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Third
Party Elections
Election Years in which a third
party candidate walked away with any amount of Electoral votes
1912
1924
1948
1960
1968
1956, 1972, 1976, 1988
1912
Candidate: Teddy Roosevelt
Party: Progressive
Popular Vote: 4,119,207 (27.4%)
Electoral Votes: 88
States: Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota,
Washington, Pennsylvania, California (split)
*Roosevelt actually beat Democratic candidate
William Howard Taft in the Electoral College; Taft received only 8
votes
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1924
Candidate: Robert Marion LaFollette
Party: Progressive
Popular Vote: 4,822,856 (16.6%)
Electoral Votes: 13
States: Wisconsin
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1948
Candidate: Strom Thurmond
Party: Dixiecrat
Popular Vote: 1,176,125 (2.4%)
Electoral Votes: 39
States: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South
Carolina,
Tennessee (split)
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1960
Candidate: Harry Flood Byrd
Party: Democrat
Popular Vote: 116,248 (0.2%)
Electoral Votes: 15
States: Mississippi, Alabama (split),
Oklahoma (split)
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1968
Candidate: George Corley Wallace
Party: American Independent
Popular Vote: 9,446,167 (12.9%)
Electoral Votes: 46
States:
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia,
Mississippi,
North Carolina (split)
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1956, 1972, 1976, 1988
*In each of these elections, a candidate got a
single (1) Electoral vote:
Walter Burgwyn Jones in 1956
John Hospers in 1972
Ronald Reagan in 1976
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. in 1988
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