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African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
United States presidential and vice presidential nominees and candidates for nomination. Nominees are candidates
nominate Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to a public office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. A collection of nominees narrowed from the full list of candidates is a short list. Political office In the ...
d or otherwise selected by political parties for particular offices. Listed are those African-Americans who achieved
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for the national election in at least one
state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...
. They may have won the
nomination Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to a public office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. A collection of nominees narrowed from the full list of candidates is a short list. Political office In the ...
of one of the US political parties (either one of the major parties, or one of the third parties), or made the
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as an
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, and in either case must have votes in the
election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
to qualify for this list. Exception is made for candidates whose parties lost ballot status for additional runs. Not included in the first and second sections are African-Americans who ran unsuccessful campaigns in
nominating convention A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The formal purpo ...
s or primary elections for their party's nomination (or who have not yet completed that process), write-in candidates, potential candidates (suggested by media, objects of draft movements, etc.), or fictional candidates. The third section includes African-Americans who ran for their party's presidential nomination but who were not nominated, as well as those who are currently pursuing their party's presidential nomination (when applicable). There have been two African Americans on major party tickets in U.S. history: Democratic presidential nominee
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
in
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and Democratic vice presidential nominee
Kamala Harris Kamala Devi Harris ( ; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well ...
in
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. Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the
2012 election This national electoral calendar for 2012 lists the national/ federal elections held in 2012 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. January *3–4 January: ...
. Kamala Harris became the first Asian American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also the first Indian American vice president and the first female vice president. In popular culture, there are African-American presidents of the United States in novels, television shows, films and other media.


U.S. presidential candidates: party nominees

Denotes winning candidate.


Candidates receiving electoral votes


Candidates receiving popular votes


U.S. vice presidential candidates: party nominees

Denotes winning candidate.


Candidates receiving electoral votes

Until the 2020 presidential election, no African-American candidates had received electoral votes for vice president.


Candidates receiving popular votes


U.S. president: other candidates for party nomination

Candidates who failed to receive their party's nomination (or who are currently campaigning for their party's nomination). Candidates who won the nomination belong in the above tables only.


U.S. vice president: other candidates for party nomination


See also

*
African-American candidates for President of the United States : ''For African American presidential candidates in minor parties as well as major parties, see List of African-American United States presidential and vice presidential candidates.'' This article is about African-American candidates for Preside ...
* List of female United States presidential and vice presidential candidates *
Jesse Jackson 1984 presidential campaign In 1984, Jesse Jackson became the second African American (after Shirley Chisholm) to mount a nationwide campaign for President of the United States, running as a Democrat. In the primaries, Jackson, who had been written off by pundits as a f ...
* Jesse Jackson 1988 presidential campaign


Notes


References

* Sears, Thomas James (2001). ''Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South''. Rutgers University Press. . {{Lists of US Presidents and Vice Presidents Lists of African-American people African-American candidates