In 1992 Ross Perot, running as an independent received 19.7 million popular votes which was 18.9 % of the total. There were other candidates who total was less than 1/2 per cent of the vote.
In 1996 Ross Perot, running as the Reform candidate received 8.0 million popular votes which was 8.4 % of the total. Ralph Nader ran on the Green ticket and received 0.6 million votes or 0. 7 % . Four other candidates received about 1 million votes total
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George Wallace
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George Wallace, governor of Alabama, ran as a third party candidate in 1968. He won 5 states, got 13.5% of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes. His main issue was racial segregation which he favored.
He actually was a pretty good candidate, but ran as a third party candidate. Third party people have never done well in elections and that did him in.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican Party candidate in 1904 and the Progressive Party candidate in 1912. That was the last time the candidate of a party other than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party came in 2nd in a U. S. Presidential election.
George Wallace ran as a third party candidate. He received 46 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Nixon 31,785,480, Humphrey 31,275,166, and George Wallace 9,906,473.
In 1959, no one ran for President as it was an off-year for presidential elections in the United States. The next presidential election was held in 1960, when Richard Nixon ran as the Republican candidate and John F. Kennedy ran as the Democratic candidate.