This article contains lists of official third party or independent candidates associated with the
2008 United States presidential election
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator f ...
.
Third party
Third party may refer to:
Business
* Third-party source, a supplier company not owned by the buyer or seller
* Third-party beneficiary, a person who could sue on a contract, despite not being an active party
* Third-party insurance, such as a V ...
is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to political parties other than the two
major parties
A major party is a political party that holds substantial influence in a country's politics, standing in contrast to a minor party.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Major parties hold a significant percentage of the vote in electi ...
, the
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
and
Republican Party. The term is used as
innumerate
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shorthand for all such parties, or sometimes only the largest of them.
An
independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
* Independ ...
candidate is one who runs for office with no formal party affiliation.
Candidates who received, or ran for, the presidential nomination of a political party other than that of the two major parties in the
2008 presidential election, as well those who ran as independents, are listed below.
Candidates who qualified for minimum 270 electoral votes
The following nominees appeared on enough state ballots to theoretically obtain the minimum 270
electoral votes needed to win the election.
Constitution Party
Ticket
Candidates
Green Party
Ticket
Candidates
Libertarian Party
Ticket
Candidates
Independent
''For independent candidates that did not achieve ballot access in enough states to win 270 electoral votes, see
Independents section''.
Other candidates
The nominees of the following parties appeared on fewer state ballots than needed to qualify for the minimum 270 electoral votes required to win the electoral college. These candidates could only theoretically have been elected in the unlikely event of a successful write-in campaign, or in the event that no candidate received at least 270 electoral votes. In the latter scenario, the election of the President would be determined by the
House of Representatives
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.
Boston Tea Party
New American Independent Party
Objectivist Party
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Prohibition Party
Reform Party
Socialist Party USA
Socialist Workers Party
Independents
See also
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List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2008
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Democratic Party presidential candidates, 2008
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Republican Party presidential candidates, 2008
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2008 United States presidential election timeline
The following is a timeline of major events leading up to and immediately following the United States presidential election of 2008. The election was the 56th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008, but ...
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List of political parties in the United States
This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. The list does not include independents.
Active parties
Major parties
Third parties
Represented in state legislatures
''The following third parties have ...
References
External links
Photo Gallery with Fun Facts of Third Party candidates
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2008 presidential candidates