# List of United States major third-party and independent presidential tickets

This is a list of major third party and independent tickets for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.

## Criteria

The presidential candidates are listed here based on three criteria:
* They were not members of one of the six major parties in U.S. history: the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republican Party, the National Republican Party, the Whig Party, the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party at the time of their candidacy. Independent candidates are included.
* They either received at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector, or they received at least one percent of the national popular vote in an election held after the national popular vote began to be recorded in 1824.
* They ran after the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804.

## List of tickets

| Election | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Candidate | Vote | Vote | Running mate |
| Election | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Party | Office | Home state | PV% | EV% | Running mate |
| 1832 | William Wirt | | Anti-Masonic | | Fmr. Attorney General | MD | 7.8% | 2.4% | Amos Ellmaker |
| 1832 | John Floyd | | Nullifier | | Governor | VA | 0% | 3.8% | Henry Lee |
| 1844 | James G. Birney | | Liberty | | Fmr. state legislator | MI | 2.3% | 0% | Thomas Morris |
| 1848 | Martin Van Buren | | Free Soil | | Fmr. President | NY | 10.1% | 0% | Charles F. Adams Sr. |
| 1852 | John P. Hale | | Free Soil | | Senator | NH | 4.9% | 0% | George W. Julian |
| 1856 | Millard Fillmore | | American | | Fmr. President | NY | 21.5% | 2.7% | Andrew J. Donelson |
| 1860 | John C. Breckinridge | | Southern Democratic | | Vice President | KY | 18.2% | 23.8% | Joseph Lane |
| 1860 | John Bell | | Constitutional Union | | Fmr. Senator | TN | 12.6% | 12.9% | Edward Everett |
| 1880 | James B. Weaver | | Greenback | | Representative | IA | 3.4% | 0% | Barzillai J. Chambers |
| 1884 | John St. John | | Prohibition | | Fmr. Governor | KS | 1.5% | 0% | William Daniel |
| 1884 | Benjamin Butler | | Greenback | | Fmr. Governor | MA | 1.3% | 0% | Absolom M. West |
| 1888 | Clinton B. Fisk | | Prohibition | | General | NJ | 2.2% | 0% | John A. Brooks |
| 1888 | Alson Streeter | | Union Labor | | State legislator | IL | 1.3% | 0% | Charles E. Cunningham |
| 1892 | James B. Weaver | | Populist | | Fmr. Representative | IA | 8.5% | 5% | James G. Field |
| 1892 | John Bidwell | | Prohibition | | Fmr. Representative | CA | 2.2% | 0% | James B. Cranfill |
| 1900 | John G. Woolley | | Prohibition | | Attorney | IL | 1.5% | 0% | Henry B. Metcalf |
| 1904 | Eugene V. Debs | | Socialist | | Fmr. state legislator | IN | 3.0% | 0% | Ben Hanford |
| 1904 | Silas C. Swallow | | Prohibition | | Minister | PA | 1.9% | 0% | George W. Carroll |
| 1908 | Eugene V. Debs | | Socialist | | Fmr. state legislator | IN | 2.8% | 0% | Ben Hanford |
| 1908 | Eugene W. Chafin | | Prohibition | | Attorney | IL | 1.7% | 0% | Aaron S. Watkins |
| 1912 | Theodore Roosevelt | | Progressive | | Fmr. President | NY | 27.4% | 16.6% | Hiram Johnson |
| 1912 | Eugene V. Debs | | Socialist | | Fmr. state legislator | IN | 6.0% | 0% | Emil Seidel |
| 1912 | Eugene W. Chafin | | Prohibition | | Attorney | IL | 1.7% | 0% | Aaron S. Watkins |
| 1916 | Allan L. Benson | | Socialist | | Journalist | NY | 3.2% | 0% | George R. Kirkpatrick |
| 1916 | Frank Hanly | | Prohibition | | Fmr. Governor | IN | 1.2% | 0% | Ira Landrith |
| 1920 | Eugene V. Debs | | Socialist | | Fmr. state legislator | IN | 3.4% | 0% | Seymour Stedman |
| 1924 | Robert La Follette | | Progressive | | Senator | WI | 16.6% | 2.4% | Burton K. Wheeler |
| 1932 | Norman Thomas | | Socialist | | Minister | NY | 2.2% | 0% | James H. Maurer |
| 1936 | William Lemke | | Union | | Representative | NY | 1.9% | 0% | Thomas C. O'Brien |
| 1948 | Strom Thurmond | | States' Rights | | Governor | SC | 2.4% | 7.3% | Fielding L. Wright |
| 1948 | Henry A. Wallace | | Progressive | | Fmr. Vice President | IA | 2.4% | 0% | Glen H. Taylor |
| 1968 | George Wallace | | American Independent | | Fmr. Governor | AL | 13.5% | 8.6% | Curtis LeMay |
| 1972 | John G. Schmitz | | American Independent | | Representative | CA | 1.4% | 0% | Thomas J. Anderson |
| 1980 | John B. Anderson | | Independent | | Representative | IL | 6.6% | 0% | Patrick Lucey |
| 1980 | Ed Clark | | Libertarian | | Attorney | CA | 1.1% | 0% | David Koch |
| 1992 | Ross Perot | | Independent | | Businessman | TX | 18.9% | 0% | James Stockdale |
| 1996 | Ross Perot | | Reform | | Businessman | TX | 8.4% | 0% | Pat Choate |
| 2000 | Ralph Nader | | Green | | Attorney | CT | 2.7% | 0% | Winona LaDuke |
| 2016 | Gary Johnson | | Libertarian | | Fmr. Governor | NM | 3.3% | 0% | William Weld |
| 2016 | Jill Stein | | Green | | Physician | MA | 1.1% | 0% | Ajamu Baraka |
| 2020 | Jo Jorgensen | | Libertarian | | Professor | SC | 1.2% | 0% | Spike Cohen |