Margaret Trowe (born 1948) is an American politician and

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activist. She was the 2000 United States vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Workers Party; she also appeared as their VP candidate in 2004 in those states where official candidate

Arrin Hawkins Arrin Hawkins is an American activist and political candidate. Hawkins ran as the vice presidential nominee of the Socialist Workers Party in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, while Róger Calero ran for president. Because she could not reach ...

was excluded from the ballot for being constitutionally ineligible to serve as vice president. Trowe had run for

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for Iowa in 1998 and received 2,400 votes. She also received one write-in vote for

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in the 2004 election. In 2006, she was a candidate for

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. In 2020, Trowe once again ran for a seat on the United States Senate. She was a candidate for Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, in the

2022 Louisville mayoral election The 2022 Louisville mayoral election was the sixth quadrennial Louisville Metro mayoral election, held on November 8, 2022. Incumbent Democratic mayor Greg Fischer is term-limited and cannot seek reelection to a fourth term in office. On F ...

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