Who, in American history, ran for presidency and recieved the least amount of popular votes?

elburcher

Ronald Reagan in the 1976 Election recieved 1,260 votes. There are a couple of instances where a canadate recieved no popular votes but did recieve 1 electoral vote. http://presidentelect.org/index.html Oct 17 01, 12:57 AM

finlady

In 1976 Ronald Reagan did not formally run for president. He lost to Gerald Ford for the nomination of his party. That figure was write-in votes. The sites I looked up said Bill Clinton was the only president in history to win with less than 50% of the popular vote. In his first election he got 43% and in the second 49%. Those years Ross Perot was the strongest 3rd party candidate in history. Oct 17 01, 3:19 AM

Tiresias

What about Eugene Debs who stood five times as a socialist candidate. In 1912 he got 6% of the popular vote, and when he stood in 1920 could attract only 3.5% of the popular vote. Oct 17 01, 6:40 AM

bpykh

Finlady president Bush received only 48 percents of the popular votes, Woodrow Wilson received even less votes, all the other candidates in 2000 election received 4 percents of the popular vote so I guess the answer is Harry Browne. Oct 17 01, 1:16 PM

elburcher

I have yet to find a site that lists a 'complete' ballot,The question simply as stated is who ran and recieved the least amount of popular votes, there are no other qualifiers, but on an 'Official' party basis I guess you could say the winner would be Joseph Hospers the 'Libertarian' party canidate in the 1972 election who recieved 2,691 popular votes less than one percent, and a close second would be Gerrit Smith of the 'National Liberty' party in the 1848 election who recieved 2,733 popular votes also less than one percent. Again I refrence the same site. http://presidentelect.org/index.html Oct 17 01, 5:46 PM

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