 168,142 39.92 / 100 2nd Minnesota Democratic People 's John Lind 131,980 52.26 / 100 1st Nebraska Fusion William A. Poynter 95,703 50.19 / 100 1st Nevada Silver Reinhold Sadler 3,570 35.67 / 100 1st People 's J.B. McCullough 833 8.32 / 100 4th North Dakota Fusion David M. Holmes 19,496 40.78 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania Prohibition Silas C. Swallow 132,931 13.68 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Socialist Labor James P. Reid 2,877 6.71 / 100 3rd South Dakota Fusion Andrew E. Lee 37,319 49.63 / 100 1st Texas People 's Barnett Gibbs 114,955 28.07 / 100 2nd 1899 Mississippi People 's R.K. Prewitt 6,097 12.61 / 100 2nd Ohio Independent Samuel M. Jones 106,721 11.75 / 100 3rd Rhode Island Socialist Labor Thomas Herrick 2,941 6.82 / 100 3rd 1900 Alabama People 's Grattan B. Crowe 17,444 10.84 / 100 3rd of 3 Georgia People 's George W. Trayler 25,285 21.43 / 100 2nd of 2 Kansas People 's John W. Breidenthal 164,793 47.33 / 100 2nd of 4 Louisiana Fusion Donelson Caffery 14,215 18.49 / 100 3rd of 3 Minnesota Democratic People 's John Lind 150,651 47.95 / 100 2nd of 4 Montana Independent Democratic Thomas S. Hogan 9,188 14.40 / 100 2nd of 4 Nebraska Fusion William A. Poynter 113,018 48.51 / 100 2nd of 5 North Dakota Fusion M. Wipperman 22,275 38.72 / 100 2nd of 5 Rhode Island Socialist Labor James P. Reid 2,858 5.96 / 100 3rd of 4 South Dakota Fusion Burre H. Lien 40,091 41.97 / 100 2nd of 4 Texas People 's T.J. McMinn 26,579 5.92 / 100 3rd of 6 1902 Arkansas Independent Republican Charles D. Greaves 8,345 6.97 / 100 3rd of 4 Georgia People 's J.K. Hines 5,566 6.39 / 100 2nd of 2 Massachusetts Socialist John C. Chase 33,629 8.44 / 100 3rd of 5 Nebraska Fusion William Henry Thompson 91,116 46.79 / 100 2nd of 4 Nevada Silver - Democratic John Sparks 6,540 57.78 / 100 Elected Vermont Local Option Percival W. Clement 28,201 40.33 / 100 2nd of 4 1903 Massachusetts Socialist John C. Chase 25,251 6.37 / 100 3rd of 5 1904 Idaho Socialist Theodore B. Shaw 4,000 5.61 / 100 3rd of 5 Illinois Socialist John Collins 59,062 5.51 / 100 3rd of 7 Montana Socialist Malcolm A. O'Malley 3,431 5.22 / 100 3rd of 3 Nebraska Fusion George W. Berge 102,568 45.61 / 100 2nd of 4 Utah American William Montague Ferry 7,959 7.82 / 100 3rd of 4 Washington Socialist David Burgess 7,420 5.13 / 100 3rd of 5 Wisconsin Social - Democratic William A. Arnold 24,857 5.53 / 100 3rd of 5 1906 California Independence League William H. Langdon 45,008 14.43 / 100 3rd of 5 Socialist Austin Lewis 16,036 5.14 / 100 4th of 5 Colorado Independent Ben Lindsey 18,014 8.87 / 100 3rd of 5 Socialist Bill Haywood 16,015 7.88 / 100 4th of 5 Idaho Socialist Thomas F. Kelley 4,650 6.32 / 100 3rd of 3 Nebraska Fusion Ashton C. Shallenberger 84,885 44.48 / 100 2nd of 4 Nevada Silver - Democratic John Sparks 8,686 58.54 / 100 Re-Elected Socialist Thomas B. Casey 815 5.49 / 100 3rd of 3 Vermont Independent Percival W. Clement 26,912 38.18 / 100 2nd of 4 1907 Massachusetts Independence League Thomas L. Hisgen 75,499 20.20 / 100 3rd of 7 1908 Florida Socialist A.J. Pettigrew 2,427 5.79 / 100 3rd of 3 Georgia Independent Yancy Carter 11,746 9.47 / 100 2nd of 2 Idaho Socialist Ernest Untermann 6,155 6.38 / 100 3rd of 5 Massachusetts Independence League William N. Osgood 23,101 5.22 / 100 3rd of 6 Montana Socialist Harry Hazelton 5,122 7.50 / 100 3rd of 3 Nebraska Fusion Ashton C. Shallenberger 132,960 49.90 / 100 Elected Utah American John A. Street 11,404 10.23 / 100 3rd of 4 Wisconsin Social - Democratic H.D. Brown 28,583 6.36 / 100 3rd of 5 Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1910 -- 1930 ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1910 Arkansas Socialist Dan Hogan 9,196 6.10 / 100 3rd of 3 California Socialist Jackson Stitt Wilson 47,819 12.40 / 100 3rd of 3 Connecticut Socialist Robert Hunter 12,179 7.33 / 100 3rd of 5 Idaho Socialist S.W. Motley 5,342 6.20 / 100 3rd of 3 Nevada Socialist Henry F. Gegax 1,393 6.75 / 100 3rd of 3 Ohio Socialist Tom Clifford 60,637 6.56 / 100 3rd of 5 Oklahoma Socialist J.T. Cumbie 24,457 9.91 / 100 3rd of 4 Oregon Socialist W.S. Richards 8,040 6.83 / 100 3rd of 4 Prohibition A.E. Eaton 6,046 5.14 / 100 4th of 4 Pennsylvania Keystone William H. Berry 382,127 38.27 / 100 2nd of 6 Texas Socialist Reddin Andrews, Jr. 11,538 5.27 / 100 3rd of 5 Wisconsin Social - Democratic William A. Jacobs 39,547 12.38 / 100 3rd of 5 1911 Arizona Socialist P.W. Gallentine 1,247 5.77 / 100 3rd of 4 1912 Arkansas Socialist G.E. Mikel 13,384 7.89 / 100 3rd of 3 Colorado Progressive Edward P. Costigan 66,132 24.88 / 100 2nd of 6 Socialist Charles A. Ashelstrom 16,189 6.09 / 100 4th of 6 Connecticut Progressive Herbert Smith 31,020 16.29 / 100 3rd of 6 Socialist Samuel E. Beardsley 10,236 5.38 / 100 4th of 6 Delaware Progressive George Beswick Hynson 3,019 6.23 / 100 3rd of 5 Florida Socialist Thomas W. Cox 3,467 7.15 / 100 2nd of 5 Idaho Progressive G.H. Martin 24,325 23.05 / 100 3rd of 4 Socialist L.A. Coblentz 11,094 10.51 / 100 4th of 4 Illinois Progressive Frank H. Funk 303,401 26.09 / 100 3rd of 6 Socialist John C. Kennedy 78,679 6.77 / 100 4th of 4 Indiana Progressive Albert J. Beveridge 166,654 25.99 / 100 2nd of 6 Socialist Stephen N. Reynolds 35,464 5.53 / 100 4th of 6 Iowa Progressive John L. Stevens 71,879 15.59 / 100 3rd of 5 Kansas Socialist George W. Kleihege 24,767 6.89 / 100 3rd of 3 Massachusetts Progressive Charles S. Bird 126,602 26.39 / 100 3rd of 6 Michigan Progressive L. Whitney Watkins 155,372 28.31 / 100 3rd of 6 Minnesota Progressive Paul V. Collins 33,455 10.51 / 100 3rd of 5 Prohibition Engebret E. Lobeck 29,876 9.38 / 100 4th of 5 Public Ownership David Morgan 25,769 8.09 / 100 5th of 5 Missouri Progressive Albert D. Nortoni 109,146 15.61 / 100 3rd of 6 Montana Progressive Frank J. Edwards 18,881 23.61 / 100 3rd of 4 Socialist Lewis J. Duncan 12,766 15.96 / 100 4th of 4 New Hampshire Progressive Winston Churchill 14,401 17.29 / 100 3rd of 5 New York Progressive Oscar Straus 393,183 25.10 / 100 3rd of 6 North Carolina Progressive Iredell Meares 49,930 20.42 / 100 2nd of 4 North Dakota Progressive W.D. Sweet 9,406 10.74 / 100 3rd of 4 Socialist A.E. Bowen, Jr. 6,835 7.80 / 100 4th of 4 Ohio Progressive Arthur Lovett Garford 217,903 21.02 / 100 3rd of 6 Socialist Charles Emil Ruthenberg 87,709 8.46 / 100 4th of 6 Rhode Island Progressive Albert H. Humes 8,457 10.82 / 100 3rd of 6 Texas Socialist Reddin Andrews, Jr. 25,258 8.39 / 100 2nd of 6 Progressive Ed C. Lasater 15,794 5.24 / 100 4th of 6 Utah Progressive Nephi L. Morris 23,591 21.16 / 100 3rd of 5 Socialist Homer P. Burt 8,797 7.89 / 100 4th of 5 Vermont Progressive Fraser Metzger 15,629 24.10 / 100 3rd of 5 Washington Progressive Robert T. Hodge 77,792 24.44 / 100 3rd of 6 Socialist Anna A. Maley 37,155 11.67 / 100 4th of 6 West Virginia Socialist Walter B. Hilton 15,048 5.61 / 100 3rd of 4 Wisconsin Social - Democratic Carl D. Thompson 34,468 8.75 / 100 3rd of 5 1913 Arkansas Progressive George W. Murphy 8,431 10.10 / 100 3rd of 4 Socialist J. Emil Webber 4,378 5.24 / 100 4th of 4 Massachusetts Progressive Charles S. Bird 127,755 27.72 / 100 2nd of 7 New Jersey Progressive Everett Colby 41,132 10.96 / 100 3rd of 7 Virginia Socialist C. Campbell 3,789 5.23 / 100 2nd of 3 1914 Arizona Progressive George U. Young 5,206 10.21 / 100 3rd of 4 Arkansas Socialist Dan Hogan 10,434 7.70 / 100 3rd of 3 California Progressive Hiram Johnson 460,495 49.69 / 100 Re-Elected Socialist Noble A. Richardson 50,716 5.47 / 100 4th of 5 Colorado Progressive Edward P. Costigan 32,920 12.41 / 100 3rd of 5 Idaho Progressive Hugh E. McElroy 10,583 9.81 / 100 3rd of 4 Socialist L.A. Coblentz 7,967 7.38 / 100 4th of 4 Kansas Progressive Henry Justin Allen 84,060 15.91 / 100 3rd of 6 Independent Julius B. Billiard 7,967 7.38 / 100 4th of 4 Maine Progressive Halbert P. Gardner 18,226 12.87 / 100 3rd of 5 Massachusetts Progressive Joseph Walker 32,145 7.02 / 100 3rd of 6 Michigan Progressive Henry R. Pattengill 36,747 8.34 / 100 3rd of 6 Minnesota Prohibition Willis Greenleaf Calderwood 18,582 5.41 / 100 3rd of 6 Socialist Thomas J. `` Tom '' Lewis 17,225 5.02 / 100 4th of 6 Nevada Socialist W.A. Morgan 3,391 15.74 / 100 3rd of 3 New York American William Sulzer 126,270 8.77 / 100 3rd of 6 North Dakota Socialist J.A. Williams 6,019 6.74 / 100 3rd of 3 Ohio Progressive James Rudolph Garfield 60,904 5.39 / 100 3rd of 4 Oklahoma Socialist Fred W. Holt 52,704 20.78 / 100 3rd of 6 Oregon Socialist W.J. Smith 14,284 5.76 / 100 3rd of 6 South Dakota Independent Richard Olsen Richards 9,725 9.91 / 100 3rd of 5 Texas Socialist E.R. Meitzen 24,977 11.59 / 100 2nd of 5 Vermont Progressive Walter J. Aldrich 6,969 11.22 / 100 3rd of 5 Wisconsin Progressive John J. Blaine 32,560 10.01 / 100 3rd of 6 Social - Democratic Oscar T. Ameringer 25,917 7.96 / 100 4th of 6 1915 Mississippi Socialist J.T. Lester 4,046 7.41 / 100 2nd of 2 1916 Arkansas Socialist William Davis 9,730 5.54 / 100 3rd of 3 Florida Prohibition Sidney Johnston Catts 39,546 47.71 / 100 Elected Idaho Socialist Annie E. Triplow 7,321 5.44 / 100 3rd of 3 Louisiana Progressive John M. Parker 48,085 37.20 / 100 2nd of 3 Minnesota Socialist J.O. Bentall 26,306 6.73 / 100 3rd of 5 Prohibition Thomas J. Anderson 19,884 5.09 / 100 4th of 5 Montana Socialist Lewis J. Duncan 11,342 6.53 / 100 3rd of 3 Washington Socialist Ludwig E. Katterfield 21,167 5.61 / 100 3rd of 6 Wisconsin Socialist Rae Weaver 30,649 7.06 / 100 3rd of 4 1918 Alabama Independent Dallas B. Smith 13,497 19.79 / 100 2nd of 2 Arkansas Socialist Clay Fulks 4,792 6.57 / 100 2nd of 2 California Independent Theodore Arlington Bell 251,189 36.48 / 100 2nd of 3 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor David H. Evans 111,948 30.28 / 100 2nd of 5 New York Socialist Joseph Cannon 159,804 7.36 / 100 3rd of 4 South Dakota Independent Mark P. Bates 25,118 26.12 / 100 2nd of 5 Wisconsin Socialist Emil Seidel 57,523 17.35 / 100 3rd of 4 1920 Arkansas Independent J.H. Blount 15,627 8.22 / 100 3rd of 4 Idaho Independent Sherman D. Fairchild 28,752 20.11 / 100 3rd of 3 Minnesota Independent Henrik Shipstead 281,402 35.91 / 100 2nd of 4 Nebraska Nonpartisan League Arthur G. Wray 88,905 23.51 / 100 3rd of 4 New York Socialist Joseph Cannon 159,804 5.57 / 100 3rd of 6 South Dakota Nonpartisan League Mark P. Bates 48,426 26.34 / 100 2nd of 3 Texas American T.H. McGregor 69,380 14.40 / 100 3rd of 5 Black and Tan Republican H. Capers 26,091 5.42 / 100 4th of 5 Washington Farmer -- Labor Robert Bridges 121,371 30.10 / 100 2nd of 4 Wisconsin Socialist William Coleman 71,126 10.29 / 100 3rd of 4 1922 Idaho Progressive H.F. Samuels 40,516 31.69 / 100 2nd of 3 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Magnus Johnson 295,479 43.13 / 100 2nd of 3 North Dakota Nonpartisan League William Lemke 81,048 42.35 / 100 2nd of 2 South Dakota Nonpartisan League Alice Lorraine Daily 46,033 26.24 / 100 3rd of 3 Wisconsin Independent Democratic Arthur A. Bentley 51,061 10.60 / 100 2nd of 5 Socialist Louis A. Arnold 39,570 8.21 / 100 3rd of 5 1924 Idaho Progressive H.F. Samuels 58,163 39.04 / 100 2nd of 3 Kansas Independent William Allen White 149,811 22.71 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Floyd B. Olson 366,029 43.84 / 100 2nd of 5 Montana Farmer -- Labor Frank J. Edwards 10,576 6.08 / 100 3rd of 3 Nebraska Progressive Dan Butler 35,594 7.94 / 100 3rd of 3 South Dakota Farmer -- Labor A.L. Putnam 27,027 13.25 / 100 3rd of 4 Independent Richard Olsen Richards 20,359 9.98 / 100 4th of 4 Washington Progressive J.R. `` Bob '' Oman 40,073 10.27 / 100 3rd of 6 Wisconsin Socialist William F. Quick 45,268 5.68 / 100 3rd of 7 1926 Idaho Progressive W. Scott Hall 34,208 28.36 / 100 2nd of 3 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Magnus Johnson 266,845 38.09 / 100 2nd of 3 Oregon Independent H.H. Stallard 12,402 5.49 / 100 3rd of 3 South Dakota Farmer -- Labor Tom Ayres 11,958 6.51 / 100 3rd of 4 Independent John E. Hipple 10,637 5.79 / 100 4th of 4 Wisconsin Independent Charles Perry 76,507 13.84 / 100 2nd of 6 Socialist Herman O. Kent 40,293 7.29 / 100 4th of 6 1928 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Ernest Lundeen 227,193 22.72 / 100 2nd of 5 1930 Alabama Independent Hugh A. Locke 95,745 38.18 / 100 2nd of 2 Kansas Independent ( Write - In ) John R. Brinkley 183,278 29.50 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Floyd B. Olson 473,154 59.34 / 100 Elected New York Law Preservation Robert P Carroll 190,666 6.08 / 100 3rd of 6 Oregon Independent Julius Meier 135,608 54.51 / 100 Elected Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1931 -- 1960 ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1932 Kansas Independent John R. Brinkley 244,607 30.58 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Floyd B. Olson 522,438 50.57 / 100 Re-Elected Tennessee Independent Lewis S. Pope 106,990 27.05 / 100 3rd of 5 Washington Liberty Luvern Clyde Hicks 41,710 6.79 / 100 3rd of 7 Wisconsin Socialist Frank Metcalfe 56,965 5.07 / 100 3rd of 6 1934 California Progressive Raymond L. Haight 302,519 12.99 / 100 3rd of 5 Connecticut Socialist Jasper McLevy 38,438 6.96 / 100 3rd of 6 Massachusetts Equal Tax Frank A. Goodwin 94,141 6.35 / 100 3rd of 7 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Floyd B. Olson 468,812 44.61 / 100 Re-Elected Nevada Independent Lindley C. Branson 4,940 11.54 / 100 3rd of 3 Oregon Independent Peter Zimmerman 95,519 31.57 / 100 2nd of 6 Tennessee Fusion Lewis S. Pope 122,965 38.22 / 100 2nd of 2 Wisconsin Progressive Philip La Follette 373,093 39.12 / 100 Elected 1936 Delaware Independent Republican Isaac Dolphus Short 8,400 6.62 / 100 3rd of 5 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Elmer Austin Benson 680,342 60.74 / 100 Elected North Dakota Nonpartisan League William Langer 98,750 35.80 / 100 Elected Wisconsin Progressive Philip La Follette 573,724 46.38 / 100 Re-Elected 1938 Arkansas Independent Charles F. Cole 12,077 8.78 / 100 2nd of 3 Connecticut Socialist Jasper McLevy 166,253 26.30 / 100 3rd of 5 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Elmer Austin Benson 387,263 34.18 / 100 2nd of 4 Nebraska Independent Charles W. Bryan 76,258 15.35 / 100 3rd of 3 Wisconsin Progressive Philip La Follette 353,381 36.00 / 100 2nd of 5 1940 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Hjalmar Petersen 459,609 36.55 / 100 2nd of 4 Wisconsin Progressive Orland Steen Loomis 546,436 39.78 / 100 2nd of 5 1942 Connecticut Socialist Jasper McLevy 34,537 6.01 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Hjalmar Petersen 299,917 37.76 / 100 2nd of 4 New York American Labor Dean Alfange 403,626 9.79 / 100 3rd of 6 Wisconsin Progressive Orland Steen Loomis 397,664 49.65 / 100 Elected 1944 North Dakota Independent Alvin C. Strutz 38,997 18.81 / 100 3rd of 4 Wisconsin Progressive Alexander O. Benz 76,028 5.76 / 100 3rd of 5 1946 California Prohibition Henry R. Schmidt 180,579 7.06 / 100 2nd of 2 1950 Tennessee Independent John Randolph Neal, Jr. 51,757 21.91 / 100 2nd of 2 1952 Maine Independent Republican Neil S. Bishop 35,732 14.38 / 100 3rd of 4 Vermont Republican ( Write - In ) Henry D. Vail 12,447 8.25 / 100 3rd of 3 1954 Tennessee Independent John Randolph Neal, Jr. 39,574 12.27 / 100 2nd of 3 1956 Nebraska Independent George Morris 31,592 5.56 / 100 3rd of 3 Texas Democratic ( Write - In ) W. Lee O'Daniel 110,234 6.39 / 100 3rd of 3 Utah Independent J. Bracken Lee 94,428 28.37 / 100 3rd of 3 1958 Oklahoma Independent D.A. `` Jelly '' Bryce 31,840 5.91 / 100 3rd of 3 Tennessee Independent Jim Nance McCord 136,406 31.54 / 100 2nd of 9 1960 North Dakota Independent Herschel Lashkowitz 16,741 6.08 / 100 3rd of 3 Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1961 -- 1990 ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1962 Tennessee Independent William Anderson 203,765 32.83 / 100 2nd of 4 1965 Virginia Virginia Conservative William J. Story, Jr. 75,307 13.38 / 100 3rd of 4 1966 Alabama Independent Carl Robinson 47,653 5.62 / 100 3rd of 3 Georgia Democratic ( Write - In ) Ellis Arnall 51,947 5.43 / 100 3rd of 3 Idaho Independent Perry Swisher 30,913 12.24 / 100 3rd of 4 Independent Philip Jungert 23,139 9.16 / 100 4th of 4 Maryland Independent Hyman A. Pressman 90,899 9.88 / 100 3rd of 3 New York Conservative Paul Adams 510,023 8.46 / 100 3rd of 6 Liberal Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. 507,234 8.41 / 100 4th of 6 Tennessee Independent H.L. Crowder 64,602 9.84 / 100 2nd of 4 Independent Charlie Moffett 50,221 7.65 / 100 3rd of 4 1970 Alabama National Democratic John L. Cashin, Jr. 125,491 14.68 / 100 2nd of 6 Independent A.C. Shelton 75,679 8.85 / 100 3rd of 6 Arkansas American Walter L. Carruth 36,132 5.93 / 100 3rd of 3 New Hampshire American Meldrim Thomson, Jr. 22,033 9.91 / 100 3rd of 3 New York Conservative Paul Adams 422,514 7.03 / 100 3rd of 6 1971 Mississippi Independent Charles Evers 172,762 22.13 / 100 2nd of 2 1972 New Hampshire Independent Malcolm McLane 63,199 19.56 / 100 3rd of 3 Texas Raza Unida Ramsey Muñiz 214,118 6.28 / 100 3rd of 4 Washington Taxpayers Vick Gould 86,843 5.90 / 100 3rd of 5 1973 Virginia Independent Henry Howell 510,103 49.28 / 100 2nd of 2 Alaska Alaskan Independence Joe Vogler 4,770 4.96 / 100 3rd of 3 Maine Independent James B. Longley 142,464 39.14 / 100 Elected Nebraska Independent Ernie Chambers 24,320 5.39 / 100 3rd of 3 Nevada Independent American James Ray Houston 26,285 15.52 / 100 3rd of 3 Texas Raza Unida Ramsey Muñiz 93,295 5.64 / 100 3rd of 5 1976 Vermont Liberty Union Bernie Sanders 11,317 6.09 / 100 3rd of 3 1978 Alaska Republican ( Write - In ) Wally Hickel 33,555 26.44 / 100 2nd of 5 Independent Tom Kelly 15,656 12.34 / 100 4th of 5 California Independent Ed Clark 377,960 5.46 / 100 3rd of 5 Maine Independent Herman C. Frankland 65,889 17.80 / 100 3rd of 3 Rhode Island Independent Joseph A. Doorley 20,381 6.48 / 100 3rd of 3 1982 Alaska Libertarian Dick Randolph 29,067 14.92 / 100 3rd of 4 Arizona Libertarian Sam Steiger 36,649 5.05 / 100 3rd of 3 Hawaii Independent Frank Fasi 89,303 28.64 / 100 2nd of 3 1986 Alaska Alaskan Independence Joe Vogler 10,013 5.58 / 100 3rd of 5 Arizona Independent Bill Schulz 224,085 25.85 / 100 3rd of 3 Illinois Solidarity Adlai Stevenson III Mike Howlett 1,256,626 39.97 / 100 2nd of 5 Maine Independent Sherry Huber 64,317 15.07 / 100 3rd of 4 Independent John Menario 63,747 14.87 / 100 4th of 4 Oklahoma Independent Jerry Brown 60,115 6.61 / 100 3rd of 4 Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders 28,418 14.45 / 100 3rd of 4 Utah Independent Merrill Cook 136,651 21.05 / 100 3rd of 5 1990 Alaska Alaskan Independence Wally Hickel Jack Coghill 75,721 38.88 / 100 Elected Connecticut A Connecticut Party Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. Eunice Groark 460,576 40.36 / 100 Elected Kansas Independent Christina Campbell - Cline Benton 69,127 8.82 / 100 3rd of 3 Maine Independent Andrew Adam 48,377 9.26 / 100 3rd of 3 New York Conservative Herbert London Anthony Diperna 827,614 20.40 / 100 3rd of 7 Oklahoma Independent Thomas D. Ledgerwood II 90,534 9.93 / 100 3rd of 3 Oregon Independent Al Mobley 144,062 12.95 / 100 3rd of 4 Notable Third Party Gubernatorial Performances ( 1991 -- Present ) Year State Party Nominee Running Mate # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1992 Utah Independent Merrill Cook Frances Hatch Merrill 255,753 33.54 / 100 2nd of 8 West Virginia Independent ( Write - In ) Charlotte Pritt 48,873 7.43 / 100 3rd of 3 1994 Alaska Alaskan Independence Jack Coghill Margaret Ward 27,838 13.04 / 100 3rd of 5 Connecticut A Connecticut Party Eunice Groark Audrey Rowe 216,585 18.88 / 100 3rd of 5 Independent Tom Scott Glen R. O'Keefe 130,128 11.34 / 100 4th of 5 Hawaii Best Party of Hawaii Frank Fasi Danny Kaleikini 113,158 30.67 / 100 2nd of 4 Maine Independent Angus King 180,829 35.37 / 100 Elected Green Jonathan Carter 32,695 6.39 / 100 4th of 5 New Mexico Green Roberto Mondragón Steven Schmidt 47,990 10.26 / 100 3rd of 3 Oklahoma Independent Wes Watkins 233,336 23.45 / 100 3rd of 3 Pennsylvania Constitution Peg Luksik Jim Clymer 460,269 12.84 / 100 3rd of 5 Rhode Island Independent Robert J. Healey 32,822 9.08 / 100 3rd of 3 Vermont Independent Thomas J. Morse 15,000 7.07 / 100 3rd of 8 1998 Alaska Republican Moderate Ray Metcalfe Clyde Baxley 13,540 6.15 / 100 3rd of 6 Maine Independent Angus King 246,772 58.61 / 100 Re-Elected Green Pat LaMarche 28,722 6.82 / 100 4th of 5 Minnesota Reform Jesse Ventura Mae Schunk 773,713 36.99 / 100 Elected New York Independence Tom Golisano Laureen Oliver 364,056 7.69 / 100 3rd of 10 Pennsylvania Constitution Peg Luksik Jim Clymer 315,761 10.44 / 100 3rd of 10 Rhode Island Cool Moose Robert J. Healey 19,250 6.28 / 100 3rd of 4 1999 Kentucky Reform Gatewood Galbraith Kathy Lyons 88,930 6.28 / 100 3rd of 5 2000 New Hampshire Independent Mary Brown 35,904 6.36 / 100 3rd of 4 Vermont Vermont Progressive Anthony Pollina 28,116 9.58 / 100 3rd of 8 2002 Arizona Independent Richard D. Mahoney 84,947 6.93 / 100 3rd of 4 California Green Peter Camejo 393,036 5.26 / 100 3rd of 6 Maine Green Jonathan Carter 46,903 9.28 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Independence Tim Penny Martha Robertson 364,534 16.18 / 100 3rd of 7 New Mexico Green David Bacon Kathleen Sanchez 26,465 5.47 / 100 3rd of 4 New York Independence Tom Golisano Mary Donohue 654,016 14.28 / 100 3rd of 8 Oklahoma Independent Gary Richardson 146,200 14.12 / 100 3rd of 3 Wisconsin Libertarian Ed Thompson Martin Reynolds 185,455 10.45 / 100 3rd of 8 2006 Alaska Independent Andrew Halcro Fay Von Gemmingen 22,443 9.46 / 100 3rd of 6 Illinois Green Rich Whitney Julie Samuels 361,336 10.36 / 100 3rd of 3 Maine Independent Barbara Merrill 118,720 21.55 / 100 3rd of 5 Green Pat LaMarche 52,690 9.56 / 100 3rd of 5 Massachusetts Independent Christy Mihos John J. Sullivan 154,628 6.97 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Independence Peter Hutchinson Maureen Reed 141,735 6.43 / 100 3rd of 6 Texas Independent Carole Keeton Strayhorn 797,577 18.13 / 100 3rd of 5 Independent Kinky Friedman 546,869 12.43 / 100 4th of 5 2007 Louisiana Independent John Georges 186,682 14.38 / 100 3rd of 12 2008 Vermont Independent Anthony Pollina 69,791 21.87 / 100 2nd of 7 2009 New Jersey Independent Chris Daggett Frank J. Esposito 139,579 5.75 / 100 3rd of 12 Colorado Constitution Tom Tancredo Pat Miller 652,376 36.38 / 100 2nd of 6 Idaho Independent Jana M. Kemp 26,655 5.89 / 100 3rd of 5 Maine Independent Eliot Cutler 208,270 36.36 / 100 2nd of 6 Independent Shawn Moody 28,756 5.02 / 100 4th of 6 Massachusetts Independent Tim Cahill Paul Loscocco 184,387 8.03 / 100 3rd of 4 Minnesota Independence Tom Horner James A. Mulder 251,487 11.94 / 100 3rd of 7 Rhode Island Independent Lincoln Chafee 123,571 36.10 / 100 Elected Moderate Ken Block 22,146 6.47 / 100 4th of 7 Wyoming Independent Taylor Haynes 13,796 7.32 / 100 3rd of 4 2011 Kentucky Independent Gatewood Galbraith Dea Taylor 74,860 8.99 / 100 3rd of 3 2013 Virginia Libertarian Robert Sarvis 146,084 6.52 / 100 3rd of 3 2014 Alaska Independent Bill Walker Byron Mallott 134,658 48.10 / 100 Elected Hawaii Independent Mufi Hannemann Les Chang 42,934 11.72 / 100 3rd of 4 Maine Independent Eliot Cutler 51,518 8.43 / 100 3rd of 3 Rhode Island Moderate Robert J. Healey 69,278 21.38 / 100 3rd of 5 Wyoming Independent Don Wills 9,895 5.89 / 100 3rd of 4 2016 West Virginia Mountain Charlotte Pritt 41,310 5.9 / 100 3rd of 4 Senate elections Listed below are Senate elections since 1905 in which a third party or independent candidate won or were reasonably close to receiving 5.0 % of the vote. Winners are shown in bold. Notable Third Party Senatorial Performances ( 1900 's -- 1930 ) Year State Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1905 Oregon ( Special ) Socialist J.D. Stevens 12,485 15.17 / 100 2nd Prohibition Hiram Gould 8,224 9.99 / 100 3rd 1906 Oregon Socialist A.G. Simola 5,608 6.10 / 100 3rd 1910 Nevada Socialist Jud Harris 1,959 9.62 / 100 3rd 1912 Arizona ( Special ) - Class I Socialist E. Johnson 1,234 5.68 / 100 3rd Arizona ( Special ) - Class III Socialist E.B. Simonton 1,221 5.80 / 100 3rd Colorado Progressive Frank D. Catlin 58,649 23.48 / 100 3rd Kansas Socialist Allan W. Ricker 25,610 7.32 / 100 3rd Montana Progressive Joseph M. Dixon 22,161 32.10 / 100 2nd Nevada ( Special ) Socialist G.A. Steele 2,740 13.73 / 100 3rd Progressive Sardis Summerfield 1,428 7.15 / 100 4th Oklahoma Socialist John G. Wills 40,860 16.30 / 100 3rd Oregon Independent Jonathan Bourne Jr. 25,929 19.41 / 100 3rd Socialist Benjamin Franklin Ramp 11,093 8.31 / 100 4th Progressive A.E. Clark 11,083 8.30 / 100 5th Prohibition B. Lee Paget 6,848 5.13 / 100 6th 1914 Arizona Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin 7,293 15.05 / 100 3rd Socialist Bert Davis 3,582 7.39 / 100 4th Progressive J. Bernard Nelson 2,608 5.38 / 100 5th California Progressive Francis J. Heney 255,232 28.81 / 100 2nd Socialist Ernest Untermann 3,582 7.39 / 100 4th Colorado Progressive Benjamin Griffith 27,072 10.69 / 100 3rd Socialist J.C. Griffiths 13,943 5.51 / 100 4th Idaho Progressive Paul Clagstone 10,321 9.54 / 100 3rd Socialist Calistus W. Cooper 7,888 7.29 / 100 4th Illinois Progressive Raymond Robins 203,027 19.99 / 100 3rd Indiana Progressive Albert J. Beveridge 108,581 16.81 / 100 3rd Iowa Independent Thomas W. Lawson 24,490 5.73 / 100 3rd Kansas Progressive Victor Murdock 116,755 22.94 / 100 3rd Nevada Socialist Ashley Grant Miller 5,451 25.28 / 100 3rd North Dakota Socialist W.H. Brown 6,231 7.14 / 100 3rd Ohio Progressive Arthur Lovett Garford 67,509 6.31 / 100 3rd Socialist E.K. Hitchens 52,803 4.93 / 100 4th Oklahoma Socialist Patrick S. Nagle 52,259 20.99 / 100 3rd Oregon Progressive William Hanley 26,220 10.68 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania Progressive Gifford Pinchot 269,265 24.22 / 100 2nd Washington Progressive Ole Hanson 83,282 24.12 / 100 3rd Socialist Adam H. Barth 30,234 8.76 / 100 4th 1916 Arizona Socialist W.S. Bradford 2,827 5.24 / 100 3rd California Socialist Walter Thomas Mills 49,341 5.25 / 100 3rd Minnesota Prohibition Willis Greenleaf Calderwood 78,425 20.58 / 100 3rd Montana Socialist Henry La Beau 9,292 5.54 / 100 3rd Nevada Socialist Ashley Grant Miller 9,507 28.91 / 100 3rd North Dakota Socialist E.R. Fry 8,472 7.91 / 100 3rd Texas Socialist F.A. Hickey 18,616 4.99 / 100 3rd Washington Socialist Bruce Rogers 21,709 5.95 / 100 3rd Wisconsin Socialist Richard Elsner 28,908 6.85 / 100 3rd 1918 Massachusetts Independent Thomas W. Lawson 21,985 5.26 / 100 3rd Minnesota Nationalist Willis Greenleaf Calderwood 137,334 39.95 / 100 2nd Mississippi Socialist Summer W. Rose 1,569 4.96 / 100 3rd Montana Nationalist Jeannette Rankin 26,013 23.14 / 100 3rd Nevada ( Special ) Independent Anne Henrietta Martin 4,603 18.01 / 100 3rd Oregon ( Special ) Socialist Martha Bean 19,014 15.47 / 100 2nd South Dakota Independent Orville V. Rafferty 5,560 5.98 / 100 3rd 1920 California Prohibition James S. Edwards 57,768 6.32 / 100 3rd Georgia Independent Harry S. Edwards 6,700 5.10 / 100 2nd Maryland Independent George D. Iverson, Jr. 21,345 5.46 / 100 3rd Nevada Independent Anne Henrietta Martin 4,981 18.16 / 100 3rd New York Socialist Jacob Panken 208,155 7.60 / 100 3rd Prohibition Ella A. Boole 159,623 5.83 / 100 4th Pennsylvania Prohibition Leah C. Marion 132,610 7.44 / 100 3rd South Dakota Nonpartisan League Tom Ayres 44,309 24.06 / 100 2nd Independent Richard Olsen Richards 10,032 5.45 / 100 4th Washington Farmer -- Labor C.L. France 99,309 25.80 / 100 2nd Wisconsin Progressive Republican James Thompson 235,029 34.71 / 100 2nd Socialist Frank J. Weber 66,172 9.77 / 100 4th 1922 California Independent H. Clay Needham 70,748 7.79 / 100 3rd Socialist Upton Sinclair 56,982 6.28 / 100 4th Florida Independent Republican W.C. Lawson 6,074 11.73 / 100 2nd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Henrik Shipstead 325,372 47.10 / 100 Elected Pennsylvania ( Special ) Prohibition Rachel C. Robinson 60,390 6.05 / 100 2nd Socialist William J. Van Essen 55,703 5.58 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania Progressive William J. Burke 127,180 8.82 / 100 3rd Nebraska Independent James L. Beebe 19,076 4.92 / 100 3rd Washington Farmer -- Labor James A. Duncan 35,326 12.00 / 100 3rd 1923 Minnesota ( Special ) Farmer -- Labor Magnus Johnson 290,165 57.48 / 100 Elected 1924 Colorado Farmer -- Labor Morton Alexander 16,039 5.04 / 100 3rd Colorado ( Special ) Farmer -- Labor Charles T. Phelps 17,542 5.52 / 100 3rd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Magnus Johnson 380,646 45.50 / 100 2nd Oregon Progressive F.E. Coulter 20,379 7.70 / 100 3rd South Dakota Farmer -- Labor Tom Ayres 23,962 12.2 / 100 3rd Independent George W. Egan 14,390 7.23 / 100 4th 1926 Idaho Progressive H.F. Samuels 37,047 29.60 / 100 2nd Illinois Independent Republican Hugh S. Magill 156,245 8.69 / 100 3rd New York Independent Republican Franklin W. Cristman 231,906 8.16 / 100 3rd North Dakota ( Special ) Nonpartisan League Gerald Nye 79,709 50.20 / 100 Re-elected Independent Republican C.P. Stone 19,586 12.33 / 100 3rd North Dakota Independent Republican Norris H. Nelson 18,951 12.22 / 100 2nd Independent Republican C.P. Stone 9,738 6.28 / 100 4th Oregon Independent Robert N. Stanfield 50,246 22.46 / 100 3rd South Dakota Farmer -- Labor Howard Platt 12,797 7.20 / 100 3rd Wisconsin Independent Progressive Republican Charles D. Rosa 111,122 20.37 / 100 2nd Socialist Leo Krzycki 31,317 5.74 / 100 4th 1928 California Prohibition Charles Hiram Randall 92,106 5.94 / 100 3rd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Henrik Shipstead 665,169 65.38 / 100 Re-Elected Wisconsin Independent Republican William H. Markham 81,302 10.95 / 100 2nd 1930 Alabama Independent James Thomas Heflin 100,952 40.07 / 100 2nd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Ernest Lundeen 178,671 22.89 / 100 3rd Oregon Independent Llewellyn A. Banks 17,488 7.40 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent J. Cloyd Byars 26,091 17.87 / 100 2nd Socialist Joe C. Morgan 7,944 5.45 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Senatorial Performances ( 1931 -- 1960 ) Year State Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1932 Arkansas ( Special ) Independent Rex Floyd 1,752 5.16 / 100 2nd California Prohibition Robert P. Shuler 560,088 25.77 / 100 3rd Kansas Independent George A. Brown 65,583 9.10 / 100 3rd Wisconsin Socialist Emil Seidel 65,807 6.14 / 100 3rd 1934 California Socialist George Ross Kirkpatrick 108,748 5.29 / 100 2nd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Henrik Shipstead 503,379 49.87 / 100 Re-Elected New York Socialist Norman Thomas 194,952 5.27 / 100 3rd Tennessee ( Special ) Independent John Randolph Neal, Jr. 49,773 19.91 / 100 2nd Wisconsin Progressive Robert M. La Follette Jr. 440,513 47.78 / 100 Re-Elected 1936 Delaware Independent Republican Robert G. Houston 6,897 5.44 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Union Thomas C. O'Brien 134,245 7.44 / 100 3rd Minnesota ( Special ) Independent Nathaniel John Holmburg 210,364 28.42 / 100 2nd Independent Progressive Andrew Olaf Devoid 147,858 19.98 / 100 3rd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Ernest Lundeen 663,363 62.24 / 100 Elected Montana Independent Joseph P. Monaghan 39,655 17.91 / 100 3rd Nebraska Independent George W. Norris 258,700 43.82 / 100 Re-Elected Rhode Island Union Ludger LaPointe 21,495 7.01 / 100 3rd 1938 Connecticut Socialist Bellani Trombley 99,282 15.75 / 100 3rd North Dakota Independent William Langer 112,007 42.56 / 100 2nd Wisconsin Progressive Herman Ekern 249,209 26.58 / 100 2nd 1940 California Prohibition Fred Dyster 366,044 13.51 / 100 2nd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Elmer Austin Benson 310,875 25.70 / 100 2nd North Dakota Progressive Republican William Lemke 92,593 35.06 / 100 2nd Wisconsin Progressive Robert M. La Follette Jr. 605,609 45.26 / 100 Re-Elected 1942 Minnesota ( Special ) Farmer -- Labor Al Hansen 177,008 26.66 / 100 2nd Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Elmer Austin Benson 213,965 28.21 / 100 2nd Independent Progressive Martin A. Nelson 109,226 14.40 / 100 3rd Nebraska Independent George W. Norris 108,899 28.64 / 100 2nd Virginia Socialist Lawrence S. Wilkes 5,690 6.53 / 100 2nd 1944 North Dakota Independent Lynn U. Stambaugh 44,596 21.19 / 100 3rd Wisconsin Progressive Harry Sauthoff 73,089 5.82 / 100 3rd 1946 North Dakota Independent Arthur E. Thompson 38,804 23.46 / 100 2nd North Dakota ( Special ) Independent Gerald Nye 20,848 15.24 / 100 3rd Tennessee Independent John Randolph Neal, Jr. 11,516 5.27 / 100 3rd 1948 Arkansas Independent Arthur E. Thompson 15,821 6.81 / 100 2nd 1950 Alabama Independent John G. Crommelin 38,477 23.46 / 100 2nd New Hampshire Independent ( Write - In ) Wesley Powell 11,958 6.28 / 100 2nd 1952 California Progressive Reuben W. Borough 542,270 11.95 / 100 2nd Maine Independent Democrat Earl S. Grant 15,294 6.45 / 100 3rd New York Liberal George Counts 489,775 7.02 / 100 3rd North Dakota Independent ( Write - In ) Fred G. Aandahl 24,741 10.40 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent Democrat H.M. Vise, Sr. 69,133 12.92 / 100 2nd Social Democratic Clarke T. Robb 67,281 12.57 / 100 3rd 1954 South Carolina Independent Democrat ( Write - In ) Strom Thurmond 143,444 63.13 / 100 Elected Virginia Independent Democrat Charles W. Lewis, Jr. 32,681 10.66 / 100 2nd Social Democratic Clarke T. Robb 28,922 9.44 / 100 3rd 1958 Utah Independent J. Bracken Lee 77,013 26.44 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent Louise Wensel 120,224 26.27 / 100 2nd 1960 Virginia Independent Democrat James W. Respess 88,718 14.27 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Senatorial Performances ( 1961 -- 1990 ) Year State Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1964 Virginia Independent James W. Respess 95,526 10.29 / 100 3rd 1966 Mississippi Independent Clifton R. Whitley 30,502 7.74 / 100 3rd Virginia ( Special ) Independent John W. Carter 57,692 7.91 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent F. Lee Hawthorne 58,251 7.94 / 100 3rd 1968 Alabama National Democratic Robert Schwenn 72,699 7.97 / 100 3rd Alaska Democratic ( Write - In ) Ernest Gruening 14,118 17.44 / 100 3rd Maryland American Independent George P. Mahoney 148,467 13.09 / 100 3rd New York Conservative James L. Buckley 1,139,402 17.31 / 100 3rd 1970 Connecticut Independent Thomas J. Dodd 266,497 24.46 / 100 3rd Mississippi Independent William R. Thompson 37,593 11.60 / 100 2nd New York Conservative James L. Buckley 2,288,190 38.95 / 100 Elected Virginia Independent Harry F. Byrd Jr. 506,237 53.54 / 100 Re-Elected 1972 Louisiana Independent John McKeithen 250,161 23.06 / 100 2nd Florida American Independent John Grady 282,659 15.70 / 100 3rd Hawaii People 's James D. Kimmel 42,767 17.09 / 100 2nd New York Conservative Barbara A. Keating 822,584 15.93 / 100 3rd Utah American Bruce Bangerter 24,966 5.94 / 100 3rd 1976 Minnesota American Independent Paul Helm 125,612 6.57 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent Harry F. Byrd Jr. 890,778 57.2 / 100 Re-Elected 1978 Alabama Prohibition Jerome B. Couch 34,951 6.01 / 100 2nd Arkansas Independent John J. Black 37,488 7.18 / 100 3rd Maine Independent Hayes E. Gahagan 27,824 7.42 / 100 3rd Mississippi Independent Charles Evers 133,646 22.64 / 100 3rd 1980 New York Liberal Jacob K. Javits 664, 5444 11.1 / 100 3rd 1982 Washington Independent King Lysen 72,297 5.28 / 100 3rd 1984 Tennessee Independent Ed McAteer 87,234 5.29 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Senatorial Performances ( 1990 -- Present ) Year State Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1990 Virginia Independent Nancy B. Spannaus 196,755 18.16 / 100 2nd 1992 Alaska Green Mary Jordan 20,019 8.35 / 100 3rd Arizona Independent Evan Mecham 145,361 10.52 / 100 3rd Hawaii Green Linda B. Martin 49,921 13.73 / 100 3rd Louisiana Independent Jon Khachaturian 74,785 8.87 / 100 3rd Ohio Independent Martha Grevatt 331,125 6.89 / 100 3rd 1994 Arizona Libertarian Scott Grainger 75,493 6.75 / 100 3rd Minnesota Independence Dean Barkley 95,400 5.38 / 100 3rd Ohio Independent Joseph J. Slovenec 252,031 7.33 / 100 3rd Vermont Independent Gavin T. Mills 12,465 5.89 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent Marshall Coleman 235,324 11.44 / 100 3rd Alaska Green Scott Grainger 29,037 12.52 / 100 2nd Minnesota Reform Dean Barkley 152,333 6.98 / 100 3rd 2000 Arizona Independent William Toel 109,230 7.82 / 100 2nd Green Vance Hansen 108,926 7.80 / 100 3rd Libertarian Barry J. Hess, II 70,724 5.06 / 100 4th Massachusetts Libertarian Carla Howell 308,860 11.88 / 100 3rd Minnesota Independence James Gibson 140,583 6.98 / 100 3rd 2002 Alaska Green Jim Sykes 16,608 7.24 / 100 3rd Kansas Libertarian Steven A. Rosile 70,725 9.10 / 100 2nd Reform George Cook 65,050 8.37 / 100 3rd Massachusetts Libertarian Michael E. Cloud 369,807 18.43 / 100 2nd Mississippi Reform Shawn O'Hara 97,226 15.42 / 100 2nd Oklahoma Independent James Germalic 65,056 6.39 / 100 3rd Virginia Independent Nancy B. Spannaus 145,102 9.74 / 100 2nd Independent Jacob G. Hornberger, Jr. 106,055 7.12 / 100 3rd Oklahoma Independent Sheila Bilyeu 86,663 5.99 / 100 3rd 2006 Connecticut Connecticut for Lieberman Joe Lieberman 564,095 49.71 / 100 Re-Elected Indiana Libertarian Steve Osborn 168,820 12.59 / 100 2nd Maine Independent William H. Slavick 29,230 5.37 / 100 3rd Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders 171,638 65.41 / 100 Elected 2008 Arkansas Green Rebekah Kennedy 207,076 20.47 / 100 2nd Idaho Independent Rex Rammell 34,510 5.35 / 100 3rd Minnesota Independence Dean Barkley 437,505 15.15 / 100 3rd Oregon Constitution Dave Brownlow 92,565 5.24 / 100 3rd Alaska Republican ( Write - In ) Lisa Murkowski 101,091 39.49 / 100 Re-Elected Florida Independent Charlie Crist 1,607,549 29.71 / 100 2nd Indiana Libertarian Rebecca Sink - Burris 94,330 5.41 / 100 3rd South Carolina Green Tom Clements 121,472 9.21 / 100 3rd Utah Constitution Scott N. Bradley 35,937 5.67 / 100 3rd 2012 Indiana Libertarian Andy Horning 145,374 5.67 / 100 3rd Maine Independent Angus King 370,580 52.89 / 100 Elected Maryland Independent Rob Sobhani 430,934 16.37 / 100 3rd Missouri Libertarian Jonathan Dine 165,468 6.07 / 100 3rd Montana Libertarian Dan Cox 31,892 6.56 / 100 3rd Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders 209,053 71.04 / 100 Re-Elected 2014 Kansas Independent Greg Orman 368,372 42.53 / 100 2nd South Dakota Independent Larry Pressler 47,741 17.09 / 100 3rd Wyoming Independent Curt Gottshall 13,311 7.90 / 100 3rd 2016 Alaska Libertarian Joe Miller 90,825 29.16 / 100 2nd Independent Margaret Stock 41,194 13.23 / 100 3rd Arizona Green Gary Swing 138,634 5.48 / 100 3rd Idaho Constitution Ray J. Writz 41,677 6.14 / 100 3rd Indiana Libertarian Lucy Brenton 149,481 5.47 / 100 3rd Kansas Libertarian Robert Garrard 63,428 5.52 / 100 3rd Senate elections ( by legislature ) Prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment, most states did not hold direct elections to the Senate, with Senators instead being elected by the state legislatures. The results listed below are cases in which a third party candidate won or was reasonably close to receiving 5.0 % of the legislative vote. Winners are shown in bold. Notable Third Party Senatorial Performances ( 1820 's - 1917 ) Year State Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1829 New York ( Special ) Anti-Masonic Ambrose Spencer 22 14.77 / 100 3rd 1830 Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic Harmar Denny 10 7.58 / 100 4th 1831 New York Anti-Masonic Samuel Works 32 23.02 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania - Class I ( Special ) Anti-Masonic Richard Rush 30 22.56 / 100 3rd 1832 Pennsylvania Anti-Masonic William Clark 28 21.05 / 100 2nd 1833 New York ( Special ) Anti-Masonic John C. Spencer 11 7.38 / 100 2nd 1834 Pennsylvania - Class III ( Special ) Anti-Masonic Amos Ellmaker 31 23.31 / 100 2nd 1845 New York - Class I ( Special ) Native American Jonathan Thompson 17 10.76 / 100 3rd New York - Class III ( Special ) Native American Harmon B. Cropsey 17 10.76 / 100 3rd New York Native American Robert Taylor 15 10.14 / 100 3rd 1849 New York Free Soil John Adams Dix 21 13.91 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania Free Soil Thaddeus Stevens 7 4.93 / 100 3rd 1851 Massachusetts Free Soil Charles Sumner ? 100 / 100 Elected 1855 Massachusetts ( Special ) American Henry Wilson 255 62.81 / 100 Elected American Nahum F. Bryant 85 20.94 / 100 2nd 1857 New York American Joel T. Headley 15 10.71 / 100 3rd 1879 Pennsylvania Greenback Party Daniel Agnew 16 6.38 / 100 3rd 1894 Nebraska Independent W.A. Jones 18 13.64 / 100 2nd 1898 Nebraska People 's William V. Allen 58 43.94 / 100 2nd 1901 Nebraska People 's William V. Allen 58 44.62 / 100 2nd Mayoral elections Listed below are Mayoral elections in which a third party or independent candidate won won or were reasonably close to receiving 5.0 % of the vote ( greater than 4.95 % ). Winners are shown in bold. All elections are organized by State. These lists do not however include Non-Partisan Elections, where the political affiliations of the candidates are n't shown on the ballot, leaving no real major or minor party candidates. Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( California ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1889 San Diego Citizens ' Non-Partisan Douglas Gunn 1,817 58.41 / 100 Elected 1893 San Diego Independent William H. Carlson 1,219 46.78 / 100 Elected People 's John Castle 210 8.06 / 100 4th 1895 San Diego Independent William H. Carlson 1,090 33.93 / 100 Re-elected People 's Daniel Stone 1,015 31.59 / 100 2nd 1897 San Diego Independent William H. Carlson 623 17.48 / 100 Lost Re-election 3rd People 's Abram C. Mouser 328 9.20 / 100 4th Independent Henry Sweeney 251 7.04 / 100 5th 1901 San Diego Socialist Frank Simpson 157 5.55 / 100 3rd 1902 Los Angeles Union Labor George McGahan 3,211 16.31 / 100 3rd 1903 San Diego Socialist Frank Simpson 219 7.30 / 100 3rd 1905 San Diego Independent John L. Sehon 2,018 52.66 / 100 Elected Socialist W.J. Kirkwood 438 11.43 / 100 3rd 1906 Los Angeles Nonpartisan Lee Gates 8,465 27.00 / 100 2nd Public Ownership Stanley Wilson 8,465 12.37 / 100 4th 1909 San Francisco Union Labor P.H. McCarthy 29,455 45.86 / 100 Elected Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( Illinois ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1879 Chicago Socialist Labor Ernest Schmidt 11,829 20.39 / 100 3rd 1887 Chicago Labor Robert S. Nelson 23,490 31.27 / 100 2nd 1891 Chicago Reform Hempstead Washburne 46,957 28.84 / 100 Elected Independent Democrat Carter Harrison Sr. 42,931 26.36 / 100 3rd Citizens Elmer Washburn 24,027 14.75 / 100 4th 1895 Chicago People 's Bayard Holmes 12,882 4.96 / 100 3rd 1897 Chicago Independent Republican John Maynard Harlan 69,730 7.02 / 100 2nd Independent Washington Hesing 14,780 4.99 / 100 4th 1899 Chicago Municipal Ownership John Peter Altgeld 47,169 7.02 / 100 3rd 1905 Chicago Socialist John Collins 23,034 7.02 / 100 3rd 1911 Chicago Socialist William E. Rodriguez 24,825 6.77 / 100 3rd 1919 Chicago Independent Maclay Hoyne 110,851 16.05 / 100 3rd Labor John Fitzpatrick 55,990 8.11 / 100 4th 1923 Chicago Socialist William A. Cunnea 41,186 5.97 / 100 3rd 1927 Chicago People 's Ownership Smash Crime Rings John Dill Robertson 51,347 5.14 / 100 3rd 1935 Chicago Third Newton Jenkins 87,726 8.34 / 100 3rd Chicago Solidarity Edward Vrdolyak 468,493 41.96 / 100 2nd 1989 Chicago Harold Washington Timothy C. Evans 428,105 41.12 / 100 2nd 1991 Chicago Harold Washington R. Eugene Pincham 160,302 25.13 / 100 2nd 1995 Chicago Independent Roland Burris 217,315 36.25 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( Maryland ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 2016 Baltimore Write - in Sheila Dixon 49,716 22.3 / 100 2nd Green Joshua Harris 22,204 10.0 / 100 4th Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( New York ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1836 New York Equal Rights Alexander Ming, Jr. 2,712 10.31 / 100 3rd Native American Samuel Morse 1,496 5.69 / 100 4th 1837 New York Equal Rights Moses Jacques 4,239 12.10 / 100 3rd 1844 New York Native American James Harper 24,510 48.68 / 100 Elected 1845 New York Native American James Harper 17,485 35.67 / 100 2nd 1846 New York Native American William B. Cozzens 8,372 17.97 / 100 3rd 1854 New York American James W. Barker 18,547 31.10 / 100 2nd Independent Democrat Wilson G. Hunt 15,397 25.82 / 100 3rd 1856 New York American Isaac O. Barker 25,182 32.39 / 100 2nd Independent Democrat James S. Libby 4,684 6.03 / 100 4th 1859 New York Mozart Hall Fernando Wood 29,940 38.25 / 100 Elected 1861 New York Mozart Hall Fernando Wood 24,187 32.52 / 100 3rd 1863 New York Reform Democrat Charles Godfrey Gunther 29,121 40.96 / 100 Elected 1865 New York Mozart Hall John Hecker 10,390 12.73 / 100 3rd McKeon Democracy Charles Godfrey Gunther 6,758 8.28 / 100 4th 1867 New York Mozart Hall Fernando Wood 22,837 21.88 / 100 2nd 1872 New York Reform Democrat James O'Brien 31,121 23.88 / 100 3rd 1874 New York Liberal Democrat Oswald Ottendorfer 24,226 18.45 / 100 3rd 1878 New York New York County Democracy Edward Cooper 79,986 56.02 / 100 Elected 1884 New York New York County Democracy William Russell Grace 96,288 42.13 / 100 Elected 1886 New York United Labor Henry George 68,110 31.01 / 100 2nd 1888 New York New York County Democracy Abram Hewitt 71,979 26.42 / 100 3rd 1895 Brooklyn Reform Democrat Edward M. Shepard 9,510 5.66 / 100 3rd 1897 New York Citizens Union Seth Low 151,540 28.83 / 100 2nd 1905 New York Municipal Ownership William Randolph Hearst 224,929 37.16 / 100 2nd 1909 New York Civic Alliance William Randolph Hearst 154,187 25.88 / 100 3rd 1913 Buffalo Progressive John Lord O'Brian 23,757 35.24 / 100 2nd New York Socialist Charles Edward Russell 32,205 5.12 / 100 3rd 1917 New York Fusion John Purroy Mitchel 155,497 23.10 / 100 2nd Socialist Morris Hillquit 145,332 21.59 / 100 3rd 1921 New York Socialist Jacob Panken 82,607 7.06 / 100 3rd 1929 New York Socialist Norman Thomas 175,697 12.29 / 100 3rd 1932 New York Socialist Morris Hillquit 249,887 12.37 / 100 3rd Independent ( Write - In ) Joseph V. McKee 234,372 11.60 / 100 4th 1933 New York Recovery Joseph V. McKee 609,053 28.30 / 100 2nd 1937 Buffalo Erie County Pole Joseph Kaszubowski 11,392 5.54 / 100 3rd 1945 Buffalo People 's Frank X. Schwab 35,257 19.80 / 100 3rd New York No Deal Newbold Morris 408,408 20.60 / 100 3rd 1949 New York American Labor Vito Marcantonio 356,625 13.76 / 100 3rd 1950 New York Experience Vincent R. Impellitteri 1,161,175 44.21 / 100 Re-elected 1953 New York Liberal Rudolph Halley 467,104 21.16 / 100 3rd 1957 Buffalo Independent Elmer Lux 45,759 23.82 / 100 3rd 1961 Buffalo Citizens Frank A. Sedita 62,196 31.56 / 100 2nd New York Citizens Lawrence E. Gerosa 321,604 13.26 / 100 3rd 1965 New York Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. 341,226 13.36 / 100 3rd 1967 Yonkers Conservative Nicholas DiCostanzo 5,802 6.99 / 100 3rd 1969 New York Liberal John Lindsay 1,012,633 42.36 / 100 Re-elected Yonkers Conservative Matthew Hollohan 4,249 5.42 / 100 3rd 1973 New York Liberal Albert H. Blumenthal 262,600 15.40 / 100 3rd Conservative Mario Biaggi 186,977 10.96 / 100 4th 1977 Buffalo Conservative James D. Griffin 57,642 41.97 / 100 Elected New York Liberal Mario Cuomo 587,913 40.97 / 100 2nd 1981 Buffalo Liberal Alfred Coppola 7,869 9.81 / 100 2nd New York Unity Frank J. Barbaro 162,719 13.31 / 100 2nd Conservative John A. Esposito 60,100 4.92 / 100 3rd Yonkers Conservative Carlo Calvi 7,736 13.74 / 100 3rd Independent Taxpayers Charles A. Cola 6,764 7.97 / 100 4th 1985 New York Liberal Carol Bellamy 113,471 10.20 / 100 2nd 1989 Buffalo Independent ( Write - In ) Wilbur P. Trammell 11,033 16.27 / 100 2nd Liberal William B. Hoyt 9,632 14.20 / 100 3rd Rochester Independent John G. Erb 5,503 14.21 / 100 3rd 1991 Yonkers Independent Angelo Martinelli 13,093 28.22 / 100 3rd 1993 Buffalo Conservative Eugene M. Fahey 7,566 14.29 / 100 3rd Rochester Independent Kevin B. Murray 2,489 6.37 / 100 3rd Buffalo Right to Life James D. Griffin 16,539 23.15 / 100 2nd Liberal James Pitts 11,424 15.99 / 100 3rd 2003 Yonkers Independence Michael J. Spano 2,570 7.03 / 100 3rd 2005 Rochester Working Families Tim Mains 3,786 10.36 / 100 3rd 2009 New York Independent Michael Bloomberg 585,470 50.70 / 100 Re-elected 2011 Rochester Working Families William A. Johnson, Jr. 10,732 42.21 / 100 2nd Green Alex White 2,221 8.74 / 100 3rd Yonkers Independence Carlo Calvi 3,015 10.26 / 100 3rd 2013 Rochester Independence Thomas Richards 13,415 39.46 / 100 2nd Green Alex White 1,784 5.25 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( Pennsylvania ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1915 Philadelphia Franklin George D. Porter 88,135 33.96 / 100 2nd 1919 Philadelphia Charter Joseph S. McLaughlin 17,900 6.34 / 100 3rd 1927 Philadelphia Citizens J. Hampton Moore 128,611 29.29 / 100 2nd Philadelphia Independent Charles W. Bowser 138,783 24.61 / 100 2nd 1979 Philadelphia Consumer 's Lucien E. Blackwell 103,620 17.38 / 100 3rd Philadelphia Independent Thomas Leonard 57,146 7.97 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( Vermont ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1981 Burlington Independent Bernie Sanders 4,030 43.43 / 100 Elected Independent Richard Bove 1,091 11.76 / 100 3rd Burlington Independent Bernie Sanders 6,942 52.12 / 100 Re-elected 1985 Burlington Independent Bernie Sanders 5,760 56.09 / 100 Re-elected Independent Diane Gallagher 1,234 12.02 / 100 3rd Burlington Independent Bernie Sanders 6,759 55.89 / 100 Re-elected 1989 Burlington Independent Peter Clavelle 5,626 56.11 / 100 Elected 1993 Burlington Independent Peter Clavelle 4,579 46.49 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 1995 Burlington Independent Peter Clavelle N / A 0 / 100 Elected 1999 Burlington Progressive Peter Clavelle 5,829 60.32 / 100 Re-elected as Progressive Burlington Progressive Peter Clavelle 3,426 55.18 / 100 Re-elected 2003 Burlington Progressive Peter Clavelle 9,270 63.69 / 100 Re-elected Independent Unknown ( Write - In ) 2,660 18.28 / 100 2nd 2006 Burlington Progressive Bob Kiss 4,761 41.29 / 100 Elected 2009 Burlington Progressive Bob Kiss 2,585 28.80 / 100 2nd Independent Dan Smith 1,306 14.55 / 100 4th Progressive Bob Kiss 2,981 33.76 / 100 2nd 4,313 51.50 / 100 Re-elected 2012 Burlington Independent Wanda Hines 506 5.03 / 100 3rd 2015 Burlington Progressive Steven Goodkind 1,716 22.35 / 100 2nd Independent Greg Guma 508 6.62 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Mayoral Performances ( Wisconsin ) Year City Party Nominee # Votes % Votes Place Notes 1902 Milwaukee Socialist Howard Tuttle 8,373 14.40 / 100 3rd House elections Listed below are sets of House elections in which a third party or independent candidate won or were reasonably close to receiving 5.0 % of the vote ( greater than 4.95 % ). Winners are shown in bold. In some of the listed cases a faction or factions of a State major party ran against each other, often making it difficult to ascertain which was the mainline candidate and which was the bolter ; in such cases, those candidates which are not listed on a standard major party line are still listed, but are not considered traditional third party victories as often these candidates sat in Congress as affiliated party members ( barring cases like Joe Lieberman who, upon winning re-election in 2006 as a third party candidate, sat as an Independent Democrat ). Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1828 - 1829 ) -- 69 entries - 5 victories Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1828 Alabama Middle Independent Seth Barron 3,346 27.49 / 100 2nd Alabama Southern Independent Samuel W. Oliver 3,354 31.28 / 100 2nd Independent Francis Armstrong 2,929 27.32 / 100 3rd Kentucky 3rd Independent Matthews Flournoy 1,045 28.63 / 100 2nd Kentucky 6th Independent Thomas P. Wilson 3,222 45.43 / 100 2nd Kentucky 7th Independent William B. Booker 2,872 43.74 / 100 2nd Maine 1 Independent Simon Nowall 337 7.46 / 100 2nd Independent Nathaniel Appleton 319 7.07 / 100 3rd Independent Samuel A. Bradley 260 5.76 / 100 4th Independent Moses Emery 222 4.92 / 100 5th Maine 2 Independent John Adams 847 20.22 / 100 2nd Maine 6 - First Trial Independent Joshua Hall 358 10.06 / 100 3rd Independent Samuel Upton 321 9.02 / 100 4th Maine 6 - Second Trial Independent Samuel Upton 627 22.83 / 100 3rd Maine 7 Independent William Emerson 1,564 29.06 / 100 2nd Massachusetts 2 Independent Ezra Mudge 284 11.70 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 3 Independent Samuel Phillips 149 6.55 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 8 Independent Jonas Sibley 184 6.83 / 100 2nd New York 7 Anti-Masonic John Bogardus 731 10.76 / 100 3rd New York 23 Anti-Masonic Parson P. Shipman 402 4.98 / 100 3rd New York 24 Anti-Masonic Moses Dixon 901 13.55 / 100 3rd New York 26 Anti-Masonic Robert S. Rose 8,444 26.43 / 100 Elected Israel J. Richardson 4,886 15.29 / 100 5th New York 27 Anti-Masonic Timothy Childs 6,520 54.61 / 100 Elected New York 29 Anti-Masonic Phineas L. Tracy 6,924 54.61 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Masonic New York 30 Anti-Masonic Ebenezer F. Norton 5,226 45.02 / 100 Elected Anti-Masonic Daniel G. Garnsey 1,560 13.44 / 100 Lost Re-election as Anti-Masonic 4th Ohio 's 12 Independent George M. Cook 779 9.08 / 100 3rd Ohio 's 13 Independent Eli Baldwin 1,405 18.87 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania 13 Independent William Piper 2,722 48.13 / 100 2nd South Carolina 6 Independent Cobb 755 23.88 / 100 2nd Vermont 5 - First Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 1,671 24.59 / 100 3rd Vermont 5 - Second Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 1,366 19.55 / 100 3rd 1829 Maine 4 ( Special ) - First Trial Independent Reuel Williams 1,857 41.04 / 100 1st Independent Jesse Robinson 674 14.90 / 100 3rd Maine 4 ( Special ) - Second Trial Independent Reuel Williams 2,238 45.40 / 100 2nd Maine 6 - Third Trial Independent John G. Deane 909 20.11 / 100 2nd Independent Samuel Upton 751 16.62 / 100 4th Maine 6 - Fourth Trial Independent John G. Deane 1,408 27.62 / 100 2nd Independent Samuel Upton 872 17.11 / 100 4th Maine 6 - Fifth Trial Independent John G. Deane 889 31.93 / 100 2nd Independent Samuel Upton 544 19.54 / 100 3rd Independent Samuel Williamson 412 14.80 / 100 4th North Carolina 2 Independent George E. Spruill 103 6.11 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania 16 ( Special ) Anti-Masonic Harmar Denny 4,208 57.66 / 100 Elected Tennessee 1 Independent John A. Rogers 1,195 16.47 / 100 2nd Independent William Priestly 1,179 16.24 / 100 3rd Tennessee 2 Independent Thomas Dickens Arnold 4,496 48.82 / 100 2nd Tennessee 3 Independent John Lowry 1,802 17.69 / 100 2nd Tennessee 5 Independent William Trousdale 2,547 35.76 / 100 2nd Tennessee 8 Independent John Hartwell Marable 3,085 47.06 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd Vermont 5 - Third Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 1,213 18.37 / 100 3rd Vermont 5 - Fourth Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 1,701 23.77 / 100 3rd Vermont 5 - Fifth Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 2,050 30.71 / 100 2nd Vermont 5 - Sixth Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 2,858 37.85 / 100 1st Vermont 5 - Seventh Trial Independent Samuel Prentiss 3,834 48.63 / 100 1st Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 3,712 47.08 / 100 2nd Vermont 5 - Eighth Trial Anti-Masonic William Cahoon 3,912 57.90 / 100 Elected Virginia 5 Independent George William Crump 468 42.05 / 100 2nd Virginia 8 Independent Burwell Bassett 468 37.50 / 100 Lost Re-election as an Independent 2nd Independent Carter M. Braxton 323 20.81 / 100 3rd Virginia 10 ( Special ) Independent Archibald Byrce 245 23.93 / 100 2nd Independent Hugh Nelson 184 17.97 / 100 3rd Virginia 13 Independent Willoughby Newton 427 38.23 / 100 2nd Virginia 14 Independent John Gibson 146 17.98 / 100 2nd Virginia 17 Independent Samuel Kerceval 574 38.55 / 100 2nd Virginia 20 Independent Fleming Bowyer Miller 1,189 44.99 / 100 2nd Virginia 21 Independent Joseph Lowell 1,571 39.79 / 100 2nd Independent William Smith 799 20.24 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1850 - 1851 ) -- 114 entries - 34 victories Year Date State District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1850 January 21 Massachusetts 4th SeventhTrial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 4,947 35.88 / 100 2nd March 4 Massachusetts 4th Eighth Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 3,927 37.92 / 100 2nd May 27 Massachusetts 4th Ninth Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 4,970 47.57 / 100 1st August 5 Missouri 1st Benton Democrat Fermin A. Rosier 5,600 31.00 / 100 2nd Anti-Benton Democrat James B. Bowlin 5,317 29.44 / 100 3rd 3rd Anti-Benton Democrat James S. Green 6,554 42.17 / 100 2nd Benton Democrat John G. Miller 2,411 15.51 / 100 3rd 4th Anti-Benton Democrat Willard Preble Hall 5,606 37.53 / 100 Re-elected Benton Democrat James B. Gardenshire 3,826 25.61 / 100 3rd 5th Benton Democrat John S. Phelps 8,325 50.03 / 100 Elected Anti-Benton Democrat William Shields 2,050 12.32 / 100 3rd August 19 Massachusetts 1st Special Election Free Soil Charles Sumner 473 15.14 / 100 2nd 2nd Special Election Free Soil John Pierpont 1,191 17.41 / 100 3rd 4th Tenth Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 3,010 42.56 / 100 1st September 3 Vermont 1st Free Soil Democratic Merritt Clark 1,210 10.35 / 100 4th 3rd Free Soil Democratic Heman R. Beardsley 2,960 28.12 / 100 2nd 4th Free Soil Democratic Thomas Bartlett, Jr. 7,009 55.35 / 100 Elected September 9 Maine 1st Free Soil M. Sweat 530 5.10 / 100 3rd 3rd Free Soil Seth May 1,272 11.78 / 100 3rd 7th Free Soil Stephen C. Foster 716 7.15 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 2nd Special Election Second Trial Free Soil John Pierpont 1,446 15.64 / 100 3rd October 8 Ohio 16th Independent Democrat John Johnson 5,458 51.42 / 100 Elected 20th Free Soil Joshua Reed Giddings 6,896 77.75 / 100 Re-elected 21st Free Soil Joseph M. Root 1,120 7.98 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 1st American Lewis Charles Levin 4,164 41.13 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 21st American Israel Cullen 539 5.14 / 100 3rd 22nd Free Soil Supported by Whigs John W. Howe 6,284 51.65 / 100 Re-elected November 5 New Jersey 1st Native American Joseph Franklin 1,084 8.10 / 100 3rd New York 3rd Independent John F. Rodman 2,164 28.48 / 100 2nd 4th Independent Democrat Dominick McGrath 541 6.35 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 1st Free Soil Supported by Whigs Charles Durkee 7,512 57.40 / 100 Re-elected 3rd Independent James Duane Doty 11,159 67.51 / 100 Re-elected November 11 Massachusetts 1st Free Soil Benjamin B. Mufsey 1,167 13.17 / 100 3rd 2nd Free Soil Samuel E. Sewall 2,979 22.56 / 100 3rd 2nd Special Election Third Trial Free Soil Samuel E. Sewall 2,984 21.72 / 100 3rd 3rd Free Soil Thomas W. Higginson 2,476 20.54 / 100 3rd 4th Free Soil John G. Palfrey 4,783 34.25 / 100 2nd 4th Eleventh Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 4,932 34.68 / 100 2nd 5th Free Soil Charles Allen 4,095 30.33 / 100 2nd 6th Free Soil Charles P. Huntington 2,101 15.00 / 100 3rd 7th Free Soil Joel Hayden 804 6.72 / 100 3rd 8th Free Soil Horace Mann 6,697 50.51 / 100 Re-elected 10th Free Soil Sampson Hart 1,054 17.92 / 100 3rd December 31 Pennsylvania 11th Special Election Independent Edmund L. Dana 3,283 47.52 / 100 2nd 1851 January 20 Massachusetts 2nd Second Trial Free Soil Samuel E. Sewall 1,630 18.97 / 100 3rd 2nd Special Election Fourth Trial Free Soil Samuel E. Sewall 1,630 18.95 / 100 3rd 3rd Second Trial Free Soil Thomas W. Higginson 1,225 16.84 / 100 3rd 4th Second Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 2,986 33.85 / 100 2nd 4th Twelfth Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 3,001 34.09 / 100 2nd 5th Second Trial Free Soil Charles Allen 4,166 46.72 / 100 1st 6th Second Trial Free Soil Samuel Williston 1,460 15.57 / 100 3rd 7th Second Trial Free Soil Joel Hayden 579 7.73 / 100 3rd 10th Second Trial Free Soil Sampson Hart 429 11.04 / 100 3rd Unknown Daniel Bishop 239 6.15 / 100 4th March 11 New Hampshire 1st Free Soil Supported by Whigs Amos Tuck 7,791 51.23 / 100 Re-elected 2nd Free Soil Asa Fowler 2,060 15.18 / 100 3rd 4th Free Soil John H. White 1,118 13.02 / 100 3rd April 7 Massachusetts 2nd Third Trial Free Soil Samuel E. Sewall 1,773 19.01 / 100 3rd 4th Third Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 3,519 40.18 / 100 2nd 5th Third Trial Free Soil Charles Allen 4,166 51.11 / 100 Elected 7th Second Trial Free Soil Joel Hayden 586 7.96 / 100 3rd April 7 Massachusetts 2nd Fourth Trial Unknown Benjamin F. Brown 694 4.97 / 100 3rd 4th Fourth Trial Free Soil John G. Palfrey 6,293 47.00 / 100 2nd August 4 Alabama 1st Southern Rights Democrat John Bragg 6,073 58.81 / 100 Elected Union Whig Charles C. Langdon 4,254 41.19 / 100 2nd 2nd Union Whig James Abercrombie 7,598 56.24 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Democrat John Cochran 5,911 43.76 / 100 2nd 3rd Southern Rights Democrat Sampson Willis Harris 5,677 52.75 / 100 Re-elected Union Whig William S. Mudd 5,085 47.25 / 100 2nd 4th Unionist Democrat William Russell Smith 4,164 50.30 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Democrat John Erwin 4,114 49.70 / 100 2nd 5th Unionist Democrat George S. Houston 4,729 52.73 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Democrat David Hubbard 4,240 47.27 / 100 2nd 6th Unionist Democrat Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb 3,708 73.99 / 100 Re-elected Southern Rights Democrat Robert Murphy 1,303 26.00 / 100 2nd 7th Union Whig Alexander White 5,744 51.68 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Democrat Samuel F. Rice 5,371 48.32 / 100 2nd Indiana 4th Free Soil George Washington Julian 4,540 47.09 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd Kentucky 2nd Independent Whig Jeff Jennings 3,301 34.47 / 100 2nd Texas 1st Unknown B. Bush Wallace 1,148 8.49 / 100 3rd 2nd Unknown Hugh McLeod 2,935 21.21 / 100 2nd Unknown Henry N. Potter 1,231 8.89 / 100 4th August 6 Tennessee 6th Independent Democrat William Hawkins Polk 5,830 56.13 / 100 Elected August 14 North Carolina 2nd Secessionist Whig Thomas Lanier Clingman 6,600 70.07 / 100 Re-elected as Secessionist Whig 5th Secessionist Democrat Abraham Watkins Venable 4,057 59.95 / 100 Re-elected as Secessionist Democrat Unionist Democrat Calvin Graves 2,710 40.05 / 100 2nd October 1 Maryland 1st Independent Whig Thomas Fielder Bowie 2,114 45.69 / 100 2nd 3rd Independent Andrew A. Lynch 2,894 34.75 / 100 2nd 6th Independent Whig Joseph Stewart Cottman 2,837 50.92 / 100 Elected October 6 Georgia 1st Southern Rights Joseph Webber Jackson 4,283 51.66 / 100 Re-elected as Southern Rights Unionist Joseph Webber Jackson 4,007 48.84 / 100 2nd 2nd Unionist James Johnson 8,107 53.72 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Henry L. Benning 6,985 46.28 / 100 2nd 3rd Southern Rights David Jackson Bailey 6,011 50.67 / 100 Elected Unionist Absalom Harris Chappell 5,853 49.33 / 100 2nd 4th Unionist Charles Murphey 7,750 58.05 / 100 Elected Southern Rights John P. Stell 5,601 41.95 / 100 2nd 5th Unionist Elijah Webb Chastain 13,882 64.98 / 100 Elected Southern Rights William Henry Stiles 7,481 35.02 / 100 2nd 6th Unionist Junius Hillyer 6,937 71.10 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Thomas F. Jones 2,819 28.90 / 100 2nd 7th Unionist Alexander H. Stephens 4,744 70.82 / 100 Re-elected as Unionist Southern Rights David W. Lewis 1,955 29.18 / 100 2nd 8th Unionist Robert Toombs 4,704 64.95 / 100 Re-elected as Unionist Southern Rights Robert McMillan 2,538 35.05 / 100 2nd October 23 Virginia 8th Unknown Robert W. Carter 29 38.67 / 100 2nd November 4 Mississippi 1st Unionist Benjamin D. Nabers 9,659 57.77 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Jacob Thompson 7,051 42.23 / 100 Lost Re-election as Southern Rights 2nd 2nd Unionist John Allen Wilcox 6,927 52.77 / 100 Elected Southern Rights Winfield S. Featherston 6,201 47.23 / 100 Lost Re-election as Southern Rights 2nd 3rd Unionist John D. Freeman 7,732 51.15 / 100 Elected Southern Rights William McWillie 7,485 48.85 / 100 Lost Re-election as Southern Rights 2nd 4th Southern Rights Albert G. Brown 7,304 57.34 / 100 Re-elected as Southern Rights Unionist A.B. Dawson 5,433 42.66 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1852 - 1853 ) -- 113 entries - 13 victories Year Date State District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1852 August 2 Missouri 1st Benton Democrat Thomas Hart Benton 8,437 45.37 / 100 Elected Anti-Benton Democrat Lewis V. Bogy 2,566 13.80 / 100 3rd 4th Anti-Benton Democrat James H. Birch 4,452 27.30 / 100 2nd Benton Democrat Austin Augustus King 4,243 26.02 / 100 3rd September 7 Vermont 1st Free Soil Democratic John Pierpont 2,822 22.25 / 100 2nd 2nd Old Democrat Daniel Kellogg 3,196 18.73 / 100 2nd Free Soil Democratic Ryland Fletcher 2,863 16.78 / 100 3rd 3rd Free Soil Democratic A. Judson Rowell 2,989 24.40 / 100 3rd September 13 Maine 1st Free Soil Samuel Fessenden 1,358 8.54 / 100 3rd 4th Free Soil Seth May 1,580 9.87 / 100 3rd October 12 Indiana 5th Unknown R.J. Hubbard 1,451 9.81 / 100 3rd Ohio 7th Free Soil Oliver W. Nixon 1,252 9.04 / 100 3rd 9th Free Soil George W. Sampson 768 6.94 / 100 3rd 13th Free Soil Jacob Brinkerhoff 2,390 15.76 / 100 3rd 14th Free Soil Norton Strange Townshend 3,030 19.70 / 100 3rd 15th Free Soil R.H. Vance 924 5.84 / 100 3rd 18th Free Soil Thomas Earl 1,708 12.56 / 100 3rd 19th Free Soil Edward Wade 5,274 40.46 / 100 Elected 20th Free Soil Joshua Reed Giddings 5,752 40.06 / 100 Re-elected 21st Free Soil Thomas S. Lee 1,220 7.86 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 1st American Lewis Charles Levin 2,953 26.63 / 100 3rd 3rd American John S. Painter 2,206 19.41 / 100 3rd 4th American Oliver P. Cornman 2,063 16.43 / 100 3rd 14th Free Soil George Horton 495 5.78 / 100 2nd 21st Free Soil Neville B. Craig 641 6.15 / 100 3rd 23rd Free Soil Joseph C. White 1,017 8.67 / 100 3rd 25th Free Soil David A. Gould 940 8.55 / 100 3rd November 2 Illinois 1st Free Soil Newman Campbell 2,245 13.41 / 100 3rd 2nd Free Soil James H. Collins 2,149 13.33 / 100 3rd 3rd Free Soil John Howard Bryant 1,603 8.92 / 100 3rd 4th Free Soil Lewis M. Curtis 1,290 6.19 / 100 3rd 8th Independent Democrat William Henry Bissell 5,937 39.79 / 100 Re-elected as Independent Democrat Michigan 4th Free Soil Ephraim Calkins 1,048 5.05 / 100 3rd New Jersey 1st Native American Joseph Franklin 905 6.06 / 100 3rd New York 4th Independent Patrick Kelly 1,712 18.86 / 100 3rd 5th Independent Joseph C. Morton 818 7.82 / 100 3rd 17th Free Soil James Reddington 1,601 8.44 / 100 3rd 20th Independent Whig Joshua A. Spencer 1,542 9.08 / 100 3rd 22nd Free Soil Gerrit Smith 8,049 40.50 / 100 Elected 23rd Independent Supported by Whigs Caleb Lyon 8,937 52.88 / 100 Elected 24th Free Soil Robert R. Raymond 1,458 10.28 / 100 3rd 25th Free Soil Samuel S. Cuyler 1,147 5.95 / 100 3rd 30th Free Soil John D. Landon 976 5.03 / 100 3rd 31st Free Soil Peter P. Murphy 1,358 10.67 / 100 3rd Vermont 3rd First Trial Free Soil Democratic Charles D. Kesson 2,294 19.44 / 100 3rd Virginia 15th Special Election Independent People 's Waitman T. Willey 5,902 44.63 / 100 2nd Wisconsin 1st Free Soil Charles Durkee 5,731 31.94 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 2nd Free Soil James L. Enos 1,497 7.41 / 100 3rd 3rd Free Soil Hiram McKee 2,168 8.25 / 100 3rd November 8 Massachusetts 1st Free Soil Rodney French 2,207 21.73 / 100 3rd 2nd Free Soil Gershorn B. Weston 4,302 33.17 / 100 2nd 2nd Special Election Free Soil John B. Alley 3,565 26.20 / 100 2nd 3rd Free Soil Charles Francis Adams Sr. 4,170 37.17 / 100 2nd 4th Free Soil Charles M. Ellis 1,028 14.55 / 100 3rd 4th Special Election Free Soil John A. Bolles 4,165 28.95 / 100 2nd 5th Free Soil Anson Burlingame 1,550 18.67 / 100 3rd 6th Free Soil George Wood 2,531 21.27 / 100 3rd 7th Free Soil John A. Bollet 2,599 20.89 / 100 3rd Independent Gorham Brooks 793 6.37 / 100 4th 8th Free Soil Henry Wilson 3,614 28.38 / 100 2nd Independent Ithamer W. Beard 721 5.66 / 100 4th 9th Free Soil Alexander De Witt 5,273 37.79 / 100 1st 9th Special Election Free Soil Christopher A. Church 3,920 33.02 / 100 2nd 10th Free Soil Erastus Hopkins 2,545 18.79 / 100 3rd 11th Free Soil James T. Robinson 2,002 13.33 / 100 3rd December 13 Massachusetts 1st Second Trial Independent Abraham H. Howland 2,368 37.09 / 100 2nd 2nd Second Trial Free Soil Gershorn B. Weston 3,455 44.34 / 100 2nd 2nd Special Election Second Trial Free Soil George Hood 4,821 45.73 / 100 2nd 3rd Second Trial Free Soil Charles Francis Adams Sr. 2,978 42.40 / 100 2nd 4th Special Election Second Trial Free Soil John A. Bolles 4,055 45.10 / 100 2nd 6th Second Trial Free Soil George Wood 4,096 45.04 / 100 2nd 8th Second Trial Free Soil Henry Wilson 4,319 44.96 / 100 2nd 9th Second Trial Free Soil Alexander De Witt 4,039 41.38 / 100 Elected 10th Second Trial Free Soil Erastus Hopkins 1,507 20.67 / 100 3rd 1853 March 1 South Carolina 4th Unknown Francis Wilkinson Pickens 1,497 23.22 / 100 2nd Unknown Charles P. Sullivan 1,460 22.64 / 100 3rd Unknown J. Foster Marshall 1,405 21.79 / 100 4th 5th Unknown Daniel Wallace 168 9.18 / 100 2nd 6th Unknown F.J. Moses 2,270 45.41 / 100 2nd March 8 New Hampshire 1st Free Soil Supported by Whigs Amos Tuck 8,962 46.85 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 2nd Free Soil John Preston 1,742 11.50 / 100 3rd April 4 Connecticut 3rd Free Soil Albert G. Peck 1,800 15.21 / 100 3rd May 3 South Carolina 3rd Special Election Unknown A.W. Owens 1,848 44.54 / 100 2nd May 26 Virginia 1st Unknown Louis C. Finney 418 39.92 / 100 2nd 2nd Independent Democrat William D. Roberts 379 6.70 / 100 3rd 4th Unknown William C. Flournoy 394 14.56 / 100 3rd 5th Independent Thomas H. Arverett 428 5.15 / 100 3rd 11th Independent Democrat Charles S. Lewis 4,488 38.34 / 100 2nd August 1 Missouri 3rd Anti-Benton Democrat Claiborne Fox Jackson 6,674 49.43 / 100 2nd 7th Benton Democrat Albert Jackson 2,542 22.77 / 100 2nd Anti-Benton Democrat Thomas B. English 2,424 21.72 / 100 3rd Benton Democrat Fermin A. Rosier 1,750 15.68 / 100 4th August 4 North Carolina 2nd Independent W.C. Loftin 2,653 31.34 / 100 2nd 3rd Land Distribution Democrat Walter F. Leake 3,351 37.56 / 100 2nd 4th Land Distribution Democrat Abraham Watkins Venable 4,133 38.31 / 100 Lost Re-election as Land Distribution Democrat 2nd Anti-Land Distribution Democrat Augustis M. Lewis 2,454 22.75 / 100 3rd 5th Independent Democrat Abraham Rencher 963 13.76 / 100 2nd August 8 Alabama 1st Southern Rights Democrat Philip Phillips 4,880 50.53 / 100 Elected Union Whig E. Lockwood 4,777 49.47 / 100 2nd 2nd Union Whig James Abercrombie 7,474 56.14 / 100 Re-elected 3rd Southern Rights Democrat Sampson Willis Harris 6,394 79.48 / 100 Re-elected Union Whig S.D. Moore 1,622 20.52 / 100 2nd 4th Unionist Democrat William Russell Smith 3,045 34.65 / 100 Re-elected Southern Rights Democrat Sydenham Moore 2,974 33.84 / 100 2nd 6th Unionist Democrat Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb 5,221 58.24 / 100 Re-elected 7th Southern Rights Democrat James Ferguson Dowdell 6,078 65.51 / 100 Elected Independent Unionist Whig Thomas G. Garrett 3,200 34.49 / 100 2nd October 3 Georgia 6th Unknown Hopkins Holsey 2,358 17.65 / 100 3rd Unknown William M. Morton 2,229 16.68 / 100 4th November 2 Maryland 1st Independent John S. Stevenson 5,136 46.45 / 100 2nd 3rd Independent William P. Preston 5,061 46.27 / 100 2nd 5th Independent Francis Thomas 6,457 46.12 / 100 2nd 6th Independent Daniel Jenifer 4,158 46.75 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1854 - 1855 ) -- 212 entries - 83 victories Year Date State District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1854 August 7 Missouri 1st Benton Democrat Thomas Hart Benton 5,298 45.84 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 2nd Benton Democrat Tully Cornick 6,877 45.86 / 100 2nd 4th Benton Democrat Shelton J. Howe 2,787 19.08 / 100 3rd 5th Benton Democrat Thomas Lawson Price 4,904 35.50 / 100 2nd 6th Benton Democrat Waldo P. Johnson 7,982 48.90 / 100 2nd September 6 California At - Large ( 2 ) Broderick Democrat James Churchman 10,006 6.09 / 100 5th Broderick Democrat James A. McDougall 9,968 6.07 / 100 Lost Re-election 6th October 10 Indiana 1st People 's Sam Hall 9,051 47.85 / 100 2nd 2nd People 's Thomas C. Slaught 8,345 48.30 / 100 2nd 3rd People 's George Grundy Dunn 9,989 54.53 / 100 Elected 4th People 's William Cumback 9,061 51.92 / 100 Elected 5th People 's David P. Holloway 9,419 64.25 / 100 Elected 6th People 's Lucien Barbour 9,824 51.41 / 100 Elected 7th People 's Harvey D. Scott 9,515 52.58 / 100 Elected 8th People 's Daniel Mace 10,357 56.92 / 100 Re-elected as People 's 9th People 's Schuyler Colfax 9,989 54.85 / 100 Elected 10th People 's Samuel Brenton 7,484 56.00 / 100 Elected 11th People 's John U. Pettit 9,389 56.59 / 100 Elected Ohio 1st Anti-Nebraska Timothy C. Day 7,716 63.46 / 100 Elected 2nd Anti-Nebraska John Scott Harrison 7,562 66.03 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 3rd Anti-Nebraska Lewis D. Campbell 9,058 58.25 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 4th Anti-Nebraska Matthias H. Nichols 10,307 70.19 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 5th Anti-Nebraska Richard Mott 8,253 61.62 / 100 Elected 6th Anti-Nebraska Jonas R. Emrie 9,990 65.04 / 100 Elected 7th Anti-Nebraska Aaron Harlan 9,928 81.14 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 8th Anti-Nebraska Benjamin Stanton 11,000 75.84 / 100 Elected 9th Anti-Nebraska Cooper K. Watson 8,399 59.92 / 100 Elected 10th Anti-Nebraska Oscar F. Moore 8,865 65.32 / 100 Elected 11th Anti-Nebraska Valentine B. Horton 9,818 58.70 / 100 Elected 12th Anti-Nebraska Samuel Galloway 9,698 60.28 / 100 Elected 13th Anti-Nebraska John Sherman 8,617 59.80 / 100 Elected 14th Anti-Nebraska Philemon Bliss 8,788 59.26 / 100 Elected 15th Anti-Nebraska William R. Sapp 9,371 58.99 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 16th Anti-Nebraska Edward Ball 7,265 58.89 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 17th Anti-Nebraska Charles J. Albright 8,332 58.07 / 100 Elected 18th Anti-Nebraska Benjamin F. Leiter 8,738 63.36 / 100 Elected 19th Anti-Nebraska Edward Wade 7,699 71.07 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 20th Anti-Nebraska Joshua Reed Giddings 6,972 64.83 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Nebraska 21st Anti-Nebraska John Bingham 9,860 65.31 / 100 Elected Pennsylvania 2nd Independent Whig Joseph Ripley Chandler 1,196 11.56 / 100 Lost Re-election as Independent Whig 3rd 4th American Jacob Broom 6,747 49.63 / 100 Elected 9th Independent Whig Anthony Ellmaker Roberts 6,259 39.38 / 100 Elected 14th Free Soil Democratic Galusha A. Grow 13,062 95.22 / 100 Re-elected as Free Soil Democratic 18th Independent Whig Jacob Croswell 3,217 27.64 / 100 2nd 24th Independent Democrat Richard Arthurs 3,830 26.25 / 100 2nd South Carolina 1st Unknown I.D. Wilson 2,488 32.56 / 100 2nd 3rd Unknown A.C. Garlington 3,051 33.16 / 100 2nd November 7 Illinois 1st Anti-Nebraska Democrat E.P. Ferry 927 7.68 / 100 3rd 2nd Anti-Nebraska Democrat Edward L. Mayo 996 7.63 / 100 4th New Jersey 1st Temperance John W. Hazelton 3,949 27.05 / 100 3rd 4th Independent Anti-Nebraska Peter Osborne 6,816 48.35 / 100 2nd New York 1st American William Valk 4,215 31.19 / 100 Elected Hard Shell Democrat Daniel B. Allen 2,769 20.49 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat Frederick William Lord 2,227 16.48 / 100 4th Temperance Gabriel Poilon Disosway 1,540 11.40 / 100 5th 3rd Hard Shell Democrat George D. Clinton 2,556 30.70 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat William Miner 1,685 20.24 / 100 3rd 4th Soft Shell Democrat John Kelly 3,068 40.54 / 100 Elected Hard Shell Democrat Michael Walsh 3,050 40.30 / 100 Lost Re-election as Hard Shell 2nd American John W. Boyce 626 8.27 / 100 4th 5th American Thomas R. Whitney 3,320 30.86 / 100 Elected Hard Shell Democrat Philip Hamilton 2,718 25.27 / 100 3rd Soft Shell Democrat Abraham J. Berry 1,954 18.16 / 100 4th 6th Hard Shell Democrat John Wheeler 5,102 51.58 / 100 Re-elected as Hard Shell Soft Shell Democrat John M. Murphy 2,533 25.61 / 100 2nd 8th Hard Shell Democrat James Langdon Curtis 3,069 32.52 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat Edward B. Fellows 1,473 15.61 / 100 3rd 9th Hard Shell Democrat Benjamin Brandeth 2,560 19.64 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat James R. Whiting 1,960 15.04 / 100 3rd 10th Hard Shell Democrat Charles S. Woodworth 4,564 38.59 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat Jonathan Stratton 2,053 17.36 / 100 3rd 12th Soft Shell Democrat Hugh W. McClelland 5,540 33.78 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat William H. Wilson 2,486 15.16 / 100 3rd 13th Soft Shell Democrat Henry A. Clum 2,075 18.86 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat Alanson Cook 1,971 17.92 / 100 3rd 14th American John W. Harcourt 4,270 28.45 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat John V.L. Pruyn 3,844 25.62 / 100 3rd Hard Shell Democrat Hamilton David 2,255 15.03 / 100 4th 15th Hard Shell Democrat Orville Clark 6,358 35.34 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat Charles Hughes 2,471 16.48 / 100 Lost Re-election as Soft Shell 3rd Temperance James M. Andrews 2,404 13.36 / 100 4th 16th American Jerome B. Bailey 3,121 27.06 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat Gorton T. Thomas 1,732 15.02 / 100 3rd Hard Shell Democrat Joseph R. Flanders 1,125 9.75 / 100 4th 17th Soft Shell Democrat Francis E. Spinner 7,618 50.62 / 100 Elected Hard Shell Democrat Nathaniel S. Benton 2,014 13.38 / 100 3rd 19th Soft Shell Democrat Lewis R. Palmer 6,444 41.33 / 100 2nd Free Soil William B. Hawes 1,339 8.59 / 100 3rd Hard Shell Democrat Hezekiah Sturgis 1,066 6.84 / 100 4th 20th Soft Shell Democrat William C. Johnson 5,172 30.40 / 100 2nd Independent Whig Benjamin N. Huntington 4,759 27.98 / 100 3rd 21st Hard Shell Democrat Edward Tompkins 5,579 32.04 / 100 2nd Soft Shell Democrat Oliver C. Crocker 2,077 11.93 / 100 3rd 22nd Soft Shell Democrat Leander Babcock 4,729 27.50 / 100 2nd Free Soil Charles G. Case 3,652 21.24 / 100 3rd Hard Shell Democrat William Lewis 3,281 19.08 / 100 4th 23rd Soft Shell Democrat Willard Ives 5,645 41.86 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat Lysander Brown 1,513 11.22 / 100 3rd 24th Soft Shell Democrat Thomas G. Alvord 4,109 32.08 / 100 2nd American B. Davis Noxon 3,409 26.62 / 100 3rd 25th Soft Shell Democrat George H. Middleton 6,910 43.50 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat William F. Aldrich 1,295 8.15 / 100 3rd 26th Soft Shell Democrat Andrew Oliver 6,871 47.74 / 100 Re-elected as Soft Shell Hard Shell Democrat Thomas M. Howell 2,187 15.20 / 100 3rd 27th Soft Shell Democrat John G. McDowell 4,701 26.45 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat Stephen B. Cushing 2,183 12.28 / 100 3rd 28th Soft Shell Democrat George Hastings 4,450 27.72 / 100 Lost Re-election as Soft Shell 2nd Hard Shell Democrat Leman Gibbs 543 3.38 / 100 3rd 29th Soft Shell Democrat John Williams 5,609 47.94 / 100 Elected Hard Shell Democrat Joseph Sibley 1,865 15.94 / 100 3rd 30th Soft Shell Democrat Albert P. Laning 3,901 23.62 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat Charles W. Belden 2,410 14.60 / 100 3rd 31st Free Soil Edward J. Chase 962 10.25 / 100 3rd 32nd Soft Shell Democrat Israel T. Hatch 5,388 35.15 / 100 2nd Hard Shell Democrat Nelson Randall 865 5.64 / 100 3rd 33rd American Francis S. Edwards 8,359 55.49 / 100 Elected Soft Shell Democrat Reuben Fenton 2,227 16.48 / 100 Lost Re-election as Soft Shell 2nd Wisconsin 3rd Independent Harvey G. Turner 1,924 8.06 / 100 3rd November 12 Massachusetts 1st American Robert Bernard Hall 5,353 63.70 / 100 Elected 2nd American James Buffington 8,064 68.25 / 100 Elected Free Soil Gresham B. Weston 774 6.55 / 100 4th 3rd American William S. Damrell 8,668 74.76 / 100 Elected 4th American Linus B. Comins 4,972 57.45 / 100 Elected 5th American Anson Burlingame 5,967 61.64 / 100 Elected 6th American Timothy Davis 7,428 65.39 / 100 Elected 7th American Nathaniel P. Banks 8,928 73.53 / 100 Elected 8th American Chauncey L. Knapp 7,004 62.80 / 100 Elected 9th American Alexander De Witt 8,795 76.97 / 100 Re-elected as American 10th American Henry Morris 7,723 65.35 / 100 Elected 11th American Mark Trafton 6,640 50.52 / 100 Elected November 14 Delaware At - Large American Elisha D. Cullen 6,820 51.85 / 100 Elected 1855 March 13 New Hampshire 1st American James Pike 12,619 56.29 / 100 Elected 2nd American Mason Tappan 12,129 58.37 / 100 Elected 3rd American Aaron H. Cragin 12,126 58.39 / 100 Elected April 2 Connecticut 1st American Ezra Clark, Jr. 8,521 52.11 / 100 Elected 2nd American John Woodruff 9,876 55.50 / 100 Elected 3rd American Sidney Dean 8,055 67.51 / 100 Elected 4th American William W. Welch 9,701 56.07 / 100 Elected April 4 Rhode Island 1st American Nathan B. Durfee 6,283 75.97 / 100 Elected 2nd American Benjamin Babock Thurston 4,359 75.97 / 100 Re-elected as American May 24 Virginia 1st Unknown Robert Latane Montague 382 9.85 / 100 2nd 2nd American Samuel Watts 4,141 46.71 / 100 2nd 3rd American William C. Scott 5,466 47.88 / 100 2nd 4th American Littleton Waller Tazewell 2,700 38.73 / 100 2nd 5th American N.C. Claiborne 5,142 42.75 / 100 2nd 6th American Littlebury N. Ligon 2,976 43.32 / 100 2nd 7th American B. Johnson Barbour 886 13.77 / 100 2nd Independent David Funsten 529 8.22 / 100 3rd 8th American Alexander Boteler 6,959 49.29 / 100 2nd 10th American William N. Pendleton 6,248 45.50 / 100 2nd 11th American John S. Carlile 8,333 51.20 / 100 Elected 12th American Waller Redd Staples 6,385 46.01 / 100 2nd 13th American Trigg 3,525 40.82 / 100 2nd August 2 North Carolina 1st American Robert Treat Paine 5,228 51.71 / 100 Elected 2nd American Thomas J. Latham 3,464 33.95 / 100 2nd 3rd American David Reid 4,863 45.06 / 100 2nd 4th American James B. Shepard 4,223 38.33 / 100 2nd 5th American Edwin Godwin Reade 7,061 65.28 / 100 Elected 6th American Richard Clauselle Puryear 6,516 51.45 / 100 Re-elected as American 7th American Samuel N. Stowe 4,104 37.83 / 100 2nd 8th American Leander B. Carmichael 6,584 44.90 / 100 2nd Tennessee 1st American Nathaniel Green Taylor 7,511 48.57 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 2nd 2nd American William Henry Sneed 6,249 52.15 / 100 Elected 3rd American Josiah M. Anderson 7,331 48.22 / 100 2nd 4th American William Cullom 5,563 48.04 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 2nd 5th American Charles Ready 7,069 91.79 / 100 Re-elected as American 6th American Powhattan Gordon 4,245 33.37 / 100 2nd 7th American William Kendrick 5,922 42.76 / 100 2nd 8th American Felix Zollicoffer 6,958 58.89 / 100 Re-elected as American 9th American Emerson Etheridge 7,952 51.82 / 100 Re-elected as American 10th American Thomas Rivers 5,860 53.29 / 100 Elected August 6 Alabama 1st American Percy Walker 5,653 52.40 / 100 Elected 2nd American Julius Caesar Alford 5,520 45.11 / 100 2nd 3rd American Thomas H. Watts 5,808 47.80 / 100 2nd 4th American William Russell Smith 5,787 59.83 / 100 Re-elected as American 6th Know Nothing Independent James M. Adams 3,697 37.13 / 100 2nd 7th Know Nothing Independent William B. Martin 5,220 42.72 / 100 2nd Kentucky 1st American W.G. Hughes 5,708 37.98 / 100 2nd 2nd American John P. Campbell Jr. 7,533 55.29 / 100 Elected 3rd American Warner Underwood 7,362 56.89 / 100 Elected 4th American Fountain T. Fox 6,570 49.94 / 100 2nd 5th American C.G. Wintersmith 6,628 48.37 / 100 2nd 6th American George W. Dunlap 6,340 45.21 / 100 2nd 7th American Humphrey Marshall 6,932 61.29 / 100 Elected 8th American Alexander Keith Marshall 7,039 55.98 / 100 Elected 9th American Leander Cox 8,085 55.06 / 100 Re-elected as American 10th American Samuel F. Swope 7,490 51.72 / 100 Elected Texas 1st American Lemuel D. Evans 10,352 50.10 / 100 Elected 2nd American John Hancock 9,427 39.24 / 100 2nd October 1 Georgia 1st American Samuel Varnadoe 4,544 42.38 / 100 2nd 2nd American Willis Hawkins 7,153 48.01 / 100 2nd 3rd American Robert Pleasant Trippe 6,116 53.97 / 100 Elected 4th American Benjamin Harvey Hill 6,813 49.74 / 100 2nd 5th American Lewis Tumblin 7,973 41.39 / 100 2nd 6th American Leonidas Franklin 5,227 36.22 / 100 2nd 7th American Nathaniel Greene Foster 4,792 51.13 / 100 Elected 8th American Lafayette Lamar 3,079 34.65 / 100 2nd November 5 Louisiana 1st American George Eustis Jr. 2,588 53.41 / 100 Elected 2nd American Theodore Gaillard Hunt 5,811 48.46 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 2nd 3rd American Preston Pond 4,616 49.39 / 100 2nd 4th American William B. Lewis 6,491 41.95 / 100 2nd November 6 Maryland 1st American John Dennis 5,868 48.73 / 100 2nd 2nd American James Barroll Ricaud 8,484 56.58 / 100 Elected 3rd American James Morrison Harris 6,538 50.21 / 100 Elected 4th American Henry Winter Davis 7,988 51.60 / 100 Elected 5th American Henry William Hoffman 8,320 52.36 / 100 Elected 6th American William Watkins 4,746 46.07 / 100 2nd Mississippi 1st American J.H. Taylor 5,731 44.48 / 100 2nd 2nd American L.E. Houston 5,554 48.36 / 100 2nd 3rd American Joseph B. Cobb 5,894 44.52 / 100 2nd 4th American William A. Lake 5,907 50.77 / 100 Elected 5th American Giles M. Hillyer 4,489 40.64 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1856 - 1857 ) -- 154 entries - 23 victories Year Date State District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1856 August 4 Arkansas 1st American Hugh French Thomason 6,161 28.58 / 100 2nd 2nd American Absalom Fowler 8,701 42.37 / 100 2nd Missouri 1st Benton Democrat Francis Preston Blair Jr. 6,035 43.84 / 100 Elected 2nd American Thomas Lilbourne Anderson 8,876 52.14 / 100 Elected 3rd American James Johnson Lindley 8,172 44.66 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 2nd 4th American James H. Moses 6,274 40.76 / 100 2nd 5th American Samuel H. Woodson 6,006 41.58 / 100 Elected Benton Democrat Thomas Lawson Price 3,755 26.00 / 100 3rd 6th American Burr H. Emerson 6,911 41.29 / 100 2nd 7th American David E. Perrymen 4,883 31.14 / 100 2nd Benton Democrat John D. Stephenson 2,556 16.30 / 100 3rd October 6 Florida At - Large American James M. Baker 5,650 46.92 / 100 2nd October 14 Ohio 1st American James F. Torrence 2,642 20.28 / 100 3rd 2nd American John Scott Harrison 3,229 24.26 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 3rd 6th American John A. Trimble 1,598 9.05 / 100 3rd 7th American Willard Ellsberry 1,011 6.69 / 100 3rd 8th American John W. Glover 1,239 7.20 / 100 3rd 10th American Oscar F. Moore 4,326 24.92 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 3rd 16th American John Haynes 1,382 9.16 / 100 3rd 17th American Joseph Davenport 2,013 11.91 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 1st Union Edward B. Knight 7,275 43.38 / 100 2nd 2nd Union Edward Joy Morris 6,411 51.58 / 100 Elected 3rd Union William Millward 6,753 45.98 / 100 Lost Re-election as Union 2nd 4th American Robert Foust 6,560 35.86 / 100 2nd 5th Union Daniel H. Mulvaney 7,961 45.14 / 100 2nd 6th Union John S. Bowen 7,851 47.85 / 100 2nd 7th Union Samuel Carey Bradshaw 8,789 45.99 / 100 Lost Re-election as Union 2nd 8th Union David Yoder 3,947 28.40 / 100 2nd 9th Union Anthony Ellmaker Roberts 10,001 54.59 / 100 Re-elected as Union 10th Union John Christian Kunkel 9,227 55.63 / 100 Re-elected as Union 11th Union James Hepburn Campbell 6,418 41.74 / 100 Lost Re-election as Union 2nd 12th Union Elhanan Smith 7,657 42.31 / 100 2nd 13th Union Samuel E. Dimmick 5,065 31.07 / 100 2nd 14th Union Galusha A. Grow 13,325 71.31 / 100 Re-elected as Union 15th Union William H. Irvin 9,451 48.64 / 100 2nd 16th Union Lemuel Todd 9,630 46.25 / 100 Lost Re-election as Union 2nd 17th Union Joseph Pumroy 9,715 48.72 / 100 2nd 18th Union John Rufus Edie 8,792 50.91 / 100 Re-elected as Union 19th Union John Covode 10,409 54.40 / 100 Re-elected as Union 20th Union Jonathan Knight 9,411 47.85 / 100 Lost Re-election as Union 2nd 23rd Union William Stewart 8,552 61.00 / 100 Elected 24th Union James S. Myers 9,114 48.25 / 100 2nd 25th Union John Dick 8,944 67.97 / 100 Re-elected as Union South Carolina 2nd Unknown John Cunningham 342 7.87 / 100 3rd November 4 California At - Large ( 2 ) American B.C. Whitman 36,078 16.68 / 100 3rd American A.B. Dibble 35,325 16.34 / 100 4th Delaware At - Large American Elisha D. Cullen 6,360 43.95 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd Massachusetts 1st American Daniel Fisher 1,601 14.12 / 100 3rd 2nd American Darius Dunbar 1,132 7.03 / 100 3rd 3rd American Alfred B. Ely 1,435 8.47 / 100 3rd 4th American Benjamin F. Cooke 1,678 14.85 / 100 3rd 5th American William Appleton 6,513 49.74 / 100 2nd 6th American Benjamin Perley 1,121 7.75 / 100 3rd 7th American Isaac Story 2,049 11.74 / 100 3rd 9th American Alexander De Witt 4,414 26.57 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 10th American William C. Fowler 4,081 27.34 / 100 2nd 11th American Mark Trafton 4,194 27.41 / 100 Lost Re-election 3rd New Jersey 4th American Charles Ingalls 2,355 13.54 / 100 3rd 5th American Frederick B. Betts 5,640 26.34 / 100 3rd New York 1st American Richard Jennings 5,892 31.20 / 100 2nd 2nd American Edward T. Wood 5,476 26.00 / 100 3rd Independent Alexander McCue 1,123 5.33 / 100 4th 3rd American Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne 2,905 27.03 / 100 2nd 4th American W.F. Gould 1,735 15.02 / 100 2nd 5th American Daniel L. Northrup 3,798 26.93 / 100 2nd Independent Democrat Philip Hamilton 1,169 8.29 / 100 4th 6th American Aras Williams 3,658 24.10 / 100 3rd 7th American George Briggs 4,461 27.98 / 100 2nd Independent American John Bullock 854 5.36 / 100 4th 8th American Shepard Knapp 3,651 24.52 / 100 3rd 9th American Marcius L. Cobb 5,084 27.91 / 100 3rd 10th American Charles W. Trotter 3,936 25.11 / 100 3rd 11th American John Fream 5,902 33.36 / 100 2nd 12th American Isaac Teller 3,116 15.32 / 100 3rd 13th American John I. Fonda 4,108 29.19 / 100 3rd 14th American Eli Perry 5,095 28.27 / 100 2nd 15th American John Cramer 5,633 24.79 / 100 2nd 16th American Henry H. Ross 4,129 27.00 / 100 3rd 18th American Abel Smith 5,936 27.26 / 100 3rd 22nd American James D. Clover 1,671 7.55 / 100 3rd 24th American Henry G. Beach 1,720 10.76 / 100 3rd 25th American William Fosgate 3,644 18.26 / 100 3rd 26th American Andrew Oliver 4,264 24.12 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 2nd 27th American Abraham Lawrence 1,219 5.55 / 100 3rd 28th American Samuel Hallet 4,895 24.89 / 100 2nd 29th American George Clark 3,156 20.66 / 100 3rd 30th American Gilbert M. Cooley 2,758 12.74 / 100 3rd 31st American Washington Hunt 4,694 35.27 / 100 2nd 32nd American Solomon G. Haven 5,548 27.92 / 100 Lost Re-election as American 3rd 33rd American Francis S. Edwards 3,251 17.35 / 100 Lost Re-election 3rd 1857 May 28 Virginia 1st American John Critcher 2,825 42.92 / 100 2nd 3rd American A. Judson Crane 2,931 36.28 / 100 2nd 4th American Robert S. Collier 1,132 24.03 / 100 2nd 7th American Edgar Snowden 3,941 42.50 / 100 2nd 9th American J.D. Imboden 2,463 24.74 / 100 2nd 10th American W.M. Dunnington 2,821 28.51 / 100 2nd 11th American John S. Carlile 6,653 46.17 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 13th American Elbert S. Martin 5,249 49.67 / 100 2nd August 3 Alabama 1st American John McCaskill 4,310 38.05 / 100 2nd 2nd American Batt Peterson 4,464 37.57 / 100 2nd 3rd American Thomas J. Judge 6,418 49.66 / 100 2nd 4th American William Russell Smith 4,952 43.50 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 5th Southern Rights Democrat David Hubbard 3,956 44.91 / 100 2nd Kentucky 1st American Owen Grimes 2,945 24.68 / 100 2nd 2nd American James Leeper Johnson 6,173 46.12 / 100 2nd 3rd American Warner Underwood 6,359 50.81 / 100 Re-elected 4th American William Clayton Anderson 6,861 49.41 / 100 2nd 5th American Bryan Young 4,996 40.38 / 100 2nd 6th American John A. Moore 5,950 44.34 / 100 2nd 7th American Humphrey Marshall 6,085 55.00 / 100 Re-elected 8th American Roger W. Hanson 6,451 49.52 / 100 2nd 9th American Leander Cox 7,534 48.04 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 10th American William L. Rankin 4,185 32.36 / 100 2nd Texas 1st American Lemuel D. Evans 9,929 39.29 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 2nd American William E. Howth 4,505 18.13 / 100 2nd August 6 North Carolina 1st American William Nathan Harrell Smith 5,255 49.82 / 100 2nd 2nd Write - In Write - Ins 616 9.40 / 100 2nd 3rd American O.P. Meares 1,488 19.02 / 100 2nd 4th Independent Scattering 910 10.74 / 100 2nd 5th American John Adams Gilmer 5,692 54.02 / 100 Elected 6th American Richard Clauselle Puryear 6,950 47.51 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 7th American Atlas J. Dargan 573 8.15 / 100 2nd 8th American Zebulon Baird Vance 3,211 26.25 / 100 2nd Tennessee 1st American Nathaniel Green Taylor 7,471 49.42 / 100 2nd 2nd American Horace Maynard 5,556 50.89 / 100 Elected 3rd American William Heiskell 6,800 47.02 / 100 2nd 4th American Joseph Pickett 5,232 44.84 / 100 2nd 5th American Charles Ready 6,151 51.25 / 100 Re-elected 7th American D.E. McElrath 1,665 16.19 / 100 2nd 8th American Felix Zollicoffer 6,088 52.18 / 100 Re-elected 9th American Emerson Etheridge 8,466 49.63 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 10th American William H. Stevens 5,697 48.68 / 100 2nd October 5 Georgia 1st American Francis S. Bartow 5,082 44.39 / 100 2nd 2nd American Samuel C. Elam 6,365 43.94 / 100 2nd 3rd American Robert Pleasant Trippe 5,803 51.69 / 100 Re-elected 4th American M.M. Tidwell 6,939 46.42 / 100 2nd 5th American J.W. Hooper 5,686 36.15 / 100 2nd 6th Independent Democrat Simmons 5,958 43.46 / 100 2nd 7th American Joshua Hill 4,800 51.48 / 100 Elected 8th American Thomas W. Miller 3,870 42.90 / 100 2nd October 6 Mississippi 1st American James L. Alcorn 2,738 36.24 / 100 2nd 2nd American Charles Clark 2,625 34.70 / 100 2nd 4th American William A. Lake 5,130 44.97 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd November 3 Louisiana 1st American George Eustis Jr. 2,336 60.39 / 100 Re-elected 2nd American Glendy Burke 4,892 49.71 / 100 2nd 3rd American George W. Watterson 3,512 35.38 / 100 2nd Independent Democrat Laurent J. Sigur 2,145 21.61 / 100 3rd 4th American W.H. Sparks 5,205 36.48 / 100 2nd November 4 Maryland 1st American Teagle Townsend 6,165 49.30 / 100 2nd 2nd American James Barroll Ricaud 8,751 52.42 / 100 Re-elected 3rd American James Morrison Harris 8,761 61.63 / 100 Re-elected 4th American Henry Winter Davis 10,515 72.55 / 100 Re-elected 5th American Henry William Hoffman 8,208 49.49 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd 6th American William J. Blackstone 4,837 43.99 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1858 - 1859 ) -- 144 entries - 60 victories Year Date State District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1858 August 2 Arkansas 1st American W.A. Crosby 2,853 13.52 / 100 2nd 2nd Independent Democrat Thomas Stevenson Drew 3,452 15.10 / 100 2nd American James A. Jones 3,104 13.58 / 100 3rd Missouri 1st American Samuel Miller Breckinridge 5,668 29.28 / 100 3rd 2nd Independent Democrat Thomas Lilbourne Anderson 10,502 63.30 / 100 Re-elected as Independent Democrat 4th American James H. Adams 7,824 38.61 / 100 2nd 5th American Samuel H. Woodson 7,942 46.92 / 100 Re-elected Unionist Democrat George R. Smith 2,038 12.04 / 100 3rd 6th American John M. Richardson 8,050 37.49 / 100 2nd 7th Independent C.C. Zeigler 5,808 37.49 / 100 2nd October 4 Florida At - Large Independent Democrat John Westcott 3,661 37.57 / 100 2nd October 11 South Carolina 2nd Unknown James Gadsden 649 23.80 / 100 2nd 5th Unknown Thomas O. Vernon 4,924 40.60 / 100 2nd October 12 Indiana 3rd Anti-Lecompton Democrat George W. Carr 1,432 7.47 / 100 3rd 7th Anti-Lecompton Democrat John G. Davis 10,893 58.95 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Lecompton Democrat October 12 Pennsylvania 1st People 's John W. Ryan 6,492 41.00 / 100 2nd Anti-Lecompton Democrat G.W. Nebinger 2,442 15.42 / 100 3rd 2nd People 's Edward Joy Morris 5,653 58.38 / 100 Re-elected as People 's 3rd People 's John Paul Verree 6,977 54.24 / 100 2nd 4th People 's William Millward 9,749 59.25 / 100 Re-elected as People 's 5th People 's John Wood 9,701 57.37 / 100 Elected 6th Anti-Lecompton Democrat John Hickman 6,786 40.76 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Lecompton Democrat Lecompton Democrat Charles D. Manly 5,185 31.15 / 100 2nd People 's John Martin Broomall 4,676 28.09 / 100 3rd 7th People 's Henry Clay Longnecker 8,325 50.76 / 100 Elected 8th Anti-Lecompton Democrat John Schwartz 7,321 50.07 / 100 Elected Lecompton Democrat Jehu Glancy Jones 7,302 49.94 / 100 Lost Re-election as Lecompton Democrat 2nd 9th People 's Thaddeus Stevens 9,513 60.00 / 100 Elected 10th People 's John Weinland Killinger 8,900 61.46 / 100 Elected 11th People 's James Hepburn Campbell 7,153 47.20 / 100 Elected Lecompton Democrat William Lewis Dewart 4,387 28.95 / 100 Lost Re-election as Lecompton Democrat 2nd Anti-Lecompton Democrat Joseph W. Cake 3,614 23.85 / 100 3rd 12th People 's George W. Scranton 10,043 61.89 / 100 Elected 13th People 's David K. Shoemaker 6,566 45.05 / 100 2nd 14th People 's Galusha A. Grow 11,165 76.87 / 100 Re-elected as People 's 15th People 's James Tracy Hale 9,238 55.69 / 100 Elected 16th People 's Benjamin Franklin Junkin 8,646 50.13 / 100 Elected 17th People 's Edward McPherson 9,348 50.72 / 100 Elected 18th People 's Samuel Steel Blair 9,114 57.71 / 100 Elected 19th People 's John Covode 9,149 52.81 / 100 Re-elected as People 's 20th People 's Jonathan Knight 5,794 38.50 / 100 2nd 21st People 's James K. Moorhead 6,539 57.27 / 100 Elected 22nd People 's Robert McKnight 5,438 55.25 / 100 Elected Anti-Tax Thomas Williams 3,903 39.65 / 100 2nd 23rd People 's William Stewart 6,721 64.02 / 100 Re-elected as People 's 24th People 's Chapin Hall 9,012 52.42 / 100 Elected 25th People 's Elijah Babbitt 6,360 60.73 / 100 Elected November 2 Delaware At - Large People 's William H. Morris 7,452 48.64 / 100 2nd Massachusetts 3rd American Moses G. Cobb 1,462 12.32 / 100 3rd 4th American Newell Thompson 1,396 14.83 / 100 3rd 7th American Elihu Baker 810 6.86 / 100 3rd 8th American Josiah H. Temple 576 5.47 / 100 3rd New Jersey 1st American John T. Jones 3,739 21.40 / 100 3rd 3rd Anti-Lecompton Democrat Garnett Adrain 9,713 51.21 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Lecompton Democrat 4th Anti-Lecompton Democrat Jetur R. Riggs 8,837 52.01 / 100 Elected New York 2nd Independent Edward C. Littlefield 5,531 31.50 / 100 2nd American Edward T. Backhouse 974 5.55 / 100 4th 3rd Anti-Administration Democrat Hiram Walbridge 2,874 31.70 / 100 3rd 4th Independent Democrat Thomas J. Barr 3,949 39.78 / 100 Elected Independent Thomas Stephens 2,671 26.91 / 100 2nd 5th American Gilbert Dean 821 7.09 / 100 3rd 8th Anti-Administration Democrat Horace F. Clark 9,035 58.77 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Administration Democrat 9th Anti-Administration Democrat John B. Haskin 7,637 48.32 / 100 Re-elected as Anti-Administration Democrat 10th American J.D. Friend 1,587 11.50 / 100 3rd 14th Anti-Administration Democrat John Hazard Reynolds 9,571 52.58 / 100 Elected 16th American Charles M. Watson 1,589 10.79 / 100 3rd 22nd American Albertus Perry 1,065 5.34 / 100 3rd 23rd Independent Caleb Lyon 7,177 43.93 / 100 2nd 25th American William H. Sisson 1,631 9.12 / 100 3rd 28th American Goldsmith Dennison 1,651 9.38 / 100 3rd 29th American James L. Angle 1,393 10.11 / 100 3rd 30th American James W. Black 2,264 12.91 / 100 3rd 31st American John H. White 2,132 18.38 / 100 3rd 33rd American William S. Johnson 1,886 11.28 / 100 3rd 1859 May 26 Virginia 2nd Independent Pretlow 1,372 29.52 / 100 2nd Independent Chandler 235 5.06 / 100 3rd 3rd Independent Democrat Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr. 5,581 50.45 / 100 Elected 5th Unknown Speed 226 9.87 / 100 2nd 6th Independent Democrat Shelton Leake 5,003 59.17 / 100 Elected 7th Independent Democrat Henry W. Thomas 5,139 46.47 / 100 2nd 8th Opposition Alexander Boteler 6,619 50.65 / 100 Elected 9th Independent Democrat John T. Harris 5,345 52.17 / 100 Elected 10th Unknown Berkshire 1,718 38.90 / 100 2nd 11th Opposition J.M. Laidley 7,228 44.44 / 100 2nd 12th Unknown William Ballard Preston 67 4.98 / 100 2nd 13th Independent Democrat Elbert S. Martin 6,382 53.36 / 100 Elected August 1 Alabama 1st Opposition F.B. Shepard 4,258 36.68 / 100 2nd 2nd Opposition J.E. Sappington 615 18.88 / 100 2nd 3rd Opposition Thomas J. Judge 6,666 49.21 / 100 2nd 5th Independent Democrat William A. Hewlett 4,298 41.88 / 100 2nd Kentucky 1st Opposition William Morrow 2,248 16.30 / 100 2nd 2nd Opposition James S. Jackson 7,199 47.56 / 100 2nd 3rd Opposition Francis Bristow 7,164 56.24 / 100 Elected 4th American William Clayton Anderson 7,204 50.01 / 100 Elected 5th Opposition Joshua Jewett 5,066 42.24 / 100 Lost Re-election as Opposition 2nd 6th Opposition Green Adams 8,164 53.03 / 100 Elected 7th Opposition Robert Mallory 6,416 52.67 / 100 Elected 8th Opposition John Marshall Harlan 6,865 49.76 / 100 2nd 9th Opposition Laban T. Moore 8,505 50.83 / 100 Elected 10th Opposition Thomas Laurens Jones 5,839 38.58 / 100 2nd Texas 1st Independent William Beck Ochiltree 2,858 10.79 / 100 2nd 2nd Independent Democrat Andrew Jackson Hamilton 16,316 51.18 / 100 Elected August 4 North Carolina 1st Independent Democrat William Nathan Harrell Smith 6,045 52.22 / 100 Elected 3rd Independent Democrat Malcolm J. McDuffie 1,284 21.20 / 100 2nd 4th Independent Democrat Linn B. Sanders 2,446 29.79 / 100 2nd 5th American John Adams Gilmer 6,361 58.07 / 100 Re-elected 6th American James Madison Leach 8,566 52.78 / 100 Elected 7th Independent Democrat Samuel H. Walkup 4,075 42.58 / 100 2nd 8th American Zebulon Baird Vance 8,006 55.84 / 100 Re-elected Tennessee 1st Opposition Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson 9,060 50.19 / 100 Elected 1st Opposition Horace Maynard 6,940 55.01 / 100 Re-elected as Opposition 3rd Opposition Reese Bowen Brabson 8,374 50.19 / 100 Elected 4th Opposition William Brickly Stokes 6,633 51.85 / 100 Elected 5th Opposition Robert H. Hatton 6,719 53.48 / 100 Elected Independent Charles Ready 5,844 46.52 / 100 Lost Re-election as Independent 2nd 7th Opposition Theodore H. Gibbs 2,711 22.42 / 100 2nd 8th Opposition James Minor Quarles 6,994 52.87 / 100 Elected 9th Opposition Emerson Etheridge 9,437 50.02 / 100 Elected 10th Opposition John L. Sneed 5,648 47.71 / 100 2nd September 3 California At - Large ( 2 ) Lecompton Democrat John Chilton Burch 57,508 28.44 / 100 Elected Lecompton Democrat Charles L. Scott 56,509 27.95 / 100 Re-elected as Lecompton Democrat Anti-Lecompton Democrat Joseph C. McKibbin 43,484 21.50 / 100 Lost Re-election as Anti-Lecompton Democrat 3rd October 3 Georgia 1st Opposition Alexander T. McIntyre 3,881 34.97 / 100 2nd 2nd Opposition Marcellus Douglas 6,437 42.54 / 100 2nd 3rd Opposition Thomas Hardeman Jr. 5,636 50.69 / 100 Elected 4th Opposition William F. Wright 6,053 40.54 / 100 2nd 5th Independent J.H. Shackleford 2,162 14.91 / 100 2nd 6th Independent A.T. Lytle 3,251 25.21 / 100 2nd 7th Opposition Joshua Hill 4,492 50.79 / 100 Re-elected as Opposition 8th Opposition Ambrose R. Wright 4,507 47.85 / 100 2nd Mississippi 1st Opposition G.Q. Martin 445 5.51 / 100 2nd 1st Unionist Democrat Franklin Smith 2,376 22.81 / 100 2nd November 7 Louisiana 1st American John Edward Bouligny 2,215 49.55 / 100 Re-elected Unknown Charles Bienvenu 459 10.27 / 100 3rd 2nd American L.D. Nichols 4,459 43.01 / 100 2nd 3rd American T. Cannon 801 10.75 / 100 2nd 4th American M.A. Jones 3,878 25.58 / 100 2nd November 8 Maryland 1st American Teagle Townsend 6,384 47.94 / 100 2nd 2nd American Edwin Hanson Webster 9,237 52.03 / 100 Elected 3rd American James Morrison Harris 9,612 69.47 / 100 Re-elected 4th American Henry Winter Davis 10,068 78.27 / 100 Re-elected Independent William G. Harrison 2,796 21.74 / 100 2nd 5th American Henry William Hoffman 8,716 49.62 / 100 2nd 6th American Alexander Burton Hagner 5,353 45.79 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 1920 - 1921 ) -- 112 entries - 2 victories Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 1920 California 1 Independent C.A. Bodwell, Jr. 18.569 33.30 / 100 2nd Socialist Allen K. Gifford 2,773 4.97 / 100 3rd California 3 Socialist Miles W. Beck 3,631 4.94 / 100 3rd California 4 Socialist Milton Harlan 9,289 15.45 / 100 2nd California 5 Socialist Thomas Conway 10,952 17.89 / 100 2nd California 7 Socialist Harry M. McKee 8,449 12.78 / 100 2nd California 9 Prohibition Charles Hiram Randall 36,675 34.78 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd Socialist Mary E. Garbutt 5,819 5.52 / 100 3rd California 10 Socialist Upton Sinclair 20,439 17.34 / 100 2nd Idaho 1 Independent Riley Rice 8,605 14.72 / 100 3rd Illinois 4 Socialist Charles Baranek 2,753 5.79 / 100 3rd Illinois 5 Socialist William Neumann 3,290 10.37 / 100 3rd Illinois 6 Socialist William F. Kruse 9,937 7.12 / 100 3rd Illinois 7 Socialist Samuel Holland 12,097 7.65 / 100 3rd Illinois 21 Farmer -- Labor Duncan McDonald 8,970 10.79 / 100 3rd Illinois 22 Farmer -- Labor C.J. Hayes 11,929 13.12 / 100 3rd Illinois 25 Farmer -- Labor John H. Reed 5,690 6.74 / 100 3rd Iowa 2 Farmer -- Labor F.B. Althouse 6,058 10.76 / 100 2nd Iowa 9 Independent Hattie T. Harl 10,607 17.93 / 100 2nd Kentucky 6 Independent Harry V. Dill 8,231 11.10 / 100 3rd Maryland 2 Independent Samuel C. Appleby 5,679 6.87 / 100 3rd Maryland 4 Independent Walter E. Knickman 8,417 11.12 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 7 Prohibition George F. Hogan 5,121 8.71 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 8 Independent John D. Lynch 7,407 9.96 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 12 Independent William H. O'Brien 4,813 8.64 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 16 Labor George Richards 7,239 15.23 / 100 2nd Minnesota 1 Farmer -- Labor Julius J. Reiter 21,158 29.57 / 100 2nd Minnesota 2 Independent H.A. Fuller 19,274 25.57 / 100 2nd Minnesota 3 Independent R.A. Pomadt 14,034 19.81 / 100 3rd Minnesota 4 Independent Carl W. Cummins 4,702 7.11 / 100 3rd Minnesota 5 Farmer -- Labor Lynn Thompson 22,584 23.65 / 100 2nd Independent Ernest Lundeen 9,573 10.03 / 100 3rd Minnesota 6 Independent Charles August Lindbergh 21,587 31.04 / 100 2nd Minnesota 7 Independent Ole J. Kvale 35,370 45.61 / 100 2nd Minnesota 9 Independent N.E. Thormodson 28,443 38.28 / 100 2nd Minnesota 10 Farmer -- Labor John G. Soltis 18,590 23.10 / 100 2nd Mississippi 4 Socialist J.A. Washington 598 6.24 / 100 2nd Mississippi 6 Socialist T.J. Lyon 610 5.45 / 100 3rd Nebraska 3 Independent Marie Weekes 15,516 21.84 / 100 3rd Nebraska 6 Independent Lucien Stebbins 6,222 8.17 / 100 3rd Nevada At - Large Independent Paul Jones 3,349 12.46 / 100 3rd New Jersey 7 Socialist Frank Hubschmidtt 2,939 5.60 / 100 3rd New York 2 Socialist William Burke, Sr. 5,872 6.58 / 100 3rd New York 3 Socialist Harry W. Laidler 5,257 14.13 / 100 3rd New York 6 Socialist William W. Passage 6,867 9.16 / 100 3rd New York 7 Socialist Jean Jacques Coronel 6,561 14.89 / 100 3rd New York 8 Socialist Victor H. Lawn 9,124 14.48 / 100 3rd New York 9 Socialist Wilhelmus B. Robinson 7,420 9.34 / 100 3rd New York 10 Socialist James Oneal 11,529 22.35 / 100 3rd New York 12 Socialist Meyer London 10,212 54.13 / 100 Elected New York 13 Socialist Charles W. Irvin 4,925 35.42 / 100 2nd New York 14 Socialist Algernon Lee 8,443 31.73 / 100 2nd New York 16 Socialist Bertha Mailly 2,748 7.56 / 100 3rd New York 18 Farmer -- Labor J.A. O'Leary 9,998 25.65 / 100 3rd Socialist Marie MacDonald 5,668 14.54 / 100 4th New York 19 Socialist Esther Friedman 5,667 8.02 / 100 3rd New York 20 Socialist Morris Hillquit 9,442 42.83 / 100 2nd New York 22 Socialist Patrick J. Murphy 6,580 14.75 / 100 3rd New York 23 Socialist Abraham Josephson 22,949 23.25 / 100 3rd New York 24 Socialist George W. Orr 15,500 16.50 / 100 3rd New York 30 Socialist Harry Christian 6,242 9.33 / 100 3rd New York 38 Socialist Charles Messinger 8,369 9.72 / 100 3rd New York 39 Socialist George Weber 3,943 5.28 / 100 3rd New York 40 Socialist Augustus Meas 5,389 6.67 / 100 3rd New York 41 Socialist Martin B. Heisler 4,836 8.62 / 100 3rd New York 42 Socialist John H. Gibbons 3,218 6.80 / 100 3rd New York 43 Socialist Gust C. Peterson 4,273 6.08 / 100 3rd North Dakota 1 Nonpartisan League John Miller Baer 32,072 42.42 / 100 Lost Re-election as Nonpartisan 2nd North Dakota 2 Nonpartisan League Ole H. Olson 32,618 48.35 / 100 2nd Oklahoma 3 Socialist Robert L. Allen 4,227 6.84 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 4 Socialist J.E. Bartos 3,438 5.31 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 6 Socialist J.V. Kelachny 3,212 5.87 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 7 Socialist Orville E. Enfield 4,251 9.81 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 8 Socialist H.C. Geist 3,304 5.70 / 100 3rd Oregon 1 Socialist Harlin Talbert 8,258 9.85 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania 1 Socialist H.J. Nelson 3,509 6.02 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 4 Socialist L.L. Klein 2,969 5.22 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 13 Socialist Charles E. Yeager 6,245 8.31 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 18 Labor George A. Herring 4,110 6.16 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 19 Socialist Labor William T. Welsh 9,842 15.00 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 22 Socialist S.E. Miller 3,234 5.46 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 25 Independent Republican Milton William Shreve 19,706 43.04 / 100 Re-elected as Ind. Republican Pennsylvania 28 Prohibition Willis James Hulings 20,676 40.59 / 100 Lost Re-election as Prohibition 2nd Pennsylvania 29 Socialist James J. Marshall 3,604 7.65 / 100 3rd Pennsylvania 30 Socialist Charles A. Fike 4,847 8.55 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania 31 Socialist Albert R. Jerling 2,280 6.97 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania 32 Socialist Earl O. Gunther 4,552 8.62 / 100 2nd Prohibition George E. Briggs 3,953 7.49 / 100 3rd South Dakota 1 Nonpartisan League Engebert J. Holter 15,810 22.63 / 100 2nd South Dakota 2 Nonpartisan League Frank Whalen 18,357 25.54 / 100 2nd South Dakota 3 Nonpartisan League O.E. Farnam 4,765 11.82 / 100 3rd Texas 2 American G.E.H. Meyer 1,671 7.15 / 100 2nd Texas 6 American Clyde Essex 3,668 15.45 / 100 2nd Texas 8 Black and Tan Republican M.H. Broyles 5,750 17.35 / 100 3rd American J.M. Gibson 1,918 5.79 / 100 4th Texas 10 American B.G. Neighbors 7,597 34.52 / 100 2nd Texas 11 American W.D. Lewis 4,124 20.89 / 100 2nd Texas 17 American W.D. Cowan 4,298 16.15 / 100 2nd Washington 1 Farmer -- Labor James A. Duncan 28,154 31.01 / 100 2nd Washington 2 Farmer -- Labor William Morley Bouck 26,398 40.17 / 100 2nd Washington 3 Farmer -- Labor Homer Bone 27,824 30.56 / 100 2nd Washington 4 Farmer -- Labor Knute Hill 10,735 17.87 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 2 Socialist Jacob F. Miller 4,969 8.45 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 4 Socialist Robert Buech 22,137 38.55 / 100 2nd Wisconsin 5 Socialist Victor L. Berger 34,004 45.47 / 100 Lost Re-election 2nd Wisconsin 6 Socialist Edward C. Damrow 5,714 10.32 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 7 Prohibition Robert H. Clarke 8,929 18.85 / 100 2nd Wisconsin 8 Socialist George W. Lippert 14,661 26.51 / 100 2nd Wisconsin 11 Socialist John P. Jensen 6,524 14.63 / 100 2nd Wyoming At - Large Labor James Morgan 6,021 10.67 / 100 3rd 1921 California 9 Prohibition Charles Hiram Randall 21,056 37.99 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania At - Large Prohibition Bryan E.P. Brugh 74,837 7.25 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 2006 ) -- 37 entries Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 2006 Arizona 6 Libertarian Jason M. Blair 51,285 25.20 / 100 2nd California 4 Dan Warren 14,076 5.08 / 100 3rd California 7 Camden McConnell 22,486 16.01 / 100 2nd California 8 Green Krissy Keefer 13,653 7.39 / 100 3rd California 29 Bill Paparian 8,197 5.72 / 100 California 32 Libertarian Leland Faegre 15,627 17.04 / 100 2nd California 35 American Independent Gordon Mego 8,343 8.47 / 100 Libertarian Paul Ireland 7,665 7.78 / 100 3rd California 37 Herb Peters 17,246 17.60 / 100 2nd Colorado 1 Green Thomas D. Kelly 32,825 20.23 / 100 Colorado 4 Reform Eric Eidsness 27,133 11.28 / 100 3rd Illinois 8 Moderate Bill Scheurer 9,319 5.08 / 100 Kentucky 6 Libertarian Paul Ard 27,015 14.54 / 100 2nd Louisiana 6 Richard Fontanesi 19,648 17.19 / 100 Maine 2 Independent Dexter J. Kamilewicz 22,029 7.84 / 100 3rd Maryland 5 Green Steve Warner 33,464 16.46 / 100 2nd Massachusetts 1 Independent William H. Szych 48,574 23.48 / 100 Massachusetts 8 Socialist Workers Laura Garza 12,449 8.99 / 100 Massachusetts 10 Independent Peter A. White 16,808 6.29 / 100 3rd Minnesota 5 Independence Tammy Lee 51,456 21.01 / 100 Minnesota 6 John Paul Binkowski 23,557 7.80 / 100 Mississippi 3 Independent Jim Giles 25,999 16.10 / 100 2nd Reform Lamonica L. Magee 10,060 6.23 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 1 Independent Bill Wortman 10,085 5.49 / 100 Rhode Island 1 Kenneth A. Capalbo 13,634 7.57 / 100 Rhode Island 2 Rod Driver 52,729 27.31 / 100 2nd Tennessee 9 Jake Ford 38,243 22.16 / 100 Texas 16 Libertarian Gordon R. Strickland 16,572 21.33 / 100 Texas 20 Michael Idrogo 9,897 12.65 / 100 Texas 22 Bob Smithers 22,166 18.69 / 100 9,009 6.06 / 100 3rd Utah 3 Constitution Jim Noorlander 14,533 8.79 / 100 Virginia 4 Independent Green Albert P. Burckard 46,487 23.44 / 100 2nd Virginia 6 Independent Barbara Jean Pryor 25,129 12.32 / 100 Andre D. Peery 24,731 12.12 / 100 3rd Virgin Islands At - large Warren Mosler 10,800 37.08 / 100 2nd 2007 California 37 Green Daniel Brezenoff 1,274 5.37 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 2008 ) -- 59 entries Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 2008 American Samoa At - large Independent Eni Faleomavaega 7,498 60.38 / 100 1st Amata Coleman Radewagen 4,349 35.02 / 100 2nd Arkansas 2 Green Deb McFarland 64,398 21.38 / 100 Arkansas 3 Abel Tomlinson 58,850 20.35 / 100 Arkansas 4 Joshua Drake 32,603 12.95 / 100 California 1 Carol Wolman 24,793 8.54 / 100 3rd California 8 Independent Cindy Sheehan 46,118 16.17 / 100 2nd California 15 Green Peter Myers 12,123 5.08 / 100 3rd California 26 Libertarian Ted Brown 18,476 6.92 / 100 California 27 Tim Denton 14,171 6.66 / 100 California 37 Independent Nicholas Dibs 42,774 24.41 / 100 2nd California 38 Libertarian Christopher Agrella 29,113 18.27 / 100 California 47 American Independent Robert Lauten 6,274 5.08 / 100 3rd District of Columbia At - large D.C. Statehood Green Maude Hills 16,693 6.75 / 100 2nd Florida 13 Independent Jan Schneider 20,289 5.51 / 100 3rd Florida 14 Burt Saunders 54,750 14.44 / 100 Florida 19 Ben Graber 20,214 6.61 / 100 Florida 20 Margaret Hostetter 58,958 22.52 / 100 2nd Illinois 3 Green Jerome Pohlen 12,607 5.35 / 100 3rd Illinois 4 Omar N. López 11,053 7.92 / 100 Illinois 11 Jason Wallace 22,635 7.12 / 100 Indiana 3 Libertarian William R. Larsen 14,877 5.26 / 100 Kentucky 5 Independent Jim Holbert 33,444 15.89 / 100 2nd Louisiana 6 Michael Jackson 36,198 11.59 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 4 Susan Allen 19,848 6.64 / 100 Minnesota 3 Independence David Dillon 38,970 10.56 / 100 Minnesota 5 Bill McGaughey 22,318 6.92 / 100 Minnesota 6 Bob Anderson 40,643 10.04 / 100 Missouri 1 Libertarian Robb E. Cunningham 36,700 13.14 / 100 New Jersey 7 Independent Michael Hsing 15,826 5.66 / 100 New Mexico 3 Carol Miller 35,789 12.77 / 100 New York 9 Conservative Alfred F. Donohue 8,378 6.95 / 100 2nd Northern Mariana Islands At - large Independent Gregorio Sablan 2,474 24.35 / 100 1st John Gonzales 1,855 18.26 / 100 3rd Juan Lizama 1,819 17.90 / 100 4th Luis Crisostimo 946 9.31 / 100 5th Ohio 2 Independent David Krikorian 58,710 17.70 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 3 Forrest Michael 17,756 6.72 / 100 Oregon 1 Independent Party Joel Haugen 58,279 17.54 / 100 2nd Oregon 4 Constitution Jaynee Germond 43,133 12.91 / 100 Pennsylvania 14 Green Titus North 23,214 8.74 / 100 Puerto Rico At - large New Progressive Pedro Pierluisi 1,010,285 53.05 / 100 1st Popular Democratic Alfredo Salazar, Jr. 810,093 42.54 / 100 2nd Rhode Island 1 Independent Kenneth A. Capalbo 15,108 7.13 / 100 3rd Tennessee 6 Chris Baker 66,764 25.58 / 100 2nd Texas 1 Roger L. Owen 26,814 12.42 / 100 Texas 2 Libertarian Craig Wolfe 21,813 11.08 / 100 Texas 5 Ken Ashby 31,967 25.58 / 100 Texas 9 Brad Walters 9,760 6.35 / 100 Texas 11 John R. Strohm 25,051 11.67 / 100 Texas 15 Independent Benjamin Eloy Mendoza 16,348 10.30 / 100 Libertarian Mette A. Baker 12,000 7.56 / 100 3rd Texas 21 James Arthur Strohm 60,879 20.00 / 100 2nd Utah 3 Constitution Jim Noorlander 17,408 6.11 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 4 Independent Michael D. LaForest 29,282 11.52 / 100 2nd Wisconsin 5 Robert R. Raymond 69,715 20.15 / 100 2009 California 32 Libertarian Christopher Agrella 1,356 5.18 / 100 3rd Illinois 5 Green Matt Reichel 2,911 6.60 / 100 New York 23 Conservative Doug Hoffman 69,553 45.98 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 2010 ) -- 66 entries Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place Alabama 1 Constitution David M. Walter 26,294 16.95 / 100 2nd Arizona 1 Libertarian Nicole Patti 14,869 6.55 / 100 3rd Arizona 3 Michael Shoen 10,748 5.16 / 100 California 4 Green Benjamin Emery 22,179 7.29 / 100 California 11 American Independent David Christensen 12,439 5.17 / 100 California 16 Libertarian Edward M. Gonzalez 12,304 7.88 / 100 California 26 American Independent David L. Miller 12,784 6.14 / 100 California 28 Libertarian Carlos Rodriguez 10,229 8.05 / 100 California 36 Herb Peters 10,840 5.64 / 100 California 37 Independent Nick Dibs 10,560 8.41 / 100 California 42 Libertarian Mark Lambert 12,115 5.93 / 100 California 45 American Independent Bill Lussenheide 13,188 6.38 / 100 California 47 Independent Ceci Iglesias 7,443 7.76 / 100 Florida 1 Joe Cantrell 22,763 10.86 / 100 2nd John Krause 17,869 8.53 / 100 3rd Florida 6 Steven E. Schonberg 71,632 28.54 / 100 2nd Florida 17 Roderick Vereen 17,009 13.79 / 100 Idaho 1 Dave Olson 14,365 5.81 / 100 3rd Idaho 2 Brian Schad 13,500 6.76 / 100 Illinois 2 Green Anthony Williams 10,564 5.65 / 100 Illinois 3 Laurel Lambert Schmidt 10,028 6.02 / 100 Illinois 4 Robert J. Burns 6,808 8.32 / 100 Illinois 18 Sheldon Schafer 11,256 5.09 / 100 Indiana 4 Libertarian John Duncan 10,423 5.15 / 100 Indiana 5 Richard Reid 18,266 7.73 / 100 Indiana 8 John Cunningham 10,240 5.03 / 100 Indiana 9 Greg Knott 12,070 5.35 / 100 Louisiana 4 Independent Artis Cash 8,962 5.31 / 100 Louisiana 5 Tom Gibbs, Jr. 33,279 21.43 / 100 2nd Massachusetts 1 Michael Engel 10,841 5.11 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 9 Philip Dunkelbarger 12,833 5.60 / 100 Massachusetts 10 Maryanne Lewis 16,673 5.90 / 100 Minnesota 1 Independence Steven Wilson 13,243 5.30 / 100 Minnesota 4 Steve Carlson 14,207 6.15 / 100 Minnesota 6 Bob Anderson 17,698 5.93 / 100 Missouri 7 Libertarian Kevin Craig 13,866 6.23 / 100 Missouri 9 Christopher Dwyer 46,817 22.26 / 100 2nd Montana At - large Mike Fellows 20,691 5.74 / 100 3rd Nebraska 3 Independent Dan Hill 20,036 11.98 / 100 New York 12 Conservative Alice Gaffney 4,482 5.17 / 100 2nd New York 15 Independence Craig Schley 6,865 6.14 / 100 3rd New York 23 Conservative Douglas L. Hoffman 10,507 5.76 / 100 Northern Mariana Islands At - large Covenant Joe Camacho 2,744 24.17 / 100 2nd Ohio 2 Libertarian Marc Johnston 16,259 6.84 / 100 3rd Ohio 5 Brian Smith 11,831 5.70 / 100 Ohio 16 Jeffery Blevins 14,342 6.63 / 100 Oklahoma 1 Independent Angelia O'Dell 45,656 23.20 / 100 2nd Pennsylvania 15 Jake Towne 15,248 7.45 / 100 3rd Rhode Island 2 John O. Matson 14,584 8.35 / 100 South Carolina 4 Constitution Dave Edwards 11,059 5.10 / 100 South Dakota At - large Independent B. Thomas Marking 19,134 5.99 / 100 Tennessee 3 Savas T. Kryiakidis 17,077 10.54 / 100 Texas 1 Libertarian Charles F. Parkes III 14,811 10.27 / 100 2nd Texas 2 David W. Smith 16,711 11.39 / 100 Texas 7 Bob Townsend 31,704 17.98 / 100 Texas 13 Independent Keith Dyer 11,192 8.61 / 100 Texas 16 Libertarian Bill Collins 4,319 5.09 / 100 3rd Texas 24 David Sparks 22,609 18.43 / 100 2nd Texas 27 Ed Mishou 5,372 5.04 / 100 3rd Texas 31 Bill Oliver 26,735 17.46 / 100 2nd Virginia 6 Independent Jeffrey Vanke 21,649 12.95 / 100 Libertarian Stuart Bain 15,309 9.16 / 100 3rd Virginia 7 Independent Green Floyd Bayne 15,164 6.50 / 100 Virgin Islands At - large Independent Jeffrey Moorhead 4,880 18.70 / 100 2nd Washington 7 Bob Jeffers - Schroder 47,741 17.03 / 100 2011 New York 26 Tea Party Jack Davis 10,029 8.99 / 100 3rd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 2012 ) -- 54 entries Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 2012 Alaska At - large Libertarian Jim McDermott 15,028 5.19 / 100 3rd Arizona 1 Kim Allen 15,227 6.05 / 100 Arizona 7 Joe Cobb 23,338 18.25 / 100 2nd Arizona 9 Powell E. Gammill 16,620 6.64 / 100 3rd Arkansas 3 Green Rebekah Kennedy 39,318 16.01 / 100 2nd Libertarian David Pangrac 19,875 8.09 / 100 3rd California 13 Independent Marilyn M. Singleton 38,146 13.22 / 100 2nd California 23 Terry Phillips 57,842 26.78 / 100 California 29 David R. Hernandez 38,994 25.94 / 100 California 33 Bill Bloomfield 146,660 46.04 / 100 Colorado 5 Dave Anderson 53,318 17.35 / 100 Libertarian Jim Pirtle 22,778 7.41 / 100 3rd Green Misha Luzov 18,284 5.95 / 100 4th District of Columbia At - large Libertarian Bruce Majors 16,254 5.93 / 100 2nd Florida 4 Independent Jim Klauder 75,236 23.83 / 100 Florida 20 Randall Terry 29,553 12.10 / 100 Florida 21 W. Michael Trout 37,776 13.28 / 100 Cesar Henao 25,361 8.92 / 100 3rd Florida 25 Stanley Blumenthal 31,664 15.81 / 100 2nd Eddie Gonzalez ( VoteForEddie.com ) 17,099 8.54 / 100 3rd Illinois 2 Marcus Lewis 40,006 13.44 / 100 Illinois 5 Green Nancy Wade 15,359 5.68 / 100 Illinois 12 Paula Bradshaw 17,045 5.61 / 100 Illinois 13 Independent John Hartman 21,319 7.24 / 100 Indiana 6 Libertarian Rex Bell 15,962 5.80 / 100 Kansas 3 Joel Balam 92,675 31.55 / 100 2nd Kansas 4 Thomas Jefferson 16,058 6.20 / 100 3rd Louisiana 4 Randall Lord 61,637 24.70 / 100 2nd Louisiana 5 Independent Ron Caesar 37,486 14.41 / 100 Libertarian Clay Steven Grant 20,194 7.76 / 100 3rd Louisiana 6 Rufus Holt Craig 32,185 10.49 / 100 2nd Independent Richard Torregano 30,975 10.10 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 7 Karla Romero 41,199 16.29 / 100 2nd Massachusetts 9 Daniel Botelho 32,655 9.09 / 100 3rd Minnesota 4 Independence Steve Carlson 21,135 6.07 / 100 Mississippi 3 Reform John Luke Pannell 58,605 19.98 / 100 2nd Mississippi 4 Libertarian Ron Williams 17,982 6.30 / 100 3rd Missouri 7 Kevin Craig 16,668 5.23 / 100 New York 4 Conservative Frank Scaturro 15,603 5.88 / 100 New York 7 James Murray 7,816 5.24 / 100 2nd New York 24 Green Ursula Rozum 22,670 7.74 / 100 3rd Ohio 4 Libertarian Chris Kalla 16,141 5.16 / 100 Puerto Rico At - large New Progressive Pedro Pierluisi 905,066 48.44 / 100 1st Popular Democratic Rafael Cox Alomar 881,181 47.16 / 100 2nd Rhode Island 1 Independent David S. Vogel 12,504 6.10 / 100 3rd Rhode Island 2 Abel G. Collins 20,212 9.08 / 100 South Carolina 6 Green Nammu Y. Muhammad 12,920 5.53 / 100 2nd Tennessee 6 Independent Scott Beasley 34,766 14.41 / 100 Green Pat Riley 22,092 9.16 / 100 3rd Texas 13 Libertarian John Robert Deek 12,701 6.15 / 100 2nd Texas 17 Ben Easton 35,978 20.07 / 100 Texas 19 Richard Peterson 28,824 15.01 / 100 Texas 29 James Stanczak 4,996 5.23 / 100 U.S. Virgin Islands At - large Independent Warren Mosler 3,276 17.09 / 100 Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 2014 ) -- 66 entries Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 2014 Alaska At - large Libertarian Jim McDermott 21,290 7.61 / 100 3rd Arizona 7 Joe Cobb 10,715 14.79 / 100 2nd Americans Elect Rebecca Dewitt 3,858 5.32 / 100 3rd Arizona 8 Stephen Dolgos 41,066 24.04 / 100 2nd Arkansas 3 Libertarian Grant Brand 39,305 20.59 / 100 California 5 Independent James Hinton 41,535 24.27 / 100 California 20 Ronald Paul Kabat 35,010 24.82 / 100 California 28 Steve Stokes 28,268 23.50 / 100 California 44 Peace and Freedom Adam Shbeita 9,192 13.35 / 100 District of Columbia At - large Independent Tim Krepp 9,101 5.29 / 100 3rd Florida 1 Mark Wichern 15,281 6.49 / 100 Florida 4 Paula Moser - Bartlett 35,663 15.69 / 100 2nd Gary L. Koniz 13,690 6.02 / 100 3rd Florida 13 Libertarian Lucas Overby 55,318 24.74 / 100 2nd Illinois 5 Green Nancy Wade 11,305 6.14 / 100 3rd Illinois 12 Paula Bradshaw 11,840 5.65 / 100 Indiana 3 Libertarian Scott Wise 11,130 7.48 / 100 Louisiana 2 Independent David Brooks 16,327 7.37 / 100 Libertarian Samuel Davenport 15,237 6.88 / 100 4th Louisiana 3 Independent Russell Richard 28,342 12.00 / 100 2nd Louisiana 4 Libertarian Randall Lord 55,236 26.57 / 100 Maine 1 Independent Richard P. Murphy 27,410 8.87 / 100 3rd Maine 2 Blaine Richardson 31,337 11.05 / 100 Minnesota 2 Independence Paula Overby 12,319 5.01 / 100 Minnesota 4 Dave Thomas 14,059 5.82 / 100 Minnesota 5 Lee Bauer 12,001 5.08 / 100 Minnesota 6 John Denney 12,457 5.26 / 100 Mississippi 2 Independent Troy Ray 36,465 24.53 / 100 2nd Reform Shelly Shoemake 11,493 7.73 / 100 3rd Missouri 1 Libertarian Robb E. Cunningham 8,906 5.45 / 100 Missouri 4 Herschel L. Young 9,793 5.56 / 100 Missouri 7 Kevin Craig 12,584 7.68 / 100 Nebraska 2 Steven Laird 9,021 5.27 / 100 Nevada 2 Independent American Janine Hansen 11,792 6.33 / 100 New York 8 Conservative Alan Bellone 6,286 7.15 / 100 2nd New York 9 Daniel G. Cavanagh 9,149 9.54 / 100 New York 10 Ross Brady 11,284 10.70 / 100 New York 13 Green Daniel Vila Rivera 9,231 10.72 / 100 New York 21 Matthew J. Funiciello 18,404 10.90 / 100 3rd North Dakota At - large Libertarian Jack Seaman 14,531 5.84 / 100 Northern Mariana Islands At - large Independent Gregorio Sablan 8,549 65.29 / 100 1st Ohio 8 Constitution James J. Condit, Jr. 10,257 5.45 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 2 Independent John Douthitt 8,518 5.38 / 100 Pennsylvania 10 Nicholas Troiano 22,734 12.61 / 100 South Carolina 4 Libertarian Curtis E. McLaughlin, Jr. 21,969 14.74 / 100 2nd Tennessee 1 Independent Robert D. Franklin 9,906 7.09 / 100 Green Robert N. Smith 9,869 7.08 / 100 3rd Tennessee 4 Independent Robert Rankin Doggart 9,246 6.36 / 100 Tennessee 6 Mike Winton 9,634 5.94 / 100 Texas 3 Green Paul Blair 24,876 17.99 / 100 2nd Texas 5 Libertarian Ken Ashby 15,264 14.64 / 100 Texas 8 Ken Petty 14,947 10.68 / 100 Texas 9 Johnny Johnson 7,894 9.18 / 100 Texas 11 Ryan T. Lange 11,635 9.73 / 100 Texas 20 Jeffrey C. Blunt 21,410 24.34 / 100 Texas 21 Green Antonio Diaz 27,831 14.73 / 100 Libertarian Ryan Shields 25,505 13.49 / 100 3rd Texas 26 Mark Boler 24,526 17.34 / 100 2nd Texas 28 William Aikens 10,153 13.34 / 100 Texas 29 James Stanczak 9,822 20.45 / 100 Texas 30 Max W. Koch III 7,154 6.76 / 100 Independent Eric LeMonte Williams 5,598 5.29 / 100 3rd Texas 33 Libertarian Jason Reeves 6,823 13.49 / 100 2nd Virginia 6 Will Hammer 22,161 12.33 / 100 Independent Green Elaine Hildebrandt 21,447 11.93 / 100 3rd Virginia 9 Independent William Carr 39,412 24.21 / 100 2nd Notable Third Party Congressional Performances ( 2016 ) -- 73 entries Year District Party Candidate # Votes % Votes Place 2016 Alabama 2 Independent ( Write - In ) Rebecca Gerritson 25,027 9.05 / 100 3rd Alaska At - large Libertarian Jim McDermott 31,770 10.31 / 100 3rd Arizona 1 Green Ray Parrish 16,746 5.97 / 100 3rd Arizona 8 Green Mark Salazar 93,954 31.43 / 100 2nd Arkansas 1 Libertarian Mark West 57,181 23.72 / 100 2nd Arkansas 3 Libertarian Steve Isaacson 63,715 22.68 / 100 2nd Arkansas 4 Libertarian Kerry Hicks 61,274 25.10 / 100 2nd California 12 Independent Preston Picus 41,618 18.36 / 100 2nd California 40 Independent Roman Gabriel Gonzalez 28,593 28.05 / 100 2nd Colorado 2 Libertarian Richard Longstreth 27,136 5.93 / 100 3rd Colorado 3 Libertarian Gaylon Kent 18,903 5.05 / 100 3rd Colorado 5 Libertarian Mike McRedmond 24,872 6.87 / 100 3rd Colorado 6 Libertarian Norman Olsen 18,778 4.99 / 100 3rd District of Columbia At - large Libertarian Martin Moulton 18,713 6.22 / 100 2nd Colorado 7 Libertarian Martin L. Buchanan 18,186 5.02 / 100 3rd Floria 26 Independent Jose Peixoto 16,502 5.88 / 100 2nd Idaho 2 Constitution Anthony Tomkins 25,005 7.67 / 100 3rd Illinois 12 Green Paula Bradshaw 18,780 6.00 / 100 3rd Indiana 1 Libertarian Donna Dunn 47,051 18.48 / 100 2nd Indiana 3 Libertarian Pepper Snyder 19,828 6.90 / 100 3rd Indiana 4 Libertarian Steven M. Mayoras 14,766 4.93 / 100 3rd Indiana 9 Libertarian Russel Brooksbank 17,425 5.40 / 100 3rd Kansas 1 Independent Alan LaPolice 67,739 26.26 / 100 2nd Libertarian Kerry Burt 19,366 7.51 / 100 3rd Kansas 2 Libertarian James Bales 19,333 6.50 / 100 3rd Kansas 3 Libertarian Steve Hohe 27,791 8.10 / 100 3rd Kansas 4 Independent Miranda Allen 19,021 6.91 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 1 Independent Frederick O. Mayock 57,226 18.00 / 100 2nd Libertarian Thomas Simmons 27,427 8.63 / 100 3rd Massachusetts 9 Independent Paul Harrington 26,086 6.92 / 100 3rd Michigan 6 Libertarian Lorence Wenke 16,248 4.93 / 100 3rd Michigan 7 Libertarian Kenneth L. Proctor 16,476 4.92 / 100 3rd Minnesota 2 Independence Paula Overby 28,507 7.80 / 100 3rd Minnesota 4 Legal Marijuana Now Susan Pendergast Sindt 27,100 7.74 / 100 3rd Minnesota 5 Legal Marijuana Now Dennis Schuller 30,758 8.51 / 100 3rd Mississippi 4 Libertarian Ric McCluskey 14,687 5.27 / 100 3rd Missouri 7 Libertarian Benjamin T. Brixey 17,076 5.06 / 100 3rd Nevada 1 Independent Reuben D'Silva 13,897 7.38 / 100 3rd New Hampshire 1 Independent Shawn Patrick O'Connor 34,612 9.45 / 100 3rd New York 8 Conservative Daniel J. Cavanagh 14,468 6.75 / 100 2nd New York 9 Conservative Alan Bellone 16,617 7.66 / 100 2nd New York 16 Independent Derickson K. Lawrence 10,840 5.33 / 100 2nd New York 22 Reform Martin Babinec 32,303 12.57 / 100 3rd North Dakota At - large Libertarian Jack Seaman 23,528 6.95 / 100 3rd Northern Mariana Islands At - large Independent Gregorio Sablan 10,605 100.00 / 100 1st Ohio 7 Independent Dan Phillip 21,694 7.01 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 2 Independent John McCarthy 16,644 6.19 / 100 3rd Oklahoma 5 Libertarian Zachary Knight 17,113 6.10 / 100 3rd Oregon 3 Independent David Walker 74,807 20.17 / 100 2nd Progressive David Delk 26,979 7.27 / 100 3rd Rhode Island 2 Independent Jeffrey C. Johnson 16,253 7.09 / 100 3rd Tennessee 1 Independent Robert Franklin 15,673 6.20 / 100 3rd Tennessee 6 Independent David Ross 20,241 7.12 / 100 3rd Texas 4 Libertarian Cody Wommack 29,577 12.01 / 100 2nd Texas 5 Libertarian Ken Ashby 37,406 19.39 / 100 2nd Texas 11 Libertarian Nicholas Landholt 23,677 10.50 / 100 2nd Texas 13 Libertarian Calvin DeWeese 14,725 6.66 / 100 2nd Texas 16 Libertarian Jaime O. Perez 17,491 9.98 / 100 2nd Texas 19 Libertarian Troy Bonar 17,376 8.54 / 100 2nd Texas 20 Libertarian Jeffrey C. Blunt 29,055 15.48 / 100 2nd Texas 31 Libertarian Scott J. Ballard 14,676 5.16 / 100 3rd Texas 32 Libertarian Ed Rankin 43,490 18.98 / 100 2nd Green Gary Stuard 22,813 9.96 / 100 3rd Texas 36 Green Hal J. Ridley, Jr. 24,890 11.39 / 100 2nd Utah 1 Libertarian Craig Bowden 16,296 5.87 / 100 3rd Utah 4 Constitution Collin R. Simonsen 13,559 4.93 / 100 3rd Vermont At - large Liberty Union Erica Clawson 29,410 9.96 / 100 2nd West Virginia 3 Libertarian Zane R. Lawhorn 16,777 8.15 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 4 Independent Robert R. Raymond 33,494 11.67 / 100 2nd Libertarian Andy Craig 32,183 11.22 / 100 3rd Wisconsin 6 Independent Jeff Dahlke 19,716 5.52 / 100 3rd 2017 Montana At - large Libertarian Mark Wicks 21,682 5.66 / 100 3rd Utah 3 United Utah Jim Bennett 13,745 9.30 / 100 3rd Minor elections Maine Green Party State Representative John Eder, 2002 See also Third party officeholders in the United States List of third party and independent United States state governors List of United States major third party presidential tickets References Jump up ^ The threshold is > 5 % of the vote. ^ Jump up to : The People 's Party was one of the common designations used by some State Republican Parties between 1854 and 1860. Jump up ^ Fusion of Union ( Addicks ) Republicans and the National Prohibition Party Jump up ^ While Caffery is listed as running on a Fusion Ticket, the nature of the electoral alliance is not yet determined. Jump up ^ A Fusion of the state Democratic and Peoples ' Parties ^ Jump up to : An Electoral Alliance between the state Democratic and Peoples ' Parties ^ Jump up to : A Fusion of the state Democratic and Silver Parties Jump up ^ A short - lived party formed by Anti-Prohibition Republicans which desired to see Prohibition legislated at the local level rather than at the state level. ^ Jump up to : The State Affiliate of the Socialist Party Jump up ^ State Affiliate of the Socialist Party Jump up ^ On Ballot as `` Independent Progressive '' Jump up ^ On Ballot as `` Negro Independent '' Jump up ^ Affiliated with the Farmer -- Labor Party Jump up ^ State Affiliate of the Prohibition Party Jump up ^ An Electoral Alliance Between Lewis Pope and the Republican Party Jump up ^ On the Ballot as `` Good Government, Good Elections '' ^ Jump up to : Affiliated with the Libertarian Party Jump up ^ On Ballot as an Independent Democrat Jump up ^ Was on Ballot as `` Reform '' Jump up ^ Listed on Ballot as `` Popular Government Candidate '' Jump up ^ Listed on Ballot as `` Pro-League Independent Party '' Jump up ^ Listed on Ballot as `` La Follette Progressive Republican National Platform '' Jump up ^ Listed on Ballot as `` Agricultural Relief Republican '' Jump up ^ Listed on Ballot as `` Republican for Beer and Wine '' Jump up ^ Listed on Ballot as `` Good Government and Clean Elections '' Jump up ^ Listed as `` Nonpartisan, Progressive, Old Age Pension '' Jump up ^ Listed as `` Progressive Republican for Clean Government '' Jump up ^ Affiliated with the Workers World Party Jump up ^ Technically Designation is Unknown ^ Jump up to : The Mozart Hall political organization was run by Fernando Wood, to promote his political interests, usually against those of Tammany Hall. ^ Jump up to : Political organization of the 1880s and 1890s that served as a coalition of forces within the Democratic Party opposed to Tammany Hall. Jump up ^ Short - lived political society of the Central Labor Union. Jump up ^ Party created for Randolph Hearst 's mayoral campaign. Jump up ^ Party run by Polish residents of Erie County and used as a party line for local races. Jump up ^ Created by Fiorello LaGuardia to give Newbold Morris a place on the ballot. This was done to draw votes away from the GOP, with whom LaGuardia was involved in a dispute. Disbanded soon after the election. Jump up ^ Party created for Vincent Impellitteri 's mayoral campaign after he was refused nomination by the Democratic Party. Jump up ^ Progressive Party that existed from the 1970s to 1990s, focused on supporting union members and small businesses ^ Jump up to : Affiliation is actually not known. ^ Jump up to : Faction of the Democratic Party supportive of Senator Thomas Hart Benton and part of the Anti-Nebraska movement. ^ Jump up to : Faction of the Democratic Party opposed to Senator Thomas Hart Benton. ^ Jump up to : Faction of the California Democratic Party supportive of Senator David C. Broderick. ^ Jump up to : Early forerunner of the Prohibition Party ^ Jump up to : Faction of the New York Democratic Party opposing reconciliation between the Democratic Party and Barnburner Democrats ( who had defected in 1848 to support the Free Soil Party ) ^ Jump up to : Faction of the New York Democratic Party which favored reconciliation between the Democratic Party and Barnburner Democrats ( who had defected in 1848 to support the Free Soil Party ) Jump up ^ Died before he could take office. ^ Jump up to : The Union Party in Pennsylvania was a coalition of Republicans, Americans, Whigs and Democrats opposed to the local Democratic Party and it 's favorite son ( and national party Presidential nominee ) James Buchanan, in an effort to prevent vote splitting between those parties involved. ^ Jump up to : Virtually identical to the Union slate that ran in 1856, it was a coalition of Republicans, Americans, Whigs and Democrats who were opposed to the Lecompton Constitution, in opposition to the local Democratic Party that had largely endorsed it, in an effort to prevent vote splitting between those parties involved. Jump up ^ Similar to the Pennsylvania People 's slate, it was a coalition of Republicans, Americans, Whigs and Democrats who were opposed to the Lecompton Constitution, in opposition to the local Democratic Party that had largely endorsed it, in an effort to prevent vote splitting between those parties involved. ^ Jump up to : Like Anti-Lecompton Democrats, Anti-Administration Democrats were those opposed generally opposed to the adopted policy of the national Democratic Party as well as the Buchanan Presidency. Jump up ^ On Ballot as `` The People 's Candidate '' Jump up ^ Includes 1 special election in 2007 Jump up ^ A special election and general election were held the same day. While write - in candidate Shelley Sekula - Gibbs came in 2nd place in the general election, she is not listed here because of her status as the de facto Republican nominee. Jump up ^ Includes 3 special elections in 2009 Jump up ^ Includes 1 special election in 2011 Jump up ^ Fitzpatrick, Alex ( May 31, 2012 ). `` Candidate Changes Legal Name to ' VoteForEddie.com ''. Mashable.com. Retrieved March 31, 2013. Jump up ^ Marso, Andy ( July 23, 2012 ). `` House hopeful changes name to Thomas Jefferson ''. The Topeka Capital - Journal. Retrieved October 6, 2012. Jump up ^ Includes two special elections from 2017. 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Question: when was the last election that a 3rd party candidate won a significant number of states
Answer: 1968