Electoral history of Ralph Nader , an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and candidate for President of the United States in four elections.
1972 Democratic National Convention (Vice Presidential tally): [1]
- Thomas Eagleton - 1,742 (59.07%)
- Frances Farenthold - 405 (13.73%)
- Mike Gravel - 226 (7.66%)
- Endicott Peabody - 108 (3.66%)
- Clay Smothers - 74 (2.51%)
- Birch Bayh - 62 (2.10%)
- Peter Rodino - 57 (1.93%)
- Jimmy Carter - 30 (1.02%)
- Shirley Chisholm - 20 (0.68%)
- Moon Landrieu - 19 (0.64%)
- Edward T. Breathitt - 18 (0.61%)
- Ted Kennedy - 15 (0.51%)
- Fred R. Harris - 14 (0.48%)
- Richard G. Hatcher - 11 (0.37%)
- Harold E. Hughes - 10 (0.34%)
- Joseph M. Montoya - 9 (0.31%)
- William L. Guy - 8 (0.27%)
- Adlai Stevenson III - 8 (0.27%)
- Robert Bergland - 5 (0.17%)
- Hodding Carter - 5 (0.17%)
- Cesar Chavez - 5 (0.17%)
- Wilbur Mills - 5 (0.17%)
- Wendell Anderson - 4 (0.14%)
- Stanley Arnold - 4 (0.14%)
- Ron Dellums - 4 (0.14%)
- John J. Houlihan - 4 (0.14%)
- Roberto A. Mondragon - 4 (0.14%)
- Reubin O'Donovan Askew - 3 (0.10%)
- Herman Badillo - 3 (0.10%)
- Eugene McCarthy - 3 (0.10%)
- Claiborne Pell - 3 (0.10%)
- Terry Sanford - 3 (0.10%)
- Ramsey Clark - 2 (0.07%)
- Richard J. Daley - 2 (0.07%)
- John DeCarlo - 2 (0.07%)
- Ernest Gruening - 2 (0.07%)
- Roger Mudd - 2 (0.07%)
- Edmund Muskie - 2 (0.07%)
- Claude Pepper - 2 (0.07%)
- Abraham Ribicoff - 2 (0.07%)
- Pat Taylor - 2 (0.07%)
- Leonard F. Woodcock - 2 (0.07%)
- Bruno Agnoli - 2 (0.07%)
- Ernest Albright - 1 (0.03%)
- William A. Barrett - 1 (0.03%)
- Daniel Berrigan - 1 (0.03%)
- Phillip Berrigan - 1 (0.03%)
- Julian Bond - 1 (0.03%)
- Hargrove Bowles - 1 (0.03%)
- Archibald Burton - 1 (0.03%)
- Phillip Burton - 1 (0.03%)
- William Chappell - 1 (0.03%)
- Lawton Chiles - 1 (0.03%)
- Frank Church - 1 (0.03%)
- Robert Drinan - 1 (0.03%)
- Nick Galifianakis - 1 (0.03%)
- John Goodrich - 1 (0.03%)
- Michael Griffin - 1 (0.03%)
- Martha Griffiths - 1 (0.03%)
- Charles Hamilton - 1 (0.03%)
- Patricia Harris - 1 (0.03%)
- Jim Hunt - 1 (0.03%)
- Daniel Inouye - 1 (0.03%)
- Henry M. Jackson - 1 (0.03%)
- Robery Kariss - 1 (0.03%)
- Allard K. Lowenstein - 1 (0.03%)
- Mao Zedong - 1 (0.03%)
- Eleanor McGovern - 1 (0.03%)
- Martha Mitchell - 1 (0.03%)
- Ralph Nader - 1 (0.03%)
- George Norcross - 1 (0.03%)
- Jerry Rubin - 1 (0.03%)
- Fred Seaman - 1 (0.03%)
- Joe Smith - 1 (0.03%)
- Benjamin Spock - 1 (0.03%)
- Patrick Tavolacci - 1 (0.03%)
- George Wallace - 1 (0.03%)
- Jake Ellenich - 1 (0.03%)
1992 Republican New Hampshire primary : [2]
- George H. W. Bush (inc.) - 92,274 (53.20%)
- Pat Buchanan - 65,109 (37.54%)
- Paul Tsongas* - 3,676 (2.12%)
- Ralph Nader* - 3,258 (1.88%)
(*) - write-in candidate
Listed only those who won over 1% of votes
1992 Democratic New Hampshire Vice Presidential primary : [3]
- Endicott Peabody - 34,533 (59.68%)
- Susan K.Y. Shargal - 1,097 (1.90%)
- Ralph Nader* - 1,097 (1.90%)
- Mario Cuomo* - 739 (1.28%)
- Paul Tsongas* - 649 (1.12%)
- Bob Kerrey* - 502 (0.87%)
(*) - write-in candidate
1996 Peace and Freedom Party California Presidential primary: [4]
- Monica Moorehead - 2,153 (33.91%)
- Jan B. Tucker - 1,512 (23.81%)
- Gerald Horne - 1,430 (22.52%)
- Mary Cal Hollis - 1,068 (16.82%)
- Ralph Nader - 187 (2.95%)
1996 Reform Party Presidential primaries: [5]
- Ralph Nader - 575 (70.90%)
- Ross Perot - 57 (7.03%)
- Bill Clinton (inc.) - 32 (3.95%)
- Others - 105 (12.95%)
1996 Libertarian Party Presidential primaries: [6]
- Harry Browne - 9,890 (51.40%)
- Rick Tompkins - 3,551 (18.45%)
- Irvin Shiff - 3,239 (16.83%)
- Douglass J. Ohmen - 1,517 (7.88%)
- No preference - 237 (1.23%)
- Pat Buchanan* - 176 (0.92%)
- Ralph Nader* - 127 (0.66%)
- Steve Forbes* - 103 (0.54%)
- Lamar Alexander* - 82 (0.43%)
- Bob Dole* - 67 (0.35%)
- Bill Clinton (inc.) - 65 (0.34%)
- Colin Powell* - 43 (0.22%)
- Alan Keyes* - 27 (0.14%)
- Morry Taylor* - 19 (0.10%)
- Richard Lugar* - 13 (0.07%)
- Jack Kemp* - 8 (0.04%)
- Al Gore* - 4 (0.02%)
- Ross Perot* - 2 (0.01%)
- Carmen C. Chimento* - 1 (0.01%)
- Phil Gramm* - 1 (0.01%)
- Carolina P. Killeen* - 1 (0.01%)
1996 Green Party Presidential primaries: [7]
- Ralph Nader - 23,625 (97.91%)
- Mary Cal Hollis - 395 (1.64%)
- Uncommitted - 110 (0.46%)
1996 Green Party National Convention (Presidential tally): [8]
- Ralph Nader - unopposed
1996 United States presidential election
- Bill Clinton/Al Gore (D) (inc.) - 47,400,125 (49.3%) and 379 electoral votes (31 states and D.C. carried)
- Bob Dole/Jack Kemp (R) - 39,198,755 (40.7%) and 159 electoral votes (19 states carried)
- Ross Perot/Pat Choate (Reform) - 8,085,402 (8.4%)
- Ralph Nader (Green) - 685,297 (0.7%)
- Harry Browne/Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian) - 485,798 (0.5%)
- Howard Phillips/Herb Titus (Taxpayers) - 184,820 (0.1%)
- John Hagelin/Michael Tompkins (Natural Law) - 113,670 (0.1%)
- Others - 121,534 (0.01%)
2000 California Presidential primary for independent voters: [9]
- John McCain (R) - 791,864 (38.03%)
- Al Gore (G) - 454,629 (21.84%)
- George W. Bush (R) - 443,304 (21.29%)
- Bill Bradley (D) - 159,772 (7.67%)
- Ralph Nader (G) - 89,210 (4.29%)
- Alan Keyes (R) - 57,695 (2.77%)
- Donald Trump (Ref.) - 14,597 (0.70%)
- Harry Browne (LBT) - 11,973 (0.58%)
- George D. Weber (Ref.) - 9,173 (0.44%)
- Steve Forbes (R) - 6,035 (0.29%)
- Howard Phillips (American Independent) - 5,957 (0.29%)
- John Hagelin (Natural Law) - 4,843 (0.23%)
- Joel Kovel (G) - 4,646 (0.22%)
- Robert M. Bowman (Ref.) - 4,587 (0.22%)
2000 Green Party Presidential primaries: [10]
- Ralph Nader - 24,638 (91.08%)
- Joel Kovel - 2,147 (7.94%)
- Eric Boucher - 178 (0.66%)
- Stephen Gaskin - 67 (0.25%)
- Uncommitted - 21 (0.08%)
2000 Green Party National Convention (Presidential tally): [11]
- Ralph Nader - 295 (92.48%)
- Eric Boucher - 10 (3.14%)
- Stephen Gaskin - 10 (3.14%)
- Joel Kovel - 3 (0.94%)
- None of the above - 1 (0.31%)
2000 Independence Party of New York Presidential Convention: [12]
- John Hagelin - 380,269 (90.00%)
- Ralph Nader - 30,854 (7.30%)
- Pat Buchanan - 5,704 (1.35%)
- Donald Trump - 5,704 (1.35%)
2000 United States presidential election :
- George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (R) - 50,460,110 (47.9%) and 271 electoral votes (30 states carried)
- Al Gore/Joe Lieberman (D) - 51,003,926 (48.4%) and 266 electoral votes (20 states and D.C. carried)
- Abstaining - 1 electoral vote (D.C. faithless elector)
- Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke (Green) - 2,883,105 (2.7%)
- Pat Buchanan/Ezola B. Foster (Reform) - 449,225 (0.4%)
- Harry Browne/Art Olivier (Libertarian) - 384,516 (0.4%)
- Howard Phillips/Curtis Frazier (Taxpayers) - 98,022 (0.1%)
- John Hagelin/Nat Goldhaber (Natural Law) - 83,702 (0.1%)
Minnesota Independence Party presidential caucus, 2004: [13]
- John Edwards - 335 (41.10%)
- John Kerry - 149 (18.28%)
- George W. Bush (inc.) - 94 (11.53%)
- Ralph Nader - 78 (9.57%)
- None of the above - 66 (8.10%)
- Dennis Kucinich - 40 (4.91%)
- Lorna Salzman - 9 (1.10%)
- John McCain - 9 (1.10%)
- Al Sharpton - 5 (0.61%)
- David Cobb - 4 (0.49%)
- Wesley Clark - 4 (0.49%)
- Joe Lieberman - 4 (0.49%)
- Howard Dean - 3 (0.37%)
- Jesse Ventura - 3 (0.37%)
- Gary P. Nolan - 2 (0.25%)
- Timothy J. Penny - 2 (0.25%)
- Kent P. Mesplay - 1 (0.12%)
- John B. Anderson - 1 (0.12%)
- Charles W. Barkley - 1 (0.12%)
- Dean M. Barkley - 1 (0.12%)
- Bill Bradley - 1 (0.12%)
- Rudy Giuliani - 1 (0.12%)
- Mickey Mouse - 1 (0.12%)
- Theodore Roosevelt - 1 (0.12%)
2004 Reform Party National Convention (Presidential tally): [14]
- 'Ralph Nader - 28 (62.22%)
- Michael Peroutka - 6 (13.33%)
- Richard Green - 4 (8.89%)
- John Buchanan - 3 (6.67%)
- Others - 4 (8.89%)
2004 Green Party National Convention (Presidential tally): [15]
- David Cobb - 408 (36.20%)
- No nominee - 308 (27.33%)
- Peter Camejo - 119 (10.56%)
- Ralph Nader - 118 (10.47%)
- Kent P. Mesplay - 43 (3.82%)
- Lorna Salzman - 40 (3.55%)
- None of the above - 36 (3.19%)
- JoAnne Bier Beeman - 14 (1.24%)
- Carol A. Miller - 10 (0.89%)
- Dennis Kucinich - 9 (0.80%)
- Uncommitted - 7 (0.62%)
- Paul Glover - 6 (0.53%)
- Abstaining - 3 (0.27%)
- Jonathan Farley - 3 (0.27%)
- Sheila Bilyeu - 2 (0.18%)
- Eugene Victor Debs - 1 (0.09%)
2004 Peace and Freedom Party National Convention (Presidential tally)': [16]
- Leonard Peltier - 17 (53.13%)
- Ralph Nader - 8 (25.00%)
- Walt Brown - 7 (21.88%)
2004 Independence Party of New York Convention: [17]
- Ralph Nader - 623,931 (95.40%)
- John Kerry - 26,161 (4.00%)
- George W. Bush (inc.) - 2,616 (0.40%)
- David Cobb - 1,308 (0.20%)
2004 United States presidential election :
- George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (R) (inc.) - 62,040,610 (50.73%) and 286 electoral votes (31 states carried)
- John Kerry/John Edwards (D) - 59,028,444 (48.27%) and 251 electoral votes (19 states and D.C. carried)
- John Edwards (D) - 1 electoral vote (Minnesota faithless elector)
- Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo (I) - 465,650 (0.38%)
- Michael Badnarik/Richard Campagna (Libertarian) - 397,265 (0.32%)
- Michael Peroutka/Chuck Baldwin (Constitution) - 143,630 (0.12%)
- David Cobb/Pat LaMarche (Green) - 119,859 (0.096%)
2008 California Peace and Freedom Party Presidential primary: [18]
- Ralph Nader - 2,543 (40.00%)
- Cynthia McKinney - 1,353 (21.28%)
- Gloria E. La Riva - 1,335 (21.00%)
- Brian P. Moore - 346 (5.44%)
- John R. Crockford - 339 (5.33%)
- Stewart Alexander - 335 (5.27%)
- Stanley Martin Hetz - 107 (1.68%)
2008 Green Party Presidential primaries: [19]
- Ralph Nader - 21,146 (53.04%)
- Cynthia McKinney - 11,520 (28.90%)
- Elaine Brown - 1,540 (3.86%)
- Kent P. Mesplay - 1,227 (3.08%)
- Kat Swift - 1,182 (2.97%)
- Jared Ball - 981 (2.46%)
- Jesse Johnson - 633 (1.59%)
- Howie Hawkins - 498 (1.25%)
- Uncommitted - 440 (1.10%)
- Write-in - 419 (1.05%)
- No preference - 194 (0.49%)
- No candidate - 68 (0.17%)
- Undecided - 20 (0.05%)
- None of the above - 1 (0.00%)
'2008 Vermont Liberty Union Party Presidential primary: [20]
- Brian P. Moore - 178 (44.61%)
- Barack Obama* - 25 (6.27%)
- Hillary Clinton* - 15 (3.76%)
- Ralph Nader* - 5 (1.25%)
- Eugene Victor Debs* - 1 (0.25%)
- Patrick Leahy* - 1 (0.25%)
- John McCain* - 1 (0.25%)
- Richard Norton* - 1 (0.25%)
- Ron Paul* - 1 (0.25%)
- Morgan Phillips* - 1 (0.25%)
- Others - 170 (42.61%)
2008 Connecticut for Lieberman Presidential caucus: [21]
- Barack Obama - 19 (82.61%)
- Ralph Nader - 3 (13.04%)
- No nominee - 1 (4.35%)
2008 United States presidential election :
- Barack Obama/Joe Biden (D) - 69,498,516 (52.93%) and 365 electoral votes (28 states and D.C. carried)
- John McCain/Sarah Palin (R) - 59,948,323 (45.65%) and 173 electoral votes (22 states carried)
- Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (I) - 739,034 (0.56%)
- Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian) - 523,715 (0.40%)
- Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution) - 199,750 (0.15%)
- Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green) - 161,797 (0.12%)