None of them won. Several of them changed the result anyway, and a few carried states nobody expected.
1Theodore RooseveltRan as the Progressive "Bull Moose" candidate in 1912 and took 27.4% of the vote and 88 electoral votes, beating the sitting Republican president.
2Ross PerotThe Texas businessman who took 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992 with a self-funded campaign built on deficit charts.
3Robert La FolletteThe Wisconsin senator whose 1924 Progressive run took a sixth of the vote and carried his home state.
4Eugene V. DebsThe Socialist candidate who ran five times and took nearly a million votes in 1920 from a federal prison cell.
5Millard FillmoreThe former president who returned in 1856 on the Know Nothing ticket and carried Maryland.
6John C. FrémontThe explorer who carried eleven states in 1856 as the brand-new Republican Party's first nominee.
7Ralph NaderThe consumer advocate whose 2000 Green Party run drew under 3% and an argument that has never stopped.
8John BellThe Constitutional Union nominee who carried three states in the four-way election of 1860.
9William WirtThe Anti-Masonic nominee in 1832, the first third-party candidate to win a state.
10Martin Van BurenThe former president who ran again in 1848 on the Free Soil ticket and took a tenth of the national vote.
11James B. WeaverThe Populist candidate who won five states in 1892 on a platform of silver, railroads and farm debt.
12John AndersonThe Illinois congressman whose 1980 independent run took nearly 7% without carrying a state.
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27.4% of the vote and 88 electoral votes in 1912, ahead of the sitting president. Ross Perot managed 18.9% in 1992 and no electoral votes: https://youpick.best/articles/theodore-roosevelt-ranked-many-ways
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