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Libertarian Party US Presidential Election Results (view source)
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Since 1972, there have been 10 different Libertarian Presidential nominees, in 12 elections. (Two candidates were nominated twice.) In 1972, the LP's first Presidential candidate [[John Hospers]] received the first and only electoral vote in the party's history when one "faithless elector" voted for him. The first candidate to break the one percent mark was [[Ed Clark]] in 1980. This remained the best showing both as a percentage and in raw number of votes until 2012, when [[Gary Earl Johnson|Gary Johnson]] became the first candidate to receive more than one million votes (but just shy of one percent). Running again in 2016, Gary Johnson then beat the previous record by both measures by a wide margin, receiving more than three percent and more than four million votes. | Since 1972, there have been 10 different Libertarian Presidential nominees, in 12 elections. (Two candidates were nominated twice.) In 1972, the LP's first Presidential candidate [[John Hospers]] received the first and only electoral vote in the party's history when one "faithless elector" voted for him. The first candidate to break the one percent mark was [[Ed Clark]] in 1980. This remained the best showing both as a percentage and in raw number of votes until 2012, when [[Gary Earl Johnson|Gary Johnson]] became the first candidate to receive more than one million votes (but just shy of one percent). Running again in 2016, Gary Johnson then beat the previous record by both measures by a wide margin, receiving more than three percent and more than four million votes. | ||